Gov. Jon Huntsman Jr. today will commemorate National Medical Laboratory Professionals Week by signing a proclamation declaring April 23-29 as Medical Laboratory Week in Utah.
The country has about 300,000 practitioners of clinical laboratory science.
Attending the signing ceremony will be representatives from ARUP Laboratories, the University of Utah Department of Pathology, the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science-Utah, IHC, the Utah Chapter of the Clinical Laboratory Management Association, the American Society for Clinical Pathology and the University of Utah Medical Technologist and Salt Lake Community College Medical Laboratory Technician students of the year.