Harold Kisner

Harold Kisner, Ph.D., MBA, is the founder (2003) and president of NorthEast Clinical & Anatomic Pathology Solutions LLC, a laboratory consulting company, and of NECAPS GPO LLC, a group-purchasing organization targeting integrated health network, independent laboratories, anatomic pathology, and physician office laboratories.

Kisner is also cofounder (2006) of ConVerge Diagnostic Services, a full-service medical laboratory integrating anatomic and clinical pathology through molecular diagnostics. He currently serves as executive vice president for business development for ConVerge Dx and its affiliated laboratories, CytoDx and HybriDx, and is president of ConVerge Dx business units FMDx and CRDx.

Previously, Kisner was executive vice president and lab director of Path Lab Inc., a full-service reference laboratory serving the northeastern United States. As laboratory director from 1987 through 2003, he helped guide the company through the sale and transition of Path Lab to Laboratory Corporation of America from 2001 to 2003. Path Lab was one of the first laboratory-based hospital integrated health networks in the country, and Kisner was instrumental in the design and development of the operating model of the IHN.

Kisner has extensive experience and expertise in laboratory operations, hospital laboratory management, and laboratory business development and strategic planning.

He is on the editorial advisory board of Clinical Laboratory Management Review, the journal of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association. Kisner has previously served as editor of the Diagnostics Report, a newsletter on the diagnostics industry, written articles for numerous scientific and management publications, and speaks frequently throughout the country on various laboratory-related topics.

Kisner received his doctorate degree from the University of Rhode Island in 1982 and served a clinical laboratory residency at the University of Maryland through 1984. He received his master’s degree in business administration from Loyola College in Baltimore in 1987.