Ali Alhamad

Clinical Chemistry and Total Laboratory Automation Supervisor

Ali Alhamad is Clinical Chemistry and Total Laboratory Automation Supervisor at the Central Laboratory of King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs, in Riyadh. Total laboratory automation links sample reception, centrifugation, aliquoting, analysis and storage into a single track, and running it well is as much a process discipline as an analytical one. His work covers throughput and turnaround, the handling of exceptions the track cannot resolve on its own, and the quality controls that keep an automated chemistry service reliable at high volume.