American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
Mississippi, Louisiana & Tennessee 2012 Joint Annual
Meeting
April 10-13, 2012
Tunica, MS
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REGISTRATION
Tuesday, April 10
Wednesday, April 11
Thursday, April 12
Friday, April 13
STUDENT ACTIVITIES
Tuesday, April 10
Wednesday, April 11
Thursday, April 12
EXHIBITS
Wednesday, April 11
Thursday, April 12
9:30 AM – 12:00 PM
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
7:00 AM – 8:00 AM
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM
MLS/MLT Lunch (Provided with full reg)
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
MLS/MLT Meeting (Reading of Rules)
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
MLS/MLT Student Bowl (Later if needed)
 3:00PM – 3:30PM Ice Cream Social
8:00 AM – 11:O0 AM
11:30AM – 12:30PM
1:00 PM – 2:30 PM
6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
MLS/MLT Student Bowl
Student Forum & Elections
(Lunch provided to all students with Full
Meeting Registration)
Keynote Speaker
Welcome Reception & Exhibits
11:00 AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch & Awards Banquet
12:00 PM – 3:00 PM
3:00PM – 7:00 PM
6:30 PM – 10:00 PM
Exhibitors set up
VIP Exhibit Hours (Invitation)
Opening of Exhibits and Reception
9:00 AM – 4:00 PM
9:30 AM – 11:00 AM
Exhibit Hours
Dedicated Exhibit Hours
ADDITIONAL MEETING ACTIVITIES
Tuesday, April 10
11:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Wednesday, April 11
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Food Function for all with full registration
*Including students
*Ticket required for lunch
Educator’s Luncheon
Thursday, April 12
9:30AM – 11:00AM
11:00AM – 1:00 PM
State Society Board and Business Meetings
Lunch and Awards Banquet
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MEETING SCHEDULE
Tuesday April 10
9:00AM – 12:00 PM
Registration
11:00 PM – 12:30 PM
CLS/CLT Student Bowl Meeting /Lunch
(Reading of Rules)
 All student bowl participants must attend
1:00 PM – 6:00 PM
(later if needed)
CLS/CLT Student Bowls
CLS Student Bowls
CLT Student Bowls
Wednesday April 11
7:30 AM – 8:30 AM
Registration
8:00 AM – 11:00 AM
CLS/CLT Student Bowls
CLS Student Bowls
CLT Student Bowls
11:00AM – 1:00PM
Registration
11:30 AM – 12:30PM
Student Forum Luncheons & Elections
 Lunch will be provided to all students with Full Meeting Registration
 MS Meeting and Lunch –
 LA Meeting and Lunch –
 TN Meeting and Lunch-
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Session 1 - Educators’ Luncheon (Pre-registration required)
1.5 Contact Hours
Professional Society or National Certification: What’s the Difference?
This session will discuss strategies educators can use to explain differences between
Professional Societies and National Certification. Many working technologists do not
know the difference. Educators must take the initiative to explain the mission and goals
of each to our students and to laboratory professionals already in the laboratory
workforce.
Cathy Robinson, MSA, MLS(ASCP)
International Technical Teaching Manager with ASCP Institute for
Global Outreach
Assistant Professor LSUA
Alexandria, LA
Moderator:
Room:
12:00 PM – 3:00PM
Exhibit Set-Up
1:00PM – 2:30 PM
Session 2 – OPENNING KEYNOTE
1.5 Contact Hours
Normal Is Gone and It Won’t Be Back!
This session will provide attendees with strategies for coping with and embracing change.
Topics will include: Trends of change in the workplace, Embracing change
enthusiastically, Refuting the “I quit” mentality, Motivational strategies, and more..
