First Meeting of the Athena Society
Rhodes, Greece. 1994
Agenda
Day One 9: 00 – 1: 00
Present Status of Clinical Chemistry and Expected Changes in the Next 10 Years Owing to Economic and Technological factors. Six 10-min presentations each followed by 15-min discussion.
Summary:
D. Bruns (15 min)
In - Vitro Diagnostics Industry:
H. Weinert (30 min)
Group Discussion: (30 min)
Day Two 9: 00 – 1:00
Forecast of Advances in Technology and Testing Trends through the Year 2005
Trends in Technology:
M. Schwartz (20 min)
H. Weinert (20.min)
Group Discussion: 45 min
Trends in Testing
J. Hicks (20 min) Decentralization
N. Tietz (20 min) Centralization
Group Discussion: 45 min
Summary:
E. Diamandis (20 min)
Day Three: 9: 00 – 2:30 (Session extended)
Future of Laboratory Medicine and the Role of Clinical Chemistry in Service, Training and Research
Service:
M. Werner (15 min)
T. Whitehead (15 min)
Group Discussion: 45 min
Training:
MacDonald (15 min)
Group Discussion: 45 min
Research:
L. Demers (15 min)
Group Discussion: 45 min
Summary:
J. Ladenson (20 min)
O. Ash (20 min)
Lavish Dinner Party, Courtesy of E. Spanos, with Band, Dancing, Singing (Demers, Okuda, Spanos, Doumas, etc) and protests from people trying to sleep in other Hotels one kilometer away (we were making too much noise)
Attendees
Effie Anagnostou – Cacaras, The Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece
K.Owen Ash, Arup Laboratories/ University of Utah, Utah, USA
C. Bohuon, Institut Gustave-Roussy, France
David Bruns, University of Virginia Medical Center, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Janine Buttner, Charite University Hospital, Berlin, Germany
Laurence Demers, Penn State University, Hershey, PA, USA
Eleftherios P. Diamandis, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Basil Doumas, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Gerald Gallwas, Beckman Instruments, California, USA
Jocelyn Hicks, Children's National Medical Center, USA
Jack Ladenson, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
D. Laue, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jay McDonald, University of Alabama-Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA
D. Rodgerson
Francesco Salvatore, Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II, Napoli, Italy
Morton Schwartz, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Lothar Siekmann, University of Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Gérard Siest, Nancy-Université, Université Henri Poincare, Nancy, France
Evangelos Spanos, BioMedicine Ltd, Athens, Greece
Norbert Tietz, University of Kentucky Medical Center, USA
H. Weinert, Martin-Luther-University, Halle, Germany
M. Werner, Institut für Pathologie, Berlin, Germany
T. Whithead