2009
Executive War College
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Monday, April 27, 2009
5:30 PM–7:30 PM
Early Registration, Get Acquainted Reception
Tuesday,
April 28, 2009
6:45 AM–8:30 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
Concurrent
Management Master Classes
7:50 AM–8:40 AM
"Out-of the-Box” Survival Strategies for Labs During an Economic
Downturn
Susan Stegall, MBA, MHSA, MT (ASCP), Managing Partner, Sprick, Stegall
& Associates LLC, Salem, OH
Streamlining
Histology Workflow and Boosting Quality with Lean Methods
Rita D'Angelo, Quality Improvement Specialist, Henry Ford Health System,
Detroit, MI
Secrets to Achieving a Top Performing Lab Billing/Collection
Effort
Kevin Ellison, President & CEO, Kellison & Company, Cleveland,
OH
Four Home Runs Any Lab Can Hit in Business Process Optimization
and Quality
Anne Daley, MS, CMQOE, CSSBB, MT, DLM, CLC, Senior Managing Consultant,
Ascendium Consulting, Indianapolis, IN
General Sessions
9:00 AM–9:40 AM
Winning Lab Strategies During Dismal Economic Times and Impending Healthcare
Reform
Robert L. Michel, Editor-in-Chief, The Dark Report, Spicewood, TX
9:40
AM–10:20 AM
Planning and Executing Winning Business Strategies: Bio-Reference Laboratories
in 2000 and 2009
Marc Grodman, M.D., CEO, Bio-Reference Laboratories, Inc., Elmwood Park,
NJ
10:20 AM-10:40 AM Morning Break
10:40
AM–11:20 AM
Using Multi-Hospital Laboratory Integration to Improve Lab Outreach
Success
John Waugh, MS, MT (ASCP), Director of Lab Operations, Henry Ford Health
System, Detroit, MI
11:20
AM –12:00 PM
Update on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly for Clinical Labs and Pathology
in Britain’s Universal Health System
Ian Barnes, Ph.D., BSc, MSc, FRCPath, Head of Pathology, The General
Infirmary at Leeds, Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK
12:00 PM-1:00 PM Luncheon
Special
Session: Merger & Acquisition Workshop for Clinical Labs and
Pathology Groups
Module
One
1:00 pm-1:25 pm
Review of Clinical Lab and Anatomic Pathology Deals Closed in
Past 12 Months
Chris Jahnle, ASA, Managing Director and Owner, Haverford Health Advisors,
Paoli, PA
1:25
PM-1:50 PM
Lab Valuation, Capital Availability, Terms for Current Lab M&A
Marketplace
Doug Brown, Managing Director, Wachovia Securities, Charlotte, NC
Module
Two
1:50 PM-2:15 PM
Personal Tax and Wealth Planning Connected to Lab M&A Transactions
Dale Vernon, Vice President, Bernstein Global Wealth Management, Cleveland,
OH
2:15
PM-2:40 PM
Tax Aspects of the M&A Transaction for a Clinical Lab and
for a Pathology Group
Mark Klimek, Esquire, Member, McDonald Hopkins, Cleveland, OH
Module
Three
2:40 PM-3:15PM
Laboratory Joint Ventures
Thomas Tiffany, Ph.D., CEO, Pathology Associates Medical Laboratories,
Spokane, WA
3:15
PM – 3:50 PM
Key Legal and Business Issues with Laboratory Joint Ventures
Anthony Konkoly, Esquire, Member, McDonald Hopkins, Cleveland,
OH
3:50 PM-4:10 PM
Practical Advise and Legal Strategies to Protect Intellectual
Property of the Laboratory and Molecular Technologies
David Cupar, Esquire, Member, McDonald Hopkins, Cleveland OH
Module
Four
4:10 PM-4:50 PM
Panel: Lab Buyers Discuss Current Laboratory M&A Marketplace
Moderator: Rick Cooper, Esquire, Member, McDonald Hopkins, Cleveland,
OH
Panelists: Robert A. Yeager, Chief Executive Officer, American Pathology
Partners, Brentwood, TN; Anil Asnani, VP Business Development, Laboratory
Corporation of America, Burlington, NC
Special Session: Laboratory CFO Roundtable
1:00 PM-4:50 PM
Moderator: Kurt Rogers, MBA, CFO, PAML, Spokane, WA
Concurrent
General Session
1:00
PM–1:45 PM
