DAY 1
Friday
November 1, 2019
08:30 - 09:30
Registration
Registration Desk
Pre-Function Area
Registration
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
Marc S. Penn
MD, Ph.D., FACC is the Medical Director, Cardio Metabolic Endocrine Franchise Cleveland Heart Lab / Quest Diagnostics
Role of Inflammation and Genetic Markers for Cardiovascular Risk
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
Celiac Disease and Beyond: Insights into Serological and Molecular Bases
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
Registration
10:00 - 11:45
Session
@ Main Hall
Molecular Genetics
How Targeted Therapies and Pharmacogenomics Individualize Cancer Treatment
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
Next Generation Sequencing and Inherited Disorders in Saudi Arabia
11:30 - 11:45
Panel Discussion
Panel Discussion
DAY 2
Saturday
November 2, 2019
13:30 - 15:15
Session
@ Main Hall
Women’s Health
13:30 - 14:00
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
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
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
Panel Discussion
DAY 2
Saturday
November 2, 2019
15:45 - 17:30
Session
@ Main Hall
Clinical Chemistry’s Hot Topics
15:45 - 16:15
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
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
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
Panel Discussion