Zhen Zhao

Zhen Zhao is a Professor of Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at Weill Cornell Medicine. She is the Director of Central Laboratory and Clinical Chemistry Service at the New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center. She received her BS in biology from Xiamen University and PhD from Northwestern University. She fulfilled clinical chemistry postdoctoral fellowship training at Washington University in St. Louis. She is board-certified by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry. Prior to joining the faculty at Weill Cornell, she served as the Director of General Chemistry and Immunoassay and the Associated Director of the clinical chemistry fellowship postdoctoral training program in the Department of Laboratory Medicine of the National Institutes of Health. She has written 4 book chapters, given over 30 invited lectures/symposia locally, nationally, and internationally and published over 80 peer-reviewed papers. She serves/served on several committees including Chair of IFCC Task Force on Outcome Studies in Laboratory Medicine (TF-OSLM), Co-Chair of AACC COVID-19 Community Study and President of the North American Chinese Clinical Chemists Association (NACCCA). She has received several awards including NIH Clinical Center Director’s Award, AACC Capital Local Section Roe Award, NACB’s Distinguished Abstract Award, AACC Endocrinology Division Outstanding Abstract Award and NACCCA Outstanding Research Award.