| Workshop Co-Chairmen:
| Richard L. Hodinka, Ph.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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| Danny L. Wiedbrauk, Ph.D., William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
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| Curt Gleaves, M.S., Providence Portland Medical Center, Portiand, Oregon, USA
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| 11:00 a.m to 1:00 p.m. | Registration
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| 1:00 p.m. to 1:05 p.m. | Opening Remarks
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| Richard Hodinka, Dan Wiedbrauk, and Curt Gleaves
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| 1:05 p.m. to 1:50 p.m. | How to Pass a CAP Inspection in Molecular Virology
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| Curt Gleaves Providence Portland Medical Center, Portland,
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| Oregon, USA |
| 1:50p.m.to2:00p.m. | Discussion
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| 2:00 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. | Controlling the Quality of Molecular Tests
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| Richard L. Hodinka, Ph.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia,
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| Philadelphia, PA |
| 2:45 p.m. to 2:55 p.m. | Discussion
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| 2:55 p.m. to 3:10 p.m. | Break
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| 3:10 p.m. to 3:55 p.m. | Competency Testing in Molecular Virology
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| Danny L. Wiedbrauk, Ph.D., William Beaumont Hospital, Royai
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| Oak, Ml |
| 3:55 p.m. to 4:05 p.m. | Discussion
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| 4:05 p.m. to 4:50 p.m. | Case Studies Troubleshooting Molecular Virology Tests
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| C. Gleaves, R. Hodinka, and D. Wiedbrauk
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| 4:50 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. | Discussion
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| 5:00 p.m. | Adjourn |
| 8:00 a.m. to 8:05 a.m. |
Opening Remarks |
| Richard Hodinka, Dan Wiedbrauk, and Curt Gleaves
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| 8:05 a.m. to 8:50 a.m. | Manual and Automated Methods for Nucleic Acid Specimen Preparation.
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| Stephen P. Day, Ph.D., Viromed Laboratories, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
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| 8:50 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. | Discussion
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| 9:00 a.m. to 9:45 a.m. | Home-Brew Nucleic Acid SequenceBased Ampliflcation (NASBA) Testing
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| James Mahony, McMaster University, St. Joseph's Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
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| 9.45 a.m. to 9:55 a.m. | Discussion
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| 9.55 a.m. to 10:10 a.m. | Break
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| 10:10 a.m. to 10:55 a.m. | Strand Displacement Amplification (SDA)
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| Michael Little, Ph.D., Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems, Sparks, Maryland, USA.
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| 10:55 a.m. to 11:05 a.m. | Discussion
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| 11:05 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. | Cleavase Invader Assay for Viral Detection and Quantitation
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| Lance Fors, Ph.D., Third Wave Technologies, Inc., Madison, Wisconsin, USA.
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| 11:50 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. | Discussion
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| 12:00 p.m. | Adjourn |