July 2020 - July 2021

A Bio-Rad Quality Control Virtual Conference

Powering Exceptional Labs

We are pleased to announce the Bio-Rad Quality Control Virtual Conference 2020. This online event brings together Clinical Laboratory Professionals from around the world to discover the latest innovative QC products and data management solutions, with access to new monthly webinars designed to help laboratorians raise the bar in their QC practice. More laboratories trust Bio-Rad for independent quality control products than any other manufacturer.

Join the Quality Control Virtual Conference to:

Attend live webinars or view on-demand educational webinars covering a variety of important QC topics and earn free P.A.C.E. CE credits by joining any of the webinars
Access and download a selection of scientific posters
Visit product booths to learn more information about featured products, view videos, download brochures, infographics and other literature

This free online conference will remain open around the clock with webinars broadcast throughout 2020, so check back frequently for new information.

Speakers

Curtis Parvin, PhD

Biostatistical Advisor
Duane W. Newton, PhD, D(ABMM), FIDSA

Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Associate Director, Division of Clinical Pathology, Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan
Elitza S. Theel, PhD, D(ABMM)

Director, Infectious Diseases Serology Laboratory, Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota
John Yundt-Pacheco, MSCS

Scientific Fellow, Bio-Rad Laboratories
Abobaker Mohamed Yagoot, MT (ASCP), MLT (CMLTO)

Supervisor Biochemistry (King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital - Jeddah- Saudi Arabia)
Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP)SBB, DLM; CQA(ASQ)CMQ/OE

Principal, Laboratories Made Better!

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NOV 18, 2020 11:00 AM PDT | NOV 19, 11:00AM SGT | NOV 19, 4:00PM CET

Cost of Quality and the Medical Laboratory 2020

Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP)SBB, DLM; CQA(ASQ)CMQ/OE

Principal, Laboratories Made Better!

Two aspects of the Cost of Quality are important in the medical laboratory—the theory behind the quality cost types and the application of those cost types to laboratory activities. The labor and materials expended in your laboratory are either costs that support good quality or costs of poor quality. However, laboratory operating budget reports don’t show this important difference because the financial effects of the cost of poor quality appear only as line item overruns. Then at budget time, when the laboratory makes across-the-board cuts to the entire budget, costs that support good quality, such as equipment maintenance, quality control, and personnel training are also reduced. Everyone in the laboratory should understand the basic principles of the cost of quality.

This program contains material from the recently revised Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) guideline QMS20, The Cost of Quality in the Medical Laboratory. The program reviews the four types of quality costs and provides laboratory examples. Case studies generic to every laboratory highlight how the quality costs types are applied to routine laboratory activities and show how to identify each cost type. Participants are given a basic tool to track the costs of quality in their laboratories, which helps eliminate recurring sources of poor quality.

Learning Objectives:

1. Discuss each of the 4 types of quality costs with relevant laboratory examples

2. Calculate the cost of poor quality for a defined laboratory problem

3. Link current laboratory quality indicators to the costs of poor quality

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OCT 21, 2020 11:00 AM PDT | OCT 22, 11:00 AM SGT | OCT 22, 4:00 PM CEST

The benefit of using an independent Quality Control

Abobaker Mohamed Yagoot, MT (ASCP), MLT (CMLTO)

Supervisor Biochemistry (King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital - Jeddah- Saudi Arabia)

Using an independent quality control material provides several advantages over a manufacturer quality control. This presentation will discuss real cases using quality control in a clinical lab, troubleshooting methods, and how independent quality control can provide valuable information to resolve issues.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify and troubleshoot quality control issues in a lab setting.

2. Recognize the benefits of an independent quality control and the advantages provided by an interlaboratory comparison program

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SEP 16, 2020 11:00 AM | SEPT 17, 11:00 AM SGT | SEPT 17, 4:00 PM CEST

How to Limit Patient Harm from Erroneous Results, QC Strategies Based on Risk Management

John Yundt-Pacheco, MSCS

Scientific Fellow, Bio-Rad Laboratories

Quality Control design has for many years been focused around instrument performance. But with the new risk management approaches emerging the focus is now moving to the risk of erroneous results for patients. This presentation will describe this new approach designed to prevent patient harm from erroneous results to acceptable levels.

