American Association for Clinical Chemistry
Improving healthcare through laboratory medicine
Southern California Local Section Events

2012 MEETINGS

May 15 Southern California Section Meeting
Quest Diagnostics
Nichols Institute

27027 Tourney Rd. 
Valencia, CA 91355-5386
Beatrice Knudson, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Biorepository, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Azita Sharif
Founder & CEO, DSI (Daedalus Software, Inc. - The Biobank Automation Company
4:00 – 5:30 PM     Board Meeting
5:30 – 6:00 PM     Mixer
6:00 – 7:00 PM     Dinner
7 :00 – 9:00 PM    Speakers
Program Information
April 17 Southern California Section Meeting
Beckman Coulter, Inc.
250 S. Kraemer Blvd.
Brea, CA 92821
Darryl Palmer-Toy, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Kaiser Permanente Regional Reference Laboratories North Hollywood
Greg Miller, PhD
President AACC, Professor of Pathology, Virginia Commonwealth University
4:00 – 5:30 PM     Board Meeting
5:30 – 6:00 PM     Mixer
6:00 – 7:00 PM     Dinner
7 :00 – 9:00 PM    Speakers
Program Information
January 17 Southern California Section Meeting
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
8700 Beverly Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
Ravi Majeti, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology, Stanford University
Paul Riley, PhD
Product Manager, Diagnostica Stago, Inc. 
4:30 – 5:30 PM     Board Meeting
5:30 – 6:00 PM     Mixer
6:00 – 7:00 PM     Dinner
7 :00 – 9:00 PM    Speakers
Program Information

2011 MEETINGS

November 15 Southern California Section Meeting
Kaiser Permanente
11668 Sherman Way
North Hollywood, CA 91605-5831
Wendy Chang, M.D.
Scientific Director, Southern California Reproductive Center
Vincent Funari, Ph.D.
Director, Cedars-Sinai Genomics Core
4:00 – 5:30 PM     Board Meeting
5:30 – 6:00 PM     Mixer
6:00 – 7:00 PM     Dinner
7 :00 – 9:00 PM    Speakers
Program Information
September 20 Developing an Antigen Specific Therapy for an Autoimmune Disease: MG & Vitamin D Levels: Essentials, Assessment, Implications
Siemens Healthcare Dignostics, Inc.
5210 Pacific Concourse Drive
Los Angeles, CA-90045
Robert H. Fairclough, Ph.D.
University of California, Davis
Monet N. Sayegh, M.D., M.T., C.L.S.
Siemens Diagnostics
4:30 – 5:30 PM     Board Meeting
5:30 – 6:00 PM     Mixer
6:00 – 7:00 PM     Dinner
7 :00 – 9:00 PM    speakers
Program Information
March 15 Tumor Markers: Past, Present and Future & Clinical Proteomics: The World is My Playground
Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute
27027 Tourney Road
Valencia, CA 91355
Program Information
February 8 Workshop on Autoverification
Brea Beckman Conference Center
250 S. Kraemer Blvd.
Brea, CA 92821
This workshop will address the topics of strategic planning, implementation, selection and validation of middleware compliance with regulatory requirements in autoverification. The focus will be on the rationales of establishing the appropriate rules or criteria for the autoverification of test results from various laboratory disciplines, including chemistry, hematology and coagulation. The target audience is clinical laboratory scientists, laboratory managers, pathologists, clinical chemists, and medical directors.
Program InformationObtain CE Credit Presentations