LC-MS/MS Advanced Optimization & Method Development Strategies Course
Instructor Biography
Dr. Fabio Garofolo: (Vice-president Bioanalytical Services, Algorithme Pharma, Laval, QC, Canada; Steering Committee Member, AAPS CRO Focus Group, USA; Coordinator of Regulated Bioanalysis Interest Group, ASMS, USA; Regulatory Advisor, Calibration & Validation Group (CVG), Canada; Chair of LC-MS Discussion Group Toronto & Montreal, Canada; LC-MS Instructor, CVG, across Canada)
Dr. Garofolo has been working on Liquid Chromatography - Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS), High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), Gas Chromatography - Mass Spectrometry (GC-MS) for more than 20 years (1989-2009). His work is specialized in applications of LC-MS in FORENSIC, ANALYTICAL and BIOANALYTICAL fields.
Dr. Garofolo has started teaching LC-MS since 1995. He is the official LC-MS instructor in Canada for the Calibration and Validation Group (CVG is a non-profit, scientific organization based in Toronto).
Capitalizing on an extensive occupational background within his specialization field, Dr. Garofolo provides innovative solutions and specific training for fast method development in LC-MS as part of the educational and didactic activities of CVG. He has developed a multilevel LC-MS courses focused on High Throughput LC-MS/MS and Advance Method Development.
More than 2000 students, mainly from Canada but also from USA, Europe, Asia and South America have attended different levels of Dr. Garofolo's courses. He has taught over 40 courses on LC-MS/MS and Method Development.
Dr. Garofolo is also the founder and chair of the Canadian LC-MS Group. The most well-known scientific event of this group is the Annual Symposium, which reached more than 400 attendees during its 6th edition in 2007. Dr. Garofolo was also the organizer of the Workshop on Recent Issues in GLP Bioanalysis on May 2007 and on April 2008 in Montreal.
Dr. Garofolo has 76 publications & presentations in international conferences. He has developed 162 innovative GLP bioanalytical and analytical methods. He designed and invented 3 innovative bioanalytical approaches. He is the recipient of the following awards: Lilly & Co Achievement Award (2001); Lilly & Co Global Award (2002); Lilly & Co Emmerson Award (2003).