Learning Objectives:
1. Identify the steps in patient risk managed QC strategy design.
2. Explain how to set the Severity of Harm category for an analyte.
3. Describe 2 components of the QC design that can be changed to minimize patient risk.

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AUG 26, 2020 11:00 AM PDT | AUGUST 27, 11:00 AM SGT | AUGUST 27, 4:00 PM CEST

SARS-CoV-2 Quality Control for Molecular and Serology assays

Sponsored By: Bio-Rad Laboratories

SARS-CoV-2 has created significant challenges for laboratories, requiring the development, validation, and scale up of testing in a very short time period--often this was done for multiple methods due to capacity demands and supply chain shortages. Part of assuring quality test results is the confidence in testing that comes from a robust QC Program. In this webinar, the speakers will discuss different issues to be considered for QC material selection, as well as QC program design & strategies for SARS-CoV-2 molecular and serology testing.

Learning Objectives:

1. Describe approaches to quality control for SARS-CoV-2 molecular testing that monitor the entire testing process

2. Discuss quality control approaches for high-throughput SARS-CoV-2 antibody tests

3. List 2 optimal QC practices for each methodology

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Best Practices in Quality Control: 10 Simple Recommendations

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Designing a good QC plan can be a daunting task. These simple recommendations can provide guidance to the lab and are essential to include in a good QC plan. They have been used and proven effective by many labs.

Learning Objectives:

1. Identify factors in QC error that contribute to increased patient risk.

2. Describe ways in which quality risk management has contributed to an added set of values that the laboratory should be aware of.

3. Recommend 5 QC practices which you can apply in your lab.

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Speakers

Curtis Parvin, PhD
Biostatistical Advisor

Biography
Dr. Parvin served 30 years on the faculty of Washington University School of Medicine as Director of Informatics and Statistics in the Division of Laboratory and Genomic Medicine. Dr. Parvin's training is in biostatistics and medical informatics and focused his career on the application of statistical theory to problems relevant to laboratory medicine. He has co-authored numerous papers that have published in the leading laboratory medicine journals. Dr. Parvin joined Bio-Rad in 2009 as Manager of Advanced Statistical Research in Bio-Rad's Quality Systems Division. He recently entered semi-retirement. He still enjoys working with labs that are looking to improve their QC design and presenting at laboratory conferences around the world.
Duane W. Newton, PhD, D(ABMM), FIDSA
Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, Associate Director, Division of Clinical Pathology, Professor of Pathology, University of Michigan

Biography
Duane Newton, Ph.D., D(ABMM) is currently the Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, as well as the Associate Director of the Division of Clinical Pathology, both in the Department of Pathology at Michigan Medicine. Dr. Newton completed Post-Doctoral training at the University of Tennessee and the VA Medical Center in Memphis, Tennessee and a Clinical and Public Health Microbiology Fellowship at the University of Rochester Medical Center, Clinical Microbiology Laboratories in Rochester, New York. In 2000 he was appointed as Manager of the Virology/Immunology Section of the Department of Community Health, Division of Infectious Diseases, Bureau of Laboratories for the State of Michigan and as Adjunct Assistant Professor for the Michigan State University Medical Technology Program. In 2002, he joined the faculty of the Department of Pathology at the University of Michigan Medical School as Clinical Assistant Professor and Associate Director of the Microbiology/Virology Laboratories. Dr. Newton was named Director of Microbiology/Virology Laboratories in 2003 and received his certification as a Diplomate by the American Board of Medical Microbiology in 2004. His research interests lie in the development of molecular assays for the diagnosis and management of infectious diseases.
Elitza S. Theel, PhD, D(ABMM)
Director, Infectious Diseases Serology Laboratory, Clinical Microbiology Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, the Mayo Clinic, Minnesota

