Michele Glinn

Dr. Michele Glinn serves as the laboratory director for Averhealth’s toxicology lab in St. Louis where she oversees screening and confirmation testing for judicial customers and health care providers. She is an adjunct professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville, a fellow of the American Board of Forensic Toxicology, a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences Standards Board, and has served as vice president, president, and past-president of the Midwestern Association for Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring.

Michele is a native of Detroit, Michigan. She received a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and a PhD in biochemistry from Wayne State University, where her field of specialization was substrate metabolism and its relationship to neurochemical diseases. She spent several years at Eli Lilly in Indianapolis as a postdoctoral and visiting scientist, then served as assistant director of the Indiana State Department of Toxicology where she helped administer statewide breath alcohol and drug testing programs. Michele spent 12 years with the Michigan State Police toxicology unit as the supervisor and program coordinator of the Lansing laboratory. Prior to joining Averhealth, she served as laboratory director for Timberlands (formerly Essential) Testing LLC.