Derrington now Chief Operating Officer at Forensic Fluids Laboratories

The past President and Chief Operating Officer at MPI Research in Mattawan has accepted the post of Chief Operating Officer for Forensic Fluids Laboratories, the nation’s only drug testing lab to specialize in the testing of oral fluid exclusively.

 

Tim Derrington assumed his new role Dec. 10. He has also been Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Axient Research in Little Rock, Ark; President and Chief Executive Officer of Bioreliance Corp. in Rockville, Md.; and served in leadership at Quintiles Transnational Corp. in  Raleigh, N.C., Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Shell UK Ventures in London, UK.

 

Derrington earned a master’s degree in business administration from Henley Management College in Oxfordshire, UK, and a graduate diploma in agricultural management from Seale Hayne College in Devon, UK. He currently serves on the Borgess Medical Center Board of Trustees.

 

Forensic Fluids Laboratories also recently added two key staff positions as part of its continued growth.

 

Susan McDonnell also joined the company on Nov. 26 as Director of Sales. She will lead sales and customer service for the medication monitoring market. McDonnell previously served as Vice President of Sales for PinpointMD in Chicago, a company which provides communication platforms for diagnostic testing systems. Her career also included roles at Home Access Health Corp. and 23 years at Quest Diagnostics, both in the greater Chicago area. She is a native of Algonquin, Ill., and studied biology at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Ill.

 

Donna Coy is the latest addition to the company's toxicology team and joined the company on Dec. 11. Coy's role expands the company's capabilities to analyze samples for illegal and prescription drugs using liquid mass spectrometry technology. Coy is a Ph.D. in toxicology and has been a graduate research assistant at the Graduate Center for Toxicology at the University of Kentucky in Lexington. She earned a bachelor’s degree in forensic science at Eastern Kentucky University in Richmond and served as an intern with the Kentucky State Police. She is a native of Shepherdsville, Ky.