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.
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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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!
Schedule product demonstrations to connect one-on-one with experts from Abbott and learn about the systems and offerings most suitable for your lab.
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Join these MED Talks to hear from industry experts, top researchers, and key opinion leaders on topics impacting the healthcare landscape.
| Topic | Session Location/ Time | Date/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 |
Attend these exclusive sessions to hear Abbott's customers share their experience with Abbott’s solutions.
| Topic | Session Location | Date/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
| 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 ServicesDepartment of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, Torrance Memorial Medical Center |
Digitizing the Lab: Enhancing Lab Operations
| 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 ServicesDepartment of Pathology and Clinical Laboratory, Torrance Memorial Medical Center |
Reserve your spot today for Abbott's Scientific Industry Workshops on Tuesday, July 25.
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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/Title | Poster Author | Poster 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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