David Thorne, PhD, MT(ASCP)
Senior Specialist
Phone: (517) 432-4470
Fax: 517-432-2006
e-mail: thorne@msu.edu

David Thorne, PhD, MT (ASCP) received both graduate and undergraduate degrees from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio. He joined the MSU Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program as a faculty member in 1991. Dr. Thorne's research interests include factors controlling the viability of cold stored erythrocytes, development of assays to evaluate novel toxins and criteria used to establish allowable error for proficiency testing. Primary teaching responsibilities include instrumentation and clinical chemistry. Dr. Thorne is involved in the development of effective delivery system in the classroom and through distance learning modalities. He is also the director of the graduate programs for the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Program. He has been a certified medical technologist since 1981 and a registered clinical chemist (NRCC) since 1993. He is an active member of the American Association for Clinical Chemistry.

Besides sitting on several College and University committees, he is the faculty mentor for the Biomedical Laboratory Diagnostics Student Association (BLDSA). "This student organization is very strong and quite an asset to the department. For several years these students have worked hard to maintain and bring home the trophy for getting the most signatures for the Michigan "Gift of Life" program through the Secretary of State's office. It has been a pleasure to meet and work with these students," stated Thorne.