Congratulations to the speakers listed below, all of whom received an overall speaker rating of 3.60 or higher at a 2006 continuing education activity accredited by AACC.
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Richard Ackerman
Hemosense, Inc., Englewood, CO
Lab Management Issues: POC and PST INR Testing
Theresa Ambrose, PhD
Roche Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN
Homebrews and Alphabet Soup: An Introduction to Molecular Diagnostics Regulatory Issues
William Anderson, PhD
Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, Chapel Hill, NC
Postmortem Pharmacokinetics
Edward Ashwood, MD
ARUP/University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Tests for Evaluating Fetal Lung Maturity
Michael Astion, MD, PhD
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, WA
Lab 200x: Fast Forward Achieve Success in the Lab of the Future
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Jean Ball
College of American Pathologists, Chicago, IL
Point of Care Testing and CAP Accreditation
Lucia Berte
Broomfield, CO
Risk Management Tools for Improved Patient Safety
Deanna Bogner
Christus Santa Rosa Health Care, San Antonio, TX
Installing an Interface for Point-of-Care Testing
Allen Burton, MD
University of Texas Anderson Medical Center, TX
Use of Opioids in Pain Management
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Susana Coelho
Cerner, Waltham, MA
CoPathPlus Status and Development Update
Mark Coldren
Syracuse University, NY
Management Strategies: Hiring the Right Person
Gary Conkle
Beckman Coulter, Fullerton, CA
Global Solutions for Process Improvement
--D--
Amitava Dasgupta, PhD
University of Texas at Houston Medical School, Houston, TX
How People Try to Beat Drug Tests and Defend Positive Results
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William Evans, PhD
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital
Pharmacogenetics: An Update
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James Faix, MD
Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
Adventures in the Gamma Zone
Bruce Friedman, MD
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Lab 200x: Fast Forward Achieve Success in the Lab of the Future
Christopher Frings, PhD
Christopher Frings and Associates, Birmingham, AL
Solving Day-to-Day Management Challenges: Case Histories and Applications
Increasing Productivity Through Effective Time Management
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Wayne Grody, MD
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
Best Practices in Molecular Practices (Unique Issues in Testing for Heritable Disorders)
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Ibrahim Hashim, PhD
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX
Circulating Molecular Variants of Prolactin: How to Investigate their Presence and Limit their Interference in Immunoassays
Charles Hill, MD, PhD
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Pharmacogenetics: An Update
Donna Hoglen
Our Lady of the Lake Regional Medical Center, Baton Rouge, LA
Lessons Learned: Replacing Automation Analyzers in the Laboratory
--J--
Mark Jandreski, PhD
Genzyme, Framingham, MA
Testing for Hepatitis C Virus Infection
Edward Jauch, MD
University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH
Diagnostic Challenges in the Management of Acute Stroke
Wayne Jeffery
British Columbia, Canada
Standardized Field Sobriety Tests
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Satyamoorthy Kabilan, PhD
Smart Holograms, Cambs, United Kingdom
Smart Holograms – A Novel Diagnostics Platform
Jawahar (Jay) Kalra, MD, PhD
Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, Canada
Strategies to Reduce Medical Error: A Clinical Laboratory Model
Sarah Kerrigan, PhD
Houston, TX
Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and the Drug Impaired
Kay Konitzer
Cerner, Kansas City, MO
CoPathPlus Status and Development Update
Mark Kopnitsky
Zeus Scientific, Raritan, NJ
Multiplexing Technology in the Clinical Laboratory
James Kringsley, MD
Stamford, CT
Understand the Evidence in the Medical Literature Supporting the Adoption of Tight Glycemic Control Protocols in Critically Ill Patients
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Donald LeGatt, PhD
University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
An Introduction of Crystal “Meth” – The Lab’s Perspective
Randie Little, PhD
University of Missouri at Columbia, MO
The Impact of the NGSP on Glycated Hemoglobin (HbA1c) Measurement
Frank Lyga
Los Angeles Police Department, CA
Clandestine Laboratories First Responder
