Dr. Laurence M. Demers

Dr. Laurence M. Demers, ’60, DABCC, FAACC, FAASc, KM is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Pathology and Medicine at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Penn State Health, M.S. Hershey Medical Center, Hershey PA.

Dr. Demers is a graduate of Merrimack College, Class of 1960 and the State University of New York, Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY. He completed his fellowship training in Biochemical Endocrinology at Harvard Medical School and has been a Professor of Pathology and Medicine at the Pennsylvania State University in Hershey, PA since 1973 where he directed the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory in the University Hospital for over 35 years and a Core Endocrine Laboratory in the Department of Medicine for over 30 years. In 1982, he was the recipient of an NIH Fogarty Senior International Fellowship to serve as a visiting Professor at the John Radcliffe Hospital, University of Oxford, UK where he studied obstetrical patients with pregnancy induced hypertension.

Dr. Demers is qualified in clinical pathology having performed clinical rotations in Hematology, Microbiology, Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Microscopy at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in 1962-1963 in Washington, DC. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army Medical Field Service School. Section of Clinical Pathology at the Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio, Texas and directed clinical pathology laboratories at Fort Chaffee Army Hospital (1963-1964), The 121 st Evacuation Hospital in Seoul, Korea (1964-1965) and was Chief of Clinical Chemistry in the Department of Pathology, Fitzsimmons General Hospital, Denver, CO (1965-1966). In 2017, he was appointed director of a CAP accredited, CLIA certified molecular diagnostics laboratory at Personalized DX Laboratories in Carlsbad, CA and maintains medical directorship of two small reference laboratories in College Station Texas and Somerset, Kentucky.

Dr. Demers is a diplomat of the American Board of Clinical Chemistry, a fellow of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry, a past president of the American Association of Clinical Chemistry and past president of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry. Dr. Demers has published over 750 manuscripts, textbook chapters and four books in leading clinical journals. He was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor in 1997 by the President of Penn State

University for his scholarly endeavors and in 1989 was Knighted as a member of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, a 1,000 year old Catholic religious order with headquarters in Rome, Italy. In 2011, he was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Merrimack College after serving on the board of trustees for 10 years and as chairman from 2008-2010.