CLSI Free: POCT for COVID-19 Testing

During the Covid-19 pandemic, business as usual has been disrupted all over the world. Many things have had to change, and that includes within Point-of-Care Testing. We have invited several point-of-care experts to participate in a recorded discussion on the best practices that they have implemented in their own point of care testing programs.

From this recorded discussion, you will learn:

• Best practices for point-of-care COVID-19 testing
• Lessons learned from the POCT frontlines to plan for future pandemics
• Training plans to address issues of changes in staffing during disasters

The discussion is facilitated by Peggy Mann, MS, MT(ASCP) and Kathleen David, MT(ASCP). Peggy is the Ambulatory POC Coordinator & Program Manager at the University of Texas Medical Branch, and she is the chairholder of CLSI’s Expert Panel on Point-of-Care Testing. Kathleen David is the Manager of Point-of-Care Testing for Tricore Reference Laboratories. Kathleen is an advisor to CLSI’s Expert Panel on Point-of-Care Testing.

Peggy and Kathleen are joined by:

• Anastasia Augustine MLT(ASCP)^CM, SP-POC, POC Testing Specialist, Franciscan Medical Group
• Kim Ballister, MT ASCP, POC Coordinator System Wide, Cone Health
• Becky Clarke, Executive Vice President, Telcor
• Sonya Evans, MT(ASCP), Laboratory Quality Coordinator – Point of Care, Prisma Health Greenville Memorial Hospital
• Penny Gooch, BSMT(ASCP), CPP(AACC), Ancillary Testing Coordinator, VA Medical Center
• Mickayla Karikari, MHA, MLS(ASCP)^CM, QA Technologist/POCC, Johns Hopkins Hospital
• Alexis "Lex" Lubchenco, BS, Supervisor, Point of Care, Presbyterian PMG Clinics/Regional Hospitals
• Pet Maniquis, MPA, MT (ASCP), Point of Care Coordinator, Providence Medical Center
• Terry Rose, MT(ASCP), POCT Coordinator, USA Health University Hospital
• Kim Scala, MT (ASCP), Associate Project Manager – Customer Education Programs, Instrumentation Laboratories
• Lois Schultz, POCT Technical Coordinator, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
• Adonica Wilson, Point of Care Coordinator, Clinical Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Alfred I duPont Hospital for Children
• Steve Valorz, RALS Marketing Manager, Abbott Rapid Diagnotics Informatics
• Christine “Chris” Wright, MBA/MHA, MT(AMT), Manager Duke University Health Point of Care Testing Program

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