2008 ORVRC AGENDA
“Winning the Triple Crown ”

Post Time

Event

Registration/Opening Speaker
    "Organizing 101"
    Jennifer Studer-Miller

Wednesday, May 14

7:00-8:00 am.

Registration/ Continental Breakfast

8:00-9:30 am

Keynote Address
    "Results for Life" & "Labs Are Vital"
    David Mongillo/TBD
    Sponsored By: ACLA/Abbott

9:30 - 11:30

Vendor Exhibits

11:30 - 1:15

Lunch and CLMA/ ASCLS Presentations
    Legislative Update
    Gideon Labiner/Paul Labbe

1:15-2:30

Vendor Exhibits

2:30-3:45

    Breakout 1
        "Motivation and Morale:
        Keeping SPIRIT in the Workplace"
        Dr. Micheal Borden

    Breakout 2"Economics of POCT for Cardiac
        Markers and BNP"
        Dr. Ken Blick
        Sponsored By: BioSite

3:45- 4:00

Snack

4:00 - 5:15

    Breakout 3
        "Implementing Lean Process
        Improvement in the Clinical Lab"
        Dave Hoffman
        Sponsored By: TechSolve, Inc.

    Breakout 4
        "MRSA & Northwestern Healthcare's story"
        Dr. Lance Peterson
        Sponsored By: BD/Genome

6:15 - 10:00

EVENING ENTERTAINMENT AND NETWORKING

Thursday, May 15,

7:00 - 8:00 am.

Registration/continental breakfast            

8:00 – 9:30 am.

     General Session
        "Lab Automation and Patient Safety"
        Dr. Michael Bissell

9:45-11:00 am.

    Breakout 5
        “Using Research and Quality Improvement
        Techniques to Answer Difficult Compliance Questions"
        Christopher Young, CHC

    Breakout 6
        "Co-opetition: Game Theory Used to Illustrate the Value of
        Competing and Cooperating at the Same Time"
        Dr. Natalie Luke
        Sponsored By: Quest

11:15 – 12:30 pm

Lunch/ Hotel Checkout

12:30-1:45 pm

    Breakout 7
        "Practical Application of Compliance Decision Making:
            Case Studies From the Real World"
        Christopher Young, CHC

    Breakout 8
        "Star Wars of the Body Besieged: A Review of Immunology
            and Immunodefeciency”
        Dr.Harry Hill
        Sponsored By: ARUP

1:45 - 2:00 pm

Snack                                           

2:00-3:30 pm

General Closing Session
    CLMA Good Practice Sharing Program, with Case Studies
    Linda Smith,MT(ASCP) DLM, MHA