C. Mark Lu

Dr. Lu is a board-certified Clinical Pathologist and Hematopathologist. He studied at Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Wuhan, China. He was trained at Beijing University Health Science Center, UC San Diego, and Harvard University before joining the UC San Francisco faculty in 2003. Currently, he is the Vice-Chairman of the Department of Laboratory Medicine, UC San Francisco. Dr. Lu has published more than 70 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» (2010-2020 eds), and five other medical textbooks. Dr. Lu represents the American Society of Hematology on the Editorial Board of the Lab Tests Online (http://labtestonline.org), a worldwide and free online resource for the general public on medical diagnostic tests.