CLSI U Educational Workshops
Workshops bring leaders and learners together in interactive sessions that help participants understand particular topics of interest in today’s clinical laboratory.
Attendees connect with the experts to ask questions, get answers, and learn from real-life examples. Breakout sessions provide hands-on experience and an opportunity for networking, all while earning CEUs.
Top 10 Reasons for Attending an EP23 Workshop
1. Receive the EP23 Document, Workbook, and Worksheet. These materials are included with your registration. Your fee is reduced if you already own the EP23 document, and you get the Workbook and Worksheet to complete your collection.
2. Hear From the Experts. The workshop speakers, from both the government and professions, discuss their unique perspectives on risk assessment and quality control.
3. Learn the Latest CMS/CLIA Plans. Get the most up-to-date news on CMS/CLIA’s plans to recognize the concepts of EP23 and discontinue use of the original equivalent quality control (EQC).
4. Get Answers. Satisfy all questions about implementing an individualized quality control plan (IQCP) and get advice from the speakers and other workshop attendees.
5. Expand Your Network .Meet laboratory and manufacturing professionals for a chance to exchange ideas about implementing a quality control plan (QCP).
6. Review Real Life Examples .Hear examples about the creation of moderate complexity QCPs from the laboratory director perspective.
7. Gain Hands-on Experience .Collaborate in breakout sessions to create an IQCP using the CLSI Worksheet.
8. Earn CEUs. 5.0 P.A.C.E.® CEUs will be awarded for your participation.
9. Join the Discussion. Become part of the elite group that CLSI will call upon for future ideas and information relative to the implementation of EP23 concepts.
10. Share Your Knowledge. Take the tools and your new understanding of how to implement EP23 back to your facility, so that everyone can reduce risk through a comprehensive QCP!
Tools for Tackling EP23™: Laboratory Quality Control Based on Risk Management Workshops
June 13, 2013, 8:30-4:00 PM CDT
Allina Commons at Midtown Exchange
2925 Chicago Ave, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55407 USA
Register for June now!
Price: $249–$299* | CEUs: 5.0 awarded from P.A.C.E.®*
Participants will learn more about the new CLSI document Laboratory Quality Control Based on Risk Management; Approved Guideline (EP23-A™), and its companion products.
The workshop will focus on improving patient care through the implementation of risk management, and discuss the proper use of new quality control (QC) tools based on this guideline.
In a special breakout session, the attendees will create an individual QC plan that addresses risk management by assessing the measuring system, laboratory setting, and clinical application of a test.
Speakers include:
Luann Ochs, MS
Senior Vice President – Operations, CLSI
Marcy Anderson, MS, MT(ASCP)
Director of Education, CLSI
James H. Nichols, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry Baystate Medical Center
Sarah Bennett, MT(ASCP)
Medical Technologist, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
*$249. For those sites that have already purchased CLSI document EP23. This price includes lunch, the EP23 Implementation Workbook, and the EP23 Worksheet.
*$299. For those that have not purchased CLSI document EP23. This price includes lunch, the EP23 document, the EP23 Implementation Workbook, and the EP23 Worksheet.
*Both fees include breakfast and lunch.
*CLSI is an approved provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) P.A.C.E.® Program.
*Visit the CMS website to learn more about their plans to incorporate key EP23 concepts into CLIA Interpretive Guidelines.
September 5, 2013, 8:30-4:00 PM ET
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Century Center Park Building 2400, Atlanta, Georgia, 30333 USA
Room 101C
Register for September now!
Price: $249–$299* | CEUs: 5.0 awarded from P.A.C.E.®*
Participants will learn more about the new CLSI document Laboratory Quality Control Based on Risk Management; Approved Guideline (EP23-A™), and its companion products.
The workshop will focus on improving patient care through the implementation of risk management, and discuss the proper use of new quality control (QC) tools based on this guideline.
In a special breakout session, the attendees will create an individual QC plan that addresses risk management by assessing the measuring system, laboratory setting, and clinical application of a test.
Speakers include:
Luann Ochs, MS
Senior Vice President – Operations, CLSI
Marcy Anderson, MS, MT(ASCP)
Director of Education, CLSI
James H. Nichols, PhD, DABCC, FACB
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry Baystate Medical Center
Ann Snyder, MT(ASCP)
Medical Technologist, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
*$249. For those sites that have already purchased CLSI document EP23. This price includes lunch, the EP23 Implementation Workbook, and the EP23 Worksheet.
*$299. For those that have not purchased CLSI document EP23. This price includes lunch, the EP23 document, the EP23 Implementation Workbook, and the EP23 Worksheet.
*Both fees include breakfast and lunch.
*CLSI is an approved provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science (ASCLS) P.A.C.E.® Program.
*Visit the CMS website to learn more about their plans to incorporate key EP23 concepts into CLIA Interpretive Guidelines.
