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Dr. Cartwright earned his doctorate in Microbiology from the University of Bath in the United Kingdom. After undertaking programs of post-doctoral research in Molecular Microbiology at Yale University School of Medicine and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, he completed a formal fellowship in Clinical Microbiology at the National Institutes of Health. During his tenure at the NIH, Dr. Cartwright was responsible for introducing molecular diagnostic testing into the Microbiology Service. Dr. Cartwright was then employed as a Senior Research Scientist in the Nucleic Acid Diagnostics Program at Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics in Rochester, NY before moving to Minneapolis, where for almost a decade he served on the faculty of the departments of Lab. Medicine and Pathology and Medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical School, and as Medical Director of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Diagnostics at Hennepin County Medical Center and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center. Dr. Cartwright has published more than 50 papers in the fields of molecular biology and microbiology, and holds a published patent for the molecular detection of Mycobacterium avium complex. He is a member of the American Society for Microbiology and the Association for Molecular Pathology, and a former president of the Minnesota Inter-Laboratory Microbiology Association. As Chief Scientific Officer for ViroMed Laboratories, Dr. Cartwright will oversee the scientific integrity of testing at ViroMed and the introduction of new tests and technologies into the laboratory, as well as providing clinical consultations regarding the use and interpretation of tests. | 