Quality Management for Modern Labs Conference

Overview:

One requirement to help prevent errors in the lab is putting a good, solid laboratory quality management system in place. The quality management requirements for medical laboratories are extensive and touch on everything from equipment to customer service. With a firm understanding of essentials of quality management in laboratory environments, this track will discuss new levels of excellence to avoid potentially life-threatening mistakes. This is in partnership with the Saudi Quality Council. 

Key topics:

• Organising a formal quality management system  
  
• Training processes  
  
• Equipment maintenance and calibration processes  
  
• Purchasing inventory  
  
• Data management  
  

Benefits of attending:

• Identify gaps or non-compliances and suggest corrective actions to eliminate undesirable situations  
  
• Discuss challenges in machine roubleshooting and maintenance   
  
• Review process control and standards  

Chair: 

• Dr Nashat Nafouri, Medical & Quality Director, Futurelab Medical Laboratories, Jeddah, KSA 
  

Activity Director:    

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

Speakers: 

• Abdulaziz Aljuhani, Lab Team Leader, CBAHI, Riyadh, KSA 
  
• Dr Barb Jones, CEO, CLSI, San Diego, California, USA 
  
• Faisal Eltegani Mohamed Ibrahim, Chief Quality Officer, Unilabs, Dubai, UAE 
  
• Dr Michael A Noble, Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada