Schedule
| “Ensuring quality in a changing diagnostic landscape“ | |||
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| Monday June 19, 2023 | Centre for Brain Health - Videoconference auditorium (Room CBH LL 101 LT) | ||
| Time | Speaker/Activity | Topic | Location |
| 0745-0830 | Registration and continental breakfast | Atrium | |
| 0830-0845 | Lucy A Perrone | Welcome message, land acknowledgement, Rix Family acknowledgment
Schedule plan, format Why are we here? What is the changing landscape? |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0845-0900 | Zu hua Gao | Departmental priorities towards promoting laboratory quality. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0900-0935 | Craig Ivany Keynote speaker |
A National outlook- The changing diagnostic landscape in Canada- moving testing a step closer to the patient. |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0935-0955 | Christine Bruce (Via Zoom) |
The changing diagnostic testing landscape in Ontario. Case examples of lab system interventions and harmonization that improve quality of access to diagnostic testing. |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0955-1020 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1020-1040 | Break | Atrium | |
| 1040-1100 | Kekeletso Kao (Via Zoom) |
The WHO Model list of Essential Diagnostics- a guideline to help promote country level planning towards equitable access to quality assured IVDs. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1100-1120 | Mathew Diggle (Via Zoom) |
Population health: Laboratory surveillance tools in public health to detect and respond to another pandemic. What have we learned from COVID in Alberta? What lab system interventions should we sustain? |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1120-1140 | Sheila Woodcock | Managing risk, the cornerstone of quality improvement. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1140-1200 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1200-1300 | Lunch break and poster session -CMPT Lab Tour- (registration required, space limited) |
Atrium | |
| 1300-1320 | Jake Bunn (Via Zoom) |
To test or not to test? A quality question…
Considering risk, safety and laboratory utilization when ordering diagnostics. |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1320-1440 | PANEL DISCUSSION | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| Facilitated by: Lucy A Perrone |
Quality expectations for labs and now POCT testing sites. | ||
| Sheila Woodcock | What the ISO 15189:2022 standard says. | ||
| Colin Carey | DAP experience on accreditation of POCT sites. | ||
| Dan Holmes | St Paul’s Hospital laboratory’s experience supporting POCT sites |
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| Romina Reyes | LifeLab’s experience supporting the surge in outpatient testing. | ||
| 1440-1500 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1500-1520 | Break | Atrium | |
| 1520-1540 | Lucy A Perrone | EQA as a quality tool to promote quality of testing: The CMPT perspective on COVID-19 testing in British Columbia. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1540-1600 | Dan Holmes | Informatics systems are essential tools for monitoring quality (error) In highly automated laboratories. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1600-1620 | Phillip Morehouse | Quality Tools: Using Risk Assessment to improve Quality and change adoption! | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1620-1640 | Batchimeg Tsedenbal (Via Zoom) |
Ensuring quality with pathology services and delivery.
Sharing tools and best practices. |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1640-1700 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1700 | Lucy Perrone | Summary, reflections on Day 1 | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1730-1930 | Networking reception (music, hors d’ouvres, beer and wine) | Browns Crafthouse 101 - 6111 University Blvd |
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| “Ensuring quality in a changing diagnostic landscape“ | |||
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| Tuesday June 20, 2023 | Centre for Brain Health - Videoconference auditorium (Room CBH LL 101 LT) | ||
| Time | Speaker/Activity | Topic | Location |
| 0800-0830 | Registration and continental breakfast | Atrium | |
| 0830-0840 | Lucy A Perrone | Welcome back, thoughts on Day 1 Day 2- Who and importantly, where is our customer? |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0840-0900 | Geoffrey Baird | Lab-community POCT interface- the role of labs in supporting quality of community-based testing. Lessons from COVID in Washington State and the WAMMI region. |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0900-0920 | Elyn Rowe | Improving blood product quality and utilization: Towards precision transfusion medicine | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0920-0940 | Michael Allard | Reaching the rural and underserved with higher quality, more accessible diagnostic testing. The DTI Initiative and stories from northern BC |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 0940-1000 | Karen Mooder | Verifying and implementing quality assured diagnostics to the last mile- FNHA initiatives to meet the testing needs of indigenous communities. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1000-1020 | Heidi Albert (Via Zoom) |
The Diagnostic Network Optimization initiative- improving quality through system optimization: the e-tool, country examples |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1020-1040 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1040-1050 | Break | Atrium | |
| 1050-1110 | David Rickets (Via Zoom) |
ISO15189:2022 has a strong focus on the requirement by the laboratory to ensure patient well-being, identifying risks and opportunities of improvement. Examples from the laboratory of tools and approaches for ensuring safe quality of care. |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1110-1130 | David Goldfarb | Ensuring the quality of clinical laboratory services and improving patient safety in this changing diagnostic landscape – implementing the saline gargle method for children during COVID. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1130-1150 | Michael Laposata (Via Zoom) |
Reinforcing quality through improved laboratory utilization | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1150-1210 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1210-1330 | Lunch break and poster session -CMPT Lab Tour- (registration required, space limited) |
Atrium | |
| 1330-1350 | Lisa Chu | What role do institutions of higher education have in supporting the workforce pipeline? How do we do this? Where are the gaps? |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1350-1410 | Joanne Isber | Addressing the diagnostic testing workforce needs and looking beyond the lab to meet critical workforce shortages. | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1410-1430 | Michelle Hoad (Via Zoom) |
Regulation of the laboratory professions varies by every province in Canada. Who can do testing and how they are regulated varies by province. As such, significant differences are apparent between provinces when it comes to routine service delivery and surge capacity. COVID testing scale up presented an unprecedented challenge to the testing community and pressure on lab professionals. What happened in Ontario? What happened to quality? What worked and what didn’t? |
Main auditorium, Zoom |
| 1430-1500 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1500-1530 | Break | Atrium | |
| 1530-1630 | PANEL DISCUSSION | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| Facilitated by: Lucy A Perrone |
How will we ensure knowledge and competency in quality assurance practices as the testing workforce diversifies? | ||
| Lisa Chu | |||
| Michelle Hoad | |||
| Joanne Isber | |||
| 1640-1700 | Zoom Community Q&A and Discussion | Main auditorium, Zoom | |
| 1700 | Lucy Perrone | Closing remarks | Main auditorium, Zoom |
| Poster take down | Atrium | ||
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