Connie Bishop, MT(ASCP)-SH, is the assistant administrative director of the core specialty laboratories at the University of North Carolina Hospitals. She received a BS in clinical laboratory science from Concord College in Athens, West Virginia, is a graduate of the University of North Carolina Management Institute, as well as the Notre Dame Executive Management Program, and has an ASCP specialist certification in hematology.
Connie has spent most of her 30 years in laboratory experience at UNC and began her work there as the supervisor of the hematology laboratories conducting research and service programs, in addition to establishing the bone marrow transplant laboratory. In 1995, she was asked to create the core laboratory and has remained in her position as assistant administrative director since that time with responsibilities expanding to point-of-care testing and management of the specialty and family practice laboratories.