Daniel Holmes obtained his undergraduate degree in Chemical Physics from the University of Toronto. He went to medical school at the University of British Columbia (UBC) where he also did his residency in Medical Biochemistry. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at UBC and Division Head of Clinical Chemistry at St. Paul's Hospital in Vancouver. Research interests include laboratory medicine statistics, clinical endocrinology - particularly endocrine hypertension, clinical lipidology and clinical mass spectrometry. LC-MS/MS assay development at St. Paul's Hospital focusses on endocrine diagnostics and specific toxicology projects.