PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
 

Wednesday, November 18, 2009
8:00am-3:30pm	CDC GeT-RM Expert Panel Meeting 2009
11:30am-6:00pm	AMP Council Meeting 1
12:00pm-6:00pm	Registration, Check-In
3:00pm-6:00pm	CAP Laboratory Preparation Seminar (For registration, contact CAP Education Division at 800-323-4040 x7525 or education@cap.org )
	Moderators:		Helen D. Fernandes, PhD, UMDNJ-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ and Philip R. Foulis, MD, MPH, FCAP, College of American Pathologists, Chicago, IL
3:30pm-5:00pm	Dialogue with NIST: Reference Standards for Molecular Testing
Thursday, November 19, 2009
7:00am-5:00pm	Registration, Check-In
7:30am-3:30pm	PATHOLOGY OUTREACH COURSE Real Time Updates and New Clinical Applications in Molecular Pathology: A Course for Emerging Molecular Laboratory Professionals Supported by Nanosphere, Inc. Co-Sponsored by the College of American Pathologists and the Florida Society of Pathologists Separate registration required >>More Information
8:00am-5:00pm	Corporate Workshops (See separate schedule)
(Throughout the day)	AMP Committee Meetings
	7:30am-9:30am		Economic Affairs  (Emerald 4)
	8:00am-10:00am		Strategic Planning Committee  (Emerald 6)
	12:00pm-3:00pm		Professional Relations Committee  (Emerald 4)
	2:00pm-3:00pm		Membership and Professional Development Committee  (Emerald 6)
	3:00pm-3:30 pm		Nominating Committee (Emerald 6)
	3:30pm-4:30pm		Program Committee - 2009 (Daytona)
	4:30pm-5:00pm		Program Committee - 2010 (Daytona)
	3:30pm-5:00pm		Training and Education Committee  (Orange Blossom Ballroom)
	4:30pm-5:30pm		Publications Committee [5:00-5:30, Web Editorial Board] (Emerald 4)
	5:30pm-6:30pm		Clinical Practice  (Emerald 6)
5:00pm-6:00pm	PGx Interest Group Meeting
6:00pm-9:00pm	Abbott Molecular Reception
6:30pm-7:30pm	MGP Program Directors Meeting
7:00pm-11:00pm	Dinner for Canadian Members
Friday, November 20, 2009
7:00am-6:00pm	Registration, Check-In
7:00am-8:00am	Early Bird Sessions
		Cystic Fibrosis Newborn Screening
		Moderator:		Hanna Rennert, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
		Iris Schrijver, MD, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA
		Detection of Mutations with Prognostic Implications in AML Bryan L. Betz, PhD, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
		Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from InVivoScribe Technologies, Inc.
		Small Group Workshops
		Alternative Performance Assessment Strategies Timothy Tubman, MP(ASCP),CGMBS, Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, CA
		Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Molecular Diagnostics Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
		CYP450 Testing: A Forum to Share Experiences of Using the Roche Amplichip Pamela M. Ward PhD, University of California –Irvine College of Medicine, Irvine, CA
		Informatics Interest Group Andrea Ferreira-Gonzalez, PhD, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
		International Chapter Lei Po (Chris) Wong, PhD, Hong Kong Sanatorium Hospital, Hong kong, CHINA
		Rocky Mountain States Regional Interest Group Robyn Temple-Smolkin, PhD, Big Sky Diagnostic Labs, Helena, MT
		Solid Tumors: Challenging Cases and Diagnostic Dilemmas Marina N. Nikiforova, MD, FCAP, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Pittsburgh, PA
8:00am-8:15am	Break
8:15am-8:20am	Opening Remarks Timothy J. O'Leary, MD, PhD, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC
8:20am-9:30am	AMP AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS LECTURE Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Roche Diagnostics Corporation Duchenne Muscular Distrophy, Past Present and Future Kay Davies, PhD, Oxford University, London, ENGLAND
9:30am-10:30am	Break - Visit the Exhibits and Posters - Supported by GenomeWeb LLC
10:30am-12:00pm	PLENARY SESSION I: GENETICS Complex Genetic Disorders of Childhood
	Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Illumina, Inc
	Moderator:				Hanna Rennert, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
	Genetics of Complex Pediatric Disorders: What Have we Learned? Hakon Hakonarson, MD, PhD, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
12:00 pm-1:00pm	General Luncheon
	Genetics Business Luncheon
	Solid Tumors Business Luncheon
1:00pm-2:30pm	CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
		Platform Presentations of Selected Abstracts - Genetics
		Moderators:			Hanna Rennert, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY Arlene Buller, PhD, Quest Diagnostics, San Juan Capistrano, CA
					The addition of H19 'loss of methylation testing' for Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome (BWS) increases the diagnostic yield Jochen KM Lennerz, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
