Scope of Service

The Corewell Health system laboratory performs approximately 18 million laboratory tests each year, serving both hospital inpatients and outpatients, as well as a large outreach program.  

The test menu is extensive and includes:  

• Chemistry panels 
• Blood gases 
• Endocrine tests 
• Cardiac markers 
• Therapeutic drug monitoring (including immunoassay, LC-MS/MS and GC methodologies) 
• Tumor markers 
• Protein and hemoglobin electrophoresis 
• Hb A1c by HPLC 
• Toxicology (including GC-MS and LC-MS/MS methodologies) 
• Biochemical prenatal testing for open neural tube defect and Down syndrome risk assessment 
• Autoimmune disease testing 
• Sweat chloride testing 
• Methane and hydrogen breath testing 

The fellow will gain experience with a large, automated track system and also with a range of other automated instrumentation and more manual procedures, ancillary testing services, and send-out lab operations.