Point of Care Testing: Innovation on the Move
From Nanotechnology to Personalized Medicine

Monday, October 22, 2007 
at 
The Princeton Club of New York
located at
15 West 43rd Street (b/w Fifth and Sixth Avenues)
New York, New York

Agenda:

8:00 am – 9:00 am Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00 am – 9:10 am Welcoming and Introductory Remarks
Joseph Dooley, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB, Editor-in-Chief, TriMark Publications, LLC

9:10 am – 10:00 am Keynote Speaker – Integrating Point of Care Testing into a Health Care Facility
James Nichols, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB, Associate Professor of Pathology at Tufts University School of Medicine; Director of Clinical Chemistry for Baystate Health in Springfield, MA

10:00 am – 10:30 am Intermission – Coffee and Meet the Exhibitors

10:30 am – 11:00 am Bringing Advanced Diagnostics to the Bedside
Richard Egan, Ph.D., Nanogen, Inc. 

11:00 am – 11:45 am Implementing Point of Care Testing to Improve Patient Outcomes in the Emergency Department
Kent Lewandrowski, M.D., Ph.D., Associate Chief of Pathology and Director of Clinical Services, Massachusetts General Hospital; Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School; Editor-in-Chief: Point of Care: The Journal of Near Patient Testing Technologies

11:45 am – 12:30 pm Visit the Exhibits

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Seated Luncheon in the Princeton Club Dining Room

1:30 pm – 2:00 pm Point of Care Industry Overview and Future Prospects
Arnd Kaldowski, Ph.D., Senior VP, Point of Care, Siemens Medical Solutions Diagnostics

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm The Future Is Now: The Role of Technological Innovation and The Impact of Molecular Diagnostics and Microarrays on POC
Larry Kricka, Ph.D., FACB, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Intermission

2:45 pm – 3:00 pm Business Changes in the Point of Care Testing Sector: What’s Happening and Why
Joseph Dooley, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB, Editor-in-Chief, TriMark Publications, LLC

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm Point of Care Diagnostics and Technology
Harry Glorikian, Managing Partner, Scientia Advisors

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm Point of Care Testing with the Abbott i-STAT
Bob Kunkler, VP of Business Development, Abbott Point of Care (i-STAT)

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Teaching Point of Care to Our Next Generation of Physicians
Sheldon Campbell, M.D., Ph.D., Yale School of Medicine

4:30 pm – 5:00 pm Round Table (with All Presenters) and Concluding Remarks
The Round Table is an interactive exchange of information and ideas on this complex topic. Through their knowledge of the conflicting factors involved, the speakers and the participants will be able to contribute to a wide-ranging review of point of care testing issues. This will enable technologists or diagnostic companies to define and confront the challenges of this developing market. The Round Table will provide delegates the opportunity to support, question and add to the subsequent detailed conference presentations.

5:00 pm – 6:00 pm Wine and Cheese