In 1980 my original partner and I began to make culture media for a single local hospital. At that time our only intention was, besides survival, to produce a high quality product with unbeatable service at a reasonable price. More than 23 years later, our goals remain exactly the same; even though we are now very grateful to service over 4,000 laboratories nationwide. As an ASCP laboratory technologist myself, I have attempted to remain sensitive to the needs of today's microbiology community, as we strive to find new ways that our company can grow and evolve to be of better service to the laboratorian.

I am excited about the future as we increase our manufacturing capabilities to include a better selection of rapid test methods, new prepared media formulations, and a growing line of dehydrated culture media. New opportunities for exporting overseas has encouraged us to expand and enhance our manufacturing facility.

Another area of expansion has been our website. It is our desire to offer a website that will be helpful and informative to our customers, so that they can easily access any technical data that they may need.

As for me personally, when I'm not thinking about microbiology, you're likely to find me jogging, gardening, trap shooting, or wrestling with my two hyperactive boys, Dylan and Jared.

I hope that you will feel free to email me with any comments or suggestions that you may have. We at Hardy Diagnostics are constantly looking for ways that we can improve our service to those in the laboratory.