Open Comments, hosted by The Open Group
Welcome to Open Comments hosted by The Open Group, where we’ll discuss things openly with our guests from a variety of backgrounds and from different walks of life. Through this podcast, we hope to give you an inside look into a variety of topics with an equal mix of humor and candor.
In this series so far, we have touched on the following topics: Healthcare, HR, Diversity + Access to Technology, Cybersecurity, and lots more. We hope you enjoy our show and look forward to bringing more topics into the fold. Let’s get started!
Disclaimer: The Open Comments Podcast (hosted by The Open Group*) is presented purely for informational and educational purposes only. The views and opinions expressed by the hosts and the guests are their own and are not intended to harm or offend any group, organization, company, individual, anyone, or anything.
*The Open Group is a global, vendor- and technology-neutral consortium upon which organizations rely to lead the development of technology standards and certifications. With more than 900 member organizations around the globe, we have a diverse membership that spans all sectors of the technology community.
Hosts: Ash Patel (Marketing Specialist, The Open Group), Oliver David (Marketing Manager, The Open Group), and Irene Canizales (Events Planner, The Open Group).
Open Comments, hosted by The Open Group
Open Comments – Episode 7: The Importance of Standardization in Drug Testing with Neil Parkin
Neil T. Parkin, Ph.D., is a scientific consultant with extensive experience in viral drug resistance and laboratory diagnostics, especially for HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus. In November 2009, he founded Data First Consulting, Inc., based in Sebastopol, CA. Data First Consulting provides scientific consulting services to clients in industry and public health organizations, including technical writing (publications, grants and technical reports), sequence analysis, drug resistance data analysis and interpretation, laboratory quality assurance guidance, project management, meeting organization, and strategic advice.
From July 2008 to October 2009, Dr. Parkin worked at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland, in the HIV/AIDS department as part of the HIV Drug Resistance team assisting laboratories around the world to perform high quality resistance testing for public health monitoring purposes. Dr. Parkin received his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in biochemistry from McGill University in Montréal, Canada. He completed his postdoctoral training in the laboratory of Dr. Harold Varmus at the University of California, San Francisco.
“You can be curious about lots of things outside your work life and depending on where you are in your career, how much time you devote to that, may be more limited…”- Neil T. Parkin
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