The Association of Clinical Scientists, an organization with members from the international clinical science community, has named M. Kent Froberg, D.V.M., M.D. its Clinical Scientist of the Year at its national conference held in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Froberg, a pathologist at the University of Minnesota Medical School--Duluth Campus, has been a member of the association for ten years and was president of the organization from 2005—2006.
According to Peter Farmer, M.D., chair of the organization’s awards committee, “Dr. Froberg was selected because of his outstanding efforts at the advancement of clinical science, his support of the goals of the association and his outstanding performance as president of our organization.”
Dr. Froberg has been a faculty member in pathology at the UM medical school for ten years. He earned his D.V.M in 1978 and practiced veterinary medicine in rural Wisconsin. At the age of 43, he entered the University of Minnesota Medical School—Duluth Campus, and earned his M.D. in 1993. After four years in residency at Geisinger Medical System in Pennsylvania and the University of Minnesota, he returned to the Duluth Campus medical school as a professor of pathology.
The Association of Clinical Scientists was formed more than fifty years ago by F. William Sunderman, Sr., M.D. and other scientists with a common interest in laboratory medicine. The association has provided a forum for physicians, researchers and clinical scientists to advance research and learning in laboratory science.
The 450 members of the Association include pathologists, clinical chemists, molecular and cell biologists, microbiologists, immunologists, hematologists, cytogeneticists, toxicologists, pharmacokineticists, clinicians, cancer researchers and other doctoral scientists who are experts in the applications of laboratory methods to clarify, diagnose and treat human diseases.
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