ACLPS 2025 Program

Draft Program Agenda as of 30 March 2025

The following program is subject to change.

4:00–6:00 PM | Registration Desk Open

7:30 AM–5:00 PM | Registration Desk Open

7:30–8:20 AM | Breakfast

8:20–8:30 AM | Welcome

8:30–10:0 AM | Scientific Session 1, Decatur Ballroom: Lab Hematology, Old and New

8:30–9:15 AM | Richard Burack, MD PhD (University of Rochester)
”How Complete is Too Complete? Why it’s time to reconsider the CBC”
9:15–10:00 AM | Greg Goldgof, MD PhD (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center)
”AI and Digital Pathology in Hematology and Hematopathology”

10:00–10:25 AM | Break

10:25 AM–11:55 AM | Scientific Session 2, Decatur Ballroom: Lab Technologies of the Future

10:25–11:10 AM | Khalid Salaita, PhD (Emory University)
”May the Force Be Measured: Harnessing Molecular Mechanics for Next-Generation Diagnostics”
11:10–11:55 AM | Anne Piantadosi, MD PhD (Emory University)
”Metagenomics and Viral Genomics in Clinical Practice”

11:55 AM–1:00 PM | Lunch, and Executive Council Lunch

1:00–2:30 PM | Scientific Session 3, Decatur Ballroom: Immunology and HLA

1:00–1:45 AM | Adam Bingaman, MD PhD (Emory University)
“Kidney Transplantation: The Vital Role of Clinical Laboratories – HLA and Beyond“
1:45–2:30 AM | Jeff Sorelle, MD (UT Southwestern)
”Generic Regulators of Immunity - Driving Allergy and Evolution”

2:30–2:50 PM | Break

2:50–4:50 PM | Scientific Session 4, Decatur Ballroom: Junior Faculty Awardees, Paul E. Standjord Young Investigator Grant Lectures

2:50–3:20 PM | Junior Faculty Awardee 1
3:20–3:50 PM | Junior Faculty Awardee 2
3:50–4:10 PM | Grantee Cristina Figueroa Villalba, MD (Yale University)
“Phosphatidylserine exposure and complement C3 binding to erythrocytes after red cell exchange: a pilot study”
4:10–4:30 PM | Grantee Yanqin Huang, PhD (Harvard University)
“A rapid reproducible high throughput inkjet checkerboard antimicrobial susceptibility detection method to identify effective combination therapies for M. abscesses infection"
4:30–4:50 PM | Grantee Wei Qing MBBS PhD (MD Anderson Cancer Center)
“Comprehensive cytogenomic analysis of Ph- negative B-lymphoblastic leukemia/lymphoma by optical genome mapping“

5:00–7:00 PM | Poster Session & Welcome Reception

7:30 AM–5:00 PM | Registration Desk Open

7:30–8:30 AM | Breakfast

8:30–10:00 AM | Investigator Abstract Presentation Breakouts A

10:00–10:20 AM | Break

10:20–11:50 AM | Investigator Abstract Presentation Breakouts B

12:00–1:30 PM | Lunch, and ACLPS Annual Business Meeting

1:30–2:30 PM | Cotlove Award Lecture, Decatur Ballroom

Wilbur Lam, MD PhD (GATech and Emory University)
”A Pediatrician’s Adventures with Point-of-care Technologies in the Lab and for the NIH (as well as the rest of the country)”

2:30–2:45 PM | Break

2:45–4:15 PM | Scientific Session 5A, Decatur Ballroom

2:45–3:30 PM | Kamran Mirza, MD PhD (University of Michigan)
”AI, Digital Platforms, and Web-based Learning: The Future of Lab Medicine Training”
3:30–4:15 PM | Barbara Mahon, MD MPH (Gates Foundation)
”From Data Deserts to Diagnostic Insight: How the Child Health and Mortality Prevention Surveillance (CHAMPS) is Bringing Laboratory Science to the World’s Highest-Mortality Regions”

4:15–4:30 PM | Break

4:30–5:15 PM | Scientific Session 5B, Decatur Ballroom

4:30–5:15 PM | James Nichols, PhD (Vanderbilt University)
“The Impact of CLSI to Global Standardization of Laboratory Medicine“

5:45–9:00 PM | Social Hour and Awards Banquet, Fernbank Museum

7:30–11:20 AM | Registration Desk Open

7:30–8:30 AM | Breakfast, and Executive Council Breakfast

8:30–9:30 AM | Ellis Benson Lecture & Award, Decatur Ballroom

9:30–9:45 AM | Break

9:45–11:45 AM | Scientific Session 6, Decatur Ballroom: Case Studies in Laboratory Medicine

9:45–10:25 AM | Rachel Geller, MD (Georgia Bureau of Investigation)
”Not as it seems… the role of clinical pathology in medicolegal medicine”
10:25–11:05 AM | Janetta Bryksin, PhD (Emory University)
”From Sample to Result: Case Studies in Laboratory Error and Recovery”
11:05–11:45 AM | TBD

11:45–11:50 AM | Closing Remarks