Experience

EmeritusDX - A Cancer Diagnostic and Information Company

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Scientific Officer

  • Oct 2023 - Present

  Lake Forest, California, United States



Self Employed

• Real Estate
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Strategic Advisor or Consultant

  • Jan 2014 - Present

  Los Angeles, California, United States



Imagia Canexia Health

• Canada
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chief Scientific Officer

  • Jul 2022 - Oct 2023

  Montreal, Quebec, Canada



NeoGenomics Laboratories

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Chief Scientific Officer, Clinical Division

  • May 2021 - Jul 2022

  Aliso Viejo, California, United States

• Vice President of Research and Development

  • Mar 2019 - Jul 2021

  Aliso Viejo, California

• Director Of Research Development and Clinical Bioinformatics

  • Nov 2018 - Mar 2019

  Irvine, California

• Technical Director and Director of Bioinformatics, Molecular Laboratory

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2018

  Irvine In general, build and improve infrastructure to automate and improve Molecular Lab workflow. Lead and work closely with laboratory and medical team to analyze and report molecular testing results: Principally improving QC, determining clinically relevant abnormalities, accurate reporting and improving readability of reports to accommodate clinicians needs evolving reporting to continually to be competitive. Work with other company's and their Bioinformatic groups to compile… Show more In general, build and improve infrastructure to automate and improve Molecular Lab workflow. Lead and work closely with laboratory and medical team to analyze and report molecular testing results: Principally improving QC, determining clinically relevant abnormalities, accurate reporting and improving readability of reports to accommodate clinicians needs evolving reporting to continually to be competitive. Work with other company's and their Bioinformatic groups to compile variant, clinical, laboratory databases for reporting and interpreting molecular testing results. Work with other bioinformatics groups to develop algorithms to automate reporting of molecular testing results. Work with R & D and Technologists to improve variant, indel, translocation, CNV Calling. Work with Medical & Scientific team, R&D, marketing and sales on developing new tests and improving current tests. Work with marketing and sales on developing literature to explain NeoGenomics testing Help in research projects and contribute to science in the form of scientific papers publications. Help in developing new algorithms in analyzing NGS data, e.g. improving alignment, variant calling, QC, annotation pipelines, that will facilitate report writing.



Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• United States
• Personal Care Product Manufacturing

• Associate Professor

  • Aug 2015 - Sep 2015

  Los Angeles, California, United States Genomics Research

• Founding Member: Committee for Personalized Medicine using Next Gen Sequencing

  • Sep 2010 - Sep 2015

  Dept of Pathology, Cedars Sinai Medical Center My responsibilities include technical evaluation and consulting of the bioinformatic systems used for high throughput analysis of mutations or variants in patients for clinical use.

• Director, Cedars-Sinai Genomics Core

  • Jun 2009 - Sep 2015

  Greater Los Angeles Area I'm responsible for identifying the research genomic needs of Cedars Sinai Medical Center, and procuring, building, testing and launching pipelines from the bench to desktop to client to address those needs and managin core personel. The Cedars Sinai core contains the most up to date genomics instruments and computational infrastructure. Therefore, a significant part of my time is spent consulting with investigators and educating the Cedars Sinai investigator community.



UCLA Health System

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Assistant Professor II-IV

  • Jul 2010 - Aug 2015

  Genomics Research in Pediatrics. Specifically working with UCLA Human Genetics and Medical Genetics at Cedars Sinai to employ new statistical and high-throughput genomic methodogies to identifying genes involved in skeletogenesis, with a focus on identifying genes which cause skeletal dysplasias.

• Junior Faculty

  • Jan 2006 - Jul 2010

  Genomics Research in Pediatrics. Specifically working with UCLA Human Genetics and Medical Genetics at Cedars Sinai to employ new statistical and high-throughput genomic methodogies to identifying genes involved in skeletogenesis, with a focus on identifying genes which cause skeletal dysplasias.



Cedar Sinai

• United States
• Medical Practices
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Scientist I - Junior Faculty

  • Dec 2005 - Jun 2008

  Junior Faculty position



Biomatrica

• United States
• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Consultant for RNAstable Product line

  • Jul 2007 - Oct 2007

  http://www.biomatrica.com/downloads/RNAstable_Microarray_Application_Note.pdf



Invitrogen

• Biotechnology Research
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Tech Support Scientist

  • 2004 - 2005

  Support scientists, specialized in nucleic acids research



Stanford

• Real Estate

• Post-doctoral fellow

  • Aug 2002 - Dec 2004

  Whole Genome Expression profiling using Microarrays



Boston University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Ph.D. Canidate

  • 1995 - 2001

  Develop a Novel database mining algorithm for pathway profiling.