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Learning Objectives

At the conclusion of this educational activity, participants will be able to:

Discuss advances in cutting-edge applications for personalized diagnostics.
Improve laboratory performance to add value to clinicians and ultimately patient care.
Design a plan for improving efﬁciency and accuracy in the laboratory setting.
Apply knowledge of new topics and guidance in laboratory medicine to daily practice.

DAY 1

Friday
November 1, 2019

08:30 - 09:30

Registration

Registration Desk
Pre-Function Area

Registration

Pre-Conference and Main Conference Registration Desk Open

10:00 - 11:45

Session

@ Main Hall

Quality and Lab Management

10:00 - 10:30

Joely Straseski

Ph.D., MT(ASCP), DABCC, FAACC is Medical Director, Endocrinology and Co-Medical Director, Core Laboratory at the University of Utah School of Medicine

Jumping the Pediatric Reference Interval Hurdles

10:30 - 11:00

Joe El Khoury

Ph.D., DABCC, FAACC is Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale University and Co-Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory and Clinical Chemistry Fellowship program at Yale-New Haven Health

Biological Variation: Improved Interpretation of Lab Results and Reduced False Rejections for QC

11:00 - 11:30

Ola Elgaddar

Associate Professor of Chemical Pathology, Alexandria University, Egypt, and the Medical Director of Al Borg Medical Laboratories in the UAE

Strategies for Improving Laboratory Utilization Management

11:30 - 11:45

Panel Discussion

DAY 1

Friday
November 1, 2019

13:30 - 15:45

Session

@ Main Hall

Cardiovascular

13:30 - 14:00

Amy Saenger

Ph.D. DABCC, FACB is the Assistant Professor Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN

Real Global News: It’s Time to Embrace High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays with Cost Benefit Strategies for Early Rule‐Out and Rule‐In of MI

14:00 - 14:30

Speaker information coming

Cardiovascular Genetic Related Topic

14:30 - 15:00

Laila Abdel Wareth

Chair, Clinical Pathology, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Standardization of Traditional and New Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers – Addressing Cholesterol and Beyond

15:00 - 15:15

Panel Discussion

DAY 1

Friday
November 1, 2019

15:45 - 17:30

Session

@ Main Hall

Gastrointestinal

15:45 - 16:15

Amy Saenger

Ph.D. DABCC, FACB is the Assistant Professor Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN

Biomarkers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Focus on Utilization of Calprotectin

16:15 - 16:45

Rania Bedair

Head of Molecular Diagnostics and Newborn Screening Units at Al Borg Medical Laboratories

Serological and Genetic Markers of Celiac Disease

16:45 - 17:15

Christopher McCudden

Ph.D., DABCC, NRCC, FACB is the Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa

Survival of the FitTest: Colon Cancer Screening in the Laboratory

17:15 - 17:30

Panel Discussion

DAY 2

Saturday
November 2, 2019

09:00 - 09:45

Registration

Registration Desk
Pre-Function Area

Registration

Pre-Conference and Main Conference Registration Desk Open

10:00 - 11:45

Session

@ Main Hall

Molecular Genetics

10:00 - 10:30

Hisham Shams

Chief Medical Officer at Al Borg Medical Laboratories, Saudi Arabia

Pharmacogenomics in Laboratory Medicine: Moving to an Era of Precision Medicine

10:30 - 11:00

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Ph.D., Chair of the Division of Molecular Diagnostics, in the Department of Pathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Emerging Clinical Applications of Circulating DNA Analysis

11:00 - 11:30

Ahmed Elfares

Assistant Professor at the Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

Next Generation Sequencing and Inherited Disorders in Saudi Arabia

11:30 - 11:45

Panel Discussion

DAY 2

Saturday
November 2, 2019

13:30 - 15:15

Session

@ Main Hall

Women’s Health

13:30 - 14:00

Joely Straseski

Ph.D., MT(ASCP), DABCC, FAACC is Medical Director, Endocrinology and Co-Medical Director, Core Laboratory at the University of Utah School of Medicine

Assessing Ovarian Reserve: From FSH to AMH

14:00 - 14:30

David Grenache

Ph.D., is the Chief Scientific Officer and Scientific Director of the Automation Lab at TriCore Reference Laboratories

Update on Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: Current National and International Diagnostic Criteria

14:30 - 15:00

Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez

Ph.D., Chair of the Division of Molecular Diagnostics, in the Department of Pathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Noninvasive prenatal testing by cell free Fetal DNA: Translating innovation into clinical practice

15:00 - 15:15

Panel Discussion

DAY 2

Saturday
November 2, 2019

15:45 - 17:30

Session

@ Main Hall

Clinical Chemistry’s Hot Topics

15:45 - 16:15

David Grenache

Ph.D., is the Chief Scientific Officer and Scientific Director of the Automation Lab at TriCore Reference Laboratories

The Quantified Self and Wellness Monitoring: Actionable Data or Harmful Information?