Transforming Surgical Pathology with the Henry Ford Production System
and Lean
Richard Zarbo, M.D., DMD, Senior Vice-President and Chair, Pathology
and Laboratory Medicine, Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, MI
Concurrent
Breakout Sessions
2:00
PM–2:50 PM
Lab Enterprise Analytics: Imperative for Regional Healthcare Clinical
Effectiveness in the EHR Era
Jay B. Jones, Ph.D., Director of Chemistry & Health Group Labs,
Geisinger Health System, Danville, PA
Win-Win
Managed Care Strategies for Local Labs That Increase Quality and Reduce
Costs for Payers
Michael Snyder, President, Laboratory Management Services, LLC, Flemington,
NJ
Increasing Your Lab's Revenue Stream with New Lines of Profitable
Testing Business
Michael Hanbury, Ph.D., MBA, President and CEO, DCL Medical
Laboratories, Indianapolis, IN
3:00 PM–3:50 PM
ICD-1O Implementation: What Every Lab and Pathology Group Needs to Do
Now
Lale White, Executive Chairman and CEO, XIFIN, Inc, San Diego, CA
Why
Medicare's E-Prescribing Bonus Gives Labs A New Opportunity for Added
Value
Ravi Sharma, CEO, 4 Medica, Culver City, CA
New Trends in Pathology Compensation and Productivity
Rich Cornell, President, Santé Consulting, LLC, Chesterfield,
MO
Are Labs at Risk in Barack Obama’s Plan for Healthcare
and Congress’ Role in the Impending Reform?
Alan Mertz, President, ACLA, Washington, DC
4:00 PM–4:50 PM
Enterprise Standardization and Decision Support Unlock Major Gains for
Health System Lab Operations
Priscilla Cherry, MBS, MT (ASCP), President, Lab Services, Fairview
Health Services, Minneapolis, MN
Helping Physicians Use Lab Services to Get Better Outcomes and Earn
More Pay-for-Performance Dollars
Gary Assarian, D.O., FCAP, MS, Medical Director of Outreach
Lab Services, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI
Clinical Lab Billing: Finding the Hidden Home Runs That Increase
Efficiency and Collected Revenues
Renee Ennis, MBA, CFO, TriCore Reference Laboratories, Albuquerque,
NM
Staying Ahead of the Law: Update and Insights on Important New
Legal Threats to Clinical Labs and Pathology Groups
Peter M. Kazon, Esquire, Senior Council, Alston & Bird, Washington
DC
General
Session
5:00 PM–5:40 PM
Coming Soon to a Lab Near You: ISO:15189 and CLSI Quality Management
Systems
Glen Fine, MS, MBA, Executive Vice President, Clinical & Laboratory
Standards Institute (CLSI), Wayne, PA
5:45
pm–7:30 pm Grand Reception with Food and Refreshments
Wednesday,
April 29, 2009
7:00 AM–8:45 AM Continental Breakfast
Concurrent
Management Master Classes
7:50 AM–8:40 AM
New Strategies in Billing Work Flow Can Now Unlock Big Gains in Productivity
and Revenue
Doug Wussow, Vice President, Financial Services, Rhodes Group, Inc.,
Vernon, CT
Branding
Your Lab in the Age of the EMR. Turn Your EMR Interface Challenge into
an Integration Advantage
Rob Atlas, CEO, Atlas Development Corporation, Calabasas, CA
Quick and Effective Ways to Continuously Transform People Development
in Your Laboratory
Mark Graban, Senior Lean Consultant, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Raritan,
NJ
Combining New Lab Automation Solutions with the Best Rapid Process
Improvement Tools
Chris Christopher, MBA, Vice President Global Customer Solutions, Siemens
Medical Solutions Diagnostics, Tarrytown, NY
General
Sessions
9:00 AM–9:40 AM
Reshaping Tertiary Center Pathology and Lab Services for Personalized
Medicine
Mahul Amin, M.D., Chairman, Pathology & Laboratory Medicine,
Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA
9:40 AM–10:20 AM
Vitamin D: Overview of New Clinical Studies and a Look at Test Methodologies
