Sean Agger

About Sean Agger

Dr. Agger is the CLIA laboratory director at Emplify Health System. He has also worked as the CLIA director for the Alaskan Public Health Laboratories and served as the Scientific Director at Premier Biotech. He has 17 years of experience in laboratory medicine and is one of the only lab directors in the country who is board certified in both clinical chemistry (DABCC) and medical microbiology (DABMM). He has a PhD in biochemistry, molecular biology and biophysics, a master’s degree in clinical microbiology and a master’s degree in business administration (MBA). His areas of clinical lab expertise include chemistry, microbiology, point of care, toxicology, immunology and molecular diagnostics. Dr. Agger has a faculty appointment in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse and he chairs the Gundersen Retirement Investment Committee. Dr. Agger’s responsibilities as the lab director include, being a technical resource for laboratory technologist and helping to educate medical staff on the clinical utility of diagnostic tests. He is the primary decision maker in when it comes to the evaluation of new technology and the technical expert who overseas verifications/validations of all new diagnostic tests. As the lab director he is also responsible for the laboratory\'s accreditation. He has extensive experience in laboratory inspections from CAP, COLA, CLIA, CAP-FDT and he holds a NY Certificate of Qualification.

Experience

1. Laboratory Director

   Gundersen Health System

   Jul 2011 — Present · La Crosse, WI, US

   Gundersen Health System (located in La Crosse, WI) is an integrated healthcare delivery system with over employees. As the CLIA laboratory director, Dr. Agger leads a group of nearly 200 laboratorians who work throughout 7 hospitals and 32 clinics. Gundersen’s core laboratory runs millions of tests per year and is a highly automated cutting-edge diagnostic laboratory. Dr. Agger is active outside of laboratory operations and he sits on numerous committees including the Retirement Pension Committee, the Clinical Informatics Steering Committee and the Clinical Practice Committee.

Education

• Viterbo University

  Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.)

  2015 — 2017

• University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

  MS, Clinical Microbiology

  1999 — 2001

• University of Wisconsin-Madison

  BS, Zoology

  1993 — 1998

• University of Minnesota

  PhD, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  2002 — 2007