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Show A-12 THE PARK RECORD www.park record.com WEDNESDAY, JULY 12,2000 rionie The reason 0 Parkite is part inventor, part researcher, involved extensively in community and volunteer efforts by Bruce Lewis OF THE RECORD STAFF He developed one of the first widely available, highly accurate blood tests for human parathyroid disease in the U.S. He helped design and install an automated auto-mated system in ARUP Laboratories at the University of Utah that sorts and moves up to 20.(100 human lab specimens U.ulv. He has expenence in conducting tests of large numbers of athletes for use of illegal or banned substances, so he will likely be involved in the 2002 Winter Olympic Ganie" drug testing efforts. He is president-elect of the National Acadcmv of Clinical Biochemistry And the Paik City Mountain Sports Club named their Dog n' Suds picnic after him last month, for his seven years of sup-poit sup-poit to the club. He is known to his friends as Charlie Hawker. 1 he fust impression upon meeting Hawker involves his curiosity and intensity. A subject which gains his interest comes under his full attention; when we spoke, nothing existed outside our conversation. Ak him about a complex process and sit back, the explanation will be thorough and logically organized - there will likely be no need for follow-up questions. It's a little like Irving to take a sip from a firehose. Haw ker mov ed to Park City about eight vears ago from St. Louis, his boyhood home. His return to St. Louis came after 24 years away, in college and in Kalamazoo. Mich., where he was in charge of researching research-ing and developing new lab tests. Hawker related that, in most of the IVOs. the Kalamazoo !ab performed an average of 1.000 tests each week for parathvroid hormone (PTH). present in patients with parathyroid disease (primary hyperparathyroidism). A staff of 15 was needed for the tests. Hawker said, and it was entirely manual, very complex, and took six days to perform. "Nonetheless, my lab was for several years the only game in tow n. so to speak, and for all of the 70s w as the best test available." he said, "which expl lined the volumes we performed." "By comparison today, labs like ARUP and many others perform the test in one hour or less on high speed analyzers, with one person." he said. Hawker's vehicles have had personalized personal-ized license plates with "PTH." for a number num-ber of years, and he tells' a story ' about ' friendly ribbing in the scientific field. "PTH has been on my plates in WONDERFUL OAKLEY HOME This spacious home backs up to the woods and the Weber River. The main floor and upper level have 4 bedrooms and 2.5 baths. There is plenty of room to expand into the unfinished lower level, which has a separate entrance and is already plumbed for a kitchen and bathroom. 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The main house features a Great Room with 32 ft ceilings and u;y Maun in t j ueu- 1 1 , rooms, 2.5 baths and a J2J gourmet kitchen. For 24-hour I'M information, please call 1-800 787-5920 Ad 8001 for the Charlie Hawker Dog 'n Suds Picnic Michigan and Missouri, toe. A friend of mine from Wales, a scientist who developed devel-oped a more rapio PTH test in the late 80 s that is now in common use (my test went out of use in the early SO s), has slides of my three license plates." Hawker said. "Sometimes for a joke in lectures and talks about his PTH test he w ill show slides of my three plates and then say that, "now even the L'.S. is learning about this test. Why. here you can see how the knowledge of the test is slowly moving west... first Michigan, then Missouri, then all the way to Utah."' he related. "A joke at my expense - since everyone in the audience knew whose license plates they were - but it was great fun." Despite the gotnl times and joking, testing test-ing human blood and tissue samples for disease is a serious business. At the time. Hawker was out on the cutting edge of research, applying the newest procedures in a laboratory setting. "This test and many others like it used what was then a new technology called radioimmunoassay." he related. "For the first time, using this methodology, physicians physi-cians and scientists could measure the very minute concentrations of many hormones circulating in the blood to detect the diseases dis-eases caused by over-production of those hormones. This had a profound effect on the diagnosis of scores of diseases of the pituitary, thyroid, parathyroid, pancreas, gastrointestinal system, and others." Dr. Roslyn Yalow won a Nobel Prize in medicine for developing this basic test procedure. pro-cedure. Hawker said. She was the first woman since Madame Curie to receive the Nobel Prize in medicine. She developed this test procedure in collaboration with Dr. Solomon Berson - b th were in medical med-ical schools in New York - but he passed away in the 70s and the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously. In 1582. Upjohn sold its business to Smithkline Beecham Clinical Labs and Hauker moved to St. Louis. During a decade there, he spent two y ears as manager manag-er of research and development and more than four y ears were as client serv ices manager. man-ager. More than three years were spent as technical director of the entire lab operation opera-tion - 240 employees handling more than 15.000 specimens daily. When Hawker decided to leave Smithkline Beecham, he interviewed with ARUP Laboratories on the University of L'tah campus. ' 'When left. ARUP received my firsf resume. They interviewed me. hired