Dr. Charles Hawker is Scientific Director for Automation and Special Projects at ARUP, where he has been for over 16 years. Dr. Hawker is also an associate professor of pathology (adjunct) in the University of Utah School of Medicine. At ARUP he has installed several major automation and robotic systems that have made it one of the country’s most automated laboratories. He is a past president of both the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry (NACB) and the Clinical Ligand Assay Society (CLAS). He has received the Professor Alvin Dubin Award from the NACB for contributions to the profession and to the Academy and the Becton Dickinson Award from the Association for Laboratory Automation. He has chaired automation committees in both CLSI (NCCLS) and Health Level 7 and currently serves on the CLSI Area Committee for Automation and Informatics. He is a co-author of chapters on clinical laboratory automation in the 4th edition of the Tietz Textbook of Clinical Chemistry and Molecular Diagnostics, the 6th edition of the Tietz Fundamentals of Clinical Chemistry, as well as author of a chapter on automation in the December 2007 issue of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine. A frequent lecturer on laboratory automation to national and international audiences, he has published 40 peer-reviewed papers, 12 chapters or invited reviews, and 41 abstracts, and has one issued patent.
