Advancing Quality and Innovation in Laboratory Diagnostics

Description

Join the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine (ADLM, formerly AACC), the Pakistan Society of Chemical Pathologists (PSCP), and the Pakistan Kidney and Liver Institute & Research Centre (PKLI&RC) for a virtual 3-day workshop from February 10 - 12, 2026. Each day will feature two presentations from Asia-Pacific Subcommittee members lasting from 6:00 - 8:10pm PKT (8 - 10:10am US ET). This workshop is supported by the Global Lab Quality Initiative funded by the Wallace H. Coulter Foundation.

View the event program here.

Target audience

• Lab supervisors
• Lab directors (and/or assistant directors)
• Lab managers (supervisory and/or non-supervisory)
• Pathologists
• Fellows

Learning objectives

And that end of this activity, participants will be able to:

• Introduce and reinforce best practices for quality control in the laboratory
• Identify methods of POCT implementation, connectivity, and quality management
• Understand the integration of emerging tools, such as digitization, digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence, in the laboratory

Speakers

Anu Maharjan, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
Assistant Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Director of Clinical Chemistry Laboratory at UConn Health, Farmington, CT

Qing H. Meng, PhD, MD, DABCC, FADLM
Professor and Section Chief of Clinical Chemistry and Special Chemistry Laboratories
Department of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center

Bob Rej, PhD
Associate Professor of Biomedical Sciences at the State University of New York at Albany, School of Public Health
Director of Clinical Chemistry & Hematology, Wadsworth Center for Laboratories and Research, New York State Department of Health in Albany, NY

Y. Victoria Zhang, MBA, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
Professor, Vice Chair for Clinical Enterprise, and Division Chief for Clinical Chemistry in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center