Past Scientific Meetings

First Scientific Meeting of the Athena Society - Rhodes, Greece

Agenda of the Athena Society Meeting in Rhodes-1994

Day One 9: 00 – 1: 00

Present Status of Clinical Chemistry and Expected Changes in the Next 10 Years Owing to Economic and Technological factors

Six 10-min presentations each followed by 15-min discussion

Summary:	D. Bruns (15 min)
In - Vitro Diagnostics Industry:	H. Weinert (30 min)
Group Discussion:	(30 min)

Day Two 9: 00 – 1:00

Forecast of Advances in Technology and Testing Trends through the Year 2005

Trends in Technology:	M. Schwartz (20 min) H. Weinert (20.min)
Group Discussion:	45 min
Trends in Testing	J. Hicks (20 min) Decentralization N. Tietz (20 min) Centralization
Group Discussion:	45 min
Summary:	E. Diamandis (20 min)

Day Three: 9: 00 – 2:30 (Session extended)

Future of Laboratory Medicine and the Role of Clinical Chemistry in Service, Training and Research

Service:	M. Werner (15 min) T. Whitehead (15 min)
Group Discussion:	45 min
Training:	J. MacDonald (15 min)
Group Discussion:	45 min
Research:	L. Demers (15 min)
Group Discussion:	45 min
Summary:	J. Ladenson (20 min) O. Ash (20 min)

Lavish Dinner Party, Courtesy of E. Spanos, with Band, Dancing, Singing (Demers, Okuda, Spanos, Doumas, etc) and protests from people trying to sleep in other Hotels one kilometer away (we were making too much noise)

Attendees

Delegates at the meeting in Rhodes

Name	Photo	Spouse Photo	Institution	Country
Effie Anagnostou – Cacaras			The Evangelismos Hospital	Athens, Greece
K.Owen Ash			Arup Laboratories/ University of Utah	Utah, USA
C. Bohuon			Institut Gustave-Roussy	France
David Bruns			University of Virginia Medical Center	Charlottesville, VA, USA
Janine Buttner			Charite University Hospital	Berlin, Germany
Laurence Demers			Penn State University	Hershey, PA, USA
Eleftherios P. Diamandis			Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto	Toronto, Canada
Basil Doumas			Medical College of Wisconsin	United States
Gerald Gallwas			Beckman Instruments	California, USA
Jocelyn Hicks			Children's National Medical Center	USA
Jack Ladenson			Washington University	St. Louis, MO, USA
D. Laue			Heinrich Heine University	Düsseldorf, Germany.
Jay McDonald			University of Alabama-Birmingham	Birmingham, AL, USA
D. Rodgerson
Francesco Salvatore			Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II	Napoli, Italy
Morton Schwartz			Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center	New York, NY, USA
Lothar Siekmann			University of Bonn	Bonn, Germany
Gérard Siest			Nancy-Université, Université Henri Poincare	Nancy, France
Evangelos Spanos			BioMedicine Ltd	Athens, Greece
Norbert Tietz			University of Kentucky Medical Center	USA
H. Weinert			Martin-Luther-University	Halle, Germany
M. Werner			Institut für Pathologie	Berlin, Germany
T. Whithead