Quality Conference for Medical Labs

Posted by Sten Westgard, MS

Dr. James Westgard will be giving a lecture on Measuring Variation Measurement Uncertainty at the Third Quality Management Conference for Medical Laboratories on October 16-18, 2013. This is being held at the Renaissance Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia.

Chaired by Dr. Michael Noble, this is really three meetings in one:

• UBC Program Office’s third Quality Management conference
• Standards Council of Canada hosting Canada’s annual celebration of World Standards Day
• BC Society for Laboratory Science endorsed education day

The meeting topics cover a broad range of issues relevant to the medical laboratory

• A 20/20 view of the medical laboratory and laboratory Quality
• What Consumers want, expect and need from the medical laboratory
• Quality needs of rural medical laboratories
• Errors in Pathology
• What your laboratory needs to know about ISO standards for Laboratory Quality (ISO15189:2012) and Medical Devices (ISO 13485:2008)
• And much, much more...