Edwin R. Harned

Edwin R. Harned is president and CEO of Affiliated Medical Services Laboratory Inc. in Wichita, Kansas. He began his healthcare career in 1964 as a graduate medical technologist at the Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Returning to his hometown of Wichita in 1965, Harned joined the Wichita Clinic as a medical laboratory technologist. Called to active duty with the Air Force for three years during the Vietnam War, he again returned to Wichita afterward and was recruited to a new Wichita-based commercial reference laboratory venture, Statlabs Inc. Harned served as executive vice president of sales and marketing there for the next 14 years, until the company was sold to a major national laboratory in 1983.

Recruited by a large local healthcare system in 1984, Harned was a founder of AMS, which functions as a freestanding, commercial reference laboratory. AMS is wholly owned by the Via Christi Health System, the largest provider of healthcare services in Kansas.