Dr Walworth did his undergraduate work at Georgetown University where he majored in biology with a minor in psychology. He completed medical school and residency training in internal medicine at Georgetown University School of Medicine. Dr Walworth re-directed his career (initially slated for urology) after working in a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border, when the first five cases of AIDS were reported at Bangkok General Hospital.

Dr Poirier is a diplomate of the American Board of Pathology in anatomic and clinical pathology as well as in transfusion medicine. He earned his medical degree from the University of Colorado Health Science Center in Denver, where he received the dean's recognition for academic excellence. Dr Poirier has completed residencies in anatomic and clinical pathology at the University of California at Davis in addition to fellowships in surgical pathology and transfusion medicine.

Dr Caveney holds an MD from the West Virginia University School of Medicine, a JD from the West Virginia University College of Law and an MPH in health policy and administration from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He completed his residency at Duke University Medical Center and is board-certified in preventive medicine, with a specialty in occupational and environmental medicine. He is the past president of the Southeastern Atlantic College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine and continues to hold an active law license in North Carolina.

Dr Huang is a fellow of the American College of Medical Genetics. She received a medical degree from Sun Yat-sen University of Medical Sciences, Guangzhou, China, and a PhD in human genetics from the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. She received fellowship training in the National Institutes of Health’s medical genetics training program.

Ms Burns holds certification from American Society for Clinical Pathology Board of Registry in the following categories: medical laboratory technician (MLT), medical technologist (MT), and specialist in hematology (SH). She has 30 years of combined hospital, outpatient clinic, and reference laboratory experience as a generalist in all disciplines of the clinical laboratory, with specialty expertise in hematology and routine coagulation/hemostatis-thrombosis.