Valerie Ng, PhD MD is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Laboratory Medicine, UCSF, Chair, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, and Laboratory Director of the Clinical Laboratories of Alameda Health System. She has served on the Board of Directors for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and the external advisory board for the University of Georgia College of Pharmacy. She is the Chair of the Laboratory Medicine Editorial Review group for Doody Enterprises, a member of the California Hospital Association's Hospital Laboratory Workforce Initiative (HLWI), a member and currently Chair of the CDC's Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments Committee (CLIAC), a member of the CARB-X Scientific Advisory Board, an ad hoc external reviewer for the Moore Inventors Fellows Program of the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation.