Tennessee Code 68-29-137 – Licensed, certified dentists as medical laboratory directors
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Terms Used In Tennessee Code 68-29-137
- Board: means the medical laboratory board, created by §. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
- Medical laboratory: means any institution, building, or place in which operations and procedures for the microbiological, serological, chemical, hematological, immunohematological, or biophysical examination of specimens taken from the human body are performed to obtain information for diagnosis, prophylaxis, or treatment or where any examination, determination, or test is made on any sample used as a basis for health advice, or where any sample is collected for the purpose of transfusion or processing of blood or blood fractions, or for the training of medical laboratory personnel. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
- Medical laboratory director: means a person who is responsible for the administration of the technical and scientific operation of a medical laboratory, including supervision of procedures for testing and the reporting of results. See Tennessee Code 68-29-103
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the several territories of the United States. See Tennessee Code 1-3-105
In addition to other persons permitted by law or rule to be medical laboratory directors, a dentist licensed in this state, certified by the American Board of Oral and Maxillofacial Pathology and certified in oral pathology by the Tennessee board of dentistry shall be qualified to serve as a medical laboratory director limited to the specialty of oral pathology without obtaining medical laboratory licensure in addition to the dentist’s professional license.