					Two Heterologous Robertsonian Translocations in a Macrocytic Anemia Patient with 44 Chromosomes: 44,XY,rob(13;14)(q10;q10),rob(14;15)(q10;q10) Ramakrishnan Sasi, PhD, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
					DNA Resequencing and Variant Identification Using a Non-syndromic X-linked Mental Retardation (MRX) Panel Colin Davidson, PhD, Applied Biosystems, Foster City, CA
					Evaluation of Two Next Generation Sequencing Platforms, Illumina Genome Analyzer and Roche 454, for Sequencing the Entire Mitochondrial Genome Tad Holtegaard, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
					Three Mutations in the Tyrosinase Gene: An Unusual Case of Oculocutaneous Albinism Sophia Yohe, MD, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
		Platform Presentations of Selected Abstracts - Hematopathology
		Moderators:			Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, MD, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI Tim Greiner, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
					Array-based Karyotyping for Prognostic Assessment in Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia: Performance Comparison of Affymetrix 10K 2.0, 250K Nsp and SNP 6.0 Arrays Jill M. Hagenkord, MD, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE
					Molecular classification of Pediatric leukemia by Liquid Bead Array Jennifer R. Rushton, MD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
					Detection of c-kit Mutations in Acute Myeloid Leukemia Philippe Szankasi, PhD, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT
					FISH for the MYST3/CREBBP fusion associated with the t(8;16)(p11.2;p13.3) Ryan A. Knudson, MBA CLSp(CG), Mayo Clinic Foundation, Rochester, MN
					Rapid and Sensitive Detection and Identification of JAK2 exon 12 mutations in V617F-negative myeloproliferative disorders by polymerase chain reaction Scott Reading, PhD, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT
					Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from InVivoScribe Technologies, Inc.
		Platform Presentations of Selected Abstracts - Infectious Diseases
		Moderators:			Frederick S. Nolte, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC David Persing, MD, PhD, Cepheid Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
					Performance of the Ibis BCA (Bacteria Candida and Antimicrobial Resistance) Assay for Identification of Bacteria and Candida sp. From Blood Culture Bottles Donna M. Wolk PhD D(ABMM), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
					Detection of the Novel Influenza A (H1N1) using the Luminex xTAG Respiratory Virus Panel (RVP) Assay Christine C. Ginocchio, PhD, North Shore-LIJ Health System Labs, Lake Success, NY
					Evaluation of DNA Sequencing method for Detection of Rifampin and Isonazid Resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from India Bibhu Ranjan Das, PhD, Super Religare Laboratories, LTD, Mumbai, INDIA
					Clinical Performance of Invader HPV v2 ASR Assay and Correlation with HPV Genotyping Deborah L. Nielsen, BA MP(ASCP), Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
					Partially Double-Stranded Probes Allow for the Quantitative Detection of Adenovirus Without Serotype Interference Melissa A. Melan PhD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
		Platform Presentations of Selected Abstracts - Solid Tumors
		Moderators:			Antonia R. Sepulveda, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Loren Joseph, MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
					MicroRNA Biomarkers for Colorectal Cancer Diagnosis and Recurrence Elizabeth Mambo, PhD, Asuragen, Inc, Austin, TX
					Comparison of KRAS Mutation Analysis and FISH for Detecting Pancreatobiliary Tract Cancer in Cytology Specimens Collected During Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography Benjamin Kipp, PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
					Gel-based Methylation Specific PCR and MethyLight® Real-Time Quantitative PCR for Assessing MGMT Promoter Methylation in Gliomas Sameer Talwalkar, MD, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
					Deletions of TACSTD1 Account for a Significant Fraction of MSH2-Associated Lynch Syndrome Cases Kandelaria (Ande) Rumilla, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
					Assessment of Mutant Homozygosity in Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Michelle Wallander, PhD, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT
2:30pm-4:30pm	Break - Visit Exhibits & Posters - Supported by NorDiag, Inc Odd-numbered posters manned 2:30pm - 3:30pm YIA and Tech Award posters manned 2:30pm - 4:30pm
4:30pm-6:00pm	PLENARY SESSION II: Solid Tumors
	The Cancer Genome Atlas