16:15 - 16:45

Christopher McCudden

Ph.D., DABCC, NRCC, FACB is the Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa

Application of Data Science to Laboratory Medicine

16:45 - 17:15

Joe El Khoury

Ph.D., DABCC, FAACC is Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale University and Co-Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory and Clinical Chemistry Fellowship program at Yale-New Haven Health

A Dirty Assay: Challenges of PTH Estimation and Progress in PTH Harmonization

17:15 - 17:30

Panel Discussion

Learning Objectives

DAY 1

Friday November 1, 2019

08:30 - 09:30

Registration

Registration Desk Pre-Function Area

10:00 - 11:45

Session

@ Main Hall

Quality and Lab Management

10:00 - 10:30

Ph.D., MT(ASCP), DABCC, FAACC is Medical Director, Endocrinology and Co-Medical Director, Core Laboratory at the University of Utah School of Medicine

Jumping the Pediatric Reference Interval Hurdles

10:30 - 11:00

Ph.D., DABCC, FAACC is Assistant Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale University and Co-Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory and Clinical Chemistry Fellowship program at Yale-New Haven Health

Biological Variation: Improved Interpretation of Lab Results and Reduced False Rejections for QC

11:00 - 11:30

Associate Professor of Chemical Pathology, Alexandria University, Egypt, and the Medical Director of Al Borg Medical Laboratories in the UAE

Strategies for Improving Laboratory Utilization Management

11:30 - 11:45

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

DAY 1

Friday November 1, 2019

13:30 - 15:45

Session

@ Main Hall

Cardiovascular

13:30 - 14:00

Ph.D. DABCC, FACB is the Assistant Professor Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN

Real Global News: It’s Time to Embrace High Sensitivity Cardiac Troponin Assays with Cost Benefit Strategies for Early Rule‐Out and Rule‐In of MI

14:00 - 14:30

Speaker information coming

Speaker information coming

Cardiovascular Genetic Related Topic

14:30 - 15:00

Chair, Clinical Pathology, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Standardization of Traditional and New Cardiovascular Disease Biomarkers – Addressing Cholesterol and Beyond

15:00 - 15:15

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

DAY 1

Friday November 1, 2019

15:45 - 17:30

Session

@ Main Hall

Gastrointestinal

15:45 - 16:15

Ph.D. DABCC, FACB is the Assistant Professor Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN

Biomarkers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Focus on Utilization of Calprotectin

16:15 - 16:45

Head of Molecular Diagnostics and Newborn Screening Units at Al Borg Medical Laboratories

Serological and Genetic Markers of Celiac Disease

16:45 - 17:15

Ph.D., DABCC, NRCC, FACB is the Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Ottawa

Survival of the FitTest: Colon Cancer Screening in the Laboratory

17:15 - 17:30

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

DAY 2

Saturday November 2, 2019

09:00 - 09:45

Registration Desk Pre-Function Area

10:00 - 11:45

Session

@ Main Hall

Molecular Genetics

10:00 - 10:30

Chief Medical Officer at Al Borg Medical Laboratories, Saudi Arabia

Pharmacogenomics in Laboratory Medicine: Moving to an Era of Precision Medicine

10:30 - 11:00

Ph.D., Chair of the Division of Molecular Diagnostics, in the Department of Pathology at the Virginia Commonwealth University Health System

Emerging Clinical Applications of Circulating DNA Analysis

11:00 - 11:30

Assistant Professor at the Qassim University, Saudi Arabia

Next Generation Sequencing and Inherited Disorders in Saudi Arabia

11:30 - 11:45

Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion

DAY 2

Friday
November 1, 2019

Registration Desk
Pre-Function Area

Friday
November 1, 2019

Friday
November 1, 2019

Saturday
November 2, 2019

Registration Desk
Pre-Function Area

Saturday
November 2, 2019

Saturday
November 2, 2019