Functions of Committees

Committees serve multiple functions that are essential to the AAVLD mission.  This includes dissemination of the latest scientific information that will advance the many disciplines engaged with diagnostic medicine, including:

• technological or methodological advances in the disciplines
• new or changing disease syndromes and how they are detected.
• sharing of one’s expertise and experience with colleagues, students, and trainees
• sharing one’s expertise when called upon to aid stakeholders, and policy and decision makers.
• recognizing excellence in others to encourage ongoing excellence in our disciplines.
• supporting the annual meeting, the organization’s Journal (JVDI), Newsletter and list-serve to ensure good communication, collaboration, training, and cooperation.
• provide leadership to ensure a successful scientific session of their discipline at the annual meeting.

Committees may identify, address, and resolve specific issues related to diagnostic laboratory medicine. Committees may, as a function of their investigation of the diagnostic challenges associated with a particular disease, present scientific and educational data for further discussion within their committee meetings with the expected outcome of reaching a greater level of confidence and understanding of the diagnostic criteria and methodologies that are most appropriate to determine the presence or absence of the disease in question. These outcomes are communicated to the Association membership via their annual committee report.