Janie Walters, MS
Champion Communications, owner & CEO
Professional Speaker/Trainer
Madison, MS
Moderator:
Room:
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Wednesday April 11
3:00PM – 4:30PM
Session 3
1.5 Contact Hours
To Boldly Go Where No Man Has Ever Gone Before
This session will discuss leadership skills for the 21st Century! Topic will include:
Problems leaders will face: coping with change, negative attitudes; Tools leaders must
use: listening skills, the motivating power of praise, humor skills; Qualities leaders need:
vision, decision-making skills, people power, building and directing teams, motivation
skills.
Janie Walters, MS
Champion Communications, owner & CEO
Professional Speaker/Trainer
Madison, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 4
1.5 Contact Hours
Hematology Review
This session will provide an overview of hematology and coagulation for students and
laboratory professionals. Test-taking strategies for certification exam will be included.
Tom Wiggers
Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science
University of Mississippi Medical Center
School of Health Related Professions
Jackson, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 5
1.5 Contact Hours
Salivary Cortisol Levels in Students Challenged with a Testing Stressor
This presentation will discuss the interdisciplinary research project conducted on physical
therapy students in their first year of a three-year entry level doctorate program. The
students were asked to collect baseline salivary cortisol levels during a relatively stress
free time during the Fall semester. The following Spring semester, the same students
were asked to collect salivary cortisol levels the evening before and morning of their
Kinesiology exam. The samples were analyzed to determine if the students lost the
normal diurnal variation of cortisol due to stress.
Kathleen Kenwright
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis TN
Moderator:
Room:
Session 6
1.5 Contact Hours
Nursing Initiatives
Donna Patterson, MHA, MT(ASCP)SLS
Director Laboratory Operations - Pathology St. Jude Children's
Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
3:00PM – 7:00PM
Exhibit VIP Showings (only by invitation of exhibitors)
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Wednesday April 11
5:00PM – 6:30 PM
Session 7
1.5 Contact Hours
Hematology Review - Continued
This session will provide an overview of hematology and coagulation for students and
laboratory professionals. Test-taking strategies for certification exam will be included.
Tom Wiggers
Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science
University of Mississippi Medical Center
School of Health Related Professions
Jackson, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 8
1.5 Contact Hours
What is the Laboratory's Role in Infection Control & Epidemiology
Through collaboration, laboratory professionals and infection preventionists can develop
a new understanding of each other’s practice. With improved communication between
the laboratory and infection control, we can facilitate a more rapid response to the ever
challenging face of health care-associated infections, such as surgical site infections,
urinary tract infections, pneumonia, blood stream infections and outbreak investigations.
Infection preventionists and laboratory professionals are two vital health care disciplines
that complement one another in providing quality patient care.
Felecia P. Denson, BS, MT(ASCP)
St. Dominic - Jackson Memorial Hospital
Infection Control
Jackson, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 9
1.5 Contact Hours
Hemoglobinopathy/Thalassemia Case Studies: The Marriage of HPLC and
Capillary Electrophoresis
The detection of hemoglobinopathies and thalassemias has been more refined with
techniques such as HPLC and capillary electrophoresis replacing older electrophoresis
methods. This session will review the molecular basis of hemoglobin diseases, the theory
of separation techniques, and case studies will be presented.
Dennis Jay, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Technical Director, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Informatics,
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
Session 10
Chemistry Topic
1.5 Contact Hours
Andrea M. Rose, Ph.D., M.B.A.
Senior Clinical Support Consultant
Roche Diagnostics Clinical Support
Indianapolis, IN
Moderator:
Room:
6:30PM – 10:00PM
Opening of Exhibits and Reception
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Thursday April 12
7:00AM – 8:00 AM
Registration
8:00AM – 9:30 AM
Session 11
1.5 Contact Hours
General Review in Chemistry
This session will provide an overview of clinical chemistry for students and laboratory
professionals.
Stacy Vance
Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science
University of Mississippi Medical Center
School of Health Related Professions
Jackson, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 12
1.5 Contact Hours
Keys to Finding Success
This general session will provide strategies achieve success and reach your goals in work
and life. The strategies are based on Coach John Wooten’s Pyramid of Success.