	Moderators:				Antonia R. Sepulveda, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Loren Joseph, MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
	Translating the Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) Findings in Glioblastoma into Molecular Diagnostics Marc Ladanyi, MD, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY
	Genetic Lessons from Colon Cancer Sanford Markowitz, MD, PhD, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cleveland, OH
6:00pm-7:00pm	Welcome Reception Supported by Roche Diagnostics Corporation
7:00pm-8:30pm	JMD Editorial Board Meeting
Saturday, November 21, 2009
7:00am-6:00pm	Registration, Check-In
7:00am-8:00am	Early Bird Sessions
		Coding Conundrums Jeffrey A. Kant, MD, PhD, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA
		Reporting Molecular Test Results Margaret Gulley, MD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC
		Web-Based Tools Nitin S. Udar, PhD, Beckman Coulter, Inc, Fullerton, CA
		QA/QC for MicroArrays
		Moderator:			Hanna Rennert, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
		Quality Control and Data Processing for the Evaluation of DNA Variants Using Affymetrix Assays Francesca Demichelis, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
8:00am-8:15am	Break
8:15am-9:45am	PLENARY SESSION III: HEMATOPATHOLOGY
	NFKB Activation in Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
	Moderators:				Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, MD, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI Tim Greiner, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
	Pathway Alterations in Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma Laura Pasqualucci, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY
	Achilles' Heel Screen for Molecular Targets in Cancer Vu Ngo, PhD, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, MD
9:45am-10:00am	Break - Supported by InVivoScribe Technologies, Inc.
10:00am-11:30am	CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
		Molecular Diagnostics and Targeted Therapies of Colon Cancer
		Moderators:			Antonia R. Sepulveda, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA Loren Joseph, MD, University of Chicago School of Medicine, Chicago, IL
		Molecular Classification and Molecular Testing in Colorectal Cancer Shuji Ogino, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
		KRAS Mutation Testing, Methods and Application to Selection of Colorectal Cancer Patients for EGFR-Targeted Therapies Wade S. Samowitz, MD, ARUP Laboratories, Salt Lake City, UT
		Acquired Mutations in Myeloproliferative Diseases
		Moderator:			Kojo Elenitoba-Johnson, MD, University of Michigan Medical School, Ann Arbor, MI
		Somatic Mutations and Uniparenteral Disomy in Philadelphia Chromosome Negative Myeloproliferative Diseases Josef T. Prchal, MD, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
		Practical Issues Regarding JAK2 and MPL Mutation Testing in the Clinical Laboratory: A Discussion of When to Do it, How to do it and How to Report it. Rebecca F. McClure, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
		Analysis of Complex Genetic Disorders: How a Monogenic Disorder Becomes Complex
		Moderator:	Hanna Rennert, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
		Molecular Genetics of Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease Sandro Rossetti, MD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
		Prenatal Diagnosis and Treatment of Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia Maria I. New, MD, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY
		Technical Troubles: What Would You Do?
		Moderator:			Joan T. Gordon, BS MT(ASCP) Maine Molecular Quality Controls, Inc, Scarborough, ME
		Gregory J. Tsongalis, PhD, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, NH
		William E. Highsmith, Jr., PhD, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN
11:30am-12:30pm	Visit Exhibits & Posters, Even-numbered posters manned
12:30pm-1:30pm	General Luncheon
	Hematopathology Business Luncheon
	Infectious Diseases Business Luncheon
	Trainee Luncheon
1:30pm-3:00pm	PLENARY SESSION IV: INFECTIOUS DISEASES
	Mass Spectrometry for Infectious Diseases Applications
	Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from IntelligentMDx
	Moderator:				Frederick S. Nolte, PhD, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC
	Mass Spectometry - Basic Essentials for Clinical Laboratories David J. Ecker, PhD, Ibis Biosciences, Inc, Carlsbad, CA
	"Spec" it out - Mass Spectometry for Genetic Profiling of Bacteria Donna Wolk, PhD, (ABMM) University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
	Use of the IBIS T5000 Respiratory Surveillance Virus II Platform for the Rapid Identification of Viruses from Nasopharyngeal Aspirates Charlotte Gaydos, MPH, DrPH, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD
