Charles Starr is a member of Labcompare's Editorial Advisory Board. Starr graduated from Northeast Louisiana University in with a degree in Clinical Laboratory Science. For nearly 20 years, he held various roles ranging from an evening/night bench technologist to a hospital lab evening and night supervisor. In conjunction with his lab supervisory duties, Starr assumed a teaching role as a part-time instructor at Northeast Louisiana University where he taught clinical chemistry and toxicology. Later, he became program director of the Laboratory Internship Program at St. Francis Medical Center in Louisiana. Currently, Starr serves as the Senior Director of Sales for the Clinical Laboratory Services–West Area Sales Team at Henry Schein. In this role, he is responsible for driving company strategy for the sales of laboratory instrumentation, supplies, and consumable products in all laboratories, waived and non-waived, that provides testing at the point of care of the patient.