Join Abbott at AACC 2023

July 25 - 27  |  Anaheim, CA | Booth #1111

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IT’S MORE THAN A TEST. IT’S DIAGNOSTICS AT ABBOTT.

Visit Abbott’s booth to see how together, we can elevate the role of diagnostics, collaborate to improve outcomes and empower stakeholders across the care continuum to transform the lives of patients.

ACHIEVE MEASURABLY BETTER HEALTHCARE PERFORMANCE WITH OUR PERSONALIZED SOLUTIONS

Join our medical and scientific leaders as they host industry experts and collectively tackle current healthcare topics and trends across multiple MED Talks sessions and Scientific Industry Workshops. Hear from our resourceful advocates about our harmonized systems and intelligent insights – to help guide your lab, your health system and your patient’s journey.

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Maximize Your Day

Get the most out of your time at AACC by signing-up for a variety of educational sessions offered by Abbott. Within out booth, you can attend Product Demonstrations, MED Talks and learn more about our customer experiences during our Lab Voices Sessions. Scientific Industry Workshops will also be hosted off-site. You won't want to miss out - reserve your spots today!

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Demonstrations

 

Schedule product demonstrations to connect one-on-one with experts from Abbott and learn about the systems and offerings most suitable for your lab.

GLP Systems

Track

Alinity

Systems

 ALINIQ Digital Health

 Solutions

*In the United States, the GLP systems Track is 510k cleared, but not yet commercially available and connections to clinical analyzers/systems are under development.

MED TALKS 

 

Join these MED Talks to hear from industry experts, top researchers, and key opinion leaders on topics impacting the healthcare landscape. 

TopicSession Location/ TimeDate/Time Session Speaker

Hepatitis B Screening: New Recommendations and New Diagnostic Tools

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth #1111

Tuesday July 25th

10:30-11:00 AM PT

Moderator: Alex Carterson, MD, PhD Divisional Vice President, Medical, Abbott

Speaker: Prof. Mark Sulkowski, MD PhD Professor John Hopkins University Baltimore, MD

 

Lab Informatics: Clinical Algorithms and Trends Using Lab Data and Clinical Decision Support Tools

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Tuesday July 25th

11:15-11:45 AM PT

Moderator: Paul Labeodan, MD, MSHI Medical Director, Software and Informatics, Abbott

Speaker: Babatope Fatuyi, MD CMIO University of Texas Health Science Center (UTHealth), Houston

Concussion: Facts vs Fiction

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

 

Tuesday July 25th

12:00-12:30 PM PT

Moderator: Beth McQuiston, MD, RN Medical Director, Neurology, Abbott

Speaker: Adam Goodcoff, DO Emergency Medicine Resident Physician University of Illinois, Chicago

Remote Specimen Collection: Pillar or Pitfall of Virtual Medicine

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

 

Tuesday July 25th

1:00-1:30 PM PT

Moderator: Randy Schneider, PhD Medical Director, Homeostasis, Abbott

Speaker: Ian L. Gunsolus, PhD Medical Laboratory Scientific Director Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine HealthPartners

Cardio-oncology: The Critical Role of the Lab at the Interface Between Cancer and the Heart

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

 

Tuesday July 25th

2:00-2:30 PM PT

Moderator: Gillian Murtagh, M.D., M.B.A. Medical Director of Systems, Cardiology / Pulmonology, Abbott

Speaker: Christopher W. Farnsworth, PhD Associate Professor, Pathology & Immunology Section | Head, Clinical Chemistry Barnes Jewish Hospital and Washington University

 

The Crystal Ball You Wish You Had-Using Insights from Pregnancy to Guide Health Screening for Women

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Tuesday July 25th

3:30-4:00 PM PT

Moderator: Liza Kunz, MD Systems Director for Endocrinology and Reproductive Health, Abbott

Speaker: Christina Han, MD Division Director, Maternal-Fetal Medicine Associate Clinical Professor UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

 

Overcoming Barriers for Implementation of New Tests into Clinical Practice

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Wednesday July 26th

10:30-11:00 AM PT

Moderator: Paul Julicher, PhD Medical Director, HEOR, Core Diagnostics, Abbott

Speaker: Nicole Tolan, PhD Associate Director, Chemistry and Medical Director, POCT, Assistant Professor of Pathology Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA

 

Lab-lead Innovation Enables Recognition for Healthcare Excellence: Unifying for Something Greater

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111



Wednesday July 26th

12:30-1:00 PM PT

Moderator: Melissa Ryan, PhD UNIVANTS of Healthcare Excellence, Abbott

Speaker: Dr. Barnali Das, MD, DNB, PGDHHM, FAACC Lead Consultant, Biochemistry & Immunology Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital & Medical Research Institute, Mumbai, India

 

Maximizing the Power of Laboratory Automation: Why, When, and How?

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Wednesday July 26th

1:15- 1:45 PM PT

Moderator: Jim Hart, MD, PhD Director Medical Affairs, Automation, Abbott

Speaker: Leonard M. Holtegaard (Tad) Senior Systems Engineer, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Mayo Clinic

 

MDS and Recent Lab Tests in Diagnosis and Prognosis

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Wednesday July 26th

3:00-3:30 PM PT

Moderator: Christine Rongey, MD Medical Director, Hematology, Abbott

Speaker: John Scherkowski, MD Oncologist Scripps Hospital

Lab Voices Sessions

 

Attend these exclusive sessions to hear Abbott's customers share their experience with Abbott’s solutions.   

