Past Scientific Meetings

Second Scientific Meeting of the Athena Society - Spetses / Hydra, Greece

September 19 - 21, 2000

General Information

Meeting Facilitator: C. Burtis (alternate - L. Demers)

Official Scribe: D. Bruns


Program and Agenda

Tuesday, 19 September 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Day 1

Introduction: Purpose and Mission of the Meeting

B. Doumas (15 minutes)

1) COUNTRY AND INDUSTRY REVIEW:

Present status of Clinical Chemistry and expected changes in the next 10 years owing to economic and technological factors (an update from 1994).
 

Ten-minute presentations each followed by a 10-minute discussion

Canada E. Diamandis
Germany H. Wisser
Greece E. Anagnostou-Cacaras
Italy M. Plebani
U.K. G. Beastal
U.S.A. R. Valdez, Jr.
Summary: D. Bruns (15 minutes)

Coffee Break - 20 minutes

2) IN-VITRO DIAGNOSTIC INDUSTRY

Larger companies - N. Gochman (15 minutes)
Smaller companies - K. Smith (15 minutes)
Discussion - 25 minutes

Wednesday, 20 September 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Day 2

Advances in Technology and Other Trends

3) THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT

E. Green (25 minutes)
Discussion - 20 minutes

4) THE POST GENOMIC ERA

a) OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CLINICAL CHEMIST

J. McDonald (15 minutes)
U.H. Stenman (15 minutes)
S. Evans (15 minutes)
Discussion - 20 minutes
Coffee Break - 20 minutes

b) ETHICAL AND POLITICAL PROBLEMS IN GENE TESTING AND THERAPY

C. Sekeris (10 minutes)
N. Rifai (10 minutes)
Discussion - 20 minutes
Summary - D. Sacks - 10 minutes

5) EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE AND CLINICAL PATHWAYS (WHAT, WHO, WHY)

T. Kawai (15 minutes)
D. Bruns (15 minutes)
Discussion - 20 minutes

Thursday, 21 September 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. - Day 3

Future of Laboratory Medicine and the Role of the Clinical Chemist

6) BIRTH, GROWTH, DEATH, AND RESURRECTION OF THE CLINICAL CHEMIST

E. Diamandis (15 minutes)

Discussion - 15 minutes

7) MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY IN THE UNITED STATES

K. Ward-Cook (15 minutes)

Discussion - 15 minutes

8) Who will perform laboratory tests

a) TECHNOLOGY OF THE FUTURE

L. Kricka (15 minutes)

b) DO PATIENTS AND NURSES WANT TO DO LABORATORY TESTS?

O. Zinder (15 minutes)

Discussion - 30 minutes

Coffee Break - 20 minutes

9) Future of the laboratory practitioner and their training

a) DISTANCE LEARNING (WHY NOT DO IT RIGHT ONCE?)

J. Ladenson (15 minutes)

b) CLINICAL LABORATORY SCIENTIST

M. Scott (15 minutes)

Discussion - 30 minutes

Summary - L. Demers (15 minutes)

10) Close of Conference


2000 Athena Society Delegates

Name

Institution

Country

Effi Anagnostov-Cacaras,

The Evangelismos Hospital

Greece

Fred Apple

U. of Minnesota

USA

Edward R. Ashwood

ARUP Laboratories, Inc.

USA

David E. Bruns

U. of Virginia

USA

Laurence M. Demers

Pennsylvania State University

USA

Eleftherios P. Diamandis

Mount Sinai Hospital

Canada

Basil T. Doumas

Medical College of Wisconsin

USA

Susan A. Evans

Dade Behring, Inc.

USA

Eric D. Green

National Institutes of Health

USA

Nathan Gochman

Beckman Coulter, Inc.

USA

Leonard Jarett

University of Pennsylvania

USA

Larry J Kricka

Hosp of the Univ of Pennsylvania

USA

Jack Ladenson

Washington University School of Medicine

USA

Iain MacIntyre

Royal London School of Medicine

Britain

Jay M. McDonald

University of Alabama at Birmingham

USA

Mario Plebani

University-Hosptial of Padova

Italy

Nader Rifai

Harvard Medical School

USA

David Sacks

Harvard Medical School

USA

Sam Santoro

Washington University School of Medicine

USA

Mitch Scott

Washington University School of Medicine

USA

Constantine Sekeris

University of Athens

Greece

Catherine M. Smith

Gen-Probe Incorporated

USA

Evangelos Spanos

Biomedicine Ltd.

Greece

Roland Valdes, Jr.

University of Louisville

USA

Kory Ward-Cook

ASCP Board of Registry

USA

Oren Zinder

Rambam Medical Center

Israel

Mary Zutter

Washington University School of Medicine

USA


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