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“This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity as defined by the CSCC/CACB Professional Development Program.”
« Cette activité est une activité de formation collective agréée selon la définition établie par le Programme de perfectionnement professionnel de la SCCC et l’ACBC. »
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| PLATINUM SPONSOR | GOLD SPONSOR |
| Thursday June 18, 2020 - 1200-1400 EDT | |
| 1200 | Welcome and Opening Blessing |
| 1210 | Opening Keynote Bridging the Genomic Divide: Approaching genetics and genomics in clinical care and research with Indigenous patients, families and communities |
| 1300 | Kidney Check: Point of Care Testing for Chronic Kidney Disease Risk: A Public Health Approach to a Big Problem in Indigenous Communities |
| Thursday June 25, 2020 - 1200-1430 EDT
Indigenous Health: Time for Action |
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| 1200 | Welcome and Opening Blessing |
| 1205 | The Health Status of and Access to Healthcare be Registered First Nation Peoples in Manitoba |
| 1250 | Stepping back - Tackling health disparities through a moral and historical lens |
| 1335 | When rare becomes common: Understanding the genetics of sudden death and implications for other heart disease with the help of a Founder population |
| 1410 | The Intersection of Medicine and Society, Reviewing Jordan’s Principle |
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Thursday July 16, 2020 - 1200-1600 EDT Joint Symposium 2: Differences of Sexual Differentiation & Transgender Experience |
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| 1200 | Pink, Blue, and the Uncertainties in-between: Novel Approaches to Differences of Sex Development |
| 1300 | Gender 101: A Beginner's Guide to Being a "Gender Bandit" |
| 1400 | Legal and Ethical Developments concerning Intersex Children |
| 1500 | Updates on Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia |
| 1200 | Application of EBLM in the Age of Precision Medicine |
| 1235 | Guidelines Implementation |
| 1305 | Evidence for Implementing POCT |
| 1335 | Stopping Tests and Starting New Test: Application EBLM |
| 1405 | Appropriate Stewardship in the Laboratory; Cut Out the Noise and Bring on Reflective Testing |
| 1200 | Allergy Testing |
| 1225 | Autoimmune Testing |
| 1245 | Mass Spectrometry for Clinical Biochemistry |
| 1305 | Cancer Biomarkers |
| 1325 | Educational Recommendations on cardiac biomarkers: an update from the IFCC Committee on Clinical Applications of Cardiac Bio-Markers |
| 1200 | Direct-to-consumer-testing: pro or con? |
| 1230 | Media’s perception of clinical diagnostics – is it helpful or hurting? |
| 1200 | Preliminary consensus of core laboratory quality indicators among academic teaching hospitals of the University of Toronto |
| 1225 | CLSI-based verification of CALIPER pediatric reference intervals for endocrine and fertility hormones on the Abbott Alinity platform |
| 1245 | CALIPER pediatric reference value distributions for plasma cytokines and chemokines and establishment of age-stratified reference intervals on the ProteinSimple Ella platform |
| 1305 | Evidence-based harmonization of reference intervals for thyroid markers across Canada: Harnessing the power of large inter-provincial outpatient datasets and direct reference data from healthy Canadians |
| 1200 | Operator non-compliance, the biggest risk to POCT |
| 1230 | Autopsy ethanol testing: challenges and considerations |
| 1300 | Unusual Cases in Pediatric Clinical Chemistry |