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NOV 11 - 12 2015

Clinical Diagnostics & Research Virtual Event Series 2015

Blah BlahWelcome to LabRoots’ 6th Annual Event in the Clinical Diagnostics & Research Virtual Event Series! The event is now available on-demand and you can attend sessions including keynotes sessions by Dr. Linda Thienpont, Katie Serrano, and Dr. Edward Watson Hook, III. Clinical diagnostics is an ever-changing field of medicine and research, challenged with combining several different scientific disciplines into one for the sake of diagnosis and treatment of human disease. Clinical diagnostics has become exciting in recent years as advances in new techniques aid in fulfilling the potential of personalized medicine.

Attendees can earn free CME and CE Credits while watching an impressive group of presenters who will discuss a range of medical, clinical and research topics including:

  • FDA regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests
  • Clinical application of LC-MS/MS
  • Clinical Next-generation Sequencing
  • Toxicology, Laboratory Test Utilization
  • Standardization of Laboratory medicine
  • New lipid lowering guidelines- helpful or harmful?
  • Clinical Genomics and Personalized Healthcare

Our virtual conference allows you to participate in a global setting with no travel or cost to you. You can participate in exactly those parts which you are interested in and be back at your desk or bench in an instant. Virtual events remove time and place restrictions and ensure that everyone who wants to participate can do so. This virtual conference also offers increased reach for the global clinical community with a high degree of interaction through live-streaming video and chat sessions.

By bringing together clinicians, researchers, medical experts and professionals from around the world, LabRoots aims to help drive collaborations and in turn, advances in clinical diagnostics, research and medicine. This complementary conference offers an amazing opportunity to benefit from interacting with a global community of like-minded colleagues from the comfort of home.

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Continuing Education
The following are continuing medical education (CME) learner objectives that attendees should be able to do as a result of participating in this activity.

  • Ability to contrast previous and newly released guidelines
  • Take action to increase partnership and collaboration with clinicians
  • Identify actions that can be taken to deliver quality results faster to clinicians
  • Better define personalized healthcare today and explain the role of companion diagnostics
  • Better describe diagnostic tools used in the patient workups
  • Better describe how the evolution of laboratory testing in health has impacted the patient
  • Identify the role of the clinical laboratory in contributing to or preventing diagnostic errors
  • Identify laboratory directed interventions that can reduce diagnostic errors
  • Describe analytical issues associated with various assays
  • Recognize the patient safety risks associated with misuse of the clinical laboratory
  • Identify several categories of commonly misused laboratory tests
  • Advise patients on the likely long term effects of certain surgery in patients with diseases
  • Explain levels of personalized medicine as it attempts to predict individual response to therapy

Speakers
  • Linda Thienpont, PhD, PHARM, Clinical Chemist

    Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Statistics and Quality Control, Method Development and Validation; Director of the Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry ID-MS Reference Laboratory, Universit
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kevin J Martin, MD, MB, BCh, FASN

    Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Division of Nephrology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Stuart M Sprague, DO, FACP, FASN, FNKF

    Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and Director of Nephrology Research at NorthShore University HealthSystem and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Damien Gruson, PhD

    Professor, Head of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Edward Watson Hook, III, MD

    Professor of Medicine/Epidemiology/Microbiology, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jennifer Fostel, MS

    Senior Global Product Manager, NGS, Qiagen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Raed Samara, PhD

    Senior Global Product Manager, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Benjamin D Solomon, MD

    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kevin McCann, BS

    Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael R Olin

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Minnesota
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew Keyser, MS

    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Katherine (Katie) Serrano

    Deputy Director, Division of Chemistry and Toxicology Devices, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Laposata, MD, PhD

    Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Julie R Taylor, PhD, MS

    Project Lead for the Clinical Laboratory Integration into Health Care Collaboration (CLIHC), Division of Laboratory Programs, Standards, and Services Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, an
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Christina (Tina) Lockwood, PhD, DABCC, FACB

    Associate Director, Genetics and Solid Tumor Diagnostics Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Allison Chambliss, PhD

    Clinical Chemistry Fellow, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Wieslaw Furmaga, MD

    Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ben Howden, PhD

    Professor, Head of Laboratory, Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, University of Melbourne
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian R Jackson

    Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), Medical Director of Informatics, ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah, Department of Pathology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Doug Jeffery, PhD

    Scientific Reviewer, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jeffrey Meeusen, Ph.D., DABCC

    Co-Director, Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Howard Morris, PhD, FAACB, FFSc(RCPA)

