<span>Hema Ketha, PhD</span>

Hema Ketha, PhD

Technical Director
Phone Number: 919-361-7704
Email: [email protected]

Dr. Ketha graduated from the University of Delhi, India in 2000. She received a Master’s in Science (MSc) with an emphasis in organic chemistry in 2005 from University of Delhi and completed her PhD in pharmaceutical chemistry from University of Florida in Gainesville in 2010. As a part of post-doctoral training, Dr Ketha completed three years of clinical laboratory research and two years of clinical chemistry fellowship from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota in 2015.

Prior to joining Labcorp in July 2018, Dr Ketha worked as the Director of Toxicology and Drug Analysis and Associate Director of Clinical Chemistry at the University of Michigan Health System in Ann Arbor, MI (2015-2018). She served as the Secretary of the AACC Michigan Section during that time. Dr Ketha is a member of AACC and the elected Member at Large for the AACC Toxicology Therapeutic Drug Monitoring Division (2019). She also serves as a CAP Laboratory Inspector. She is certified in clinical chemistry by the National Registry of Certified Chemists since 2016 and as a specialist in chemistry by the American Society of Clinical Pathology. She has edited a book Toxicology Cases For Clinical and Forensic Laboratory (Elsevier), authored more than 40 articles, abstracts published in such journals as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and Clinical Chemistry. 

Dr. Ketha is the Co-Discipline Director of Clinical and Forensic Toxicology services at Labcorp.