3:00pm-4:30pm	CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
		Breaking Topics
		Moderator:	Timothy J. O'Leary, MD, PhD, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC
		Circulating, Cell Free, Fetal Nucleic Acids as an Object of Clinical Laboratory Investigation
		Daniel H. Farkas, PhD, HCLD, Sequenom Center for Molecular Medicine
		Noninvasive Prenatal Diagnosis: from the Bench to Clinical Practice
		Osnat Geifman-Holtzman, MD, Drexel University College of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
		New Strategies for Diagnosis and Prevention of Clostridium difficile Infections
		Moderator:			David Persing, MD, PhD, Cepheid Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
		Karen C. Carroll, MD, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
		Dale N. Gerding, MD, Hines Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hines, IL
		Puzzlers by Prior
		Thomas W. Prior, PhD, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
		Clinical Utility of Microarrays
		Moderator:			Steven C. Cook, BS MT(ASCP), CLSp(MB), Roche Molecular Diagnostics, Indianapolis, IN
		Nancy Spinner, PhD, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA
		Madhuri R. Hegde, PhD, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
4:30pm-4:45pm	Break - Supported by Hologic, Inc
4:45pm-6:30pm	Business/Awards Session
		Technologist Award Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Hologic
		Young Investigator Award Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Luminex Corporation
		Leadership Award Supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Abbott Molecular
6:30pm-7:30pm	Awards Reception Supported by Hologic
7:30pm-10:30pm	Saturday Evening Social Event (Optional) Ticket purchase required - see registration information for details
	Supported by Abbott Molecular, Illumina, Luminex Corporation and Roche Diagnostics
Sunday, November 22, 2009
7:00am-12:00pm	Registration, Check-In
7:00am-8:00am	Early Bird Sessions
		Getting Funded - A Workshop for Researchers Timothy J. O'Leary, MD, PhD, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC
		New CDC Guideline for Molecular Genetic Testing for Heritable Diseases: What Laboratories Should Know and Why?
		Vicky Pratt, PhD, Quest Diagnostics, Nichols Institute, Chantilly, VA
		Bin Chen, PhD, FACMG, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
		Response of Molecular Diagnostic Laboratories to Novel Influenza A Virus Infections
		Christine C. Ginocchio, PhD, North Shore-LIJ Health System Labs, Lake Success, NY
		Jan A. Nowak, MD, PhD, Northshore University Health System, Evanston, IL
		Use of MicroArrays for Mitochondrial Diseases
		Moderator:	Hanna Rennert, PhD, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY
		Genetic Testing for Mitochondrial DNA Using MicroArray-Based Applications Lee-Jun C. Wong, PhD, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
8:00am-8:15am	Break
8:15am - 9:45am	CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS
		Gene Patents: The Current Environment and How We Got Here - Panel Discussion
		Moderator:         Karen P. Mann, MD, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
		Roger D. Klein, MD, JD, Blood Center of Wisconsin, Glendale, WI
		David H. Ledbetter, PhD, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
		Debra G.B. Leonard, MD, PhD, Weill College of Cornell University, New York, NY
		Timothy T. Stenzel, MD, PhD, Quidel Corporation, San Diego, CA
		Molecular Pathology Using Paraffin-Embedded Tissue
		Moderator:			Jennifer L. Hunt, MD, MEd, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA
		Timothy J. O'Leary, MD, PhD, Veterans Health Administration, Washington, DC
		Career Development Workshop: A look Inside the Options
		Moderators:			Barbara Zehnbauer, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA Timothy C. Greiner, MD, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE
		Karen E. Bijwaard, MS CLSp(MB), FDA, Rockville, MD
		Russel K. Enns, PhD, Cepheid, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA
9:45am-10:00am	Break
10:00am-11:45am	PLENARY SESSION V: SPECIAL TOPICS
	Molecular Testing in the Developing World
	Moderator:		Helen D. Fernandes, PhD, UMDNJ- New Jersey Medical School, Newark, NJ
	Molecular Methods for Diagnosis of MDR/XDR TB-Perspectives from a Tertiary Care Center in Mumbai, INDIA
	Dr. Camilla Rodrigues, PD Hinduja National Hospital and Medical Research Center, Mumbai, INDIA
	Opportunities for Molecular Diagnosis of Infectious Disease in Developing Countries
	Mark D. Perkins, MD, Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
11:45am-12:00pm	Closing Remarks Timothy O'Leary, MD, PhD, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington DC
12:00pm	Adjourn
12:30pm-3:00pm	AMP Council Meeting II