 

TopicSession LocationDate/Time Session Speaker

The Next Level of Quality for QC

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Tuesday July 25th

3:00-3:30 PM PT

Moderator: Sean Duncan Ambassador, Abbott

Speaker: Dr. Jon Gronbach, System Laboratory Director, Baystate Health

 

Elevating Healthcare Performance across the Largest Private Hospital Network in Mexico through Innovative Automation Solutions

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Tuesday July 25th

4:00-4:30 PM PT

Moderator:  Jim Hart, MD, PhD Director Medical Affairs, Automation, Abbott

Speaker: Rafael Ochoa Auerbach, PhD Corporate Director of Diagnostics Services Hospital Angeles Health System

 

Optimize, Elevate, Empower:  ​One Lab’s End-to-End Journey ​through Digital Integration

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Tuesday July 25th

4:30-5:00 PM PT

Moderator: Drinda Swanson​, District Manager, ​Abbott

Speaker: Lauren Thomas, MSHM, BS, MT (ASCP), CLSSBB, FACHE​ Executive Director of Laboratory and ​Outreach Lab Services​ Southeast Health​

Speaker: Aaron Schmidt, MHA, MLS (ASCP)CM​, Director of Laboratory Services​ Southeast Health

Molecular Laboratory Crossroads Post COVID: Innovate or Else?

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

 

Wednesday July 26

9:45-10:15 AM PT

Moderator: Emily Eisenhauer, Director Product Management, Abbott

Speaker: Chuanyi Mark Lu, MD, Professor of Lab Medicine, UC San Francisco, Chief Lab Medicine Service, San Francisco VA Health Care System

 

Implementing Innovative Solutions in the ​
Lab-A Positive Impact on Your Staff

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Wednesday July 26

11:30-12:00 AM PT

Moderator: Jon Burgart​, Director​ US Marketing Abbott

Speaker: Ihab Abumuhor, MSHCA, MSCS, MT (ASCP) SBB​ Director, Laboratory Services​Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory​, Torrance Memorial Medical Center 

 

Digitizing the Lab: Enhancing Lab Operations ​
and Staff Productivity

 

MED Talks Stage, Abbott Booth 1111

Wednesday July 26

2:00-2:30 PM PT

Moderator: Jon Burgart​, Director​ US Marketing Abbott

Speaker: Ihab Abumuhor, MSHCA, MSCS, MT (ASCP) SBB​ Director, Laboratory Services​Department of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory​, Torrance Memorial Medical Center 

Scientific Industry Workshops

Reserve your spot today for Abbott's Scientific Industry Workshops on Tuesday, July 25. 

Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) requires a complicated workup that can be supported by Artificial Intelligence (AI). Initial findings using AI have shown that MDS can be preliminarily identified with the data from an automated hematology analyzer.

Scientific Posters

Posters will be on display from 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. in the Anaheim Convention Center on their assigned day. Poster Authors will be available for discussion next to their posters on their day assigned from 1:30 - 2:30 p.m.

 

Poster Topic/TitlePoster AuthorPoster ID
Tuesday July 25

MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE

Performance Comparison of the Alinity i Hepatitis C Core Antigen Assay in Routine Laboratory Testing vs. HCV RNA Testing​

 Ian Gunsolus​

A-244

HIL FOR INTERFERENCE DETECTION​

Abbott Alinity ci System Automated Sample Interference Indices for Immunoassays​

 

Marvin Berman​

A-076​

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY​

Clinical Performance of Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury​

 

Karla Grasso​

 

A-093​

ALINITY CC ASSAYS EVALUATION​

Accuracy Based Sigma Metrics of Alinity c System as Benchmarked against Roche c701​

Juru Miao​A-078​

TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY​

Performance Evaluation of GFAP and UCH-L1 Biomarkers for Traumatic Brain Injury in the Alinity i TBI Test​

Saul Datwyler​A-094​

CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (CLL)​

White Blood Cell Measurands, Flagging and Scatter Plot Patterns in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia​

Sydney Silva​A-156​
Wednesday July 26

WAVE 1 NEXT GENERATION CLINICAL CHEMISTRY ASSAYS​

Analytical Performance Evaluation of Sigma Strong Clinical Chemistry Assays on the Alinity c System​

Vathany Kulsingham​B-098​

HbA1c​

Storage Stability of HbA1c in Whole Blood Tubes at Room Temperature on the Abbott Alinity c Clinical Chemistry System​

Marvin Berman​B-097​

NEXT GENERATION CLINICAL CHEMISTRY ASSAYS​

Analytical Assessment of Abbott’s Sigma STRONG assays on the Alinity c and ARCHITECT c Systems​

Stuart Cox​A-079​

ASSAY EVALUATION​

Evaluation of Thirteen Commercially Available Clinical Chemistry Assays on the Alinity® c System​

Hao Li​B-118​

MULTIPLE MYELOMA - PARAPROTEINEMIAS - TUMOR MARKER​

Drift of Freelite on Optilite​

Vathany Kulsingham​B-380​

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