Chuanyi (Mark) Lu

Dr. Lu is a board-certified Clinical Pathologist and Hematopathologist. He was clinically trained at UC San Diego and Harvard University before joining UC San Francisco faculty in 2003. Currently he is the Vice Chair of Department of Laboratory Medicine, UC San Francisco, and the Chief (CLIA Lab Director), San Francisco VA Health Care System. Dr. Lu has published more than 80 peer-reviewed articles, and authored the popular «Guide to Diagnostic Tests» (2007, 2012, 2017), which has been translated into seven non-English languages. He contributes to the «Current Medical Diagnosis & Treatment» (2010-2023 eds), and five other medical textbooks. Dr. Lu represented the American Society of Hematology from 2009 to 2021 on the Editorial Board of the Lab Tests Online (formerly http://labtestonline.org, now www.testing.com ), a worldwide online resource for the general public on medical diagnostic tests.