    Professor of Endocrine Bone Research Laboratory, Univ of South Australia
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Rocco, MD

    Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Stress Testing, Staff Cardiologist, Cleveland Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ravinder Singh, PhD

    Director, Endocrine Laboratory, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jerry Stringham, MBA

    President, Medical Technology Partners
    BIOGRAPHY
  • David R Sullivan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA

    Clinical Associate Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FACB

    Director of Clinical Chemistry, Houston Methodist Hospital, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
    BIOGRAPHY

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Agenda

  • NOV 12, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Genomics in Public Health Microbiology

    Ben Howden, PhD
    Professor, Head of Laboratory, Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, University of Melbourne
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    NGS in clinical research

    Jennifer Fostel, MS
    Senior Global Product Manager, NGS, Qiagen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Opportunities to simplify clinical lipid assessment

    Howard Morris, PhD, FAACB, FFSc(RCPA)
    Professor of Endocrine Bone Research Laboratory, Univ o...
    David R Sullivan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA
    Clinical Associate Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Roy...
  • NOV 12, 2015 12:00 PM PST

    Keynote: Optimizing the use of laboratory testing services to improve patient diagnosis

    Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
    Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, Univer...
    Julie R Taylor, PhD, MS
    Project Lead for Clinical Laboratory Integration into H...
  • NOV 12, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Graves' Disease Assessment: Current Trends in Laboratory Testing

    Damien Gruson, PhD
    Professor, Head of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Pharmacogenetics in the Clinical Laboratory: Opportunities and Challenges

    Allison Chambliss, PhD
    Clinical Chemistry Fellow, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Validation of Mass Spec Analytical Platforms and Proteomic Biomarkers: FDA perspective

    Doug Jeffery, PhD
    Scientific Reviewer, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 9:00 AM PST

    Introducing an ancestrally diverse whole genome data set for select cohort and control research applications

    Benjamin D Solomon, MD
    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 9:00 AM PST

    Use of a CD200R Inhibitor to Overcome Central Nervous System Tumor Induced Immunosuppression

    Michael R Olin
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Minnesota
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 7:30 AM PST

    Keynote: Reconceptualizing Genital Herpes Diagnosis and Management

    Edward Watson Hook, III, MD
    Professor of Medicine/Epidemiology/Microbiology, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    Laboratory Medicine: What should we be measuring?

    Brian R Jackson
    Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), Medical Director of Informatics, ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah, Department of Pathology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 3:00 PM PST

    Proposed Rule for the Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Payment System

    Jerry Stringham, MBA
    President, Medical Technology Partners
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Improving Diagnostic Testing and Interpretation of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

    Kevin J Martin, MD, MB, BCh, FASN
    Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Divisio...
    Stuart M Sprague, DO, FACP, FASN, FNKF
    Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, a...
  • NOV 11, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Why to validate diagnostic tests?

    Wieslaw Furmaga, MD
    Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 12:00 PM PST

    Cholesterol Treatment Guidelines: Controversies and use in clinical practice

    Michael Rocco, MD
    Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Stress Testing, Staff Cardiologist, Cleveland Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 12:00 PM PST

    DNASTAR Software for Accurate Variant Detection and Validation in Targeted Gene Panel Data Sets

    Matthew Keyser, MS
    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Agilent StreamSelect LC/MS System: Future solutions for the high throughput lab

    Kevin McCann, BS
    Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Reliability of LDL cholesterol: How low can we go and when are we fooling ourselves?
    NOV 11, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Reliability of LDL cholesterol: How low can we go and when are we fooling ourselves?

    Jeffrey Meeusen, Ph.D., DABCC
    Co-Director, Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Role of LC/MS/MS spectrometry in diagnosis of various endocrine disorders

    Ravinder Singh, PhD
    Director, Endocrine Laboratory, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 9:00 AM PST

    Keynote: FDA's Proposed Framework for Regulatory Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests

    Katherine (Katie) Serrano
    Deputy Director, Division of Chemistry and Toxicology Devices, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 7:30 AM PST

    Keynote: Evolution of Standardization in Laboratory Medicine

    Linda Thienpont, PhD, PHARM, Clinical Chemist
    Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Statistics and Quality Control, Method Development and Validation; Director of the Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry ID-MS Reference Laboratory, Universit
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    A Comprehensive Toxicology Screening Solution Targeted to Individual Needs

    Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FACB
    Director of Clinical Chemistry, Houston Methodist Hospital, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    Clinical next-generation sequencing for precision cancer therapeutics

