Franklin Cockerill’s Professional Appointments
Franklin Cockerill has had a number of different appointments in different sectors of the medical community. He shares those experiences below: Academic Franklin Cockerill had academic appointments as: Consultant at Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN and Jacksonville, FL; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Head of Section, Infectious Diseases, Mayo Clinic Jacksonville ; Assistant Professor of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Associate Professor of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Director of Basic Science Microbiology Course, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Associate Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Chairman, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester; Director of Molecular Microbiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester; Consultant, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN; Consultant, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Division of Microbiology, Mayo Clinic Rochester; Director of Bacteriology, Mayo Clinic Rochester; Professor of Microbiology and Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Professor of Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine ; Ann and Leo Markin Professor of Microbiology and Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine; Chairman, Mayo Clinic Rochester Laboratory Medicine and Pathology; President and CEO, Mayo Collaborative Services, Inc. ; and as the Designated Laboratory Director for College of American Pathologists & CLIA. Industry Appointments Franklin Cockerill worked as an advisor for Vital Blood Culture System, Scientific Committee,bioMerieux-Vitek in Lyon, France; COMBACT Diagnostics, Inc., Tel Aviv, Israel; and Wampole Laboratories, Cranbury, NJ, USA. He was also appointed as: President of the Board of Directors, Cockerill Fertilizer Co., Inc., Omaha, NE; Member of Roche Applied Science/Roche Molecular Systems Scientific Advisory Board, Indianapolis, IN; Member, bioMerieux Scientific Advisory Board, St. Louis, MO; Member, VIRCO Clinical Laboratory Advisory Board; Advisory Board Member, Abbott Molecular Inc., Chicago IL Consultant, nanoMR, Santa Fe NM; and Scientific Advisory Board Member, Silicon Valley Biosystems (SV-Bio), Foster City CA. Non-Profit Appointments Franklin Cockerill has worked in non-profits as: Advisor, International Symposium on Antimicrobial Agents and Resistance, Seoul, Korea; Board of Directors, Association for Molecular Pathology; Chair. Infectious Diseases Subcommittee; Vice-Chair, Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute; Chair, Bioterrorism Working Group Subcommittee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing; Member, Subcommittee on Molecular Diagnostic Methods for Infectious Diseases; Member, Board of Directors, Asian-Pacific Research Foundation for Infectious Diseases; and Board Member, American Clinical Laboratory Association. Government Appointments
Franklin Cockerill has also held government appointments as: Deputy Director, President's Commission on HIV Epidemic; Ad Hoc Reviewer, U.S. Veterans Administration; Chairman, Microbiology Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration; and Scientific Advisory Council Board Member, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.