2018 Athena Program

Wednesday, September 5

19:30-21:00 Reception

Thursday, September 6

8:30 Welcome & Purpose - A. Gronowski & S. Haymond

8:35 Introduction - Basil Doumas

• If you don't think Theranos is real, look who is close behind - D. Grenache

8:45 BIG DATA -Moderator A. Stankovic

• 8:45 "Pathology Data Base Mining” -T. Badrick

• 9:00 “What’s wrong with LOINC and aggregated lab data.” – G. Miller

• 9:15 "What is blockchain and what is its role in healthcare?"–S. Haymon

• 9:30 Discussion

10:15 Molecular-Based Technology - Moderator-N. Rifai

• 10:15"Towards the use of circulating DNA for cancer screening" -D. L

• 10:30"Syndromic infectious disease testing: time as the bottleneck for effective point-of-care" - C. Wittwe

• 10:45"Non Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) of Fetal Chromosomal Disorders: implementation in routine prenatal care"-V. Velissariou

• 11:00"Expanding NIPT applications through understanding the biology of circulating fetal DNA"-R. Chiu

11:15 "Who or what is SHERLOCK?"-A. Gronowski

• 11:30 "Beyond genetic testing: Clandestine uses of DNA"-G. Bodor

• 11:45 Discussion

Friday, September 7

8:30 Cutting Edge Diagnostics (Part I) - Moderator- I. Young

• 8:30 "Breath, Sweat and Tears"– M. Cervinski

• 8:45 "Mini, mighty and mature: The future state of clinical mass spectrometry"- M. DeMarco

• 9:00 "A multi-omics approach to diagnostics"- C.A. Burnham

• 9:15 "Bug or Virus: Can the host response provide the answer?"- S. Evans

• 9:30 Discussion

10:15 Cutting Edge Diagnostics (Part II) - Moderator- I. Young

• 10:15“Precision Medicine in Oncology: a critical role of the lab”- O. Laterza

• 10:30"Will Continuous Glucose Monitoring happen in intensive care settings"– M. Scott

• 10:45"Novel Testing for Cardiac Injury: Can We Improve Beyond Cardiac Troponin" –F. Apple

11:30 The Changing World of Academic Medicine - Moderator-D. Bruns

• 11:30 "Regulatory approvals using real-world data. A modern twist on curate’s egg"- C. Fantz

• 11:45 "New paradigms of medical education"–A. Saenger

• 12:00 “Scientific publishing in the 21st Century: challenges and trends”- N. Rifai

• 12:15 Discussion

Saturday, September 8

8:30 Advances in Areas with Limited Resources - Moderator-J. Ladenson

• 8:30 "Formation of The WHO Essential Diagnostics List"- L. Schroeder

• 8:45 "Innovative Diagnostics for the Developing World" S. Riley

• 9:00 “Will drones revolutionize medical sample delivery?”— T. Amukele

• 9:15 Discussion

10:00 Future of Healthcare - Moderator –G. Miller

• 10:00 “Personal utility and value-based pricing in laboratory medicine”–P. Bossuy

• t10:15 "Brave or Not, the Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing World is Here. What’s the Current Landscape?"- D. Grenache

• 10:30 "XPRIZE Tricorders and Point-of-Consumer Blood Diagnostics: Where are we now?"- E. Chan

• 10:45 "Predicting the impact of a whole-exome sequencing at the time of birth on current laboratory testing" E. Ashwood

• 11:00 Discussion

11:30 Summary & Lessons Learned - R.Rej