All Are
Welcome to Attend!
Host
Aryanna Ngo
invites you
to the Biggest
Social, CEU, and
Networking
Meeting in LAPOC history!
Friday,
November 9,
2018
Tulane Medical Center
1415 Tulane
Ave., New Orleans, LA 70112
Directions
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Agenda |
Meeting
Flyer | Vendors
| Housing
| Social Dinner |
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Time |
Topic |
CEU |
7:00am |
Vendor Setup |
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7:30am |
Registration/Breakfast/Visit Vendors |
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8:00am |
Welcome |
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8:15am |
What
Labs Need to Know about Capillary Clearance and
Regulatory implications of Glucose Testing – 2018
Jeffrey A. Dubois PhD, MS, MBA, FACB, C(ASCP)SC
VP Medical and Scientific Affairs Nova Biomedical |
Bio
|
1.0 |
9:15am |
Break - Visit Vendors |
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9:30am |
A
Primer on Health Economics Outcomes
Thomas Koshy, Ph.D., Principal Scientist-HEOR
Evidence Strategy & Generation |
Bio |
1.0 |
10:30am |
Break - Visit Vendors |
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10:45am |
Body
Language Boot Camp
Jane Smith MT(ASCP)SI,DLM
Technical Manager, Abbott Scientific Affairs |
Bio
This is an interactive, fun (group participation)
presentation; recognizing body language, to help communicate
better with healthcare workers and patients.
(Sponsored by Abbott) |
1.0 |
11:45am |
Lunch/Visit Vendors/LAPOC Business Meeting/Open
Discussion |
|
1:00pm |
What
a Disaster! Applying POCT Lessons Learned
Toward Event Preparedness and Recovery
Peggy Mann,
Program Manager/POCC
University of Texas Medical Branch ,
Galveston, Texas | Bio
(Sponsored by Kurin) |
1.0 |
2:00pm |
Break - Visit Vendors |
|
2:15pm |
Preparing
for a CAP Inspection
Kathleen David MT (ASCP)
Point of Care Testing Manager
TriCore Reference Lab | Bio
(Sponsored by Telcor)
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1.0 |
3:15pm |
Wrap Up |
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3:30pm |
Adjourn |
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RSVP:
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Vendors:
Vendor tables are available at no
charge based on availability.
Please download the Vendor form below and send as an attachment to
Aryanna Ngo.
Tables will be available on a first
come, first served basis, based on space allowed
and will be set up just outside the
entrance to the meeting room.
Vendor
Sponsorship
Housing:
Astor Crowne Plaza, 739 Canal St., New Orleans, La 70130
Thursday-Friday, November 8-9…
for just $99 a night!
Located in the Heart of New Orleans, to
reserve your room, call the Astor Crowne Plaza at
1.504.962.0500
and mention 'Louisiana POC Network' to
get this special rate.
Directions
Social
Dinner:
Dickie Brennan’s Bourbon House &
Seafood Bar 144 Bourbon Street, New Orleans, La 70130 Thursday, November 8 7:00-8:00 p.m.
This is a Self Pay event
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Speaker
Bios:
Kathleen David, MT (ASCP),
Point of Care Testing Manager
TriCore Reference
Lab, Albuquerque NM
Kathleen has been in
the lab field for over 40 years, and been in POCT
for over 20 years. She is the manager for Point of
Care at TriCore Reference Lab in Albuquerque NM. Her
job encompasses 3 health systems, with 15 hospitals
and over 100 clinics, urgent care centers, and
physician offices performing POCT. Her POCT team
includes 4 technical supervisors and 18 POC techs.
