Professor Cobbaert is a European Specialist in Laboratory Medicine. She is heading the Department of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at the Leiden University Medical Centre, Leiden, NL. Her research focuses on Precision Diagnostics with quantitative bottom-up proteomics for enabling a refined molecular definition of Health and Disease. She currently chairs the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) Scientific Division Executive Committee, involved with metrological traceability and standardization of medical tests (http://www.ifcc.org/ifcc-scientific-division/). She is a member of ISO TC 212 working group 2 on Reference Systems and a personal member of the EURAMET Research Council.

She represents the European Federation in Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) in the IVD subgroup of the Medical Device Coordination Group during meetings with the European Commission on the implementation of the IVDR 2017/746. In this capacity she chairs the EFLM Committee on European Regulatory Affairs (https://www.eflm.eu/site/page/a/1650). She is the EFLM liaison to BioMed Alliance in Europe.

David McClintock is the Chair of the Division of Computational Pathology and Informatics within the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN). He is an AP/CP and Clinical Informatics boarded pathologist, with primary clinical interests including pathology informatics, clinical AI lifecycle/AI model deployment, digital pathology, and clinical laboratory workflow optimization/analytics. His research interests include the use of AI and machine learning tools for improved diagnostics, workflow optimization, and improved patient outcomes, in addition to the application of robotic process automation and computer vision tools within healthcare. Dr. McClintock is involved in multiple pathology organizations, including previously serving as the President of the Association for Pathology Informatics (API, 2018) and currently serves as the API Program Committee Chair.