Professor Candace Golightly joined the faculty of Stony Brook University, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, in 1995. She previously worked as a clinical laboratory scientist at Stony Brook University Hospital, Department of Immunology. Since 1984, she has also worked part-time as a clinical laboratory scientist and laboratory information manager at J. T. Mather Hospital laboratory in Port Jefferson, NY. Professor Golightly is responsible for the coordination of all CLS clinical practicums, and she teaches Introduction to Clinical Laboratory Sciences. She helped to develop and is the program advisor of the Health Care Informatics Concentration offered by the Bachelor of Science in Health Science major. She teaches Issues in Health Care Informatics and co-teaches Health Information Systems Management.
Professor Golightly is an invited speaker for the American Society for Clinical Pathology (ASCP). Since 1999, Professor Golightly has served as Vice-Chair of the American Society for Clinical Pathology’s BOR Laboratory Information Systems (LIS) Qualification Committee. She has served since 2004 on ASCP’s Board of Director’s Advisory Group for the PEPFAR Project. Under the aegis of ASCP and the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), and also working with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL), and the World Health Organization (WHO), Professor Golightly has helped to develop and has participated in laboratory training and education programs designed to help address the global AIDS epidemic. To date, she has conducted ASCP training in Zambia, Ethiopia, Tanzania, and Malawi.
