Laboratory purpose:
The Chemistry Lab at North Carolina Baptist Hospital and Wake Forest University School of Medicine is a highly automated facility offering services 365 days a year, seven days a week, 24 hours a day.
Most chemistry procedures now use micro methods with very few requiring more than 0.2 mL serum or plasma. Common chemistry assays are typically completed within several hours of receipt and all but a few in-house tests are done the day they are received.
In addition, we have several specialized instruments for Capillary Electrophoresis and HPLC assays. We perform approximately four million tests per year.
Capabilities:
Specialized tests offered:
- Cryoglobulin analysis & phenotyping by capillary electrophoresis (1 mL serum collected at 37 C)
- Non-radioactive glomerular filtration rate
- Lamotrigine / Amiodorone / Felbamate / FK506 and Cyclosporine
- VMA/HVA by HPLC with electrochemical detection
- Microalbumin Analysis +
- DOT breath alcohol testing
- Plasma and urine drug screens using automated HPLC
- Glycated Hemoglobin by automated HPLC
- TDM testing using Immunoassay
- Hormone and Tumor Markers using Immunoassay
- Thyroid testing using Immunoassay
- Homocysteine Analysis (Folate, B12)
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TELEPHONE NUMBER:
(336) 716-2661
STAFF:
Director: Z. K. Shihabi, PhD
Phone: (336) 716-2639
Fax: (336) 716-7595
zshihabi@wfubmc.edu
Associate Administrative Director:
Dale Dennard
Phone: (336) 716-2611
ddennard@wfubmc.edu
Assistant Manager:
Elma Wilson, ASCP
Phone: (336) 716-4593 ewilson@wfubmc.edu
Referral Testing
Beverly Smith, MT(ASCP)
Tel: 716-6867
besmith@wfubmc.edu
Chemistry Testing
Elma Wilson, ASCP
Tel: 716-4593
ewilson@wfubmc.edu
LAB HANDBOOK:
Medical Center staff can click here to use the online Laboratory Handbook (only available on in-house computers connected to the infiNet). The handbook contains detailed information about all tests performed, in-house as well as send-outs, and instructions for specimen collection.
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