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Call for Nominations

Expanded Newborn Screening by Tandem Mass Spectrometry

The Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute requests volunteers to serve as subcommittee members for a new voluntary consensus project. The project description and specific qualifications needed are provided below:

NEW PROJECT:
Expanded Newborn Screening by Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Description:
With the recent advances in technology, newborn screening in clinical laboratories has expanded beyond the traditional testing to include additional treatable disorders. These include many of the acylcarnitine and amino acid disorders. This proposed guideline will provide laboratories performing expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry with recommendations for specimen handling, specimen analysis, and data acquisition/examination. The audience for this document will be directors of laboratories, laboratorians from reference and state health laboratories performing expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry, and manufacturers of the instruments, quality control materials, and reagents used in performing expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry.

Specific Expertise/Work Experience Needed:

Clinical Expertise:
Medical genetics
Clinicians
Pathologists

Laboratory Expertise:
Laboratorians involved in performing expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry in hospital-based, reference, and state health laboratories

Laboratory Directors
Representatives from Manufacturers of:
Instruments, QC materials, and reagents used in performing expanded newborn screening by tandem mass spectrometry

Accreditation/Regulatory:
Representatives from accrediting and regulatory bodies

Professional Organizations:
ACMG
AACC

The deadline to submit a nomination form, including a curriculum vitae and disclosure of interests form, is 17 December 2007. Send to Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute, 940 West Valley Road, Suite 1400, Wayne, PA 19087.