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News
Executive Vice President's Message
Dr. Louis J. Dunka - A Tribute and Remembrance
Positioning for Successful Quality Management System Implementation
Quality Qorner: Low Carb Documents
Press Releases
Standards Status
Vote and Deadlines
Recently Approved Documents
New ISO Standard
Call for Nominations
Events and Exhibits
Upcoming Events
Upcoming Presentations
CLSI Meetings Calendar
Participate in CLSI
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New and Sustaining Members
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Executive Vice President's Message

The CLSI Leadership Conference & Workshop

Melding the hottest issues of the day—Equivalent (Alternative) Quality Control, Patient Safety, and Risk Management—our annual leadership conference features a full-day hands-on workshop, Risk Management Tools for Improved Patient Safety. Presented by experts in their fields, this event voices the most current perspectives from industry, government, and healthcare professionals on these prevalent topics. This workshop is aimed at clinicians, laboratorians, manufacturers, and government representatives interested in implementing a process to identify the hazards associated with their areas of specialty, to estimate and evaluate the resulting risks, to control these risks, and to monitor the effectiveness of that control in their home institutions. The workshop is on 28 April and offers attendees continuing education credit.

A dynamic, interactive program, the CLSI 2006 Leadership Conference (26 to 28 April) combines consensus standards development meetings with in-depth training sessions. The general session addresses risk management in emergency situations, from both legal and international perspectives. In addition, both the president’s reception on the evening of the 26th and a general reception on the 27th from 7:00 to 9:00 pm will give attendees ample time to network, meet new colleagues, and renew old friendships. The conference is conveniently located at Tysons Corner (15 minutes from the Dulles Airport) in Vienna, Virginia.

Take the time to meet with and learn from your colleagues and peers from around the world, keep up with the latest trends in laboratory and patient testing, and get continuing education credit to meet your professional needs.

Finally, we wish to thank in advance our events sponsors for your dedicated support: AdvaMed, AACC, AAFP, AARC, ASCLS, ASCP, ASTM, CAP, CDC, CLMA, CMS, COLA, CSMLS, IFCC, and IQLM.

I look forward to seeing you in April.

Glen