2025 Annual Convention

ASCLS-CNE ANNUAL CONVENTION 2025

SCHEDULE AT A GLANCE


ASCLS-CNE 77th Clinical Laboratory Science Convention                                       

Monday, March 17, 2025

Opening Keynote Speaker

9:00-10:00am

Artificial Intelligence in the Clinical Laboratory: Current and Future Implementation

Michelle A. Parent MS, PhD, MLS(ASCP)cm

 

10:30-11:30am

1:30-2:30pm

3:00-4:00pm

 

Chemistry/General

 

 

Making Patient Impact with Ions- A Conversation on the Medical Value of Automated Mass Spectrometry

 

Allyson J Kozak, PhD, MBA, NRCC

Sponsor: Roche Diagnostics

 

Cervical Cancer Unmasked: Navigating Screening, Management, & Biomarker Triage in the US

 

Chairut Vareechon, PhD,D(ABMM)

Sponsor: Roche Diagnostics

 

GLP-1 Receptor Agonists and the Medical Laboratory

 

 Kyle Riding, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM

 

 

 

 

Hematology

 

 

 

Platelets: Development & Functionality

 

Malissa Norfolk, MBA, PMP, MLS(ASCP)SH

 

 

Digital Hematology Case Studies

 

 

Luz Flaherty, MPH, MT(ASCP)

 

Peripheral Blood: Morphology of Infectious Diseases

 

Dragos C Luca, MD

 

 

 

Microbiology

 

 

 

Cracking the Case: Clinical Microbiology Challenges in Organism Identification and Emerging Pathogens of the Northeast

 

 

 Michelle A. Parent MS, PhD, MLS(ASCP)cm

 

 

Considerations for Adoption and Implementation of Fast Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

 

Brandon Hill, PharmD, BCIDP

Sponsor: bioMerieux

 

 

Bacterial Strain Typing Using Infrared Technology

 

Philip Jessmon, PhD

Sponsor: Bruker

 

 

 

Transfusion Medicine

 

 

 

Sickle Cell Disease- Advancing Equitable Care

 

Patrick T McGann, MD PhD

 

The State of D Testing for Pregnancy

 

 Nalan Yurtsever, MD

 

 

 

Overview of Autologous Stem Cell Transplant

 

Rabin Niroula

Luncheon Speaker

12:00-1:00pm

 

Closing the Gap – A Workforce Opportunity

 

Theresa Tellier-Castellone, Ed.D, MPH MLS (ASCP)

ASCLS-CNE 77th Clinical Laboratory Science Convention                                            

Tuesday, March 18, 2025

 

9:00-10:00am

10:30-11:30am

1:30-2:30pm

 

Chemistry/General

 

 

 

Understanding Algorithmic Bias in Clinical Laboratories: A Critical Examination of Race and Laboratory Medicine

 

Ricky Darnell Grisson, II MD, MBA, MPH

 

 

Uncovering the Clinical, Operational, and Financial Value of the Lab to Patients and the Hospital Using Real World

Data and Success

 

Jonathan Burgart, MBA

Sponsor: Abbott

 

How Next Generation Biomarkers Can Address Diagnostic Challenges Within Alzheimer's Disease

 

 Jonathan Lin

Sponsor by: Beckman Coulter

Hematology

 

 

 

 

Presentation of Selected Neonatal and Pediatric Hematologic Disorders with Particular Emphasis on Peripheral Blood and Bone Marrow Features

 

Dariusz Stachurski, MD

 

 

Flow Cytometry in Hematopathology

 

Karen Ferreira, PhD

 

Case Studies in Hemostasis and Unprovoked Thrombosis: Coagulation Conundrums

 

Paul Riley, PhD, MBA

Sponsored by: Diagnostica Stago, Inc.

Microbiology

 

 

 

 

Lessons Learned to

Improve Biosafety- Part 1

 

Shoolah Escott, MS, MLS (ASCP

 

Lessons Learned to

Improve Biosafety- Part 2

 

Shoolah Escott, MS, MLS (ASCP)

From Classic Microbiology to Lab Automation:

Redefining Roles, Efficiency, Accuracy and Standardization

Jordan Cardinal, PharmD, BCPS & Shelby Kruer, MLS, ASCP

Sponsor: Becton Dickinson

 

Transfusion Medicine

 

 

 

CAR T-cell Therapy: From Bedside to Laboratory Assessments

 

Ari Pelcovits, MD

 

 

Wild West of Warm Autoantibodies (WAA)

 

 

Stephanie Conrad, MD, MS

 

 

Solving the Rh Mystery in the Blood Bank

 

Melissa JA Laufer, BS, BB/SBB (ASCP)

Sponsor: Bio Rad

Closing Keynote Speaker

3pm to 4pm

 

How to Prepare Your Health System for the Lab of the Future

 

Donna Young BSMT, ASCP (DLM), MBA

Sponsor: Quest Diagnostics

Luncheon Speaker

12:00-1:00pm

 

Transforming Healthcare: Emerging Trends in Health Informatics and Technology

 

Nafees Qamar, PhD