15th
Annual Executive War College
April 27-28, 2010
| New Orleans, LA | Sheraton
New Orleans
Monday,
April 26, 2010
5:30 PM–7:30 PM
Early Registration & Get Acquainted Reception with Refreshments
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Day
One, Tuesday, April 27, 2010
6:30
AM–8:30 AM
Continental Breakfast
Concurrent
Management Master Classes: |
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7:00
AM–7:50 AM
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
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7:00
AM–7:50 AM
Proven Strategies to Boost Profitability of Laboratory Outreach
Testing
Earl
Buck, Vice President
Chi
Solutions, Inc. - Coon Rapids, MN
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Earl
Buck
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7:00
AM–7:50 AM
Optimizing Transfusion and Blood Banking Services by Using Lean
and Smart Automation
Susan
South, Senior Consultant; Certified Six Sigma Black Belt,
Lean Implementation Specialist, and Change Integration Process
Trainer
Ortho
Clinical Diagnostics - Scottsdale, AZ
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| Susan
South |
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8:00
AM–8:50 AM
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
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| Chris
Christopher |
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8:00
AM–8:50 AM
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
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8:00
AM–8:50 AM
ARRA and Stark Legislation: Opportunities and Challenges for your
Laboratory Outreach Business
Kelly Feist, Vice President of Marketing and
Tom Wilson, In-house Counsel
Sunquest
Information Systems - Tucson, AZ
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8:00
AM–8:50 AM
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
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9:00
AM–9:40 AM
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
L Michel |
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| Jack
Shaw |
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10:40 AM –11:20 AM
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 |
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11:20
AM –12:00 PM
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
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| Tom
Moloney |
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Concurrent
Breakout Sessions
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2:00
PM–2:50 PM
2010 Compensation and Benefits Survey For Clinical Laboratory
CEOs and Executives
Adam
Slone, CEO/President
Slone Partners
- Miami Beach, FL
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Adam
Slone
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| Michael
Snyder |
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2:00 PM–2:50 PM
Using Latest-Generation Lab Automation to Drive Performance to
Optimal Levels
James D. Peele, PhD, Director of Clinical Chemistry
Baptist
Medical Center - Jacksonville, FL
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| James
D. Peele, PhD |
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2:00
PM–2:50 PM
Taking the HITECH Ground – Understanding Meaningful Use,
Connected Care and the future of Lab Outreach
Rob
Atlas, CEO
Atlas Medical
- Calabasas, CA
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| Rob
Atlas |
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3:00
PM–3:50 PM
Taking Back Control of Reference and Send-out Laboratory Testing
Costs:Bay State's Success Story
Jason
Newmark, Director, Diagnostic Services and
Sharon
Scott, Referral Testing and Special Contracts Manager
Baystate
Medical Center - Springfield, MA |
Jason
Newmark
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| Kent
Lewandrowski, MD |
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3:00 PM–3:50 PM
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
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Marilyn
Nelson
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4:00 PM–4:50 PM
Using the Step-by-Step Automation Approach to Achieve Sequential
Performance Gains
Jay Hupp, Laboratory Technical Services Manager
St.
Francis Health System - Tulsa, OK
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| Jay
Hupp |
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4:00
PM–4:50 PM
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
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| Cindy
Ottone |
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4:00
PM–4:50 PM
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
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4:00 PM–4:50 PM
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, Department of Clinical
Pathology, Institute of Pathology and Lab Med
Cleveland
Clinic - Cleveland, OH
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| Priscilla
I. Figueroa, MD |
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5:00 PM–5:40 PM
Panel Discussionl: To Be Announced
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Special
Session:
Mergers & Acquisitions for Clinical Laboratories
and Pathology Groups (Tuesday April 27, 2010) |
| Module
One:___________________________________ |
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1:00 PM-1:25 PM
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
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| Chris
Jahnle |
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1:25 pm-1:45 pm
Lab Valuation, Capital Availability, Terms for Current Lab M&A
Marketplace
Discussion: Chris Jahnle, Doug Brown, Managing Director
Lazard Middle
Market LLC
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| Module
Two:___________________________________ |
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| Mark
Klimek |
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| Module
Three:_________________________________________
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2:30
PM-3:05 PM
Roundtable: Laboratory Sellers Discuss Do’s and Don’ts
When Negotiating a Sale
To Be Announced |
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3:05 PM-3:40 PM
New Legal, Compliance, and Business Issues Surfacing
in Recent Lab Sales Transactions
Anthony
Konkoly, Esquire, Member
McDonald
Hopkins - Cleveland, OH
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| Anthony
Konkoly |
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Four:__________________________________
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3:40
PM-4:05 PM
Why Hospital CEOs Should Make Laboratory Outreach a Cornerstone
