Emory Medical Laboratory: News and Events

EML LINK Newsletter	TEST ANNOUNCEMENTS & UPDATES Aspirin Works Spring 2007 New Test Announcement FLT3 Spring 2007 Mutational Analysis in Acute Myeloid Leukemia JAK2 Fall 2006 A new Molecular test for Myeloproliferative disorders Lupus Anticoagulant Profile Fall 2006 EML Special Hemostasis — Change to Lupus Anticoagulant Profile
Emory Healthcare School of Medical Technology First class begins September 2008!

EDUCATIONAL INFORMATION

2008 EML Educational Symposium: Cultivating Quality in Laboratory Medicine — Save the date: October 2, 2008
REGISTRATION NOW CLOSED	Time: 7:45 a.m. — 2 p.m. Location: Emory Crawford Long Hospital (Midtown), Glenn Auditorium, 550 Peachtree St, Atlanta, GA 30308

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

PRESENTATIONS:  Click on presentation images (icons) to download PDF handout (enter the password sent via email)

"Story of Harm" William A. Bornstein, MD, PhD Jennifer Flock, RN, CPHRM 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

"Defining and Reporting Critical Values for an Adult Hospital" Corinne R. Fantz, PhD, DABCC, FACB Alexix Carter, MD   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

"Bugs, Slugs, to Drugs — New Concepts in Anticoagulation" Alexander Duncan, ChB 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

"Personalized Medicine: Improving Quality for Individual Patients" Charles E. Hill, MD, PhD Objectives: Define pharmacogenetics Describe the role of pharmacogenetics in personalized medicine Discuss the current challenges facing clinical implementation of pharmacogenetics

"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