COLA announced Mary J. James, MD, has been elected to its Board of Directors. Dr. James joins COLA’s board of prominent professionals appointed by the American Medical Association (AMA), American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) and the American College of Physicians (ACP).
Serving as a board-elected director, Dr. James is a pathologist with Physicians Laboratory LTD in South Dakota where she provides anatomic pathology services and laboratory consultation to hospitals in South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota. She is also a blood bank medical director and processing facility director for the cellular therapy laboratory at Avera McKennan Hospital and a co-medical director of the Community Blood Bank.
Dr. James is a member of the College of American Pathologists, for which she is the South Dakota House of Delegates Chair. She is also a member of the American Society for Clinical Pathology, Association for the Advancement of Blood and Biotherapies (AABB) and American Society for Transplantation and Cellular Therapy.
