2009 Program and Agenda

Sunday, September 6

1900 - 2030 Reception – Hinitsa Bay Hotel

2030 Dinner on Own

Monday, September 7

0830 Welcome and Purpose of Meeting - M Scott and E Diamandis

0845 Historical Perspective -J Ladenson and B Doumas

0900 Country by Country Review of Trends and Issues

Unique economic, political, demographic and technologic trends and issues that will shape the future practice of lab medicine in each country/region. - Moderator: Ed Ashwood

• 0900 United Kingdom - Ian Young

• 0915 Italy - Mario Plebani

• 0930 Australia - Ken Sikaris

• 0945 France - Bernard Gouget

1000 Break

• 1030 North America - Tom Moyer

• 1045 China/Hong Kong - Denis Lo

• 1100 GreeceT. Kremmastinou

• 1115 Finland - Ulf-Hakan Stenman

• 1130 Developing Nations - Jack Ladenson

1145 Group Discussion

1200 Laboratory Medicine Journals - Changing Roles? - Moderator: G. Bodor

• 1200 "Evidence" in the Lab Medicine LiteratureDavid Bruns

• 1220 Improving Lab Medicine Journals - Nader Rifai

• 1245 Knowledge Management and Truthiness - How Scientific Information is Communicated and Retrieved - Bob Rej

1300 Group Discussion

1315 Lunch on Own

1900 "Predictive Medicine" Pre-Dinner Talk (Hotel Meeting Room) - E. Diamandis

2000 Dinner – Hinitsa Taverna, Porto Heli (Short Walk to Restaurant from Hotel)

Tuesday September 8

0930 Beyond Immunoassays and PCR in the Clinical Laboratory - Moderator: E. Diamandis

• 0930 How many analytes? Optimizing multiplex assays for QC - Stephen Master

• 0950 Nano-diagnostics - now, near term or never? - Larry Kricka

• 1010 Mass Spectrometry as a Diagnostic Tool - Mary Lopez

1050 Break

1110 Moderator: Ana Stankovic

• 1110 Dynamic Testing in Endocrinology - Shereen Ezzat

• 1130 microRNAs - Greg Tsongalis

• 1150 Next-generation sequencing as a diagnostic tool - Dennis Lo

• 1215 Personalized Medicine and the blurring of AP and CPSylvia Asa

1240 Group Discussion All

1300 Website Discussion - E. Diamandis

1315 Lunch on Own

2000 Dinner – Home of Dr. Spanos, Island of Spetses (Water Taxi transport to Spetses)

Wednesday, September 9

0930 Personalized Medicine - Where are we headed? - Moderator: Peter Wilding

• 0930 Challenges to Becoming Reality

• 0930 Regulatory - Sue Evans

• 0950 Clinical - Roland Valdes

1010 Group Discussion

1020 Break

1045 Lab Standards and "Metrologists" - Moderator: Gary Myers

• 1045 What is metrology? - Basil Doumas

• 1055 What ISO Means to Labs - Greg Miller

• 1115 Standardized QA? - Graham Jones

• 1135 Humans cannot be measured with cows - Stan Lo

1140 Group Discussion

1200 The Clinical Laboratory of 2020 - Moderators: Jack Ladenson and Jay McDonald

• 1200 One reference lab's view - Tom Moyer

• 1220 What will be the most significant - Group Discussion

  • technical..

  • clinical..

  • test algorithms..

  • regulatory..

  • training..

  • ...changes in the next 10 years?

1400 - 0000 Boat to Nafplion and Return All

Dinner on own in Nafplion

Thursday, September 10

0830 Should We...? - Moderator: Carlo Brugnara

• 0830 ...Report Estimated Average Glucose with HbA1c?

  • 0830 Yes - David Sacks

  • 0845 No - Ian Young

•  0900 ...Use Glucose Meters for Tight Glycemic Control Protocols? - Mitch Scott

• 0915 ...Do Vitamin D Testing for the Masses? - Ann Gronowski

• 0930 ...Use High Sensitivity Troponin Assays?

  • 0930 Can we? (technical issues) - Fred Apple

  • 0945 Clinically? (clinical issues) - Al Jaffe

 1000 Discussions

1015 Meeting Summary - Eleftherios Diamandis

1100 Departures