Dale R. Kahn attended Manchester University and the Franciscan Health Hammond School of Medical
Technology, graduating with a BS degree in Medical Technology. After college, Dale worked with
Franciscan Alliance in the laboratory located in Hammond, Indiana which was then known as St.
Margaret Hospital, specializing in the Chemistry field, and the IT area of the laboratory. He moved into
the management area for the laboratory early in his career and eventually became the Laboratory
Director for the St. Margaret site.
Dale was part of the planning and design team that built Alverno Laboratories which first opened in
1999. He accepted the role as Central Laboratory Director for Alverno in 2002 and Vice President of
Operations in 2012. Dale has directed Alverno through large and continuous expansions of the central
laboratory facility through flexible design, focus on process and has developed many computerized
solutions, building on his IT expertise.
Kahn has also helped lead Alverno with several firsts in the laboratory industry. In 2013, Siemens
Healthcare Diagnostics (now Beckman) named Alverno as their Microbiology Innovation Center for the
US. Alverno was the first laboratory in the US to implement full microbiology automation and one of the
first to routinely report clinical microbiology identifications utilizing the Maldi-TOF system. In 2014,
Alverno installed one of the first Beckman Power Express Automation systems in the United States.
Advance Laboratory Magazine named Alverno as Laboratory of the Year in 2016. In 2019 Alverno
launched a Digital Pathology project and will be one of the largest providers of Digital Pathology for
human tissue in the world.
