Fifth Meeting of the Athena Society
September 6 - 10, 2009

 
AKS HINITSA BAY
Porto Heli, 21061
Argolida, Peloponnese, Greece
Tel: +30 27540 - 57401

Program and Agenda

2009 - Porto Heli

• General Information
• Program and Agenda
• Attendees

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2009 Organizers:

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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 Greece	T. 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 Literature	David 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 Pre-Dinner Talk (Hotel Meeting Room)

"Predictive Medicine"

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 CP	Sylvia 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 technical.. clinical.. test algorithms.. regulatory.. training.. ..changes in the next 10 years?	Group Discussion

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 0845 No	David Sacks 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) 0945 Clinically? (clinical issues)	Fred Apple Al Jaffe
1000 Discussions
1015 Meeting Summary	Eleftherios Diamandis

1100 Departures

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2009 Athena Society Delegates

Name	Photo	With guest	Institution	Country
Francisco (Paco) Alvarez			Hospital Univ Central de Asturias	Spain
Fred & Jan Apple			University of Minnesota	USA
Sylvia Asa, Shereen Ezzat & Alexander			University of Toronto	Canada
Ed Ashwood & Candace Johnson			University of Utah	USA
Eleni Bairaktari			University of Ioannina	Greece
Geza & Maggie Bodor			University of Colorado/VA Med Center	USA
Katerina Braliou			Biomedicine S.A.	Greece
Carlo Brugnara			Boston Children’s/Harvard University	USA
David & Liz Bruns	not present		University of Virginia	USA
Larry & Susan Demers			Penn State University	USA
Eleftherios & Anastasia Diamandis			Mt. Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto	Canada
Basil & Maria Doumas			Medical College Wisconsin	USA
Sue & Dick Evans			Agencourt/Beckman Coulter	USA
Shereen Ezzat & Sylvia Asa			Mt. Sinai Hospital/University of Toronto	Canada
Nate & Elaine Gochman			Beckman-Coulter (Ret.)	USA
Bernard Gouget			Fédération Hospitalière de France	France
Ann & Scott Gronowski			Washington University	USA
Al Jaffe			Mayo Clinic	USA
Graham Jones			St. Vincent’s Hospital	Australia
Dino Kasdagly			The Cleveland Clinic	USA
Eleni Kordi	no photo		Biomedicine S.A.	Greece
Tzeni Kremmastinou			Biomedicine S.A.	Greece
Larry & Barbara Kricka			University of Pennsylvania	USA
Jack & Ruth Ladenson			Washington University	USA
Dennis & Alice Lo			Chinese Univ of Hong Kong	Hong Kong
Stan Lo			Children’s Hospital of Wisconsin	USA
Mary Lopez & daughter			Thermo Fisher	USA
Stephen & Christina Master			University of Pennsylvania	USA
Jay & Sarah McDonald			University of Alabama Birmingham	USA
Aikaterini Metaxotou	no photo			Greece
Greg & Gail Miller			Virginia Commonwealth University	USA
Vivi Moutsatsou			University of Athens	Greece
Tom & Diane Moyer			Mayo Clinic	USA
Gary & Adrienne Myers			CDC	USA
Laurence K Oliver			Mayo Clinic	USA
Mario & Maria Plebani			Padova University Hospital	Italy
Robert & Yvonne Rej			NY State Health Lab	USA
Nader Rifai			Boston Children’s/Harvard	USA
David, Beth & Dylan Sacks			Brigham & Women’s Harvard University	USA
Mitchell & Barbara Scott			Washington University	USA
Ken, Kathrine & Laura Sikaris			Melbourne Pathology	Australia
Evangelos OR EVANGELIS & Mahi Spanos			BIOMEDICINE S.A.	Greece
Ana & Srdjan Stankovic, with daughter			BD Diagnostics	USA
Ulf-Haken & Ingrid Stenman			Helsinki University	Finland
Litsa Talieri			Saint Savas Hospital	Greece
Gregory Tsongalis with wife and children			Dartmouth University	USA
Roland & Kathie Valdes			University of Louisville	USA
Peter & Audrey Wilding			University of Pennsylvania	USA
Ian & Joanne Young			Queens University, Belfast	Ireland