Jean I. Jarzabek, MS, MT(ASCP), CC(NRCC), is a senior chemistry technologist at The Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey. She has 40 years of clinical chemistry experience and shares her expertise as a faculty member at the hospital's School for Clinical Laboratory Scientists. Jean received her BA in zoology and MS in biochemistry. She is active in the American Association for Clinical Chemistry, having served as chairperson of the New Jersey section and as member of several national level committees.