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« Today's Globe: Boston lupus, brain injury suit, office search, preemies and diabetes, generic drugs, free lunch | Main | On the blogs: No fleas; an easy decision » Friday, May 18, 2007State lab gets new bossBy Stephen Smith, Globe Staff Maybe Al DeMaria can finally get a little rest now. DeMaria has been holding down multiple jobs at the Department of Public Health: the state's director of communicable disease control, chief medical officer and head of the State Laboratory Institute in Jamaica Plain. DeMaria's is a well-known face at the agency and on TV, especially when viruses or bacteria go on a rampage. Now, the lab, which analyzes blood samples and other material taken from patients, is getting a full-time director -- and DeMaria is getting a break. In June, the veteran chief of a comparable lab in Iowa will become director of the 113-year-old Massachusetts facility, which would play a pivotal role in the event of a global influenza epidemic or amid a biological or chemical threat. Mary J.R. Gilchrist, director of the University of Iowa's Hygienic Laboratory for the last 11 years, is a nationally recognized microbiologist and author of more than 100 textbook chapters and other publications. DeMaria will continue -- perhaps better-rested -- as disease chief and medical director at the health agency. Posted by Karen Weintraub at 11:13 AM
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