Michael W. Dong is a principal of MWD Consulting, which provides training and consulting services in HPLC/UHPLC, method development/improvements, pharmaceutical analysis, and drug quality. He was formerly Senior Scientist at Genentech, Research Fellow at Purdue Pharma, and Senior Staff Scientist at Applied Biosystems / PerkinElmer. Michael holds a Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He has over 130 publications and a best-seller book in HPLC from Wiley. He is an advisory board member of LCGC North America and the Chinese American Chromatography Association.