Bruce Hollis, Ph.D., Professor of Pediatrics and Neonatology, Medical
University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
10:20 AM-10:50 AM Morning Break
10:50
AM–11:50 AM
Vitamin D Panel: Contemporary Issues with Immunoassay, Mass Spectrometry,
and Helping Physicians, Patients, and Payers Interpret Vitamin D Results
Panelists: Julian Barth, PhD, MD, FRCP, FRCPath, Consultant in Chemical
Pathology & Metabolic Medicine, The General Infirmary at Leeds,
Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK;
L.V. Rao, Ph.D., Director of Core Laboratories, UMass Memorial Medical
Center, Worcester, MA; Andre Valcour, PhD, DABCC, FACB, Vice President,
Director of Laboratories, Laboratory Corporation of America, Burlington,
NC; Russell Grant, Ph.D., Strategic Director, National Office of Quality
& Science, Esoterix, Inc., Burlington, NC; Bruce Hollis, Ph.D.,
MUSC, Charleston, SC;
12:00
PM-1:00 PM Luncheon
Concurrent
Breakout Sessions
1:10 PM–2:00 PM
The Best of Best Practices for Pathology Practice Administrators and
Business Leaders
Lance Beard, Practice Administrator, Pathology Associates of Corpus
Christi, Corpus Christi, TX
Clinical Laboratory Billing: Top Hidden Sources of Increased
Collections and Revenue
Donna Beasley, DLM (ASCP), BS, MT, Lab Channel Manager, McKesson Revenue
Management Solutions, Alpharetta, GA
Winning Strategies for a Sustainable Lab Informatics Platform
Ulysses J. Balis, Associate Professor and Director, Division of Pathology
Informatics, Department of Pathology, University of Michigan Health
System, Ann Arbor, MI
2:10 PM–3:00 PM
Why ISO 15189 Is Soon to Change Lab Operations and Public Perception
of Quality
Leo Serrano, FACHE, CLSup (NCA), Director of Laboratory Services,
Avera McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, Sioux Falls,
SD
Building the Top-Performing Marketing & Sales Program: Success
Secrets for Lab Outreach
Tim Amato, PacLab Area Business Manager, Pathology Associates Medical
Laboratories (PAML), Spokane, WA
All Things Connectivity: Complete Guide to EMR Interfaces, Web
links, and Electronic Bridges to Clients for Lab Outreach Programs and
Pathology Groups
Charles Halfpenny, President, Halfpenny Technologies, Inc., Langhorne,
PA
General Session
3:15 PM–3:45 PM
Key Lessons and Valuable Management Insights from Executive War College
2009
Robert Michel, Editor-in-Chief, The Dark Report, Spicewood, TX
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Thursday,
April 30, 2009 Optional Day Three Agenda
Separate Registration Required- Please Choose one:
Workshop
One:
Histology's
Revolution: Workflow Optimization and New Automation Solutions that
Increase Productivity, Improve Quality, and Boost Profits
7:30 AM-8:00 AM Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:00
AM–8:50 AM
Transforming Histology Operations with Work Flow Optimization and Automated
Systems
Leo Serrano, FACHE, CLSup (NCA), Director of Laboratory Services, Avera
McKennan Hospital & University Health Center, Sioux Falls, SD
8:50 AM–9:40 AM
Case Study: Histology Work Flow Successes at Sonora Quest Laboratories
William DeSalvo, BS, HTL (ASCP), System Production Manager, Surgical
Pathology, Sonora Quest Laboratories, Tempe, AZ
9:40 AM-10:10 AM Morning Break
10:10 AM–10:50 AM
Case Study: Workflow Optimization with Automation in Histology
Sue Finley, RT, CPS, HMgt, Technical Leader, Anatomic Pathology,
Providence Health Care-St Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, BC
10:30 AM–11:30 AM
Product Presentations and Corporate Perspectives on Automated Histology
Solutions:
10:50 AM–11:20 AM
Milestone Medical, Inc.