--M--
Kathy Maass
Avera McKennan Hospital, Sioux Falls, SD
Lean Six Sigma: Complementary Tools to Improve Laboratory Operations
Andrew MacRae, PhD
University of Toronto, ON, Canada
Prenatal Screening for Fetal Down Syndrome
Roberta Madej
Roche Molecular Systems, Pleasanton, CA
Resources for Standardization and Quality in Molecular Diagnostics
F. Leland McClure, PhD
Mesa, AZ
Excel Spread Sheet Design and Basic Statistics
Robert Menson, PhD
Menson and Associates, Newport, RI
Risk Management Tools for Improved Patient Safety
John Milner, PhD
National Institutes of Health, Rockville, MD
Nutrigenomics: Opportunities and Challenges in Cancer Prevention
Miles Mirhosseini, MD, PhD
Diagnostic Products Corp., Los Angeles, CA
An Overview of Food Allergies and Co-morbid Conditions
Michael Murphy
Gentris Corporation, Morrisville, NC
New Pharmacogenomic Tests: Coming to a Lab Near You
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Dennis O’Kane, PhD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Pharmacogenetics in Oncology
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Pennell Painter, PhD
University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN
How to Minimize Personal and Laboratory Litigation Risk
W. Frank Peacock, MD
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Acute Coronary Syndromes: The Complete Story (The Emergency Physician’s View)
David Plaut
Plano, TX
ROC Curves: How, Why and Always - 2005
D-dimer Assays and Rapid Triage of Patients Suspected of Thrombotic Disease
Opening Pandora’s Box: Assessing Linearity
Claire Pomeroy, MD
University of California – Davis, CA
California Proposition 71: The $3 Billion Stem Cell Initiative
Leonard Quadracci, MD
Quad/Graphics, Inc., West Allis, WI
One Corporation's Entry Back into the Healthcare Business
Mary Relling, PharmD
St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis, TN
Pharmacogenetics: An Update
--R--
Kristen Reynolds, PhD
PGXL Laboratories, Louisville, KY
Multiplexing Technology in the Clinical Laboratory
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David Sacks, MD
Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA
Diabetes 2006: The Role of the Laboratory
Paula Santrach, MD
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
Using Point-of-Care Testing to Guide Transfusion Therapy
Kevin Schlueter, PhD
Miami University, Miami, OH
Multiplexing Technology in the Clinical Laboratory
Tom Schnabel
Cerner, Kansas City, MO
CoPathPlus Status and Development Update
Nira Sehgal, MD, PhD
University of California at San Francisco, CA
Breaking the Error Chain: The Patient Safety Movement
John Sherwin, PhD
Genetic Disease Laboratory, Richmond, CA
Proteomics: Opportunities for Diagnostics Pharmaceuticals and the Clinical Lab
Oswald Sonntag
Ortho Clinical Diagnostics Gmbh, Eichenau, Germany
How Statistics Influence Our Clinical Decisions
Carole Spencer, PhD
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Clinical Implications of the New TSH Reference Range
Martha Sunyog
DSI Laboratories, Naples, FL
Lean Six Sigma: Complementary Tools to Improve Laboratory Operations
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Gregory Tsongalis, PhD
Dartmouth University Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
The Evolving World of Disease Biomarkers
Molecular Pathology
--U--
Denise Uettwiller-Geiger, PhD
John T. Mather Hospital, Port Jefferson, NY
Ischemia Modified Albumin: A New Cardiac Marker
--W--
Douglas Wallace, PhD
MAMMAG, Irvine, CA
MITOCHONDRIA: The Missing Link Among Degenerative Diseases, Cancer and Aging, and the Next Molecular Diagnostics Frontier
H. Chip Walls
University of Miami, FL
Standardized Field Sobriety Tests and the Drug Impaired
Vicki Watts
Austin Police Department, Austin, TX
Standardized Field Sobriety Tests – Live Drinking Study
Shirley Weber
University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, KS
Risk Management Tools for Improved Patient Safety
James Westgard, PhD
University of Wisconsin Medical School, Madison, WI
Evidence Based Quality Management
Standards and Practices Lab in 2006
Carmen Wiley, PhD
Marshfield Clinic, Marshfield, WI
Laboratory Automation: If I Knew Then What I Know Now
Sheryl Wilson
Alegent Health Laboratory, Omaha, NE
Lean Six Sigma: Complementary Tools to Improve Laboratory Operations
William Winter, MD
University of Florida College of Medicine, Gainesville, FL
Point of Care Testing: Evidence Based Practices and Regulatory Issues
Paul Wolf, MD
University of California, San Diego, CA
Looking Back: Evaluating the Impact of Health and Disease on Famous Artists and Politicians