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As a leader in laboratory medicine, Emory Medical Laboratory is committed to the education and professional development of laboratory professionals. Join your colleagues for a day of networking and education hosted by Emory Healthcare.
Our esteemed factulty and staff wil present relevant presentations on labortoary medicine, with a focus on quality and ways to improve processess affective patients and their families
Earn up to 5.0 hours of American Society for Cinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) Professional Acknowledgement for Continuing Education (P.A.C.E.) credit.
Registration and lunch at no cost |
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"Story of Harm"
William A. Bornstein, MD, PhD
Jennifer Flock, RN, CPHRM
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Objectives:
- Describe the components of a root cause analysis and how to use the “5 whys”
- Identify the levels of root causes and their significance
- Describe the difference between effective and ineffective action plans
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"Defining and Reporting Critical Values for an Adult Hospital"
Corinne R. Fantz, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Alexix Carter, MD
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Objectives:
- Explain the concept of a “critical” laboratory result and its utility in adult practice, as well as listing examples of differences in adult and pediatric values
- Implement strategies to evaluate and adjust critical value limits
- Describe how laboratory information systems can be designed to increase efficiency and improve documentation and information tracking
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"Bugs, Slugs, to Drugs — New Concepts in Anticoagulation"
Alexander Duncan, ChB
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Objectives:
- Discuss how our knowledge of the coagulation pathways allows us to target potential drug therapies
- Describe how biting insects and bugs are potential sources of new and novel therapies
- Recognize the scope and limitations of new drug development in hemostasis
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"Personalized Medicine: Improving Quality for Individual Patients"
Charles E. Hill, MD, PhD
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Objectives:
- Define pharmacogenetics
- Describe the role of pharmacogenetics in personalized medicine
- Discuss the current challenges facing clinical implementation of pharmacogenetics
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"A Swab Story"
Eileen M. Burd, PhD |
Objectives:
- Discuss collection of quality specimens for microbiology
- Explain why swabs are suboptimal for collecting many types of specimens for microbiology
- Describe anatomic sites from which microbiology specimens are best obtained using a swab
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