Executive War College on Laboratory and Pathology Management: 2010 Agenda and Key Note Speakers

CONFIRMED SPEAKERS TO DATE

	Using Lean, Work Flow Redesign, and Similar Methods to Improve Quality and Efficiency in Transfusion Services and the Blood Bank Priscilla Figueroa, MD, Head, Section of Transfusion Medicine and Director Hematopoietic Progenitor Cell Lab Cleveland Clinic - Cleveland, OH
Priscilla I. Figueroa, MD

	Overcoming Obstacles to Change for Improved Financial Performance Kelley Mitcham, Laboratory Director LabFirst at Trinity Medical Center - Birmingham, AL
Kelley Mitcham

	Overcoming Obstacles to Change for Improved Financial Performance Donna Beasley, National Director McKesson Revenue Management Solutions - Gulf Breeze, FL
Donna Beasley

	Achieving "Best in Class" Performance in How Your Lab Uses Automation Denny Lamb, Lab Process Consultant Roche Diagnostics Corp - Indianapolis, IN
Denny Lamb

	JVHL Prepares for Its Third Decade of Hospital Laboratory Outreach Success Jack Shaw, Executive Director Joint Venture Hospital Laboratories - Allen Park, MI
Jack Shaw

	Every Lab's Stock-out and Customer Supply Conundrum: Five Proven Ways to Manage Supplies and Reduce Lab Costs Rachel Stoll, Director of Supply Chain Solutions Cardinal Health - Roanoke, TX
Rachel Stoll

	State of the Market for Medical Technologists: Current Trends in Compensation, Recruitment, and Retention Peggy McKee, Owner/Recruiter PHC Consulting - Celina, TX
Peggy McKee

	Tax Aspects of a Laboratory Sale: Key Action Items Before Coming to Market Mark Klimek, Esq. McDonald Hopkins LLC - Cleveland, OH
Mark Klimek

	It's All New! How We Used Lean, Automation, and Informatics for State-of-the Art Histology Workflow Roberta E. Provencal, Director of Laboratory Services Catholic Medical Center - Manchester, NH
Roberta E. Provencal

	Peeking into Pathology's Future: Implications of Personalized Medicine, Companion Diagnostics, and Next-Generation Integrated Diagnostics Thomas Grogan, MD, Chair, Emeritus Ventana Medical Systems, Inc. - Tucson, AZ
Thomas Grogan, MD

	How Mass General Hospital Uses Point-of-Care Testing to Lift Outcomes and Improve ER, Length of Stay, Admissions Ratio, and OR Utilization Kent Lewandrowski, MD, Associate Chief of Pathology Directory of Clinical Services Mass General Hospital – Chemistry Lab 5 - Boston, MA
Kent Lewandrowski, MD

	Optional Post Conference Course - Lean For Lab Leaders Nora Hess, MBA, Operations Managing Consultant Chi Solutions, Inc. - Ann Arbor, MI
Nora Hess, MBA

	Review of Lab and Pathology Deals Closed in Past 12 Months, Plus Lab Valuation, Capital Availability Christoper Jahnle, Managing Director and Owner Haverford Healthcare Advisors - Paoli, PA
Chris Jahnle

	Optional Day - Lean Bootcamp Anne Daley, Senior Consultant Chi Solutions, Inc. - Ann Arbor, MI
Anne Daley

	How UCLA Is Combining Pathology and Radiology to Offer Physicians and Patients an Integrated Cancer Diagnostic Service Scott Binder, MD, Director, Pathology Clinical Services; Pritzker Professor of Clinical Pathology and Dermatology Geffen-UCLA School of Medicine - Los Angeles, CA
Scott Binder, MD

	Using LOINC to Foster Integration of Clinical Data: Lessons Learned at the Veteran's Administration Philip Foulis, MD, MPH VA Hospital - Tampa, FL
Philip Foulis

	Lessons from the Field: How Top Labs Use Lean to Accelerate Implementation of EMR Interfaces and Other IT Initiatives Trent Ritzenthaler, President and Managing Partner EthosPartners Healthcare Management Group - Indianapolis, IN
Trent Ritzenthaler

	Real Time Management of All Operational Domains and Workflows in Your Laboratory Chris Christopher, MBA, Vice President Global Customer Solutions Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics - Rock Hill, SC
Chris Christopher

	Achieving Integrated Healthcare and Personalized Medicine: Factors in Favor of a Centralized Testing Delivery Model David King, Chairman and CEO Laboratory Corporation of America - Burlington, NC
David King