Tim Henry, MS, MT(ASCP)
Lead Technologist
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 13
1.5 Contact Hours
Pre-Transfusion Testing – The Evolution from Manual to Automated Techniques
This session will include a brief refresher on factors influencing antigen-antibody
reactions, a review of fluid-phase testing and solid-phase testing, and an overview of four
automated testing platforms currently available to the U.S. transfusion service market.
Nancy Cornwell, M.Ed.,MLS(ASCP)SBB
Blood Bank Specialist
Bio-Rad Laboratories
Moderator:
Room:
Session 14
Microbiology Topic
1.5 Contact Hours
Donna Sullivan
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Moderator:
Room:
9:30AM – 11:00AM
Dedicated Exhibit Hours
State Society Business and Board Meetings:
MS Board/Business Meeting
LA Board/Business Meeting
TN Board/Business Meeting
Room:
Room:
Room:
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Thursday April 12
11:00AM – 1:00 PM
Lunch and Awards Banquet
Please come and help us recognize deserving individuals for their hard work
throughout the year. Lunch will be served to all registrants during the awards
presentation.
1:00PM – 2:30 PM
Session 15
1.5 Contact Hours
Clinical Microbiology Student Review
A pictorial review of selected microbial pathogens. Images will depict disease processes,
microscopy, culture and identification.
Mary Lux, Ph.D, MT(ASCP)
Chair, Department of Medical Technology
University of Southern Mississippi
Hattiesburg, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 16
1.5 Contact Hours
Chemical Hygiene – Right to Know
Discussion of best practices, training and documentation for Chemical Hygiene; Updates
on Hazard Communication Standard vs. Global Harmonized System of Classification and
Labeling
Evelyn Weaver, MS, MLS(ASCP)
Lab Safety/Chemical Hygiene Officer – Memorial Hospital
Adjunct Faculty – The University of Southern Mississippi
Gulfport, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 17
Coagulation Topic
Dr. William Rock
1.5 Contact Hours
Moderator:
Room:
Session 18
1.5 Contact Hours
It's a Multigenerational World
The characteristics and work expectations of Veterans, Baby Boomers, Generation X,
Generation Y, and Linksters will be discussed as well as the work expectations of those
in the workforce. Strategies for successfully engaging all actively working generations as
association members and volunteers will also be presented.
Cheryl R. Caskey, MA, MLS, SBB
Compliance Officer
Omega Diagnostics, L.L.C.
Shreveport, LA
Moderator:
Room:
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Thursday April 12
3:00 PM – 4:30 PM
Session 19
1.5 Contact Hours
General Review in Immunohematology
This session will provide an overview of Immunohematology and Immunology for
students and laboratory professionals.
Renee Wilkins, PhD, MLS(ASCP)CM
Assistant Professor, Clinical Laboratory Science
Clinical Coordinator, CLS Progression Program
University of Mississippi Medical Center
School of Health Related Professions
Jackson, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 20
Lamellar Bodies
1.5 Contact Hours
Patrick Kyle, Ph.D
University of Mississippi Medical Center
Jackson, MS
Moderator:
Room:
Session 21
1.5 Contact Hours
HLA Typing for Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation
There will be an introduction to basic Immunology so that concepts of HLA can be
understood. There is will be explanation of the concepts of Histocompatibility and
Immunogenetics and how they apply to Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation.
Techniques used in an HLA laboratory and nomenclature will be explained. Assigning
HLA haplotypes will be explained.
Paula Arnold, Ph.D., D(ABHI)
Technical Specialist – HLA
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
Session 22
1.5 Contact Hours
Inter-profession Simulation: Making it Work
This lecture will describe how to create an inter-profession simulation laboratory exercise
where MT, RN, and 4th yr medical students went through blood administration and
transfusion reaction laboratory simulation exercise together.
