CLSI and APHL Announce April-June 2012 Webinars
Wayne, Pennsylvania, USA-March 2012-The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) and the Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) recently announced their joint April-June 2012 schedule of educational webinars for clinical and public health laboratories.
These webinars help laboratory professionals, pathologists, residents, and students, who are working in clinical, public health, and academic settings learn how to improve practices and processes in their laboratories. The webinars are based on current CLSI documents and the presenters are subject matter experts from CLSI committees and working groups involved in developing CLSI documents.
Topics of upcoming webinars include:
Uncertainty in Measurements-Estimation and Practical Use (588-606-12) April 5, 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Speaker: Anders Kallner, MD, PhD, Associate Professor of Clinical Chemistry, Karolinska Hospital
Basics of Provider-Performed Microscopy (588-607-12) April 19, 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Speaker: Peggy Mann, MS, MT(ASCP), Ambulatory Practice Manager: Safety, Quality, Environment & POCT, The University of Texas Medical Branch
GP26-A4: Same Quality System Essentials, Updated Perspective (588-608-12) May 3, 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Speakers: Tania L. Motschman, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB, CQA(ASQ), Regulatory and Accreditation, Mayo Clinic-Department of Laboratory Medicine & Pathology, and Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP)SBB,DLM: CQA(ASQ)CMQ/OE, President, Laboratories Made Better! P.C.
Hemolysis, Icterus, and Lipemia/Turbidity Indices as Indicators of Interference (588-616-12) May 17, 2012, 1:00 -2:00 PM ET
Speaker: Merle B. Smith, MBA, MS, MT(ASCP), CQA, CQE, SSBB, Senior Staff Clinical Specialist, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
Understanding Detection Capability for Quantitative IVD Assays (588-610-12) June 7, 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Speaker: James F. Pierson-Perry, Senior Key Expert-Biochemistry, Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics
Anaerobic Bacteria Susceptibility Testing (588-612-12) June 21, 2012, 1:00-2:00 PM ET
Speaker: Hannah Wexler, PhD, Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine UCLA School of Medicine
Register for the upcoming webinars at www.aphl.org/clsi. Discounts are offered for conference series registration. On demand webinars from the past six months are also available on the APHL website.
APHL is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science P.A.C.E.® Program. Participants will be awarded one contact hour for each program they successfully complete. P.A.C.E.® is accepted by all licensure states except Florida. Florida continuing education credit will be offered based on one hour of instruction.
CLSI is a volunteer-driven, membership-supported, nonprofit organization dedicated to developing standards and guidelines for the health care and medical testing community through a consensus process that balances the perspectives of industry, government, and the health care professions. For additional information on CLSI, visit the CLSI website at www.clsi.org
