Who we are
Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services specializes in assisting institutions with the process of obtaining the Association for the Assessment and Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care International (AAALAC) Accreditation from the development of a highly organized Program Description through the Site Visit and Post Site Visit Communication. We can assist in Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) development and Program development (Occupational Health and Safety, Training, ect.) utilizing current industry Best Practices. We conduct third party program and facility reviews to evaluate for compliance with applicable regulations including Post Approval Monitoring and grant congruency. We assist with Risk Assessments and Disaster Planning. We can also serve on IACUCs and assist with IACUC and Investigator training. We can assist with non-affiliated IACUC member placement.
Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services, as a collective, has an education background focusing on laboratory animal medicine, computer science, and business management. We have a diverse background including being animal care technicians, IACUC Chairpersons, and Principal Investigators, to management of warehouses, homeowner’s associations, and entire laboratory animal programs. We own biotechnology and computer consulting service companies. In 1995 Lucinda co-founded a private school for 6th thru 12th grades with an emphasis on biotechnology.
Background
Lucinda A Conti, RLATg, AAS has 25+ years of experience in the laboratory animal facility management field. She graduated with High Honors (4.0 GPA) from the Veterinary Technology program at SUNY Delhi in 1985. For 23 years she was the Director of Antibody Production, Director of Regulatory Compliance and IACUC Chairperson at PRF&L (Pocono Rabbit Farm and Laboratory) in Canadensis, PA. During that time, AAALAC visited PRF&L 4 times over 12 years. All four AAALAC visits resulted in Full Accreditation with no further suggestions for improvement. AAALAC site visitors would comment on the well-written and organized Program Descriptions that were submitted. Other companies began to seek out Lucinda and ask her assistance in writing their Program Descriptions. This was how Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services (ALACCS) was founded in January 2006.
Biography
Lucinda A Conti, RLATg, AAS
President of Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services
Lucinda earned her AAS degree in Veterinary Technology at the State University of New York in Delhi, NY after completing two years as an Animal Bioscience major at The Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA. She served as the founding Chairperson of Pocono Rabbit Farm and Laboratory’s (PRF&L) institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) located in Canadensis, PA from 1992 until April of 2006. She brings a wealth of regulatory compliance, AAALAC accreditation, and current industry “Best Practices” knowledge to the IACUC’s that she has or is presently serving on. Both of the IACUC‘s that she is/was a part of main focus is on polyclonal and monoclonal antibody production. However, Lucinda, as the President of Allied Laboratory Animal Care Consulting Services, has successfully consulted with many biotechnology companies that focus on medical device implants in dog and swine, as well as geriatric rodent memory research involving rodent surgery.