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Herbert Skip Brown

Herbert Skip Brown

M. Div., HT(ASCP), Director of Education & Training, Lab Management Consultants

Skip Brown has 39 years of experience in the field of Histotechnology, over 30 of which being at the supervisory and management levels. He has managed some of the most progressive clinical and research institutions such as Kaiser Permanente of Southern California and Northwestern University Pathology Core Facility.

Published Pieces by Herbert Skip

How to Create a Histology Competency Assessment Program in Six Steps

Download this generalized guide with examples of questions and images for building a competency assessment that can promote quality assurance and training standards for lab personnel.

Validating your H&E Staining Systems

In this age of healthcare regulatory standards and compliance, every aspect in diagnostic patient care must be developed, documented, and validated ‘before’ they can be used in testing and diagnoses. Procedures which were once deemed as ‘routine’, as in the...

The Cost of Reprocessing

One of the most fundamentally critical elements of diagnostic histopathology is first the ability to suspend all cellular activity in tissue and prevent degradation, and secondly to process that specimen in a manner that facilitates subsequent steps such as...