Lorraine J. Doucette MS, MLS, CM, PhD

Lorraine Doucette began her career in the clinical laboratory by obtaining her Medical Laboratory Technician AAS degree from Catonsville Community College. She continued on to the Medical Technology Program in the Department of Pathology at the University of Maryland Baltimore campus where she earned her Medical Technologist BS degree.

She first began in the educational field when she worked for the Department of Pathology in the School of Medicine where she taught basic laboratory techniques to 2nd-year medical students. While teaching the medical students she continued her education in pathology and cytogenetics, earning her MS degree while studying the genetic effects of 2,4 D, an ingredient in Agent Orange and a potent plant killer. She returned to the clinical laboratory and worked in the School of Medicine's Adult Endocrine laboratory, followed by two years in the neonatal laboratory in the University of Maryland Hospital, and a number of years in the core laboratory of the hospital. She began teaching phlebotomy as an adjunct in the local area community colleges and left the hospital in 1989 to teach clinical chemistry in the Department of Medical and Research Technology(DMRT) Program.

In 1995 she left teaching to work in the Education Department of COLA, an accreditation organization for small laboratories. In 1997 she left COLA to do freelance consulting work and some adjunct teaching while raising her children. In 2002 she returned to DMRT as the Education Coordinator and left in 2007 to develop the Medical Laboratory Technician Program at Anne Arundel Community College. The program has grown from seven initial students to 34 MLT students, 30 phlebotomy students, and based on anticipated trends, 20 Medical Laboratory Assistant students. The opportunity to return back to DMRT presented itself in the fall of 2019 and she began as the MLS program director on July 1, 2020.