Dr. Lawrence de Koning is an Associate Professor at the University of Calgary and a Clinical Biochemist with Alberta Precision Laboratories (formerly Calgary Laboratory Services) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. He completed a PhD in Health Research Methodology (nutritional and genetic epidemiology) from McMaster University in 2009, and concurrent postdoctoral fellowships in nutritional epidemiology and clinical chemistry at Harvard University from 2009-2012. He became board certified by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry in 2013 and a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Clinical Biochemistry in 2015. Dr. de Koning directs the pediatric clinical biochemistry testing laboratory at Alberta Children’s Hospital in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Dr. de Koning’s clinical interests are in pediatric clinical biochemistry as it relates to the acute and chronic care of children with cardiac, metabolic and endocrine disorders. His research interests are in laboratory quality improvement and in the epidemiology of childhood and adult conditions with significant morbidity and mortality.