Scientific & Clinical Advances Seminar Series

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Pathology Clinical Divisions Series

Scientific & Clinical Advances is an ongoing continuing education program for faculty and laboratory staff. The program features a series of monthly, noontime seminars, each presented on a rotating basis by a different division of the Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine. The program is designated by the UCI College of Health Sciences as an approved CME activity and is approved for continuing education credit by California Continuing Education Accreditation Agency #0073.

Unless otherwise noted, all sessions will be held in the:

UCI Medical Center, Bldg. 53 Auditorium
12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

DIVISION	COURSE #	INFORMATION	DATE
HLA LABORATORY	0073-0801	*"HLA and Kidney Transplantation Update - 2008"* Richard Newman, M.D. Director, HLA Laboratory Associate Clinical Professor Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine UC Irvine	Thursday, January 24, 2008
MICROBIOLOGY	0073-0802	*"Chagas Disease"* Frank Melgoza, M.D. Resident Physician Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine UC Irvine	Thursday, February 28, 2008
CHEMISTRY	0073-0803	*"Overview of Allergy Medicine"* Monet N. Sayegh, M.D. Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics	Thursday, March 27, 2008
ANATOMIC PATHOLOGY	0073-0804	*"Adult Wilm's Tumor"* Jane Ellaine Tongson-Ignacio, M.D. Assistant Clinical Professor Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine UC Irvine	Thursday, April 24, 2008
HEMATOLOGY	0073-0805	*"The Story of Hodgkin Lymphoma"* Sherif A. Rezk, M.D. Assistant Professor of Clinical Pathology Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine UC Irvine	Thursday, May 22, 2008
TRANSFUSION SERVICES	0073-0806	"Current Clinical Practice & Advances in Therapeutic Apheresis" *Dobri Kip, M.D.* Medical Director Apheresis Care Group San Francisco, CA	Thursday, June 26, 2008
MICROBIOLOGY	0073-0807	"Protein Microarrays for Vaccine & Serodiagnostic Antigen Discovery on a Genome-wide Scale" Philip Felgner, Ph.D. Director, Protein Microarray Laboratory & Adjunct Professor Department of Medicine - Infectious Disease UC Irvine	Thursday, July 24, 2008
CHEMISTRY	0073-0808	"Enabling Technologies for Rapid Point of Care Diagnostics" Howard J. Kirchick, Ph.D. Scientific Director, Biosite Inc.	Thursday, August 28, 2008
HEMATOLOGY	0073-0809	"TBA" TBA	Thursday, September 25, 2008
BLOOD BANK	0073-0810	*"TBA"* TBA	Thursday, October 23, 2008

For information regarding Scientific & Clinical Advances, please contact Laura Ogata at (714) 456-6305 or send email to logata@uci.edu

The University of California, Irvine College of Health Sciences is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Global Objectives:

Evaluate current and developing approaches to the diagnosis and managment fo selected diseases.
Identify recent changes in accreditation, licensing and compliance requirements in your practice of pathology.
Cite new and landmark contributions to the literature in the field of pathology.
Identify key issues in the delivery of clinical pathology service for your patient popluation.
Correlate the evaluation of clinical and laboratory findings with the pathophysiology of diseases encountered in your practice.

UC Irvine Medical Center Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine is approved for continuing education credit for California Clinical Laboratory Scientists and Phlebotomists. UC Irvine Medical Center Department of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine (101 The City Drive, Orange, CA, 29868) is an Approved Accrediting Agency for CA Clinical Laboratory Scientist Continuing Education Programs (#0073). Seminar schedule dates/locations are subject to change.