Lab Q Con 2025 Schedule

Monday, June 16th

Time Speaker Topic
7:30 Registration, Continental Breakfast
8:00 Dr. Lucy A. Perrone,

Donald B. Rix Professor of Laboratory Quality

Director, Program Office for Laboratory Quality Management, UBC

Welcome message, Acknowledgements
8:00 – 8:30 Sheri Hauser,

ART International Expert Trainer, New Thought Advocate, Victoria Truth Centre, BC

Cultivating Connections
8:30 – 9:15 Ms. Eileen Davidson

“Chronic Eileen”,

Patient Advocate, Patient Voices Network of BC

Laboratory customer perspectives on diagnostic services
9:15 – 9:45 Craig Ivany

Chief Provincial Diagnostics Officer

PLMS

Provincial Health Services Authority

BC’s strategic priorities for diagnostic laboratory medicine

Laboratory System Quality and Performance – Personal patient perspectives on quality through the continuum of care.

9:45 – 10:15 Katherine (Katie) Monai,

and

Constance (Hope) Byrne

Strategic Leads for Medical Biochemistry and Medical Microbiology, PLMS

Diagnostic Services Monitoring and Evaluation- BC’s Provincial Lab Medicine Services’ Discipline Advisory Committees (DAC)

  • DAC purpose
  • post implementation evaluation surveys- form and function
  • stories of impact
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
10:30 – 11:00 Dr. Marthe Charles

Microbiology Laboratory Director, VGH

Lessons from VGH – Use of disruptive technology and lab automation to improve quality.
12:00 – 12:15 Community Q&A
12:15 – 13:30 Hosted Lunch in the Paezole Centre Atrium
14:00 – 14:30 Devena Steinmann, MA, BSc, MLT

Senior Director, Laboratory Operations,

Laboratory Medicine & Pathology

Fraser Health

Employee engagement programming and workforce training with a quality foucs.
15:00 – 15:30 Dr. Alireza Saremi, PhD

Director of Data Analytics

PLMS

Dashboards for decision making- the power of interoperable laboratory informatics systems to drive quality. Spotlight on the PLMS Anomaly detection tool.
15:30 – 15:45 Break
15:45 – 16:30

PANEL DISCUSSION

 

Topic: Enablers of Laboraotry System Performance and Quality

Facilitated by: Dr. Lucy Perrone

The panel will include speakers from the day to participate in a roundtable discussion and Q&A with the audience.

16:30 Dr. Lucy A. Perrone Closing remarks
17:00 – 19:30

Networking Reception

 

 

Tuesday, June 17th

Time Speaker Topic
8:00 – 8:30 Registration and continental breakfast
8:30 – 8:45 Dr. Lucy A. Perrone Welcome message, Acknowledgements.
9:15 – 9:45 Colin Carey

DAP, BC

BC’s Accreditation Perspectives of Point of Care testing sites.
9:45 – 10:15 Haleh Bahrami, MA, MLT, BSc

Director, Centre for Proficiency Testing, IQMH

AC Diagnostics, Ontario

Accreditation Perspectives of Laboratories and Point of Care testing sites.
10:15 – 10:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:00 Kristin Rosinski

Strategic Lead/Senior Technical Coordinator,

BC Provincial Blood Coordination office

BC blood services- improving quality through system efficiency
12:00 – 12:20 Amanda VanSpronsen, MLT, PhD

Associate Professor, Lab Medicine & Pathology

University of Alberta, Edmonton

Lessons from Alberta – Resource implications of inappropriate diagnostic testing.
12:20 – 12:30 Community Q&A
12:30 – 13:30 Hosted Lunch Break
13:30 – 13:50 Mr. Philip Morehouse,

National Director of Quality, LifeLabs

Meeting community diagnostic needs – Stories from LifeLabs
13:50 – 14:10 Dr. Karen Mooder,

FNHA

FNHA initiatives to meet the quality expectations of indigenous communities
14:10 – 14:30 Alison Bodnar,

CEO Pharmacists Association of Nova Scotia

Pharmacies – Meeting community testing needs
14:30 – 15:00 Break
15:00 – 16:00 PANEL DISCUSSION

 

Topic: Quality expectations for outpatient and Point of Care settings

 

Facilitated by: Dr.. Lucy Perrone

 

The panel will include speakers from the day to participate in a roundtable discussion and Q&A with the audience.

16:00 – 16:30 Community Q&A Discussion
16:30 Closing remarks

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