Sandy Smith is the Senior Hospital Scientist in the clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory at SydPath, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney. He has always been keen and active in R&D within the clinical laboratory. In 2007, Sandy developed and implemented the first 8 colour panels to be used for routine clinical samples in Australia. He has presented and published on panel construction, data analysis, and detection of neoplastic B cells and plasma cells by clonality. Recent laboratory projects have included investigations into transitional B cells, T regs in haematological malignancies, plus novel markers for B cells, T cells and plasma cells. Sandy has previously been on the Executive Committee from 2010-2012. He was President in 2010, which at the time included being Chair of the Conference Organising Committee. He has been on national assay guideline committees since 2009, and is on several of the taskforce committees currently updating the ACS Clinical Guidelines. In 2012, Sandy was the first Australian to pass the International Cytometry Certificate Exam (ICCE) and become a Certified Cytometrist.