Mark Gusack, M.D.

Biography

Dr. Mark Gusack is a Principal Consultant for Labshire, LLC, and has been a leading consultant to the clinical laboratory field for over three decades covering all aspects of laboratory operations. In addition, he has recently entered the regulated life science industry focusing on process development, metrology of dose delivery systems, and statistical process control.  He has been a laboratory director as well as inspector for the College of American Pathologists and recently did accreditation assessments for ISO 15189 through the American Association of Laboratory Accreditation.

Dr. Gusack has held both staff and directorship positions as a technologist and pathologist in small and medium sized hospital-based laboratories as well as in large independent reference laboratories. Throughout his career Dr. Gusack has been involved in all aspects of information technologist including but not limited to hardware assembly and operation, software coding, and validation as well as database design and management. His knowledge regarding Laboratory Information Systems extends back to 1975 working as a clinical engineer participating in development of a model system called the Multitest Facility at The George Washington University Hospital. Since then, his experience includes numerous LIS’s ranging from small laboratory systems to large scale distributed services. Most recently, he provided a clinical laboratory acquiring an LIS with a comprehensive plan of action and helped guide it to a successful implementation.

Dr. Gusack is an emeritus member of ASCP and CAP. He holds a B.A. in History from Amherst College with minors in mathematics and the combined sciences, a Medical Doctorate from The George Washington University School of Health Sciences, is board certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology, and was a licensed Healthcare Risk Manager in Florida during the 1990’s. He has been a professor at numerous medical schools teaching a wide range of subjects and was Manager of Information Systems in the Department of Pathology at the Uniform Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda Maryland where he automated the entire department and wrote a series of medical teaching applications in an artificial intelligence programming language.