Prof Annalise Zemlin is Head of Division of Chemical Pathology (Stellenbosch University and National Health Laboratory Service) at Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.

She is the chair of the IFCC committee for Clinical Laboratory Management, past chair and now consultant for the IFCC committee on Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine, a corresponding member of the IFCC Committee for Point of Care Testing and a consultant for the IFCC Committee on the Education on the Use of Biomarkers in Diabetes. Her main research interests are Laboratory Management and Operational Research, Point of Care testing, Evidence-Based Laboratory Medicine, and Diabetes Mellitus and Cardiovascular Disease.

She is involved in module and curriculum development, training of undergraduate students, teaching and supervising of postgraduate students, and is module coordinator of the South African Laboratory Management Module in Pathology. This module is presented annually to all senior pathology registrars in South Africa and is part of the national training curriculum.  She has a keen interest in the extra-analytical phases of laboratory, point of care testing and the use of laboratory audits as quality improvement tools. She has performed numerous laboratory audits in South Africa and with other countries in Africa. She is a founder member of the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa which was founded in Kampala, Uganda in 2010.