Lab operators, not a lab.
Ascent Health Group was founded by operators who have built, run and sold clinical laboratories. We saw the same problem in practice after practice: physicians who wanted the clinical and financial benefits of in-office testing but had no way to manage a high-complexity lab without taking on a second business. Ascent's managed laboratory model is the answer. We bring the equipment, the people and the compliance; the practice keeps the lab, the results and the revenue. We work with physician practices across the United States from our base in Austin, Texas.
Slater Swartwood Jr.
Slater has spent more than 25 years building healthcare companies, most of them around urology and diagnostics. He co-founded US Laser Worx, which brought an FDA-approved laser for enlarged prostate to market and placed it in surgery centers owned by two of the largest urology groups in the country. He was a founding partner of Advanced Diagnostic Laboratory (ADL Health), a CLIA-certified clinical, forensic and microbiology laboratory that shipped more than 200,000 home-collection tests for Fortune 100 and 500 companies and government agencies, including pre-travel testing for Air Canada and United Airlines. ADL Health was acquired by a publicly traded company in 2021.
Josh Wilk
Josh is President of InFinity Diagnostics Group, where he leads a team of up to 90 people delivering anatomic and clinical pathology, molecular and toxicology services to partner physicians nationwide. He has built and managed physician owned laboratories across the full range of complexity, from bone and soft tissue biopsy to PCR, with a customer first operating approach. Josh partners with Ascent on reagent supply, laboratory operations and the pathology and toxicology programs.
Jordan Laser, MD
Dr. Laser is one of the country's most recognized leaders in laboratory medicine. He serves as Chair of the CDC's Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC), the federal body that advises on CLIA standards, and holds leadership roles with the College of American Pathologists and the Association for Molecular Pathology. He was Chief Laboratory Officer at Everly Health, where he oversaw two internal and nine partner laboratories supporting at-home diagnostics, and spent more than a decade at Northwell Health overseeing point-of-care testing for over 350 clinical practices and 20 hospitals while directing a full-service reference laboratory. He is board certified in molecular genetic pathology and a graduate of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Dr. Laser advises Ascent on test menu design, validation and laboratory quality.