Speaker

Nikola Baumann, PhD, DABCC

Mayo Clinic
Nikola Baumann, PhD, DABCC

Biography

Nikola A. Baumann, Ph.D., DABCC., is the CLIA laboratory director for Mayo Clinic Laboratories and Vice Chair of Quality in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology (DLMP) at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. She is an Associate Professor in DLMP and has also served as the co-medical director of the Central Clinical Laboratory (CCL) and Central Processing (CP) laboratory at the Mayo Clinic since 2010. Her areas of interest include novel blood-based biomarkers for liver disease and fibrosis, quality improvement and operational excellence in the clinical laboratory, laboratory medicine stewardship, strategically advancing automation and robotics in healthcare, and educating the next generation of physician-scientists.