Marco Bellini, President, Sorisole, Italy
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Buffet Lunch and Exhibition and Displays of Automated Histology Solutions
Product Presentations and Corporate Perspectives on Automated
Histology Solutions – continued:
1:30 PM-2:00 PM
Dako, Inc.
Jon-Sverre Schanche, VP R&D, Glostrup, Denmark
2:00
PM-2:30 PM
Leica Microsystems, Inc.
Katja Lehmann, Ph.D., Manager, Workflow Consulting, Bannockburn, IL
Jan Minshew, MBA, HT(ASCP) HTL, Marketing Manager, Biosystems Division,
Bannockburn, IL
2:30
PM-3:00 PM
Sakura Finetek, Inc.
Theresa Ford, Director of Marketing, Torrance, CA
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
Thermo Fisher Scientific
Matthew Bell, Director, Global Strategic Marketing, Kalamazoo, MI
Erico von Bueren, MD, PhD, Global Product Marketing Manager, Kalamazoo,
MI
3:30
PM-4:00PM
Ventana Medical Systems, Inc.
Ron Price, Sr. Director, North America Marketing, Tuscon, AZ
4:00
PM-4:20 PM
Key Lessons and Wrap Up
Leo Serrano, Director of Laboratory Services, Avera McKennan Hospital
& University Health Center, Sioux Falls, SD
Workshop
Two:
Saying
"Sayonara" to Glass Slides! Everything You Need to Know about
Digital Imaging and Digital Pathology Systems
7:30 AM-8:00 AM
Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00
AM–8:50 AM
Understanding Digital Imaging and Digital Pathology Systems: Today’s
Capabilities and Tomorrow’s Potential
Ulysses G. J. Balis, M.D., Associate Professor & Director, Clinical
Informatics, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
8:50 AM–9:40 AM
Connecting, Interfacing, and Using Digital Imaging and Digital Pathology
Systems With The Pathology Information System
George Rugg, Vice President & General Manager, Impac Medical Systems,
Sunnyvale, CA
9:40 AM–10:10 AM
Morning Break
10:10 AM–10:50 AM
Case Study: Using Digital Imaging and Digital Pathology in a Pathology
Group Practice Setting
Peter Kolbek, M.D., President, PathLogic, Fair Oaks, CA
Product Presentations and Corporate Perspectives on Digital
Imaging and Digital Pathology Systems:
10:50 AM–11:20 AM
Aurora Interactive Ltd
Pierre Le Fevre, CEO, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
11:30 AM-1:30 PM
Buffet Lunch and Exhibition and Displays of Digital Imaging Products
and Digital Pathology Systems
Product
Presentations and Corporate Perspectives on Digital Imaging and Digital
Pathology Systems – continued:
1:30 PM–2:00 PM
Milestone Medical, Inc.
Marco Bellini, President, Sorisole, Italy
2:00 PM–2:30PM
Aperio Technologies, Inc.
Dirk Soenksen, MS, MBA, CEO, Vista, CA
2:30
PM–3:00 PM
DMetrix, Inc.
Michael R Descour, Ph.D., Chairman, Tucson, AZ
3:00 PM-3:30 PM
BioImagene, Inc.
Mohan Uttarwar, Chief Strategy Officer, Cupertino, CA
3:30 PM-4:00 PM
SlidePath, Ltd
Donal O’Shea, CEO, Dublin, Ireland
4:00 PM-4:20 PM
Key Lessons and Wrap Up
Ulysses G. J. Balis, M.D., Associate Professor & Director, Clinical
Informatics, University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Workshop
Three:
7:30 AM-8:00 AM Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:00
AM-1:30 PM
Lean
for Lab Leaders! Achieving Mastery with Concepts, Implementation, and
Outcomes
M. Susan Stegall, MBA, MHSA, MT (ASCP), Managing Partner, Leslie Sprick,
Managing Partner Sprick Stegall and Associates, LLC, Charlotte, NC
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