LaVerne Farrar, M.A.T.S., PBT(ASCP) is a certified and insured phlebotomist and an active member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists, and an associate member of the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute. LaVerne is the former phlebotomy educator and phlebotomy supervisor for the Johns Hopkins Medical Laboratories in Baltimore, Maryland. With more than 25 years of clinical laboratory supervisory, educational, and phlebotomy experience, LaVerne has trained countless numbers of phlebotomists, doctors, medical students, nurses, community outreach and disease intervention specialists, and research personnel in the theory and practice of specimen collection from patients and research study participants through the lifespan--newborn through geriatric. LaVerne is a proven leader and trusted phlebotomy educator who is dedicated to the education, professional development, recognition, and certification preparation of all who have phlebotomy responsibilities.