Strategy: Making the Clinical and the Financial Case
Paul
Edgett, Senior Vice President, National Business Lines, Catholic
Health Initiatives - Denver, CO |
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4:05 PM-4:40 PM
Panel: Lab Buyers Discuss Current Laboratory M&A Marketplace
Moderator: Rick Cooper, Esquire, Member
McDonald
Hopkins - Cleveland, OH
Panelists: To Be Announced
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| Rick
Cooper |
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4:40 PM-4:50 PM
Gauging the Next Market Cycle for Laboratory M&A Activity
During 2010
Rick Cooper, Esquire, Member
McDonald
Hopkins - Cleveland, OH
Panelists: To Be Announced
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| Rick
Cooper |
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4:50
PM
End of Laboratory and Pathology Mergers & Acquisition
Session
5:45 PM–7:30 PM
GRAND RECEPTION
(With food and refreshments)
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Day Two, Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Concurrent Master Classes |
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7:00 AM–7:50 AM
Achieving "Best in Class" Performance in How Your
Lab Uses Automation
Denny Lamb, Lab Process Consultant
Roche
Diagnostics Corp - Indianapolis, IN
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Denny
Lamb
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7:00 AM–7:50 AM
Every Lab's Stock-out and Customer Supply Conundrum: Five Proven
Ways to Manage Supplies and Reduce Lab Costs
Rachel
Stoll, Director, Supply Chain Solutions- Scientific Products
Cardinal Health
- Roanoke, TX |
Rachel
Stoll
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7:00 AM–7:50 AM
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 |
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| Sol
Green |
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| Eric
LaFleche |
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| Trent
Ritzenthaler |
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9:00
AM–9:40 AM
Understanding Why Laboratory Testing will Underpin Healthcare's
Need to Fully Integrate Clinical Care and the Electronic Patient
Health Record
David King, Chairman and CEO
Laboratory Corporation
of America - Burlington, NC |
| David
King |
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9:40 AM-10:20 AM
Peeking into Pathology's Future: Implications of Personalized
Medicine, Companion Diagnostics, and Next-Generation Integrated
Diagnostics
Thomas
Grogan, MD, Founder and Chief Scientific Advisor
Ventana Medical
Systems, Inc. - Tucson, AZ
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| Thomas
Grogan, MD |
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10:40 AM-11:20 AM
Looking at Digital Imaging and Anatomic Pathology’s
Care Delivery Model
Ajit
Singh, PhD, CEO
BioImagene
- Harrisburg, PA
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Ajit
Singh
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| Mark
Chandler, PhD |
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| Concurrent
Breakout Sessions |
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| Rich
Cornell |
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1:10 PM – 2:00 PM
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
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| Marisa
B. Marques, MD |
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1:10
PM – 2:00 PM
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, RMH Laboratory
Riverside
Methodist Hospital - Columbus, OH
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Sandy
Hood
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1:10 PM – 2:00 PM
Using LOINC to Foster Integration of Clinical Data: Lessons Learned
at the Veteran's Administration
Philip Foulis, MD, MPH, Pathologist
VA Hospital
- Tampa, FL |
| Philip
Foulis |
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2:10 PM–3:00 PM
State of the Market for Medical Technologists: Current Trends
in Compensation, Recruitment, and Retention
Peggy
McKee, Owner/Recruiter
PHC Consulting
- Celina, TX
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| Peggy
McKee |
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2:10 PM–3:00 PM
How to Do Less and Accomplish More By Going Beyond Lab Automation
Susan Dawson, Clinical Laboratory Manager
Swedish
Covenant Hospital - Chicago, IL |
Susan
Dawson
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Kelley
Mitcham
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| Robert
L Michel |
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Thursday, April 29, 2010
- Optional Post-Conference Courses
MORE DETAILS COMING SOON...
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

MORE KEY NOTE SPEAKERS...
Times coming soon!
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Donna
Beasley
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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 |
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Optional Post Conference Course - Lean
For Lab Leaders
Nora Hess, MBA, Operations Managing Consultant
Chi
Solutions, Inc. - Ann Arbor, MI
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| Nora
Hess, MBA |
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Anne
Daley
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Chief
Information Officer Roundtable
David
Moore, Principal Consultant - Greensboro, NC
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| David
Moore |
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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
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| Doug
Brown |
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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 |
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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 |
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| Michael
Egholm, PhD |
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| Fritz
Kiechle, MD |
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Disruptive Technologies in Histology and Digital Pathology
John Gilbertson, MD, Associate Chief of Pathology,
Director of Pathology Information
Massachusetts
General Hospital - Boston, MA
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| John
Gilbertson, MD |
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How to Best Prepare for Digital Pathology: A Primer
on Technologies, Applications, and Clinical Contributions
Keith Kaplan, MD
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| Keith
Kaplan, MD |
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