Overview: This workshop deals with the accreditation checklist and intends to improve understanding and practical skills required to inspection team leader and team members
Overview: This session is intended for residents in training, new starters, or laboratory professionals with interests of basic knowledge. We will be covering the very basics and practical aspects of laboratory medicine in the fields of hematology, transfusion medicine, microbiology, and immunology.
Overview: The ‘Laboratory Management Committee’ will introduce Laboratory Ethics, Laboratory Setting Management, and Laboratory Tests Utilization Management, which are the basic elements for Systematic Laboratory Management.
Overview: This session will discuss some of the difficult challenges regarding lipid tests. The current status and challenges of standardization of the lipoprotein testing as a biomarker of cardiovascular disease is discussed. We will provide the clinical usefulness and utilization of nonfasting lipid profile, and the differences in triglyceride results according to whether free glycerol is blanked or not.
Overview: Point-of-care testing (POCT) is one of the most rapidly growing areas within laboratory medicine. POCT offers considerable advantages, and there are challenges associated with POCT. In this session, current and future of POCT will be presented by speakers from Asian countries. Various issues, experiences and future perspectives of POCT in Asian countries will be shared and discussed.
Overview: In vitro diagnostic (IVD) devices are approved for manufacturing and importing by the Ministry of Food and Drug Safety (MFDS). Regarding post market safety management for distribution and use after the initial approval, the purpose is to provide safe and effective medical devices with follow-up management. The standard materials provided by the MFDS play an important role in product development and evaluation by domestic IVD manufacturing companies, and present unmet needs in laboratory.
Overview: Alzheimer’s disease is a complex degenerative brain disease and the most common cause of dementia. Although no treatment is currently available, significant discovery efforts are underway. Diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is based on clinical features and supplemented by determination of biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease pathology. In this session, an overview of Alzheimer’s disease will be provided, current and novel biomarkers will be presented. Considerations for the implementation of Alzheimer's disease biomarkers in the clinical laboratory and the application of biomarkers in the clinical practice will be discussed.
Overview: We would like to share the recent applications of multiplex immunoassays to diagnose autoimmune and infectious diseases and to monitor cancer immunotherapy
Overview: Maintaining consistency in on-site inspection of clinical laboratories is of vital importance as the results of inspection may affect reimbursement fee in Korea. In this session, current status of surveyor training programs of ISQua, KOIHA, and LMF will be introduced and perspective in LMF will be discussed.
Overview: With the rapid development and application of next-generation sequencing in molecular genetics, RNA, as well as DNA, has become the main target of the NGS test. In this session, we will explore the principles and applications of RNA-Seq and discuss the possibilities as a clinical diagnostic tool.
Overview: ANA IFA pattern and interpretation and reporting vary among laboratories. The International Consensus of the ANA Pattern (ICAP) group has defined and classified the ANA IFA pattern. This workshop will introduce the processes and patterns of ICAP consensus, and will also review the status of ANA reporting in Korea.
Overview: Leadership plays a critical role in establishing laboratory and impact the quality and rate at which the laboratory progresses over time. The environment and problems encountered in the clinical laboratory setting are unique, therefore leadership fine-tuned to the specific challenges of laboratory medicine is important. In this session, presentations on the leadership in laboratory medicine toward more effective strategies and practices inside and beyond the laboratory.
Overview: This session is an essential education program to qualify as a laboratory medicine specialist. And the program covers the whole of the laboratory management, evaluation of resident training and laboratory information necessary for instruction of residents
Overview: Infectious diseases represent an enormous human and economic burden to modern societies and currently contribute about 20% of the global annual death causes. To control infectious disease, the revolutionary diagnostic technologies such as culture-independent molecular detection assays, laboratory automation, point-of-care testing, and so on have been made available during the last 10 years in the clinical microbiology. In addition, the latest innovative diagnostic approaches applied in clinical microbiology will be introduced in this session.
Overview: This session will focus on red cell technology and transfusion practice. Participants will learn about how monoclonal antibodies may act as inteferences with pretransfusion testing, how gene editing of erythroblasts may be used to enhance red cell transfusion compatibility, and how the red cells can be modified as quality control materials. In addition, listeners can learn about the latest guidelines of emergency and massive transfusion.
Overview: In this session, CLSI standards on application of innovative tests in clinical laboratories will be presented including methods to validate and verify multiplex nucleic acid assays and methods for the identification of cultured microorganisms using MALDI-TOF MS, and defining and verifying reference intervals on big data.