Dr. Dufour is a consultant in pathology and hepatology at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he was chief of pathology prior to his retirement from full-time work. He is also emeritus professor of pathology at George Washington University. Dr. Dufour has served the AACC in multiple capacities. He has twice been a member of the board of directors, most recently serving as treasurer. He is currently executive editor of Lab Tests Online, vice chair of the 2014 Annual Meeting Organizing Committee, and co-associate editor for case studies for Clinical Chemistry. He was one of the co-founders of the AACC review course, Professional Practice in Clinical Chemistry. He has been on numerous other AACC committees and task forces. He has served other organizations in numerous capacities. He was on the board of directors of the National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry for two terms and served as its president. He chaired several committees, including the education and scientific affairs committee. For the College of American Pathologists, he chairs the accreditation education committee and is state commissioner for the District of Columbia. He has chaired one Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute working group and is a member of another. He is on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention working group developing new guidelines for testing for hepatitis C. Dr. Dufour has published more than 200 peer-reviewed papers, abstracts, and book chapters, and has been lead editor on nine books, with an emphasis on liver disease and endocrine testing. He has been involved in training residents in pathology as well as fellows in gastroenterology and endocrinology. He has received numerous awards, including the 2012 College of American Pathologists Excellence in Education Award.
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Interview: Prof. Ellis Jacobs (USA)
Dr. Jacobs has a longstanding interest in point of care testing, laboratory consolidation and automation, computerization and automatic result reporting, and the impact on laboratory quality management systems and error reduction.
His research interests include immunodiagnostic assays, laboratory diagnosis of cardiac injury, laboratory management and automation, point of care testing systems, critical care medicine, toxicology and the application of informatics to improve laboratory efficiency.
August 2014 Program
- Prof. Ellis Jacobs. Interview about Labs are Vital
- Dr. Robert Dufour. Interview about Viral Hepatitis
- Prof. Sverre Sandberg. Interview about 1st EFLM Strategic Conference
- Agenda
- Ebola report
- News and events about clinical chemistry.
Interview: Prof. Manfred Kindler (Germany)
Medical Engineer and Clinical Engineer, lives in Berlin and Werne, Germany. After long-term work experiences in quality management, testing, inspection, product certification, project and risk management: 1992 CEO of Kindler National Division – forensic medico technical expertise (till today), 1993 Development of the German Notifying Authority for Medical Devices – ZLG, 1994 Director of the German Accreditation System for Testing – DAP (till 1998), 1998 CEO of Kindler International Division – consultant agency (till today), 1998 Founder of the German Hospital Communication Center (KKC), since 2013 Vice-President.
Interview: Dr. Gerard Siest (France)
President of the European Society of Pharmacogenomics and Theranostics (ESPT)
The ESPT is a society that brings together people interested in all aspects of pharmacogenetics, pharmacogenomics and all approaches focused on improving the delivery of medicines to the right patient at the right dose and at the right time. ESPT sets out to provide its members with valuable services to facilitate networking and to encourage teamwork that will advance this field, focusing in particular on strategies to translate basic academic research into tangible clinical benefit.
Web site: www.esptnet.eu
Interview: Prof. Thomas Sudhof (Germany)
Thomas Christian Südhof (born December 22, 1955) is a German-American biochemist known for his study of synaptic transmission. Currently, he is a professor in the School of Medicine in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology, and by courtesy in Neurology, and in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University.[3]
Südhof, James Rothman and Randy Schekman are the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine laureates for their work on vesicle trafficking.
Interview: Prof. Sharon Lewin (Australia)
Professor Sharon Lewin is an infectious diseases physician and scientist that is internationally renowned for her research into all aspects of HIV disease and pathogenesis. She is the inaugural director of the Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity at the University of Melbourne; consultant physician at the Alfred Hospital; and an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Practitioner Fellow. She was previously Head, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital and Monash University (2003 – 2014) and Co-head, Centre for Biomedical Research, Burnet Institute (2010-2014). Her laboratory focuses on strategies to cure HIV infection, immune reconstitution following antiviral therapy and pathogenesis of HIV-Hepatitis B co-infection. She was the local co-chair of the 20th International AIDS Conference (AIDS 2014) which was held in Melbourne July 2014 and was the largest health conference ever held in Australia. She is on the leadership team of the International AIDS Society’s Strategy Towards an HIV Cure and a member of the Australian Government Ministerial Advisory Committee on Blood Borne Viruses and Sexually Transmitted Infections.
The Lewin/Cameron laboratory:
Sharon Lewin co-heads a research laboratory together with Assoc Professor Paul Cameron. Their research themes are:
- HIV Latency reversing agents (HIV Cure)
- Dendtritic Cells and Immunmodulation in HIV infection
- HIV Reservoir virology
- HIV and HBV co-infection
- Clinical research
Interview: Dr. Hans Janssen (Netherlands)
Netherlands Society for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine.
What role should the medical laboratory play in guiding diagnostic test ordering and interpreting test results? Interview with Professor Hans Janssen of the Netherlands for a discussion of this relevant topic.
July 2014 Program – Nobel Prize
- Prof. Sharon Lewin. Interview about HIV research
- Prof. Thomas Sudhof, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2013.
- Agenda
- News and events about clinical chemistry.
