Kathleen Doyle, PhD, MT(ASCP)^CM was honored with the 2009 ASCP Member Excellence in Education Award at the ASCP's Leadership Exchange Awards Presentation and Keynote Luncheon, at noon March 20, in Philadelphia.

The award was established to recognize an ASCP laboratory professional Member who is actively involved in a medical laboratory education program and has demonstrated outstanding performance in teaching in the classroom or clinic, or in developing effective teaching methods and instructional materials.

Dr. Doyle is Chair of the Department of Clinical Laboratory and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Massachusetts Lowell, a position she has held since 2004. In 1983 she became the Director of the Medical Technology program.

Since 1981, Dr. Doyle has been teaching the Clinical Immunohematology (Blood Banking and Transfusion Medicine) lecture in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Medical Technology program and taught the related lab for many years. She also teaches the Human Biochemistry course for undergraduates and the Advanced Pathophysiology course in the Clinical Laboratory Sciences graduate program both on campus and online.

An advisor to many student Directed Study and Senior Research projects as well as Master's students’ research projects, she received the Department Teaching Award in 2003.

In the 1990s, she was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, and a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital in the Department of Pathology.

An ASCP volunteer for many years, Dr. Doyle is on the Board of Governors for the ASCP Board of Certification (BOC). Other current ASCP committee appointments include the Taskforce on Certification Maintenance, Communications Committee, and the ASCP Institute Advisory Committee. Past ASCP volunteer activities include service as Chair of the ASCP BOC Research and Development Committee; Vice Chair and Chair of the BOC Joint Generalist Examination Committee; editor for the ASCP’s Tech Sample Generalist Case Study series; and member of the BOC Editorial Committee.

The author of more than 35 refereed articles, abstracts and monographs, Dr. Doyle was awarded the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Sciences' National Scientific Research Award in 1994 and 1997 for her work on the pathological effects of alcohol.