Biography
Elitza S. Theel, Ph.D., D(ABMM), is the Director of the Infectious Diseases Serology Laboratory at Mayo Clinic and an Associate Professor of Laboratory Medicine And Pathology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine in Rochester, Minnesota. Dr. Theel completed her Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical and Public Health Microbiology at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education after she graduated with her PhD in Medical Microbiology and Immunology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her interests include development and evaluation of serologic methods, including antibody and antigen detection assays, for diagnosis of difficult to culture or otherwise identify infectious diseases. Dr. Theel has evaluated over 15 different serologic tests for detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 over the past few months and has co-development a neutralizing antibody test for the virus, which is currently being used to screen potential plasma donors as part of the national COVID-19 convalescent plasma clinical trials.
John Yundt-Pacheco, MSCS
Scientific Fellow, Bio-Rad Laboratories

Biography
Mr. Yundt-Pacheco performs research in quality control and patient risk issues in the Informatics Discovery Group at Bio-Rad. John has had the opportunity to work with laboratories around the world, developing practical real time, inter-laboratory quality control and proficiency testing systems. As an innovator, has developed numerous ideas leading to 37 laboratory related invention patents around the globe. John holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from University of Texas at Dallas with a focus on Intelligent Systems and has a Post Master's Certificate in Sequence Analysis and Genomics, and is a degree candidate for a Master's degree in Biotechnology at Johns Hopkins University. In addition to authoring articles and papers on QC design, he is a popular speaker on laboratory QC and QA topics at international conferences.
Abobaker Mohamed Yagoot, MT (ASCP), MLT (CMLTO)
Supervisor Biochemistry (King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital - Jeddah- Saudi Arabia)

Biography
Mr. Abobaker Yagoot has a background in Biochemistry. He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry from Ain Shams University, Cairo in Egypt. He received the Medical Laboratory Technology Certificate from St. Clair College-Windsor from Ontario, Canada in 1992. He also obtained the certification for Medical Technologist (M.T – A.S.C.P) from American Society of Clinical Pathologist, New York State, USA. Prior to his current position at the National Guard Health Affairs, he had a key role in the Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Office at the Chemistry Department of King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre. Mr. Abobaker Yagoot is actively involved in conferences nationally and internationally. In addition to those roles, Mr Abobaker Yagoot is a Certified C.A.P. inspector.
Lucia M. Berte, MA, MT(ASCP)SBB, DLM; CQA(ASQ)CMQ/OE
Principal, Laboratories Made Better!

Biography
Ms. Berte has always been interested in laboratory quality management, having served as a blood bank manager and the laboratory’s quality coordinator. She teaches medical laboratories around the world how to implement a Quality Management System (QMS), use it to improve patient safety, and use it to reduce the cost of poor quality. She also trains laboratorians how to write better documents and how to design more effective training and competence assessment programs. Ms. Berte has a Bachelor of Science degree in Medical Technology and a Master of Arts Degree in Health Care Administration. In addition to being an American Society for Clinical Pathology certified medical technologist, specialist in blood banking and diplomate in laboratory management, she is also certified as a quality manager and quality auditor by the American Society for Quality. Ms. Berte has volunteered for the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute (CLSI) for over 25 years in roles such as chairholder of the QMS Subcommittee, chairholder of many CLSI QMS guidance documents, and member of several past and current document development committees. She was the co-leader for ISO TC-212 Work Group 1 for the ISO 15189:2012 international medical laboratory standard and serves on the standard’s drafting team for the upcoming ISO 15189 revision. She has been the author of numerous articles, chapters, and books and continues to provide audioconferences, workshops, and learning courses on various aspects of laboratory quality.

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SEP 16, 2020 11:00 AM | SEPT 17, 11:00 AM SGT | SEPT 17, 4:00 PM CEST

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