Thursday morning – October 24
7.30 – 8.30
Registration & breakfast
8.30 - 8.40
Welcome
Isaac Gould
CEO In-Common Laboratories
8.40 – 9:15
Hot topics for labs today
Robert Michel
CEO Dark Intelligence Group
Managing in changing times
9.15 – 9.45
Positioning the lab as a strategic pillar
Khosrow Shotorbani,
Founder, CEO
Lab 2.0 Strategic Services, LLC
President, CEO
Project Santa Fe Foundation.
Salt Lake City, UT
9.45 – 10.15
Managing Utilization – lowering costs and increasing value to the patient
Dr. Michelle Scholzberg
St Michael’s Hospital
10.15 – 10.30
Break
10.30 – 11.00
One lab’s experience managing personnel through multiple changes: outsourcing microbiology, test utilization, POCT, maintaining morale and no jobs lost.
Tanya Solberg
Director, Diagnostic & Therapeutic Services
Yukon Hospitals
11.00 – 11.30
Do you have the right people doing the right jobs in your lab? Do you know what skills you will need in 5 years time and where to find them?
Kelli-Ann Lemieux,
Health Science North
Sudbury
11.30 – 12.00
Panel discussion
4 speakers
12.00– 1.00
Lunch
1.00 – 1.20
Next generation technology
Norma Page
V-P, Clinical Operations, DynaLIFE Medical Labs
1.20 – 1.50
LabCANDx an initiative to explore the value of laboratory diagnostics within the health system. Providing leadership and creating awareness of the importance and relevance of laboratory medicine in a sustainable healthcare system
Dr David Kinniburgh
Director, Alberta Centre for Toxicology
Founding member LabCANDx
1.50 – 5.15
Cross Country check up
Updates from across Canada on the latest innovations, challenges and new technologies being implemented in laboratories.
1.50
Nova Scotia
Shauna Thompson
Senior Director
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
NS Health Authority
2.10
New Brunswick
Heather Kyle
Administrative Director Laboratory Medicine
Horizon Health Network, NB
2.30
Quebec
Ralph Dadoun
Ministry of Health, QC
2.50
Ontario
Laurie Turner
Fasken
3.10 – 3.25
Break
3.25
Saskatchewan
Lenore Howey
Executive Director of Laboratory Services
Saskatchewan Health Authority
3.45
Alberta
Tammy Hofer
Chief Operating Officer
Alberta Public Laboratories
4.05
Yukon
Tanya Solberg
Director, Diagnostic & Therapeutic Services
Yukon Hospitals
4.25
British Columbia
Joanne Isber
Director, Laboratory Operations, Interior
Health, BC
4.45 – 5.15
Panel
all speakers
5.15 – 5.30
Summary
Robert Michel
5.30 – 7.00
Reception
Time
Topic/theme
Speaker
Friday morning – October 25
7.30 – 8.30
Breakfast
8.30 – 8.45
Thoughts from Day 1
Robert Michel
Looking to the future
8.45 – 9.15
How Drones, sensors and new technologies are poised to increase the quality and accuracy of specimen transport and logistics
Andreas Raptopolous US
9.15 – 9.45
Next generation POCT – currently on the international space station, coming to you soon! Provides results faster and cheaper, using lensless microscopy technology
Dr. Alan Fine
CEO Alentic Microscience
9.45 – 10.15
Do you wonder what happens to your samples in transit? A new and innovative approach to sample tracking during transport can answer that question. A study of hospital pneumatic tube systems led to changes
Dr. Franziska Broell
CEO Motryx
10.15 – 10.30
Break
10.30 – 11.00
A discussion of the ethical, scientific and clinical challenges for the appropriate care of patient populations with diverse gender identities along the path of the laboratory process.
Dr. Miranda Wozniak
Deputy Ontario Medical Director, LifeLabs
11.00 – 11.20
Panel for questions
4 speakers
11.30 – 12.15
Next generation technology, moving technology and tests from innovation into the mainstream.
Jason Pincock
CEO DynaLIFE Diagnostics
12.15 – 1.15
Lunch
Friday afternoon
Lab medicine 2.0
1.15 – 1.45
Precision medicine - A research program firmly entrenched in cancer genomics to understand the mutational landscape of cancer. A significant part of the research program is to determine within specific cancers how the specific oncogenic profile with a individual cancer might be innovatively exploited.
Dr Steven Jones
Head of Bioinformatics and Co-Director, Canada's Michael Smith Genome Sciences Centre, BC Cancer
1.45 – 2.15
How Blockchain can transform managing data in the lab.
Toufi Saliba
CEO Privacy Shell
Adam Cole
Vice President of IT
Canadian Clinical Trial Network
2.15 – 2.45
Digital Pathology – a case study of the implementation of digital pathology in a large teaching hospital
Dr Bich Nguyen
Chief of Pathology
CHUM (University of Montreal Health Centre)
[TRIBVN Healthcare ]
2.45 – 3.15
Panel for questions
3 speakers
3.15 – 3.30
Break
3.30 – 4.15
An inspirational innovation journey
Jim Estill, CM, OOnt
CEO Danby Appliances & CEO ShipperBee
4.15 – 4.30
Wrap up
Robert & ICL