    Christina (Tina) Lockwood, PhD, DABCC, FACB
    Associate Director, Genetics and Solid Tumor Diagnostics Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    Next-generation sequencing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing

    Raed Samara, PhD
    Senior Global Product Manager, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Clinical application of LC-MS/MS
  • NOV 11, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    A Comprehensive Toxicology Screening Solution Targeted to Individual Needs

    Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FACB
    Director of Clinical Chemistry, Houston Methodist Hospital, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Role of LC/MS/MS spectrometry in diagnosis of various endocrine disorders

    Ravinder Singh, PhD
    Director, Endocrine Laboratory, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Industry
  • NOV 11, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    Next-generation sequencing for BRCA1 and BRCA2 mutation testing

    Raed Samara, PhD
    Senior Global Product Manager, QIAGEN
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 7:30 AM PST

    Keynote: Evolution of Standardization in Laboratory Medicine

    Linda Thienpont, PhD, PHARM, Clinical Chemist
    Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Statistics and Quality Control, Method Development and Validation; Director of the Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry ID-MS Reference Laboratory, Universit
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Agilent StreamSelect LC/MS System: Future solutions for the high throughput lab

    Kevin McCann, BS
    Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 12:00 PM PST

    DNASTAR Software for Accurate Variant Detection and Validation in Targeted Gene Panel Data Sets

    Matthew Keyser, MS
    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Improving Diagnostic Testing and Interpretation of Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD)

    Kevin J Martin, MD, MB, BCh, FASN
    Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Divisio...
    Stuart M Sprague, DO, FACP, FASN, FNKF
    Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, a...
  • NOV 12, 2015 9:00 AM PST

    Use of a CD200R Inhibitor to Overcome Central Nervous System Tumor Induced Immunosuppression

    Michael R Olin
    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Minnesota
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 9:00 AM PST

    Introducing an ancestrally diverse whole genome data set for select cohort and control research applications

    Benjamin D Solomon, MD
    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Graves' Disease Assessment: Current Trends in Laboratory Testing

    Damien Gruson, PhD
    Professor, Head of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    NGS in clinical research

    Jennifer Fostel, MS
    Senior Global Product Manager, NGS, Qiagen
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Clinical Next-generation Sequencing
  • NOV 11, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    Clinical next-generation sequencing for precision cancer therapeutics

    Christina (Tina) Lockwood, PhD, DABCC, FACB
    Associate Director, Genetics and Solid Tumor Diagnostics Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington
    BIOGRAPHY
  • FDA regulation of Laboratory Developed Tests
  • NOV 11, 2015 9:00 AM PST

    Keynote: FDA's Proposed Framework for Regulatory Oversight of Laboratory Developed Tests

    Katherine (Katie) Serrano
    Deputy Director, Division of Chemistry and Toxicology Devices, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Why to validate diagnostic tests?

    Wieslaw Furmaga, MD
    Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 3:00 PM PST

    Proposed Rule for the Medicare Clinical Diagnostic Laboratory Test Payment System

    Jerry Stringham, MBA
    President, Medical Technology Partners
    BIOGRAPHY
  • New lipid lowering guidelines- helpful or harmful?
  • Reliability of LDL cholesterol: How low can we go and when are we fooling ourselves?
    NOV 11, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Reliability of LDL cholesterol: How low can we go and when are we fooling ourselves?

    Jeffrey Meeusen, Ph.D., DABCC
    Co-Director, Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 11, 2015 12:00 PM PST

    Cholesterol Treatment Guidelines: Controversies and use in clinical practice

    Michael Rocco, MD
    Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Stress Testing, Staff Cardiologist, Cleveland Clinic
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Laboratory Test Utilization
  • NOV 12, 2015 6:00 AM PST

    Laboratory Medicine: What should we be measuring?

    Brian R Jackson
    Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), Medical Director of Informatics, ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah, Department of Pathology
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Pharmacogenetics in the Clinical Laboratory: Opportunities and Challenges

    Allison Chambliss, PhD
    Clinical Chemistry Fellow, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 12:00 PM PST

    Keynote: Optimizing the use of laboratory testing services to improve patient diagnosis

    Michael Laposata, MD, PhD
    Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, Univer...
    Julie R Taylor, PhD, MS
    Project Lead for Clinical Laboratory Integration into H...
  • NOV 12, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Opportunities to simplify clinical lipid assessment

