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Madison, NJ-based Quest Diagnostics has Appointed Lidia L. Fonseca as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Quest Diagnostics Incorporated is the leading provider of diagnostic testing, information and services that patients and doctors need to make better healthcare decisions. The company offers physicians the broadest test menu (3,000+ tests), is a pioneer in developing innovative new tests, is the leader in cancer diagnostics, provides anatomic pathology (AP) services, & interpretive consultation through its medical & scientific staff of about 900 M.D.s & Ph.D.s. The company has about 42,000 employees, serves approximately ½ of all physicians & hospitals in the U.S., & reported 2011 revenues of $7.5 billion. Quest Diagnostics offers the most extensive clinical testing network in the U.S., with laboratories in most major metropolitan areas, & in Mexico, the UK & India. The company also operates four esoteric laboratories, 40 outpatient AP laboratories, & 160 smaller, rapid-response laboratories. Patients may have specimens collected in any of the company’s approximately 2,000 patient service centers. On a typical workday, testing is performed for about 550,000 patients. Quest Diagnostics empowers healthcare organizations & clinicians with state-of-the-art connectivity solutions. The company is the leading provider of pre-employment drugs-of-abuse screening for employers & risk assessment services for the life insurance industry. It is the world’s 2nd largest provider of clinical trials testing for new pharmaceuticals.
About the Person
Lidia L. Fonseca serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Orchid Cellmark Inc. Ms. Fonseca served as the Chief Information Officer and Senior Vice President at Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings from May 2008 to March 31, 2013. Ms. Fonseca joined Laboratory Corp. of America Holdings in May 2008. She served as an Executive Vice President of Global Operations and Technology at Synarc, Inc. She served as the senior vice president of technology and operations since 2005. She joined to Synarc from Philips Medical Systems, where she served various roles including Vice President of Supply Chain Management for the Nuclear Medicine business from 2003 to 2005, General Manager of Global eBusiness, and Global Chief Information Officer from 1997 to 2005. She was responsible for over 1,100 staff members and managed an annual operating budget of $350 million. She has an MBA and MBI from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus Graduate School of Business and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
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