7:30-8:15am

Registration and Breakfast

8:15-8:30am

Welcome

8:30-9:30am

“Bedside Troponin Use in the Emergency Department”

Fred S. Apple, Ph.D

9:30-10:00am

Break and Vendor Fair

10:00-11:00am

11:00-11:45am

"Perfusionists and the Tests They Perform"

Kris Nielsen, CCP

11:45-1:00pm

Lunch and Vendor Fair

1:00-2:30pm

“How Personal Style Affects Communication as a Healthcare Worker”

Nancy Burback, RNC and Peggy Berg MA BSN RN

2:30-2:45pm

Break

2:45-3:45pm

Round Table Discussion

3:45-4:00pm

Closing-Next Meeting Host Discussion

• Susan Stoltz, MT(ASCP)
  HealthEast Medical Laboratory
  Phone (651)232-3758
  sstoltz@healtheast.org

• St. Joseph's Hospital

  3M Conference Center, Rooms A, B, C, D

  45 West Tenth Street

  St. Paul, MN 55102

From the NORTH:

• Take I-35E to the Wacouta/10^th Street exit.

• Follow the 10^th Street sign(s) and continue on 10^th approximately 4 blocks.

• Turn left onto Cedar Street for a half-block, then turn right onto Exchange Street for 1½ blocks. 

• The Gallery Parking ramp is on the right-hand side.

From the SOUTH:

• Take I-35E north to the 11^th Street exit.

• Turn right onto St. Peter Street. Go approximately 2 blocks and turn left onto Exchange Street.

• The Gallery Parking ramp is on the left-hand side.                ^ Click here or on the image for a handout

From the EAST:

• Take I-94 west to the 12^th Street exit.

• Continue on 12^th Street approximately 4 blocks to Cedar Street.

• Turn left on Cedar Street, go 3 blocks to Exchange Street and make a right. 

• Follow Exchange Street 1½ blocks. 

• The Gallery Parking ramp is on the right-hand side.

From the West:

• Take I-94 east to the 10^th Street exit.

• Follow 10^th Street approximately one-third mile. 

• Turn right on St. Peter Street and turn left in                     ^ Click here or on the image for a handout
  one block onto Exchange Street.

• The Gallery Parking ramp is on the left-hand side.

Parking Instructions:

• At the entrance to the parking ramp, take a ticket.  You will get a voucher at the meeting that reduces your parking cost to a $5.00 flat rate for the day.

• Take the centrally located parking ramp elevator to level 1, go past the escalators and walk outside. Go north (towards State Capitol) one-half block and enter St. Joseph’s Hospital from the 10^th Street main entrance.

• The 3M Conference Center is located on the second floor in the de Paul tower.  Either take the elevator in the lobby or the staircase behind the information desk up one floor.

• Embassy Suites St. Paul – Downtown

  175 East 10^th Street

  St. Paul, MN  55101

  Tel: 1-651-224-5400

• Holiday Inn St. Paul - Downtown
  175 West 7^th Street
  St. Paul, MN  55102
  Tel: 1-651-225-1515

• Best Western Kelly Inn St. Paul
  161 St. Anthony Avenue
  St. Paul, MN  55103
  Tel:  1-651-227-8711