Wyenona “Nonie” Hicks, MS, MT(ASCP)SBB
Assistant Professor, Admissions Committee Chair
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Session 23
1.5 Contact Hours
Student Presentations
This session will consist of student presentations of research and case studies.
Moderator:
Room:
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Session 24
1.5 Contact Hours
Molecular Microbiology: A Systematic Approach
This session will discuss molecular testing used in Microbiology.
LaTara Johnson Brown, MBA, MLS(ASCP)CM
Krystal R. Triplett, MT (ASCP)
Molecular Microbiology and Virology
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
Session 25
1.5 Contact Hours
Body Fluids: A Practical Approach
Body fluids continue to be a challenge in any lab in which they are examined. This
course will include an overview of sample preparation including gross examination, cell
counts, and preparation of cytocentrifuge slides for cellular examination. There will be a
detailed examination of normal and abnormal cellular morphology in cerebrospinal fluid,
serous fluids (pleural, pericardial, and peritoneal), and synovial fluid.
LeiLani Collins, MS, MT(ASCP)SH, CLS(NCA)
Associate Professor, Medical Technology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
Session 26
My Life as A Traveling Tech
Norma Bivona
Moderator:
Room:
1.5 Contact Hours
Friday April 13
7:30 AM – 9:00 AM
Registration
9:00 AM – 10:30 AM
Session 27
1.5 Contact Hours
Introduction of Cytogenetics to Study Acute Leukemia.
This session will provide an exposure to the methodologies of Chromosome analysis and
Fluroescence in situ Hybridization (FISH) and evolving molecular technologies to study
acute leukemia.
Susana C. Raimondi, Ph.D., FACMG
Director of Cytogenetics Laboratory
Department of Pathology (Room 4023A)
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
Session 28
1.5 Contact Hours
The One Minute Clinical Instructor
Clinical rotations are the capstone of MLS/MLT training programs. To improve clinical
instruction, development of questioning strategies can be employed to foster active
learning experiences where learners weigh their performance against expected standards
and refine practice. Learn techniques to assist preceptors in teaching students or new
employees at the bench.
Linda L. Ross, MS, MLS(ASCP)
Associate Professor,
Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
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University of Tennessee Health Science Center
College of Allied Health Sciences
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
Friday April 13
Session 29
1.5 Contact Hours
Coagulation CSI: Case Study Investigation
This session will use a case study approach to review the coagulation cascade, focusing
on assessment and diagnosis of coagulopathies. This session will analyze real case
studies utilizing coagulation algorithms to interpret and correlate coagulation tests results
to the appropriate disease state. The session will cover coagulation disorders including
circulating inhibitors and factor deficiencies..
Vanessa Johnson, MBA, MA, MT(ASCP)
Program Director – School of Medical Technology
Overton Brooks VA Medical Center
Shreveport, LA
Moderator:
Room:
Session 30
1.5 Contact Hours
INFECTIOUS DISEASE HEADLINES…BREAKING NEWS!!!
This Intermediate Level session will cover “Outbreaking” news in infectious diseases,
including high hospital sepsis rates, pediatric viral outbreaks, noroviruses across the U.S.,
food-borne “sproutbreaks” at delis, Campylobacter in raw milk, antibiotic resistance,
where avian influenza is roosting, and are prion diseases coming to TN?!
Linda L. Williford Pifer, Ph.D., SM(ASCP),GS(ABB)
Professor, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, TN
Moderator:
Room:
11:00 AM – 12:30PM
Session 31
Closing Keynote –
1.5 Contact Hours
Diane Wyatt
Moderator:
Room
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Sciences through the ASCLS PACE Program.
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American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
Louisiana, Mississippi & Tennessee 2012 Joint Annual Meeting
April 10-13, 2012
Harrah’s Casino
Tunica, Ms
EARLY REGISTRATION MUST BE POSTMARKED ON OR BEFORE MARCH 23, 20122
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