2006 Program and Agenda

Tuesday, September 5 - Arrivals

1830 - 2000 Reception on Hotel Lawn (cash bar)

2000 Dinner on Own

Wednesday, September 6

0900 Welcome and Purpose of Meeting - M Scott and E Diamandis

0915 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: Mitch Scott

• 0920 United Kingdom - Graham Beastall

• 0930 Italy - Mario Plebani

• 0940 Australia - Graham Jones

• 0950 HongKong/China - Dennis Lo

• 1000 North America - Ana Stankovic

• 1010 Eastern Europe/Hungary - Rita Horvath

1020 Break

• 1050 Greece - Evangelos Spanos

• 1100 Finland - Ulf-Haken Stenman

• 1110 Israel - Oren Zinder

• 1120 Developing Nations - Jack Ladenson

1130 Group Discussion

1200 The Laboratory Medicine Literature - Moderator: Carl Burtis

• 1200 State of "Evidence" in the Lab Medicine Literature - Rita Horvath

• 1220 Do we need journals anymore? - David Bruns

• 1240 Group Discussion

1300 Lunch on Own

1400 Hurdles to Implementing "Personalized Medicine"/Pharmacogenomic Testing" - Moderator: Sue Evans

• 1400 Technical/Professional - Tom Moyer

• 1425 Political/Public Policy Issues - Emily Winn-Deen

• 1445 Group Discussion (Both Sessions)

1515 Session Ends

1900 Pre-Dinner Talk

• "Survival on the Mission to Mars: Columbus had it Easy" - Jay McDonald

1945 Gala Dinner - St. John Hotel, Mykonos

Thursday September 7

0900 Group Visit to Island of Delos

1430 Return To Mykonos/Lunch on Own

1600 Discovery of New Laboratory Tests (Noise or Marker?) - Moderator: David Sacks

• 1600 Proteomic Discovery - Ulf-Haken Stenman

• 1620 "Junkomics" - Eleftherios Diamandis

• 1640 Gene Expression Discovery - Greg Tsongalis

• 1700 Plasma DNA/RNA testing - Dennis Lo

• 1720 Molecular Markers for the Masses - Jason Park

1740 Group Discussion

1800 Session Ends

2000 Mykonos Dinner, Mykonos Town

Friday, September 8

0900 How Much More Risk Can We Squeeze from the Heart? - Moderator: Jack Ladenson

• 0900 Lipids and inflammation - Nader Rifai

• 0915 New markers of cardiac risk - Fred Apple

• 0930 Do we need more? - Al Jaffe

0945 Group Discussion

1000 Break

1015 Quality Assurance in the Future and in the 'Omics Era - Moderator: Bob Rej

• 1015 How much more quality is there to gain? - Ken Sikaris

• 1030 When does a patient's value really change? - Graham Jones

• 1045 QA in the 'omics Era - E. Diamandis

1100 Group Discussion

1120 Where will most testing be done in 10 Years? - Moderator: Peter Wilding

• 1120 In Reference Labs - Ed Ashwood

• 1130 In Hospitals - Greg Miller

• 1140 On A Chip - Larry Kricka

• 1150 At Starbucks - Ann Gronowski

1200 Summary Discussions - Diamandis and Scott