Harold Kisner, founder and Executive Vice President of ConVerge and CEO of ConVerge Diagnostic’s FMDx and CRDx business units, successfully builds bridges between laboratory medicine and business by leveraging his complimentary experience in both fields.

Dr. Kisner founded (2003) and is President of NorthEast Clinical & Anatomic Pathology Solutions, LLC, DBA NECAPS a laboratory consulting company, and NECAPS GPO, LLC, a group purchasing organization, which targets Integrated Health Network (IHN), Independent (IL), Anatomic Pathology (AP) and Physician Office (POL) Laboratories.

Previously, Dr. Kisner was Executive Vice President, Lab Director of Path Lab Inc., a full service reference laboratory serving the Northeastern U.S. Dr. Kisner served as Laboratory Director of Path Lab Inc. from 1987 through 2001, and helped guide the company through the sale and transition to Laboratory Corporation of America from 2001 to 2003. Path Lab was one of the first laboratory based hospital IHN in the country, and Dr. Kisner was instrumental in the design and development of the operating model of the IHN.

Dr. Kisner has extensive experience and knowledge in laboratory operations, hospital laboratory management, and laboratory business development and strategic planning.

He is on the editorial advisory board of Clinical Laboratory Management Review, the journal of the CLMA. He has previously served as editor of the "Diagnostics Report", a newsletter on the diagnostics industry, has written for numerous scientific and management publications, and frequently speaks nationally on various laboratory related topics.

Dr. Kisner received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 1982, and served a clinical laboratory residency at the University of Maryland through 1984. In addition, Dr. Kisner received his MBA from an executive program at Loyola College in Baltimore in 1987.