Andrea Rita Horvath

About Andrea Rita Horvath

Rita is clinical director at South Eastern Area Laboratory Services Department of Clinical Chemistry at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Sydney. As well as this position, which she’s held since 2009, she is an honorary professor at the University of Sydney and a conjoint professor in the University of New South Wales’ School of Medical Sciences. A specialist in evidence-based laboratory medicine, Rita is no stranger to international pathology – she spent eight years as a scientist and lecturer in the UK and 11 leading the Department of Laboratory Medicine at Hungary’s University of Szeged before her arrival in Australia. She was president of the Hungarian Society of Laboratory Medicine from 2005 to 2008, and of the European Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (EFLM) from 2009 to 2011. She has also served on the EFLM’s Committee on Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine and as secretary of the European Communities Confederation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.