Biography: Dr. Candice Z. Ulmer is the Chemistry Branch Chief for the Eastern Laboratory of the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in Athens, GA. In her current role, she oversees the chemical residue, food chemistry, and nutritional testing of meat, poultry, egg, and fish products for the USA. Dr. Ulmer formally served as the Acting Chief of the Clinical Reference Laboratory for Cancer, Kidney, and Bone Disease Biomarkers in the Clinical Chemistry Branch of the CDC (Atlanta, GA). Her responsibilities included the accurate measurement of chronic disease biomarkers (e.g., steroid and protein hormones) and the assessment of clinical analytical methods in patient care using novel mass spectrometric methodologies and clinical analyzer platforms. Dr. Candice Ulmer began her scientific tenure at the College of Charleston where she graduated with a B.S. in Chemistry and Biochemistry. While at the College of Charleston, she investigated the pharmaceutical photodegradation of NSAIDs using ESI-LC-MS/MS. Dr. Ulmer graduated with a PhD in Chemistry as a McKnight Doctoral Fellow from the University of Florida (Analytical Chemistry division). She secured her NIST NRC Post-doctoral Research Associate Fellowship at a NIST satellite location in Charleston, SC and was involved with multi-omic UHPLC-HRMS method development, lipidomics interlaboratory studies, reference material development, and environmental exposure monitoring on human/marine life. Her talents and contributions as a mass spectrometrist have been recognized in podcasts and magazine features such as The Analytical Scientist’s 2021 Top 100 Power List, “Mass Spec at the Analytical–Clinical Interface” in the March 2020 article highlight for The Analytical Scientist, and “Faces of Mass Spectrometry” in the June 2018 issue of JASMS. For the American Society for Mass Spectrometry (ASMS), Dr. Ulmer serves on the Board of Directors in the Member at Large (MAL) for Membership role as well as chair of the Diversity & Inclusion committee and co-chair of the clinical chemistry interest group. In addition, she assumes appointed/elected memberships in eleven committees for other scientific organizations that include the International Metabolomics Society, the Metabolomics Quality Assurance and Quality Control Consortium, Metabolomics of North America, the CLSI Expert Panel on Clinical Chemistry and Toxicology, and the American Chemical Society.
Mission Statement: If elected Treasurer, I will strive to maintain accurate and timely records of the following as an USA delegate for the MetSoc BOD: society transactions/monthly expenses, BOD member information, invoices, existing/expiring contracts, and all other reports. I will work with the current Society President and past-Treasurers to file the e-annual report with the State of Massachusetts as well as income taxes with the IRS. Lastly, I will work to issue reimbursements and reconcile expenses by any predetermined deadlines.