Program Overview

0800-1600

CACB Oral Exams

0800-1415

CACB Oral Exams

0900-1700

CSCC 2020-2021 Council Meeting

1400-1700

CACB 2020-2021 Board of Directors Meeting

0800-1230

CACB Oral Exams

0800-0930

Scientific Workshops – Morning Part 1

• Don’t Take That If You Need an Accurate Result: Impact of Supplements, Drugs, and Clinical Treatments on Clinical Chemistry Assays
• Evidence-based Approach from the Canadian Society for Clinical Chemists (CSCC) Working Group on Reference Interval Harmonization (hRI)

0945-1115

Scientific Workshops – Morning Part 2

• W050945-A Optimal Therapeutic Ranges of Serum Lithium Levels in Older Adults
• W050945-B One Clinical and Laboratory Information System: The Blood, Sweat and Cheers Towards Laboratory Standardization

1115-1300

Clinical Biochemistry Journal Editorial Board Meeting

1300-1615

Scientific Workshops – Afternoon

• W051300-A Actionable Insights Arising from an Algorithmic Big Data Analysis of Sequential Intrapatient Laboratory Results
• W051300-B Quality Assurance in Clinical Mass Spectrometry – Tools and Metrics to Address Challenges with Sample Preparation, Ion Suppression, Ongoing Validations and Result Analysis

1600-1730

Committee and Special Interest Group Meetings

1730-1830

New Member and Emeritus Member Reception (invitation only)

1830-1930

Opening Keynote:
Reducing the Global Burden of Disease by Half in a Decade

1930-2200

Opening Reception at Table Rock overlooking Niagara Falls

0730-0830

Breakfast Roundtables

• R060730-A Earning Your Wings as a Manuscript Editor for a Scientific Journal
• R060730-B Cases in Pediatric Clinical Chemistry
• R060730-C Alzheimer Disease (AD) Biomarkers in CSF and Plasma: Which Assay Performs Best to Diagnose AD and How They Correlate
• R060730-D Approaches to Prenatal Screening for Aneuploidy
• R060730-E Neural Antibody Testing in Patients with Suspected Autoimmune Encephalitis
• R060730-F Clinically Implemented sFlt-1 and PlGF Assays for Supporting Preeclampsia Diagnosis
• R060730-G Protein Electrophoresis for Monoclonal Gammopathies Analysis
• R060730-H Laboratory Harmonization and Standardization: Friends or Foes?
• R060730-I Methotrexate Immunoassay Interference After Glucarpidase Treatment

0900-1200

Symposium 1: Improving Patient Safety Through Quality Improvement in Laboratory Medicine

1200-1900

Exhibit and Poster Viewing

• 1200-1400 Lunch
• 1500-1600 Oral Poster Presentations
• 1700-1900 Wine & Cheese Reception; Poster Viewing

1400-1500

Industry Workshops I

1600-1700

Industry Workshops II

1700-1900

Wine & Cheese Reception with Exhibitors; Poster Viewing

0730-0830

Industry Workshops III

0900-1200

Symposium 2: Evidence Based Laboratory Medicine, Personalized Laboratory Medicine and Direct to Consumer Testing. Understanding Patient Needs and Wants in a Patient-centered Healthcare System

1200-1600

Lunch and Exhibit Viewing

1300-1330

CSCC Council/Vendor Meeting

1330-1630

Symposium 3: Health Care Equity: Role of Decentralized Laboratory Services

• Laboratory Resource Stewardship & Equity
• Delivery of Lab Testing in Non-lab Setting
• Delivery of Laboratory Tests in Remote Communities

1630-1730

CSCC Annual General Meeting and “Town Hall”

1730-1815

CACB Annual General Meeting

1830-2230

President’s Reception and Awards Banquet at Château des Charmes Winery

0730-0830

Breakfast Roundtables

• R080730-A Applications of Cardiac Markers in Pediatrics
• R080730-B Which Biofluid is Appropriate for Diagnosis of Autoimmune Encephalitis: CSF or Serum or Both?
• R080730-C Improving Nephrology Referral of Patients with Chronic Kidney Disease in Primary Care
• R080730-D Quality Assurance in the Total Testing Process of POC Blood Gas Analysis
• R080730-E Quality Management: Trends in Medical Error Disclosure and its Implications
• R080730-F Selective Venous Sampling Procedures: a Collection of Interesting Cases
• R080730-G Harmonized Adult Lipid Reporting
• R080730-H Canadian Academy of Clinical Biochemists (CACB) Code of Ethics

0900-1200

Symposium 4: The Clinical Toxicology Lab and the Forgotten Public Health Crisis

• Dried Specimens in Toxicology
• The Opioid Crisis, Drug Checking and Clinical Laboratory: Is there a link?
• Harm Reduction/Safe Consumption Sites

1200-1600

Committee Meetings & Special Interest Group Meetings

1600-1700

CSCC 2021-2022 Council Meeting

CACB 2021-2022 Board of Directors Meeting