She is currently president of the Southwest Regional
Point of Care Group. Kathleen has 2 children, one of
whom has recently joined the laboratory field and
also works at TriCore! Kathleen originally trained
to be a professional opera singer, but then came to
her senses and went back to her original interest in
biology. She’s worked in laboratories in 5
different states, in many different positions. This
position, however, is her dream job! When not
working, she enjoys choral singing, reading, and
seeing the sights of wherever she happens to be! |
Thomas Koshy,
Ph.D., Principal Scientist-HEOR
Evidence Strategy & Generation
Dr. Koshy is a Principal Research Scientist for
Precision Xtract where he supports the Precision
development teams on design of research studies
(protocols, analyses, data sources) intended to
address health economic, outcomes research and
health policy questions using a range of potential
technical approaches. He also helps synthesize,
interpret and communicate the results of these
studies to Precision stakeholders and the research
clients and advises on written technical reports,
peer-reviewed manuscripts, and presentations of the
research.
Dr. Koshy comes to Precision with over 25 years of
experience in the in vitro diagnostics (IVD)
industry. He has held leadership positions in R&D,
project management, manufacturing, technical
support, quality and scientific affairs. His
diagnostics experience spans a wide range of disease
states (infectious disease [flu, C. difficile, HIV,
etc.], acute cardiac events, metabolic disorders and
oncology) and diagnostic testing modalities (core
lab, point-of-care [POCT], electrochemical sensors,
immunoassays, molecular and turbidometric/nepholometric
methods). Prior to Precision, he spent 13 years
building and leading Scientific Affairs/MSL teams at
three IVD companies. He and his teams specialized
in being scientific, clinical and technical liaisons
between the company and the client. He is a
contributing author to the POCT chapter of The
Immunoassay Handbook, 4th edition and the CLSI
Guidance document: POCT09:
Selection Criteria for Point-of-Care Testing
Devices.
Dr. Koshy received his B.A. in Biology from
Kalamazoo College and his Ph.D. in Biochemistry,
Molecular Biology and Cellular Biology from
Northwestern University. |
Jane
Smith MS, MT(ASCP)SI, DLM
Technical Manager,
Scientific Affairs, Abbott Rapid Diagnostics
Jane Smith received
her BA in Medical Technology from the University of
Tennessee at Knoxville, and received Master’s
Degrees in Science Education and Environmental
Engineering. She worked as an Immunology supervisor
for 30 years at the University of Tennessee in
Knoxville before joining the Alere Clinical
Immunology Group. In 2011 she was one of the
founding members of Alere Scientific Affairs where
she now serves as a Technical Manager. Jane has
been active in volunteering nationwide for CAP
inspections. She also has volunteered on CLSI
POCT04-A3 (Point of Care IVD Testing) and QMS03
(Training and Competence Assessment) documents.
Jane is currently directing a cross functional IQCP
team to provide IQCP support materials for Alere
products. |
Jeffrey
A. Dubois PhD, MS, MBA, FACB, C(ASCP)SC
VP Medical and
Scientific Affairs Nova Biomedical
Jeff Dubois directs
a Nova Biomedical team of 5 doctoral level Medical &
Scientific Affairs Directors who are responsible for
global clinical evaluations with >150
collaborators. |
Peggy A.
Mann, M.S., MT(ASCP)
University of Texas
Medical Branch, Galveston, TX
Peggy Mann is the
Ambulatory POCC, a Clinics Administration Program
Manager, as well as, the Clinical Laboratory liaison
to clinics in the health system. Peggy’s clinic
oversight extends to 400 miles from the Galveston
Medical School campus, includes all 3 campuses and
with more than 100 clinics. She’s been with UTMB for
35 years. Professionally volunteering with AACC and
CLSI, Peggy is the current AACC CPOCT Executive
Board Secretary. She is halfway through the three
year term on the AACC Clinical Laboratory Scientist
Council.
With the professional
organization CLSI, she is the CLSI Vice-Chair of the
POC Expert Panel, serves on a five year CLSI-CDC
Project Expert Panel studying ‘Improving the Impact
of Laboratory Practice Guidelines’, and is a member
on several Document Development Committees.
Peggy is a member and co-organizer of meetings with
two POCC Groups; for the Southwest Regional POCC
Group she is helping to organize the 2017 annual
meeting to be held in Texas so is the 2017
President. Peggy received her B.S. from Pennsylvania
State University and her M.S. from the University of
Houston. |
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