    Howard Morris, PhD, FAACB, FFSc(RCPA)
    Professor of Endocrine Bone Research Laboratory, Univ o...
    David R Sullivan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA
    Clinical Associate Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Roy...
  • Clinical Diagnostics
  • NOV 12, 2015 7:30 AM PST

    Keynote: Reconceptualizing Genital Herpes Diagnosis and Management

    Edward Watson Hook, III, MD
    Professor of Medicine/Epidemiology/Microbiology, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
    BIOGRAPHY
  • NOV 12, 2015 1:30 PM PST

    Genomics in Public Health Microbiology

    Ben Howden, PhD
    Professor, Head of Laboratory, Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, University of Melbourne
    BIOGRAPHY
  • Clinical Genomics
  • NOV 12, 2015 10:30 AM PST

    Validation of Mass Spec Analytical Platforms and Proteomic Biomarkers: FDA perspective

    Doug Jeffery, PhD
    Scientific Reviewer, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health
    BIOGRAPHY

Speakers


  • Linda Thienpont, PhD, PHARM, Clinical Chemist

    Linda Thienpont, PhD, PHARM, Clinical Chemist

    Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Statistics and Quality Control, Method Development and Validation; Director of the Laboratory for Analytical Chemistry ID-MS Reference Laboratory, Universit

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kevin J Martin, MD, MB, BCh, FASN

    Kevin J Martin, MD, MB, BCh, FASN

    Professor of Internal Medicine, Director of the Division of Nephrology, Saint Louis University School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Stuart M Sprague, DO, FACP, FASN, FNKF

    Stuart M Sprague, DO, FACP, FASN, FNKF

    Chief of the Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, and Director of Nephrology Research at NorthShore University HealthSystem and Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Chicago

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Damien Gruson, PhD

    Damien Gruson, PhD

    Professor, Head of the Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Edward Watson Hook, III, MD

    Edward Watson Hook, III, MD

    Professor of Medicine/Epidemiology/Microbiology, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jennifer Fostel, MS

    Jennifer Fostel, MS

    Senior Global Product Manager, NGS, Qiagen

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Raed Samara, PhD

    Raed Samara, PhD

    Senior Global Product Manager, QIAGEN

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Benjamin D Solomon, MD

    Benjamin D Solomon, MD

    Chief, Division of Medical Genomics, Inova Translational Medicine Institute, Associate Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Kevin McCann, BS

    Kevin McCann, BS

    Application Scientist, Agilent Technologies

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael R Olin

    Michael R Olin

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Minnesota

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Matthew Keyser, MS

    Matthew Keyser, MS

    Senior Manager, NGS Applications, DNASTAR

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Katherine (Katie) Serrano

    Katherine (Katie) Serrano

    Deputy Director, Division of Chemistry and Toxicology Devices, Office of In Vitro Diagnostics and Radiological Health, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Laposata, MD, PhD

    Michael Laposata, MD, PhD

    Professor and Chairman, Department of Pathology, University of Texas Medical Branch-Galveston

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Julie R Taylor, PhD, MS

    Julie R Taylor, PhD, MS

    Project Lead for the Clinical Laboratory Integration into Health Care Collaboration (CLIHC), Division of Laboratory Programs, Standards, and Services Center for Surveillance, Epidemiology, an

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Christina (Tina) Lockwood, PhD, DABCC, FACB

    Christina (Tina) Lockwood, PhD, DABCC, FACB

    Associate Director, Genetics and Solid Tumor Diagnostics Laboratory, Assistant Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Allison Chambliss, PhD

    Allison Chambliss, PhD

    Clinical Chemistry Fellow, Department of Pathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Wieslaw Furmaga, MD

    Wieslaw Furmaga, MD

    Associate Professor, University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ben Howden, PhD

    Ben Howden, PhD

    Professor, Head of Laboratory, Microbiology and Immunology, Director, Microbiological Diagnostic Unit, University of Melbourne

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Brian R Jackson

    Brian R Jackson

    Associate Professor of Pathology (Clinical), Medical Director of Informatics, ARUP Laboratories, University of Utah, Department of Pathology

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Doug Jeffery, PhD

    Doug Jeffery, PhD

    Scientific Reviewer, Food and Drug Administration Center for Devices and Radiological Health

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jeffrey Meeusen, Ph.D., DABCC

    Jeffrey Meeusen, Ph.D., DABCC

    Co-Director, Cardiovascular Laboratory Medicine, Mayo Clinic

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Howard Morris, PhD, FAACB, FFSc(RCPA)

    Howard Morris, PhD, FAACB, FFSc(RCPA)