	Lab Medicine's Appointment with Destiny: Skyrocketing Utilization, Inadequate Funding, and the Incredible Diagnostic Value of Molecular Diagnostics Robert L Michel, Editor-in-Chief The Dark Report - Spicewood, TX
Robert Michel

	Maintaining Your Lab's Cash Flow: Ways to Legally Neutralize Emerging Federal Policies that Will Be Financially Corrosive to Laboratories Lale White, Executive Chairman and CEO XIFIN, Inc - San Diego, CA
Lale White

	Taking the HITECH Ground – Understanding Meaningful Use, Health Information Exchange (HIE) and the future of Lab Outreach Rob Atlas, CEO Atlas Medical - Calabasas, CA
Rob Atlas

	Latest Trends in Pathologist Compensation, Productivity Incentives, and Benefits Rich Cornell, President Santé Consulting, LLC - Chesterfield, MO
Rich Cornell

	How Healthcare Reform Will Change the Financial Fortunes of the Lab Testing Profession Alan Mertz, President American Clinical Laboratory Association - Washington, D.C.
Alan Mertz

	Taking Back Control of Reference and Send-out Laboratory Testing Costs:Bay State's Success Story Jason Newmark, Director, Diagnostic Services Baystate Medical Center - Springfield, MA
Jason Newmark

	2010 Compensation and Benefits Survey For Clinical Laboratory CEOs and Executives Adam Slone, CEO/President Slone Partners - Miami Beach, FL
Adam Slone

	New Ways for Labs to Deliver EMR-Centric Lab Orders/Lab Results and "Meaningful Use" to Outreach Physicians Pat Wolfram, Vice President, Marketing & Customer Services Ignis Systems Corporation - Wilsonville, OR
Pat Wolfram

	Optimizing Transfusion and Blood Banking Services by Using Lean and Smart Automation Susan South, Senior Consultant and Six Sigma Black Belt Ortho Clinical Diagnostics - Scottsdale, AZ
Susan South

	The role of Labs in Meaningful Use: How Opportunities created by Meaningful Use Will Impact the Competitive Lab Testing Marketplace Ravi Sharma, CEO 4Medica - Culver City, CA
Ravi Sharma

	Letting the Right Metrics Tell Your Lab's Story to Hospital CEOs: The Savvy Lab Manager's Guide to Best Use of Data Sandy Hood, Administrative Director Laboratory Riverside Methodist Hospital - Columbus, OH
Sandy Hood

	Fast-Moving Legal Issues: Staying Current with New Developments in Laboratory Compliance and Managed Care Contracting Jane Pine Wood, Attorney and Partner McDonald Hopkins LLC - Dennis, MA
Jane Pine Wood

	Payers Prepare to Pre-Approve Molecular Tests… Plus, They Want Your Lab's Test Data! Michael Snyder, President Laboratory Management Services, LLC - Flemington, NJ
Michael Snyder

	Proven Strategies to Boost Profitability of Laboratory Outreach Testing Earl Buck, Vice President Chi Solutions, Inc. - Ann Arbor, MI
Earl Buck

	ARRA and Stark Legislation: Opportunities and Challenges for your Laboratory Outreach Business Kelly Feist, Vice President of Marketing Sunquest Information Systems - Tucson, AZ
Kelly Feist

	Understanding Ireland's Radical Outsourcing and Restructuring of the Nation's Clinical Lab Testing Tom Moloney, Executive Officer Academy of Medical Laboratory Science - Dublin, Ireland
Tom Moloney

	Chief Information Officer Roundtable David Moore, Principal Consultant - Greensboro, NC
David Moore

	Boosting the Value of Lab Testing: How HEDIS Uses Lab Data to Drive Improvement in Health Outcomes Cindy Ottone, MHA, Director HEDIS Policy NCQA - Irmo, SC
Cindy Ottone

	Combining "Upstream" Workflow Solutions with Traditional lab Automation to Maximize Productivity Within the Laboratory Eric LaFleche, Marketing Director Sepehr Seyedzadeh, Marketing Manager Diagnostics IT Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics - Tarrytown, NY
Eric LaFleche

	Using Latest-Generation Lab Automation to Drive Performance to Optimal Levels James D. Peele, PhD, Director of Clinical Chemistry Baptist Medical Centers - Jacksonville, FL
James D. Peele, PhD