me," Hawker said, adding that the months-lona ,'sj"" 5 i. j. v X pmmm , , '" l . i. - 1 l p L iUi ) ;jjb fir -i a U - ft ' ' I ' 1 t 1 f iVfc ii-r-iri n'l-ifrgjir.rr.yiiv.trwii m hiring process wore on his nerves at times. ARUP was most interested in his background. back-ground. "1 am a biochemist, but I Invent done biochemistry in some years. They were interested in my logistics background, especially in bar-coding and automation." Hawker said. He had first become interested interest-ed in apply ing automation to the laboratory laborato-ry process in St. Louis, when the sheer volume vol-ume of test samples complicated the problem. prob-lem. ARUP faced the same problem. "ARUP takes over where most hospitals' hospi-tals' labs leave off. We do the specialized tests, the ones so rare or expensive that a hospital cannot equip or staff with Ph.D.s just ro handle those tests." Hawker explained. Hospital labs typically perform 2(Ki to 250 tests of more than 7 .UK) possible, he explained. ARl'P specializes in the next tier of testing, performing an additional 2.UK or so tests. By occupying that niche, he added. ARUP has become exceedingly busy. "This is the largest lnrvund freight shipper ship-per in the Salt Lake Airport. We always have couriers over there, picking up shipments ship-ments from clients w e hav e in all 50 states." Hawker said. Until automation was installed. samples were unpacked, sorted and re-sorted, distributed dis-tributed to the work stations and stored -all by hand. Eight or nine different employees employ-ees would handle the tvpical lab sample once it arrived at ARl'P. Now. 4U) feet of automated track move the samples along, taking over the logistics task. There are four high-speed sorting machines, each of which can sort up to 1.000 tubes per hour into 30 different categories. cate-gories. The entire system can handle up to 2.000 tubes per hour. Currenth. a tvpical ARl'P work day has 9.(XK) to' 11. (XX) new tubes placed on the track. Of those. 7.(XK) or more tubes will be sent to a second stop within the lab - perhaps per-haps foi another test - or to king-term storage. stor-age. In total, the system is handling roughly7 rough-ly7 16.UK) to 20.000 total tubes per day. ARUP's workload has continued to grow through recent years. Without the automated system. Hawkei estimated that the lab would have hired 40 to 50 more employees just to shuttle the samples around the lab. Not all work and no play Lest it be thought that Hawker doesn't take time to relax, consider this: Because of experience gained in St. Louis, helping to set up and operate a drug-nesting system for the- National ' Football League 'and' 'college tooflSaff!'-players. tooflSaff!'-players. Hawker has volunteered to help do the same thing fot the 2002 Oly mpic m OBEfti UMiaiMl MOUNTAIN RESORT REALTY r 'I'll' : rfl-- A V i j.., tM' Eii ! BRUCE LEWIS. PARK RECORD Charlie Hawker with the automated system he installed in ARUP Labs. At; right is one of four high-speed sorters. Part of the 400 feet of conveyor; track can be seen on the left side of the photo. ; Winter Games. He has volunteered to work with the Doping Control Program which will test athletes for banned drugs and chemicals. He is a certified official of the U.S. Sliding Officials Association and a member mem-ber of the U.S. Bobsled and Skeleton Federation. He worked as a volunteer official at the North American Sliding Championships, as well as at the Skeleton Championships. Hawker has also been a volunteer fundraiser for the American Lung Association for seven years, and their leading fundraiser on the group's annual "Bike for Breath" bike ride for five of those years. He has asthma - controlled with medication - and says that the disease dis-ease is one of the reasons for his fundrais-ing fundrais-ing efforts.. He organized the homeowners association associ-ation where he lives, served as its first president for two years and has been its treasurer for five. He was also a member of the Park City Ambassadors for three years. And for the past four years. Hawker had been the treasurer for the Park City Mountain Sports Club, and also served as president of the club from 194 to 19. 'During' he presidency.- the group grew from about 135 members to more than 300. Hence the "Charlie Hawker Doe and r $259,000 1" IRES? ( . $145,500 EACH $299 .. ,i ... . I.U. I l 1 Mill l) ? Suds Picnic" last month. ', Hawker has two children. Michael. 31.; is an architect in St. Louis. Michael was-married was-married in England on March 31. at St.-Andrew St.-Andrew "s Parish in the town of Moreton-j Hampstead in Devon County. The church ; was built in the early 1400s. and Hawker's-great-great-great grandparents were mar-! ned in the same church in 1S15. as were ! the generation before them in 1790. ; Jennifer, at age 22. is taking a summer off after earning her Computer Science' degree at Kalamazoo College. ! "I am one of those people who likes lo ; keep busy." Hawker said simply. He golfs ; whenever he can - playing in both the-Bonneville the-Bonneville Men s Association and at j local courses throughout the area.; Downhill skiing is his winter activity of; choice. ; "I am working hard to strengthen '. myself because 1 have a knee replace-! ment planned for September. I guess I ; will lose the winter for skiing and will be ; restricted to the green and blue runs, but that's all right with me." he said. "I never i have been one to ski the tree-bashing; runs." Haw ker says he w ill stick around. "I plan to stay in Park City and retire." he said. "For the most part. 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