Laboratory Management Conference

Overview:

Post-pandemic laboratory services empowered every lab professional with new skills and attitude. 

At the Lab Management conference, these improved laboratory practices will be reviewed and evaluated, with the objective to assist every lab manager and chief of lab to continue quality and rapid test delivery. Managing information, technology & innovation and people management will be key themes. 

Key topics:

• Reading data for patient care
• Big data
• Data analysis
• Digitisation of laboratories: Challenges & tools to engage staff 
  
• Lab automation
• Lab and tech integration
• Staff development & trainings
• Operational issues: Turn-around time & reporting
• Art of mentoring
• Uniting the lab community

Benefits of attending:

• Discuss how to manage clinical data and electronic health records
• Review information system and data analysis
• Identify common problems in turn-around time and reporting
• Analyse how to support lab professional’s skills and abilities
• Discover technology and innovative methods
• Review automation and necessary skillsets

Chairs:

• Carlo Kaabar, Medical Director, MOHAP Laboratories, Purehealth, Sharjah, UAE
• Dr Basel Altrabulsi, Chief Medical Officer and ICAD Laboratory Medical Director, National Reference Laboratory, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Activity Director:

• Dr Ziad Peerwani, Medical Director, Cleveland Clinic Laboratories, Pathology & Laboratory, Medicine Institute-PLMI, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA 

Speakers: 

• Dr Abdullah Nasser AlJurayyan, Executive General Director, Laboratory Operation Center, Ministry of Health – Saudi Arabia, Riyadh, KSA 
  
• Arindam Haldar, CEO, Purelab, Dubai, UAE 
  
• Diogo Garcez, COO, Unilabs, Porto, Portugal 
  
• Dr Emily E. Volk, Chief Medical Officer, Baptist Health-Floyd; President, College of American Pathologists, San Antonio, Texas, USA  
  
• Dr Erik Koornneef, Director Research & Innovation, Pure Health, Dubai, UAE 
  
• Dr James Donnelly, Technical Director, National Reference Laboratory, Abu Dhabi, UAE
  
• A/Prof Kanit Reesukumal, President, Thai Society of Clinical Pathology, Bangkok, Thailand 
  
• Dr Liron Pantanowitz, Director, Division of Anatomic Pathology, A. James French Professor of Pathology Department of Pathology & Clinical Labs, University of Michigan, USA; President Elect, Digital Pathology Association; Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Pathology Informatics, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
  
• Prof Dr Markus Herrmann, Chair of Institute, Clinical Institute of Medical and Chemical Laboratory Diagnostics, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria 
  
• Dr Mohammed Marie, Founder and CEO, AlFarabi Medical Labs, Riyadh, KSA 
  
• Dr Talkmore Maruta, Senior Biosafety and Technical Officer, Africa-CDC, Lusaka, Zambia 
  
• Dr Zivanai C. Chapanduka, Head of Haematological Pathology, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University and NHLS Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa