ICCS 2024
October 4 - 8, 2024
Seattle, Washington
United States
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About the Event
You are cordially invited to attend ICCS 2024, the 39th Annual International Clinical Cytometry Meeting & Course. Please join your clinical cytometry colleagues from October 4-8, 2024.
The ICCS Annual Course will take place in person at the Westin Seattle Hotel from October 4-6, 2024.
The ICCS Annual Meeting will be hybrid and take place from October 6-8, 2024. The meeting will be offered both in-person at the Westin Seattle Hotel and virtually (remote access).
The ICCS 2024 Meeting & Course is designed for Laboratory Directors, Physicians, Laboratory Managers and Supervisors, Clinical Laboratory Scientists/Medical Technologists, and Residents/ Fellows. The goals of these events are to help participants increase their knowledge of current tools and technologies available for patient sample analysis, better understand the accepted methodologies and benchmarks for patient sample analysis and diagnosis, and to increase their competence in using analytical software applications.
Instruments
Breakfast
Register yourself for the ClearLLab collective breakfast and have a chance to be among ClearLLab experts as they present their recent success cases.
Networking event
Please come visit us at ICCS Networking event; we´ll have exciting activities such as karaoke, photo booth and a great talk about our recently launched DxFLEX Flow Cytometer with a special guest.
A corporate lunch workshop
Alan Dunlop, Head of Immunophenotyping at The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Optimized Workflow for a Clinical Flow Cytometry Lab: "Ebb and Flow: Balancing Workload and Staff Happiness in the Lab"
Sunday, October 6, 1:30 pm to 2:00 pm
Year-on-year clinical flow cytometry laboratories see an increase in not only sample numbers but in the complexity of testing required. There is a similar increase in the volume of quality-related tasks required to ensure laboratories maintain accreditation.
This increased workload rarely comes with appropriate resources, meaning staff are constantly under pressure to do more in the same number of hours. In an attempt to deal with this rising tide of work, our lab has undertaken a complete overhaul of the way we function. We have implemented new high-parameter flow cytometers, fully automated sample preparation for leukemia and lymphoma diagnostic testing as well as stem cell enumeration. With the implementation of a new laboratory information system, we have become paper-free. This along with offline data analysis has allowed us, at times, to facilitate effective remote work for over 60% of our staff. This transformation of the way we work has allowed us to focus on developing our next generation of scientists by training them in data analysis, challenging them with research projects, and involving them in quality tasks when simply delivering our clinical service was previously a challenge.