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   SATURDAY JUNE 12

0830-1230

 INDUSTRY WORKSHOP - WATERS Corporation
0900-1700  CSCC Council Meeting
0900-1200  CACB Oral Exams
1400-1700  CACB Board of Directors Meeting
   
  SUNDAY JUNE 13
0900-1700  CACB Oral Exams
1000-1700  CSCC Golf Game
   
0830-1130  2 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS W101 (Part 1) & W102

W101 

 Interactive Case Studies in Pediatric Clinical Chemistry - Part 1

 Faculty:

Dr. Khosrow Adeli, Division of Clinical Biochemistry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Dr. Vijaylaxmi Grey, Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton
Dr. Nathalie Lepage, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa

   

 W102

Qualification, Verification, Validation and Uncertainty of Measurement in the Clinical Laboratory

 Faculty:

Dr. Edward J. Dunn, Burlington
Dr. Sheila Boss, Medical Support, Lifelabs Inc., Toronto
Dr. Godfrey Moses, Gamma-Dynacare Medical Laboratories, London
Dr. Lynn Allen, Georgetown

   
1330-1630  3 CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS W201 (Part 2 of 101), W202 & W203

 W201:

 Interactive Case Studies in Pediatric Clinical Chemistry - Part 2

 Faculty:

 Dr. Khosrow Adeli, Division of Clincial Biochemistry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
Dr. Vijaylaxmi Grey, Hamilton Health Sciences Centre, Hamilton
Dr. Nathalie Lepage, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa

   

 W202

Serum Protein Electrophoresis: From standardized interpretation and algorithms to high resolution capillary electrophoresis

 Faculty:

Dr. Jean-Pierre Émond, Département de biochimie, CHUM, Hôpital Notre-Dame, Montréal
Dr. Edward Randell, Laboratory Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's
   

 W203

Mining for Gold in the Laboratory Database

 Faculty:

 Dr. Ken Sikaris, Melbourne Pathology, Melbourne Australia
   
1830-1930

OPENING CEREMONIES
Western Development Museum
(transportation provided)

1930-2200 OPENING RECEPTION
Western Development Museum
   
   MONDAY JUNE 14
0730-0900  INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS
   Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
   Abbott Diagnostics
   Beckman Coulter Canada
   DiaSorin
   
 0900-1200 S1: ADVANCES AT THE INTERFACE BETWEEN CARDIAC SCIENCES AND LABORATORY MEDICINE
 

 Chair:  Dr. Andrew Lyon, Calgary Laboratory Services, Calgary

 0900

Dr. Todd Anderson, Professor, Departments of Cardiac Sciences/Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Calgary, Calgary

 0935

Dr. Alan Wu, Chief, Clinical Chemistry, San Francisco General Hospital, San Francisco

 1015

 Refreshment break

 1045

Dr. Peter Kavsak, Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, and Discipline of Clinical Chemistry/Immunology, Hamilton Regional Laboratory Medicine, Hamilton

 1120

Biomarkers in Heart Failure: Current location, around the corner? around the bend? 
Dr. Robert Christenson, Professor of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore

   
 1200-1400  CALIPER Investigators
   
1400-1700  S2: DIABETES SYMPOSIUM
  Chair: Dr. Denis Lehotay, Provincial Laboratory, Saskatchewan Health, Regina

 1400

Advanced Glycation End Products and their Possible Role as Diagnostic Markers
   Dr. Edward Randell, Laboratory Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's

1435

Title Truths and Myths in Diabetes Testing 
   Dr. Ken Sikaris, Melbourne Pathology, Melbourne Australia

 1510

 Refreshment break

 1545

Diabetes and Kidney Disease Among the Aboriginal Population 
   Dr. Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Professor, Departments of Medicine and Community Health Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary

 1620

Pediatric Type 2 Diabetes 
  Dr. Elizabeth Sellers, Section of Pediatric Endocrinology & Metabolism, University of Manitoba & Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg
 1700-1900 OFFICIAL OPENING OF EXHIBIT HALL
Exhibitor Wine & Cheese Reception
   
   TUESDAY JUNE 15
 0730-0830 

BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES
Roundtables R101 - R108

 0830-1200

 S3: UPDATE ON COLORECTAL CANCER

   Chair:  Dr. Jay Kalra, Department of Pathology, Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon

 0830

Colorectal Cancer Screening Tests: Translating the past into the present 
  Dr. Curtis Oleschuk, Winnipeg Health Sciences Centre, Winnipeg

 0920

Dr. Chris Kenyon, Division of General Surgery, Royal University Hospital and University of Saskatchewan College of Medicine, Saskatoon

 1010

 Refreshment break

 1110

Dr. James McHattie, Gastroenterologist, Regina Qu-Appelle Health Region, Regina
 1200-1700  Posters & Exhibits
 1400-1500

Toxicology Interest Group
This is a session where individuals present recent cases and developments.  The session has an open format to allow for free discussion and sharing of ideas.  Past examples of cases have included identification of adulterated urine samples, pharmacogenomics-related drug interactions, contamination of street drugs, and new methods to identify abused drugs.

 

 1500-1600  Pediatrics
 1600-1730  INDUSTRY WORKSHOPS
   Bio-Rad Laboratories
   The Binding Site
   BD Diagnostics
   AB SCIEX
 Evening  VENDOR NIGHT
   
   WEDNESDAY JUNE 16
0730-0830   BREAKFAST ROUNDTABLES
Roundtables 201 - 208
 0830-1200  S4:  PHARMACOGENOMICS
   Chair:  Dr. Bhushan M. Kapur, Department of Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto

 0830

Structure Function Relationship of Genetic Mutations
  Dr. Loralie Langman, Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, Division of Clinical Biochemistry/Immunology, Mayo Clinic, Rochester

 0920

 Pharmacogenetics in the Era of Whole Genome Sequence Analysis
   Dr. Peter Bridge, Director, Molecular Diagnostic Laboratory, Alberta Children's Hospital, Professor, Department of Medicial Genetics, University of Calgary, Calgary

 1010

 Refreshment break

1110 

 Delivery of Personalized Medicine: when, how, and why
  Dr. Richard Kim, Professor and Chair, Division of Clinical Pharmacology, Director, Centre for Clinical Investigation & Therapeutics, University of Western Ontario, London
1200-1330   Lunch, Posters & Exhibits

 1330

 CSCC Annual General Meeting

 1430

 CACB Annual General Meeting
 1530  Oral Presentations
1830-1930   PRESIDENT'S RECEPTION
 1930  CSCC BANQUET
   
   THURSDAY JUNE 17
 0900-1230  SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM ON HbA1c
   Chair:  Dr. Patrick St. Louis, Laboratory Director, Clearstone Central Laboratories, Mississauga

 0900

 Dr. Ken Sikaris, Melbourne Pathology, Melbourne Australia

 0945

 Dr. Connie Prosser, Division of Laboratory Medicine, University of Alberta Hospitals, Edmonton

 1100

 Trefor Higgins, Director of Clinical Chemistry, DyanLIFEDx, Edmonton

 1145

 tba
   
   


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