IFCC Executive Board: 2012-2014 Biographies
Prof. Jocelyn M.B. HICKS, Past President
Past President
Prof. Jocelyn M.B. HICKS
4329 Van Ness Street,
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Jocelyn M. B. Hicks, PhD, DSc., FRCPath is
Executive Director Emeritus at Children's National Medical Centre
and Professor Emeritus of Paediatrics and Pathology at The George
Washington University School of Medicine in Washington, DC, US.
Most recently Dr. Hicks was the Chief Operating Officer of the
Genetics and Fairfax Identity Divisions of The Genetics and IVF
Institute in Fairfax, Virginia. Prior to that, she was Chair of
Laboratory Medicine and Pathology and Executive Director of the
Centre for Complex Diseases at the Children's National Medical
Centre (CNMC), Washington, DC. While at CNMC Dr. Hicks held many
leadership positions, including President of the Medical Faculty
Associates, membership on the Leadership Council, membership on the
Hospital's Board of Directors, and was a Board member of the
Children's Hospital Foundation, the fund-raising arm of the
hospital. She currently does volunteer work in a local hospice.
Dr. Hicks obtained a BSc. (Honours) in Physiology and her MSc.
in Biochemistry from the University of London (UK), and a PhD in
Physiology and Biophysics from Georgetown University Medical School
(US). In 2010 she received a Doctor Science Honoris Causa
Degreefrom the University of London. She has over 90 peer-reviewed
publications, and many books, including The Neonate, Point-of-Care
Testing and the Directory of Rare Analyses. She also has served as
editor of many journals. Her academic and administrative interests
include paediatric reference values, point-of-care testing and
strategic and business planning.
Dr.Hicks is a Past President of the American Association for
Clinical Chemistry (AACC) and has served on its Board of Directors.
Within the AACC, Dr. Hicks founded the Van Slyke Society that is
devoted to education and research, as well as providing funds for
young clinical chemists to attend national meetings.
Dr. Hicks is the founder and Past-President (two terms) of the
International Association of Paediatric Laboratory Medicine. Dr.
Hicks was Chair of the Publications Division of the International
Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC), and introduced the IFCC
Website and the IFCC Journal, together with Professor Donald S.
Young. Dr. Hicks was the Treasurer and a Board member of the IFCC
from 2003-5, and President from 2006-8.
Dr. Hicks' many honours include honorary memberships in the
Association of Clinical Biochemists (UK), the Israel Society of
Clinical Biochemistry, the Portuguese Association of Clinical
Pathology, the Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine, the
Egyptian Society of Clinical Chemistry, the Tunisian Society of
Clinical Biology, the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemists, the
French Society of Clinical Biology, and the Spanish Society of
Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Pathology. Dr. Hicks has
received three of the AACC's national awards, and is frequently
invited to speak both nationally and internationally.
As Past-President of IFCC she supports strongly the current
strategic plan. Prof. Hicks continues her support of several major
programs, especially those to help Developing Countries, the
Federations and National and Corporate Representatives. These
included greatly expanding the Abbott/IFCC Visiting Lecture
Programme, adding the Roche/IFCC Travel Scholarships, the
IFCC/Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Special Conferences and the Siemens
Distance Learning Program.
She founded the African Federation of Clinical Chemistry (AFCC)
and attended the inaugural Congress in Nigeria in 2009 and the
second Congress in Kenya in 2011.
She changed the format of the General Conference to include
actively the National and Corporate Representatives, as well as the
Past Presidents. She continued her work with developing countries
and Corporations under the leadership of the President, Dr. Graham
Beastall.
Her personal interests include cooking, playing bridge,
travelling and exercising.