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Douglas Gurevitch
University of California, San Diego
San Diego, CA
USA
dgurevitch@ucsd.edu
Douglas Gurevitch received his M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
at UCSB in 1990. He is a registered Professional Engineer.
He started his career working on medical instrument manufacture
and development at New Image Industries. In 1995, he joined
Sequana Therapeutics (later Axys Pharmaceuticals). As head
of the Instrumentation Group, he optimized robot operations,
developed custom integrated robotic systems, instituted standard
engineering practices, and investigated new technologies.
In 2000 he joined Biocept as Director of Microarray Automation,
automating the production of proprietary microarray technology
using off-the-shelf and custom robotic solutions while managing
the engineering efforts of the company. Currently, he is staff
Senior Development Engineer for the Department of Bioengineering
at UCSD.
Douglas has presented at various LabAutomation meetings since
1997 and has published twice in JALA, for which he now serves
as Associate Editor. He was Program Chair for LabAutomation2006
and Associate Program Chair for 2005. He was the founding
chair of the San Diego chapter of the Laboratory Robotics
Interest Group. He has taught courses on the laboratory automation
issues or techniques either at UCSD or as a short course since
1998.
Petar Stojadinovic
National University
petar.stojadinovic@natuniv.edu
Petar Stojadinovic' received numerous Service of Excellence
Awards from the Association for Laboratory Automation (ALA)
where he served several years as a Scientific Committee Member,
Organizer, Short Course Instructor and Educational Coordinator
bridging conference short courses with university credits,
Guest Editor for the Journal for the Association for Laboratory
Automation (JALA), and the organizer of the Software Supplement
to JALA. As Founder and Executive Chair of the Bay Area Laboratory
Robotics Interest Group, Biotech Forums, and the Southern
California Nanosig and Nano Forums he organized forums for
education, business, and technology.
He has numerous patents in Drug Discovery, Genomics, Bio-informatics,
and has advised various labs in their growth, sales/marketing,
and processes. Petar consults companies on their technology
and business developments, performs corporate training with New Horizons, and
is a professor with National University.
As a corporate partner and Business Development
Manager for Knowledgeable Information System Solutions (KISS)
Principle Inc., Petar helped develop a Bio-Medical Asset Management
solution abbreviated B.A.M.™ for the life science market
offering associated products for helping businesses save money
by predicting cost and ROI's. The system manages laboratory
and IT assets, inventories and tracks assets, and remote controls
assets. It can conduct process and cost analysis, merger/acquisition
and move planning, and calculates usage and a TOC Cost Reduction.
B.A.M.™ is fully integrated product with inventory, procurement,
auto discovery of lab equipment, help desk, work & service
order tracking, document management, calibration and more
that may work with existing LIMS, sample management, scheduling,
work flow, and financial systems. The B.A.M.™ project
uses the ASTM AnIML XML data exchange standard, proposed Laboratory
Performance Markup Language (LabPML), and the Service in Management
Performance Markup Language (SiMPL) for tracking usage, productivity,
and performance. More information is available at exhibition
booth #535 and in the poster session entitled "Real-time
Monitoring of in Process Laboratory Experimentation".
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