Gary Norman received his BS degree from University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MS degree from University of Washington, Seattle, and Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from University of Southern California. Following Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Dept of Clinical Chemistry, University of Toronto and Dept of Pathology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Pathology at USC. He moved to the Dept of Pediatric Infectious Disease at Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Beverly Hills, California with an appointment as Assistant Professor II at UCLA Medical School. He then joined MRL Reference Laboratory as Senior Scientist responsible for clinical support and development of new infectious disease assays. In 1996 he joined INOVA Diagnostics, San Diego, California and has focused on discovery and development of novel biomarkers in gastroenterology (especially IBD and celiac disease), hepatology (autoimmune liver disease), oncology (HCC and fibrosis), and anti-phospholipid disease. He has co-authored 125 peer-reviewed papers, over 250 abstracts, and has 3 awarded patents. He is a Fellow of both the American Gastroenterological Association and the American Association for the Study of Liver Disease. Over the past decade, studies and lecturing in Asia, particularly China, has been a focus of much of his professional activities.