Point of Care Testing 3: Breakthroughs in Patient Care and Data Management

Qualifies for 12.5 Hours of CEUs

May 9-11, 2010 
at
The Doubletree Hotel San Diego Downtown
located at
1646 Front Street
San Diego, California

Sunday, May 9th (3.0 CEU credits):

1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Continuing Education Seminar

• Preparation for Laboratory Inspections
• Quality Assurance: The Quality Control of Testing
• Test Performance
• Lot-to-lot Verification: The Quarantine Process

Monday, May 10th (6.5 CEU credits):

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 – Reducing Medical Errors and Improving Patient Safety at the Point of Care
James Nichols, Ph.D., DABCC, FACB, 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 – 11:15 am Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI): Standards and Guidelines Development with a Focus on Point of Care Testing
Barbara Goldsmith, Ph.D., Vice President for Marketing and Business Development, CLSI; Clinical Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine; presenting along with James Nichols, Ph.D. 

11:15 am – 11:45 am Point of Care at Mayo Clinic: Transcutaneous Bilirubin: Pearls, Pitfalls and Possibilities
Brad Karon, MD, Ph.D. Director of Hospital Clinical Labs, Mayo Clinic; Chair of AACC Critical and Point of Care Testing Division; Member CAP POCT Committee. 

11:45 am – 12:15 pm 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

12:15 pm – 1:15 pm Seated Luncheon

1:15 pm – 2:00 pm Point of Care Connectivity Past, Present and Future
Jeffrey A. DuBois, Ph.D., FACB, Vice President, Medical & Scientific Affairs, Nova Biomedical, Inc.

2:00 pm – 2:30 pm Tips on Effective Management of Your POCT Program
Vida Montgomery, MPH, CLS, MT (ASCP), POCT Supervisor, USC-University Hospital

2:30 pm – 2:45 pm Intermission

2:45 pm – 3:15 pm Evidence-based Point-of-Care Device Design for Emergency and Disaster Care
Keith Brock, UC Davis - LLNL Point-of-Care Technologies Center, Univ. California Davis

3:15 pm – 3:30 pm The Role of POC D-Dimer Testing in the Rapid Triage of Dyspneic Patients Presenting to the Emergency Department
Howard J. Kirchick, Ph.D., Scientific Affairs Director, Biosite Incorporated

3:30 pm – 4:00 pm POCT with VerifyNow P2Y12 for the Measurement of Platelet Reactivity – New Information from an Old Friend
Jackie Coleman, Ph.D., Director of Scientific Affairs, Accumetrics, Inc.

4:00 pm – 4:30 pm Real-Time PCR as POC Tests (Really) for Infectious Diseases in the Delivery Suite, the ED and the Clinic
Ellen Jo Baron, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Professor of Pathology, Stanford University Medical School; Director Clinical Virology and Assoc. Director Clinical Microbiology, Stanford University Medical Center; Director of Medical Affairs, Cepheid, Inc.

4:30 pm – 5:30 pm Point of Care Coordinators Roundtable Featuring a Q&A with Representatives from CAP, The Joint Commission and CMS

5:30 pm – 6:00 pm Conference Sponsors' Vendor Presentations