2021 Oral Presentation Winners
First Place
Mary Kathryn Bohn, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto — Evidence-Based Harmonization of Adult Reference Intervals Across Canada using Big Data Analytics: A Report of the CSCC Working Group on Reference Interval Harmonization (hRI)
Second Place
Ruhan Wei, PhD, Cleveland Clinic — Development of A Simple and Sensitive Method for Accurate and Reproducible Whole Blood Selenium Measurement in the Presence of Gadolinium on A Triple Quad Inductively Coupled Mass Spectrometer
Honorable Mentions
Victoria Higgins, PhD, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto — sFlt-1/PlGF Ratio is Superior to Hypertension and Proteinuria for Predicting Preeclampsia
Akila Mansour, MD, University of Kentucky — Evaluation of the Sampson equation to estimate Low-density lipoprotein-cholesterol (LDL-C): comparison with the Friedewald equation and a direct homogenous LDL assay from Roche
2021 Poster Competition Winners
First Place
Siobhan Wilson, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto — Continuous reference curves for common hematology markers in the CALIPER cohort of healthy children and adolescents on the Sysmex XN-3000 system.
Second Place
Alexandria Reinhart, PhD, University of Washington Medical Center — Pipecolic Acid is an Inconsistent Biomarker of B6-Dependent Epilepsy
Honorable Mentions
Heather Nelson, PhD, University of Utah / ARUP Laboratories — Concordance of umbilical cord drug testing in multiple births
Izmarie Poventud-Fuentes, PhD, Department of Pathology and Immunology, Baylor College of Medicine and Section of Clinical Chemistry, Division of Laboratory Medicine, Department of Pathology, Texas Children's Hospital — Comparison of Cystatin C-based Equations with Measured Glomerular Filtration Rate in a Diverse Pediatric Population