Millennium Magazine_8th Ed

266 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine SCIENCES, PHARMACEUTICALS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY the Specialty Reference Laboratory as founder, president and director beginning in 1989. Since 2020, he has been a director of the Orange Toxicology Laboratory in San Bernardino. A licensed clinical chemist in California and diplomate of the American Board of Clinical Chem- istry, Dr. Chou has served as a consultant for ICL Sciences. He maintains membership with the Cali- fornia Association forMedical Laboratory Technol- ogy, the Clinical Ligand Assay Society, the Ameri- can Association of Clinical Chemistry and the North American Chinese Clinical Chemistry Asso- ciation, for whom he served as president in 1984. His late father Chou Zuei, MD, donated church lands tobuild threechurches inTaiwan. Currently, there is a Chou Zuei Memorial Hall inside Chi-Hou Presbyterian Church. To follow his father’s footsteps, Dr. Chou donated $700,000 to the Chi-Hou Presbyterian Church and has already built the Chou Zuei Memorial House of Devotion in memory of his late father. A n alumnus of National Chung-Hsing University in Taiwan, Dr. Peter Wei-Shin Chou graduated with a BS in agricul- tural chemistry in 1954 prior to taking on his first role as a chemistry teach- er at the Cishan Agricultural Vocational School. Departing in 1956, he immigrated to the U.S. and earned a BS in food technology from Oregon State University, Corvallis in 1958 and MS in food science from Washington State University, Pull- man in 1960. While studying toward his doctor- ate at the University of Missouri, he served the university as a teaching and research assistant. He earned a PhD in biochemistry in 1968 and served as a postdoctoral fellow. Dr. Chou excelled as a research associate at Methodist Hospital inBrooklynandatMendocino State Hospital. From 1972 to 1973, he was a med- tech trainee at Western Laboratories before joining the Nichols Institute for Endocrinology (now Quest Diagnostics Laboratories) as a clinical chemist scientist from 1973 to 1976. He then joined the Radioimmunoassay Center, Inc., as founder and chief executive officer in 1976, maintaining his roles through 1988, and served PETER WEI-SHIN CHOU, PHD LABORATORY DIRECTOR Orange Toxicology Laboratory, Inc. San Bernardino, CA