	How Laboratories Need to Prepare for Pre-Authorization of Genetic and Molecular Tests by Payers Matt Zubiller, VP & GM, Advanced Diagnostics Mgmt McKesson - San Francisco, CA
Matt Zubiller

	How to Do Less and Accomplish More By Going Beyond Lab Automation Susan Dawson, Laboratory Manager Swedish Covenant Hospital - Chicago, IL
Susan Dawson

	Taking Back Control of Reference and Send-out Laboratory Testing Costs: Bay State's Success Story Sharon Scott, Referral Testing and Special Contracts Manager Baystate Reference Laboratories - Springfield, MA
Sharon Scott

	BD Diagnostics - Preanalytical Systems Ana Stankovic, MD, PhD, VP Medical and Scientific Affairs and Clinical Operations BD Diagnostics - Preanalytical Systems, Franklin Lakes, NJ
Ana Stankovic, MD, PhD

	Panelist on the topics of "Laboratory Transactions during 2009-10, Current Laboratory Valuations, Capital Availability" and on "Best Structures to Laboratory Sales Transactions" Doug Brown, Managing Director Lazard Middle Market LLC
Doug Brown

	Why New Multiplex Testing Technologies Will Soon Bend the Care Curve in Surprising Ways Mark Chandler, PhD, President & CEO Biophysical Corporation - Austin, TX
Mark Chandler, PhD

	Using the Step-by-Step Automation Approach to Achieve Sequential Performance Jay Hupp, Laboratory Technical Services Manager St. Francis Health System - Tulsa, OK
Jay Hupp

	Today's Hottest Molecular Technologies in Infectious Disease Testing, with a Review of What's Best in Next Generation Tests Joel Lefferts, PhD, Post-Doctoral Fellow Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center - Lebanon, NH
Joel Lefferts, PhD

	How Multidisciplinary Collaboration Led to a Reduction in Red Blood Cell Usage by More than 25% in a Tertiary Care Hospital Marisa B. Marques, MD, Professor of Pathology University of Alabama - Birmingham, AL
Marisa B. Marques, MD

	Translating the Vision of Remote Process Control into Reality: How Informatics and Other Tools Can Boost Staff Productivity While Improving Clinical Quality William Hermann, MD Memorial Hermann Memorial City Medical Center - Houston, TX
William Hermann, MD

	Using Newest Generation Laboratory Automation to Reduce Operational Costs by as Much as 20% Marilyn Nelson, Director of Laboratory Services Ingalls Memorial Hospital - Harvey, IL
Marilyn Nelson

	Michael Egholm, PhD, Vice President of Research and Development 454 Life Sciences Corporation, A Roche Company - Branford, CT
Michael Egholm, PhD

	Why Rapid Advances in Molecular Diagnostics Are Changing Clinical Practices Fritz Kiechle, MD, Medical Director Laboratory Services Pathology Consultants of South Broward, LLP - Hollywood, FL
Fritz Kiechle, MD

	Disruptive Technologies in Histology and Digital Pathology John Gilbertson, MD, Associate Chief of Pathology, Director of Pathology Information Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA
John Gilbertson, MD

	How to Best Prepare for Digital Pathology: A Primer on Technologies, Applications, and Clinical Contributions Keith Kaplan, MD
Keith Kaplan, MD

The final speaker and times will be posted soon, please check back...

Working Agenda:
Our program is under development. If you have suggestions for sessions or speakers, please email us at info@darkreport.com.

Our tentative agenda and confirmed speakers for 2010…

Monday, April 26, 2010
5:00pm – 7:00pm Welcome Reception

Tuesday, April 27, 2010
8:00am – 12:00pm Master Classes, General Sessions
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 5:00pm Concurrent Breakouts
5:00pm – 5:45pm General Session
5:45pm – 7:30pm Grand Reception

Wednesday, April 28, 2010
7:00am – 12:00pm Master Classes, General Sessions
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch
1:00pm – 3:00pm Concurrent Breakouts
3:00pm – 4:00pm Closing General Session

Thursday, April 29, 2010 - Optional Post-Conference Courses
8:00am – 4:00pm Optional Courses
12:00pm – 1:00pm Lunch

A. Disruptive Technologies in Histology and Digital Pathology
(separate registration required)

B. Molecular for Community Hospital Labs
(separate registration required)

C. Lean Boot Camp - Lean for Lab Leaders
Achieving Mastery with Concepts, Implementation, and Outcomes
(separate registration required)

Also... Special Events Roundtables!
CFO Roundtable
CIO Roundtable

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