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Taking Measure

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Dana Leaman

Dana Leaman currently serves as the chief of NIST’s National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP). She has been a member of the accreditation community since 2000. When she isn’t traveling the world representing NVLAP, she can usually be found running the streets of Frederick, Maryland, with the local running club.

Celebrating World Accreditation Day

June 9, 2016

Want to pique interest in a subject area? Throw a party — right? Enter 2008 and World Accreditation Day. It was Monday, June 9, to be exact. I would love to be

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