RT Staff and Contact Info

Senior Systems Analyst
Dave Zapple
Phone: 202-687-2958 
Email: zappled@georgetown.edu

Dave began his career as a US Air Force First Special Operations Wing (SOW). With robotics, machinist, and HVAC training, Dave came to GU in 1987 to network and support the first computer lab at Dahlgren Library in the Medical Center. He next co-created the Georgetown MedNetwork regulatory information system with the first Dean of Research, Dr. Alan Faden, Dr. Ken Dretchen, and Steve Moore. Also at that time, Dave began a long career in designing and fabricating custom Medical Research instrumentation driven by micro-controlers. He has publications in Nature Protocols, Journal of Neurotrama, and Neurobiology of Disease. He came to UIS in 2000 to co-create the Advanced Research Computing (ARC) division. Today, Dave develops instrumentation for Dr. Mark Burns, Dept. of Neuroscience, GUMC,  the Shock Trauma Lab at U-MD. Dave’s custom-fabricated instrumentation was critical to the success of  a first-of-its-kind study, published in the March 2016 issue of American Journal of Pathology.