Gary Fahle is the director of Microbiology Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory at the National Institute of Health in Bethesda, Md. He started as a medical technologist and then became a supervisor in the Clinical Center Microbiology Laboratory. He has been published in more than 20 professional journals. After graduating, he worked as a medical technologist in the microbiology departments of St. Vincent Medical Center in Toledo and Georgetown University Medical Center in Washington, D.C.