ACCU-Lab Medical Testing's highly trained management staff brings extensive knowledge and experience in both technical and administrative areas. The strength ofACCU-Lab's management team consistently produces high standards and maintains a high level of accuracy and quality control for all results findings. The combined experience of key managers exceeds 75 years in the forensic drug testing industry.

WARREN COOPER
FOUNDER AND PRESIDENT

Warren Cooper, President and founder of ACCU-Lab Medical Testing, Inc. since 1991, created new training growth for minorities interested in exploring the different aspects and opportunities to work in the industry of forensic drug testing.

Warren Cooper brings to ACCU-Lab an understanding of federal drug testing requirement, and extensive network of public and private sector contacts, sensitivity to needs peculiar to the Chicago market the firm serves, and more than 20 years experience in professional management.

As a Board of Director of several inner city methadone clinics, Mr. Cooper realized the lack of minority participation in the drug testing industry. He founded ACCU-Lab Medical Testing to provide a training ground for students interested in entering the burgeoning industry. ACCU-Lab Medical Testing is the only African American-owned forensic laboratory in the country.

Mr. Cooper directs the strategic management and development of the firm. He also is a pro-bono consultant to social sector agencies and high schools working on drug abuse and testing issues.

Prior to opening ACCU-Lab, Mr. Cooper was employed by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) from October 1980 until September 1993 as an Air Traffic Control Specialist. He worked at Merrill C. Meigs Field, Midway and O'Hare International Airports. He became the first African-American to work in that capacity assigned to O'Hare International Airport in Chicago.

In 1988, Mr. Cooper developed and implemented a curriculum for Chicago City Colleges that resulted in fifteen minorities being employed by the FAA. He also held positions with the Cook County Sheriff's Department, Solicitor General of the United States and Johnson and Johnson Corporation.

He helped negotiate drug-testing implementation between the Air Traffic Controllers' Union and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) under then -Secretary of Transportation Elizabeth Dole.

Mr. Cooper is a member of the American Association of Clinical Chemist, the Regional Purchasing Council of the Chicago Urban League, and the Cosmopolitan Chamber of Commerce.

JOHN P. BEDERKA, JR., Ph.D.
LABORATORY DIRECTOR

He served as department head for the Abraham Lincoln School of Medicine at the University of Illinois Medical Center. He is certified in toxicology, pharma-cometrics and clinical pathology. He is frequently called upon to provide expert testimony in forensic pathology and toxicology. The depth of his experience in toxicology, pathology and quality assurance, are essential to ACCU-Lab's ability to maintain the National Institute of Drug Abuse (SAMSHA) Standards of quality control and assurance in the laboratory. His lab supervision and experience ensures the integrity of ACCU-Lab's quality of work.

SHARAD SHAH, M.S.
ASSISTANT LABORATORY DIRECTOR

Sharad Shah has more than twelve (12) years experience in clinical toxicology at the University of Illinois and Mary Thompson Hospital. In addition, he has ten (10) years experience as a medical technologist in all phases of clinical and specialized laboratories at the University of Illinois Hospital Chicago.

ROBERT WILLIAMS, BS, MS.
MANAGER/ASSISTANT LABORATOR Y DIRECTOR

Robert Williams has more than fifteen (15) years experience in clinical toxicology performing extractions, transcribing data, analyzing specimens by Gas Chromatography Mass Spectroscopy, certifying data and testifying in court on the integrity of such delicate issues. He brings to ACCU-Lab the experience and knowledge from his former employers, such as Roche Biomedical Labs, Laboratory Corporation of America (LABCORP) and the Alabama Reference Laboratory.

DEBORAH COOPER, L.P.N.
LABORATOR Y SUPERVISOR

Deborah Cooper is a Licensed Practical Nurse (L.P.N.) with over twenty-two (22) years experience in gerontology and drug substance abuse. She gained her working knowledge and experience through various Chicago hospitals. She also has certificates in phlebotomy, pharmacy and gerontology, and ten (10) years experience working in a clinical toxicology laboratory.