28th AMLI ANNUAL MEETING 2015

FRIDAY, AUGUST 14

7:30 am

Continental Breakfast

8:30-8:35 am

Opening Remarks
Susan Orton, Ph.D., AMLI President

Plenary Session 1
New Insights, Test Updates and Emerging Technologies
for the Clinical Immunology Laboratory
Co-Chairs: Antony Bakke, Ph.D. and Barbara Detrick, Ph.D.

8:35 am

Identification and Monitoring of IgG-4 Related Diseases
Shiv Pillai, M.D., Ph.D., Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, Massachusetts

9:20 am

Autoimmune Diagnostics: Merging New Autoantibody Detection
Technologies

Peter D. Burbelo, Ph.D., NIDCR, Neurobiology and Pain Therapeutics Section, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland

10:05 am

Break

10:30 am

Next Generation Sequencing Technologies: Application and
Challenges for Cancer Genomics

Nirali Patel, M.D., Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina

11:15 am

Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy of Cancer: Vital
Insights from the Immunology Laboratory

Saar I. Gill, M.D., Ph.D., Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

12:00-1:30 pm  

Luncheon Seminar hosted by Thermo Fisher Scientific
ANA – One Lab’s Experience in Changing from IFA to EliA

James D. Peele, Ph.D., Director of Clinical Chemistry, Baptist
Medical Center, Jacksonville, Florida

PLENARY SESSION 2
Hot Topics:
Monogenic Immune Defects: Models for Human Immunobiology

Co-Chairs: Vijaya Knight, M.D., Ph.D. and Roshini Abraham, Ph.D.

2:00 pm

 

Overview of PIDs as Models for Understanding the Human Immune System
Maurice O’Gorman, Ph.D., D(ABMLI), MBA, M.Sc., Children’s Hospital, Los Angeles, California

2:45 pm  

RAG1 Deficiency – Molecular Mechanisms and Gene Correction
Yu Nee Lee, Ph.D., Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts

3:30 pm

GATA2 Deficiency – Understanding Hematopoiesis and Immunology
from a Single Gene Defect
Alexandra Freeman, M.D., NIAID, National Institutes of Health

4:15 pm

SCID Newborn Screen – What To Do When the Result is Abnormal
Jordan Abbott, M.D., National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado

5:00-7:00 pm

Meet the Exhibitors – Poster Session Reception

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15

7:30 am

Continental Breakfast

PLENARY SESSION 3
Infectious Disease Outbreaks: Epidemiology, Response, and Control

Co-Chairs: Harry Prince, Ph.D. and Amy L. Leber. Ph.D.

8:30 am

Vaccination in the 21st Century: Successes and Challenges
Michael T. Brady, M.D., Nationwide Children’s, Columbus, Ohio

8:55 am

Diagnostic Dilemmas for a Vaccine Preventable Disease: Pertussis
Amy L. Leber, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Nationwide Children’s Hospital, Columbus, Ohio and Harry Prince, Ph.D., D(ABMLI), Viracor-IBT Laboratories, Los Angeles, California

10:00 am

Break

10:30 am

Outbreak Response for Vaccine Reportable Diseases: Measles and
Mumps in Ohio

Elizabeth Koch, M.D., M.P.H and T.M., Columbus Public Health, Columbus, Ohio

11:15 am

Fearbola vs. Ebola – A Hospital and Community Response When
a Potential Patient with Ebola Comes Home to Plan Her Wedding

Thomas S. Alexander, Ph.D., D(ABMLI), Summa Health System, Akron, Ohio

12:00-1:30 pm

Luncheon Seminar hosted by Inova Diagnostics:
Integrating the Autoimmune Lab: Improving Quality and Efficiency Through Automation

Gabriella Lakos, M.D., Ph.D., ABMLI, Medical Director, Director of Assay Development, Inova Diagnostics
Claudia Ibarra, Vice President Laboratory Operations, Exagen Diagnostics, Inc.

2:00-3:00 pm 

Erwin Neter Memorial Lecture
Curiosity, Serendipity and the Scientific Mindset – Observations of an Immunobiologist

Richard J. Ablin, Ph.D., D.Sc. (Hon), Dr. h.c.
University of Arizona College of Medicine, The Arizona Cancer
Center and BIO5 Institute, Tucson, Arizona

3:00-3:30 pm

  

Abstract Award Presentations

4:00-6:00 pm

Meet the Exhibitors Poster Session Reception

6:15 pm

Annual Dinner
Superior Seafood and Oyster Bar
Enjoy an authentic New Orleans meal! Then bus back to the hotel
or into the heart of the French Quarter for nighttime exploration!

SUNDAY, AUGUST 16

7:30 am

Continental Breakfast

PLENARY SESSION 4
Diagnosis and Management of Food Allergies

Co-Chairs: Trivikram Dasu, Ph.D. and Evan Ntrivalas, M.D., Ph.D.

8:30 am

Food Allergy: What it Is and What it Isn’t
Victoria Dimitriades, M.D., Louisiana State University Health
Sciences Center and Children’s Hospital of New Orleans, New Orleans, Louisiana

9:15 am

Pediatric Food Allergies: Diagnostic Challenges and Cutting
Edge Testing

Bruce J. Lanser, M.D., National Jewish Health, Denver, Colorado

10:00 am  

Break

10:30 am  

Peanut Anaphylaxis: From Bench to Bedside
Devi Jhaveri, D.O.

Case Western Reserve University/University Hospitals,
Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine and
UH Regional Hospitals, Richmond Medical Center, Cleveland, Ohio

11:15 am

Red Meat, Ticks and Food Allergy: Possible Role for
Galactose-alpha-1, 3-galactose (Alpha Gal)

Gailen D. Marshall, Jr., M.D., Ph.D. FACP DFACAAI FAAAAI, The University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, Mississippi

12:00-1:30 pm

FREE AFTERNOON

MONDAY, AUGUST 17

7:30 am  

Continental Breakfast

PLENARY SESSION 5
A Case Study Approach to Troubleshooting IFA

Chairs: Susan S. Copple, M.S., MT(ASCP) SI and Carol Buchner, B.S., MT(ASCP) CLS

8:30 am

Overview of Systemic Autoimmune Rheumatic Diseases –
Emphasis on SLE

Rebecca Kramer, Lupus Foundation of America Texas, Houston, Texas

9:15 am

An Overview of ANCA Associated Vasculitis
Steven R. Ytterberg, M.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota

10:00 am

Break

10:30 am

Troubleshooting IFA Testing: A Case Study Approach
Robert Boyes, B.S. and Susan S. Copple, M.S., MT(ASCP) SI, Inova Diagnostics, San Diego, California

11:15 am  

Systemic Necrotizing Vasculitis
Luis R. Espinoza, M.D.
Thibodaux Regional Rheumatology Clinic, Thibodaux, Louisiana

12:00 noon

Closing Remarks