Planning Committee
L.V. Rao, PhD, FAACC (Chair)
Professor, Pathology, Univ of Massachusetts Medical School
Executive Director, Science
Chief Scientific Officer, QDMA Joint Venture
Quest Diagnostics-North Region
Marlborough, MA, USA
Sean Cunningham, PhD, EuSpLM
Consultant Clinical Biochemist (retired)
Dublin, Ireland
Lilah Evans, MT(ASCP), CPP
Point of Care Testing Supervisor, Thomas Jefferson University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Nichole Korpi-Steiner, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina
Co-Director, Clinical Chemistry; Director, Special Chemistry and Point of Care Testing, UNC Hospitals
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Peggy Mann, MS, MT(ASCP), CPP
Program Manager & POC Coordinator, University of Texas Medical Branch
Houston-Galveston, TX, USA
Danyel Tacker, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
Associate Clinical Professor, Director, Clinical Chemistry, West Virginia University Hospital
Morgantown, WV, USA
Nicolas Tétreault, PhD, CSPQ, FCACB
Clinical Biochemist
Scientific and Innovation Director
Biron Health Group
Montreal, QC, Canada
Speakers
Ping Wang, PhD, DABCC, FAACC
Chief of Clinical Chemistry and Core Laboratory,
Pathology and Lab Medicine,
University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Francis Lin, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy; Immunology,
University of Manitoba
Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Nam K. Tran, PhD, HCLD (ABB), FACB
Professor and Senior Director of Clinical Pathology
Director of Clinical Chemistry, Special Chemistry/Toxicology, Point-of-Care Testing
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
University of California, Davis, School of Medicine
Davis, CA, USA
David G. Grenache, PhD, D(ABCC)
Chief Scientific Officer, TriCore Reference Laboratories
Medical Director, Core Laboratory
Clinical Professor of Pathology, University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM, USA
Robin Patel, MD(CM), D(ABMM), FIDSA, FACP, F(AAM)
Chair, Division of Clinical Microbiology
Consultant, Divisions of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
Director, Infectious Diseases Research Laboratory
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, MN, USA
Sarah Delaney, PhD
Clinical Biohemist
St. Michael's Hospital - Unity Health Toronto
Toronto, ON, Canada