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
Moderator: Dr. Nashaat Elnafoury
Chair, Healthcare Interest Group.
Executive Officer, Saudi Quality Council.
Chair, Saudi Lab Management Conference.
10:00 - 10:30
Ph.D., MT(ASCP), DABCC, FAACC is the Section Chief of Clinical Chemistry and Medical Director of Endocrinology and Automated Core Laboratories at ARUP Laboratories Associate Professor of Pathology 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
MD, Ph.D., MBA is an Assistant 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
11:45 - 12:00
Coffee Break
(Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
Coffee Break (Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
Industry Workshop
supported by Snibe Diagnostic in LH4 room
Industry Workshop
supported by Al Borg Medical Laboratories in LH5 room
12:45 - 13:30
Lunch
(Exhibit Area)
Lunch (Exhibit Area)
DAY 1
Friday
November 1, 2019
13:30 - 15:45
Session
@ Main Hall
Updates on Cardiovascular System
Moderator: Dr. Ali Al Othaim
Chairman of Basic Medical Science at King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Science.
Head, Division of Toxicology / Biochemical Metabolic Lab, Department of Pathology, King Fahad National Guard Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Consultant in Chemical Pathology.
13:30 - 14:00
Ph.D., DABCC, is the Medical Director of Clinical Laboratories Director, Clinical Chemistry & Point-of-Care Hennepin County Medical Center Associate Professor | Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology University of Minnesota
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
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
MBBCh, FCAP, FRCPC, EMHCA is the 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
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
(Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
Coffee Break (Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
DAY 1
Friday
November 1, 2019
15:45 - 17:30
Session
@ Main Hall
Updates on Gastrointestinal System
Moderator: Dr. Ola Elgaddar
Assistant Professor of Chemical Pathology, Alexandria University, Egypt, and the Medical Director of Al Borg Medical Laboratories in the UAE.
15:45 - 16:15
Ph.D., DABCC, is the Medical Director of Clinical Laboratories Director, Clinical Chemistry & Point-of-Care Hennepin County Medical Center Associate Professor | Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology University of Minnesota
Biomarkers of Inflammatory Bowel Disease: A Focus on Utilization of Calprotectin
16:15 - 16:45
MD, P.hD. is an Assistant Professor of Chemical Pathology in the Medical Research Institute, Alexandria University, Egypt, and the 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, FAACC, FCACB 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
Updates on Molecular Genetics
Moderator: Dr. Saeed Alamoudi
Consultant Hematologist.
King Saud board in Hematology.
Subspecialty in Stem Cell Transplantation and Cord Blood Banking, King’s College Hospital, London, UK.
General Manager of Al Borg Medical Laboratories.
10:00 - 10:30
MD, Ph.D. is the Chief Medical Officer at Al Borg Medical Laboratories, Saudi Arabia
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
11:45 - 12:00
Coffee Break
(Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
Coffee Break (Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
Industry Workshop
supported by Roche Diagnostics in LH4 room
Industry Workshop
supported by Abbott in LH5 room
12:45 - 13:30
Lunch
(Exhibit Area)
Lunch (Exhibit Area)
DAY 2
Saturday
November 2, 2019
13:30 - 15:15
Session
@ Main Hall
Updates on Women’s Health
Moderator: Dr. Mouza Al Sharhan
Consultant and Head of Pathology Section.
Pathology Section, Dubai Hospital.
Pathology & Genetics Department.
13:30 - 14:00
Ph.D., MT(ASCP), DABCC, FAACC is the Section Chief of Clinical Chemistry and Medical Director of Endocrinology and Automated Core Laboratories at ARUP Laboratories Associate Professor of Pathology 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
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
(Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
Coffee Break (Coffee available for attendees in exhibit area)
DAY 2
Saturday
November 2, 2019
15:45 - 17:30
Session
@ Main Hall
Clinical Chemistry’s Hot Topics
Moderator: Dr. Samia Sobki
Head of Clinical Chemistry Laboratory. Prince Sultan Medical Military City, Riyadh, KSA.
Head of Saudi Society of Clinical Chemistry.
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, FAACC, FCACB 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