Dan Hartmann

Background

About Dan Hartmann

EXPERIENCE:Over 22 years of hands-on and management of molecular diagnostic labs;Teaching post-graduate courses related to above topicsGoals:To be a consultant for: 1.molecular pathology2. human diagnostics3. medical biotechnology, involving the development of novel, non-toxic therapeutic small drugs to enter to phase I/II clinical trialEXAMPLE OF PROBLEM-SOLVING ABILITYProblemThe use of cumbersome diagnostic kit used by clinicians for diagnosis and treatment of certain cancers. o These kits were complicated, difficult to use and produced variable resultso Technologists were having difficulties in performing and interpreting resultso Turn-around –times were inadequateActiono Used database and literature to search for alternative commercial diagnostic kito Identified a new kit and using personal relationship with sales people, obtained a free trial kito Validated the FDA-approved new kit within one weeko Saved the company 40% of the initial cost Resultso Improved the overall quality and reproducibility of the testo Improved turn-around-time for the test from 72 hours to 24 hourso Saved 35% of the cost to the companyo Improved patient/client satisfactionObstacles overcomeo Avoided lengthy bureaucratic problems in switching to new kito Selected talented, eager technologists to train using the new kitSkills employedo Years of experience working as bench-top researchero Thinking out of the boxo Capable of adapting novel technologies in a rapidly evolving field o Excellent inter-personal relationship skills with technicians, clinicians and sales representativeso Ability to inspire and rapidly train personnelSpecialties: Immunohistochemistry; FISH; PCR-based technologies; pyro-sequencing; tissue micro array production; CLIA and CAP-cerification;