    Professor of Endocrine Bone Research Laboratory, Univ of South Australia

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Michael Rocco, MD

    Michael Rocco, MD

    Medical Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation and Stress Testing, Staff Cardiologist, Cleveland Clinic

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ravinder Singh, PhD

    Ravinder Singh, PhD

    Director, Endocrine Laboratory, Mayo Clinic

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Jerry Stringham, MBA

    Jerry Stringham, MBA

    President, Medical Technology Partners

    BIOGRAPHY
  • David R Sullivan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA

    David R Sullivan, MBBS, FRACP, FRCPA

    Clinical Associate Professor, Dept of Biochemistry, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital

    BIOGRAPHY
  • Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FACB

    Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FACB

    Director of Clinical Chemistry, Houston Methodist Hospital, Associate Professor, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College

    BIOGRAPHY

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Program Committee

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  • Stephanie Willerth, PhD

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  • C Jimmy Lin, MD, PhD, MHS

    Jimmy Lin, MD, PhD, MHS, is a 2012 TED Fellow and Founder & President of Rare Genomics Institute, the world's first platform to enable any community to leverage cutting-edge biotechnology to advance understanding of any rare disease. Partnering with 18 of the top medical ...

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  • Agnieszka Caruso

    Agnieszka is currently a Staff Scientist and Laboratory Manager at TessArae, LLC in Sterling, VA, USA. She obtained her PhD at the University of Queensland in Australia in a field of biochemistry, and subsequently worked as a post-doctoral fellow at Queen's University of Belfast ...

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  • Martin Latterich

    The discovery of proteinaceous disease biomarkers and their clinical validation is critically important for the enablement of molecular diagnostics and ultimately, precision medicine. In spite of the importance of biomarkers, research done in the last two decades has yielded ...

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  • Fred Russell Kramer, PhD

    Fred Russell Kramer currently works at the Department of Microbiology, Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, at the Public Health Research Institute of the New Jersey Medical School at Rutgers University. His laboratory's current current project is the design of extremely ...

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  • Daniel Irimia, MD, PhD

  • Ulrich Hengst

    Dr. Ulrich Hengst studied biochemistry at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany, and conducted his graduate research at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research in Basel, Switzerland, in the group of Prof. Denis Monard. In 2003 he received his PhD from the ...

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  • Timothy Harris

    Since June 2011, Dr. Harris has served as the Senior Vice President of Translational Medicine at Biogen Idec. Dr. Harris has served as the Director of the Advanced Technology Program at SAIC Frederick since 2007 and Chief Technology Officer for SAIC Frederick since 2008. Prior to ...

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  • Anthony Grace

    Dr. Anthony A. Grace is a Distinguished Professor of Neuroscience and a Professor of Psychiatry and Psychology at the University of Pittsburgh in Pittsburgh, PA. He received his Ph.D. from Yale University School of Medicine with Dr. Benjamin S. Bunney and had postdoctoral ...

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  • Pierre-Antoine Gourraud

    Pierre-Antoine Gourraud is a former student of the Ecole Normale Suprieure de Lyon in France. After receiving an M.P.H. from University Paris XIII in 2002, he got his Ph.D. in Immunogenetic Epidemiology and Public Health from Toulouse University in 2005. He relocated to the ...

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  • Eric Gluck, MD, JD

  • Ariel Louwrier

    President & CEO of StressMarq Biosciences Inc., a research reagent company with primary product lines in neurodegenerative diseases and cellular stress based in Victoria (BC), Canada. Successful Senior Scientific Business Executive with demonstrated expertise growing markets ...

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  • Tatjana Matejic

    Tatjana is an immunologist with more than two decades of experience working at biotech and pharma companies from start-ups to large global corporations ( Pfizer,Inc. being the latest), contributing significantly to team efforts and successes of more than thirty early and clinical ...

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  • Kathryn Wellen, PhD

  • Katerina Venderova

    Dr. Katerina Venderova obtained her master's and doctorate degrees in pharmacy, and her PhD in Toxicology from Charles University in the Czech Republic. She then received a fellowship from the Parkinson Society Canada and pursued her postdoctoral training at Toronto Western ...

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  • Theral Timpson

  • Deanne Taylor

    Dr. Taylors background is in biophysics, bioinformatics, computational biology and structural biology with emphasis on human genetics and translational medicine. She obtained her Ph.D. in Biophysics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and completed a postdoctoral ...

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  • Ahmad Salehi

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