PAST SPEAKERS

The Northeast Region Conference and Exhibition is pleased to present you with a listing of distinguished guest lecturers who presented at our conference:

2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002

Past Speakers - Guest Lecturers

2007 Speakers

Gyorgy Abel	MD, PhD DABCC	Medical Director, Lahey Clinic
Myriam Armant	PhD	Technical Director, Center for Human Cell Therapy
Michael Biskup	MS, MT (ASCP), MBA, MHSA	System Manager for Laboratory Services, Hallmark Health
Martha Casassa	MS, CLD(NCA), MT(ASCP)	Laboratory Director, Braintree Rehabilitation Hospital
Lynn A. Cheryk	Ph.D, DABCC, FACB	Laboratory Director, Mayo Medical Laboratories New England
Kay Doyle	Ph.D, MT (ASCP)	Professor and Chair, Department of Clinical Laboratory and Nutritional Sciences Univ of MA, Lowell
Sharon Ehrmeyer	Ph.D	Professor, Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine Univ of Wisconsin Medical School
Jim Flood	Ph.D.	Director, Chemistry Laboratory, Mass General Hospital
Ellen Goonan	MS, MT(ASCP)	Administrative Director, Clinical Operations, Department of Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Michael Harhen	MT(ASCP), MBA	Adminstrative Director of Pathology, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Donald Lantz	MT (ASCP)	Laboratory Manager, East Boston Neighborhood Health Center.
Michael Laposata	MD, Ph.D	Director of Clinical Laboratories and Physician Deparment of Medicine, Mass General Hospital
Donna MacMillan	BSMT (ASCP), MBA	Director of Opera;tions Department of Pathology Mass General Hospital
Carol Miller	MS(Ed)	Director of Trainiing Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston.
Susan V. Perrier	RN, MS, CNS	Clinical Quality Initiatives Specialist, Dade Behring.
Anthony Rino	MHA, MT (ASCP)	Senior Director, Medical Group Operations
Terry Shirey	PhD, DABCC	Director of Scientific Affairs, NOVA Biomedical, Waltham, MA
Krystyna Sikorska	MD	Director of Clincal Pathology, Medical Director of Blood Bank, Mercy Medical Center
Lily Liu Wu	Ph.D.	Research Associate Professor Dept of Pathology University of Utah
James T. Wu	Ph.D	Emeritus Medical Director of Special Chemistry Lab, University of Utah School of Medicine.
Joseph D. Yao	MD	Director of Hepatitis/ HIV Testing Laboratories, Mayo Medical Laboratories
K-T Jerry Yeo	PhD, DABCC, FACB	Director of Clinical Chemistry Dartmouth-Hitchock Medical Center

2006 Speakers

Katharine I Ayres	MT (ASCP)	Director of Legislative and Regulatory Affiairs CLMA
Gyorgy Abel	MD, PhD DABCC	Medical Director, Lahey Clinic
Howard Beach	MS, MT (ASCP)	Chemistry Supervisor Milton Hospital
Sharon M. Brommer	MS, MBA	Senior manager Applied Management Systems
Sheldon Campbell	MD, PhD FCAP	Dept of Lab Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine
Marian J. Cavagnaro	MS, MT (ASCP) DLM	Director of Laboratory Services Memorial Hospital West (Pembroke Pines, FL)
Steven C. Cook	MT (ASCP), CLSpMB	Manager, Molecular Diagnostics; The Lahey Clinic Burlington, MA
David H. K. Chui	MD	Professor of Medicaine and Pathology, BU School of Medicine
David M. Davidson	MD	Senior Medical Directory Drug Discover and Development, Genzyme Corporation
David M. Dorfman	MD, PhD	Associate Director of Clin Laboratories Division; Dept of Pathology Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA
Ed Drozda	MBA, MT (ASCP) SBB	Principal, E&D Associates
Dennis J. Ernst	MT (ASCP)	Director of the Center for Phlebotomy Education, Ramsay IN
James Griffith	PhD	Chancellor Professor and Chairman Medical Laboratory Science Dept Univ Mass, Darthmouth
Pamela M. Hill	M.Ed.	Joint Commission Medical Technologist surveyor since 1978.
Sue Lehman	MA, MT (ASCP)	Program Director Dept of Lab Medicine and Pathology, Mayo School of Health Sciences
Julie Lin	MD, MPH	Associate Physician, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Stacey Melanson	MD, PhD	Associate Professor of Pathology Harvard Medical School
Joseph Meola		Marketing Manager, US Region for Automated and Dimension Systems, Dade Behring
David Mullin		MEDITECH customer service, implementation and marketing
Donald Newton		Lab Director Healthsouth, Braintree MA
James H. Nichols	PhD	Director, Clinical Chemistry Bay State Healthcare Systems
Lawrence K. Oliver	PhD, DABCC, NACB	Scientific Director, Mayo Clinical Trials Services, Mayo Clinic Rochester, MN
Ruth Paur	MT (ASCP)	Director, Clincal Laboratory Science Program University of North Dakota
Benjamin A. Raby	MD, CM, MPH	Instructor in Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital
David Rezendes	MS, MT	Administrative Laboratory Director Morton Hospital
Anthony Rino	MHA, MT (ASCP)	Senior Director, Medical Group Operations
Benjamin Scirica	MD, MPH	TIMI Study Group, Brigham and Women's Hospital
Kelan Tantisira	MD, PhD	Instructor in Medicine Harvard Medical School
Elizabeth Van Cott	MD	Director Coagulation Laboratory MGH
Delia Wolf	MD, JD	Director Partners Human Research Quality Improvement Program Harvard Medical School
Marcia L. Zucker	PhD	Director Clincal Research, International Technidyne Corporation Edison NJ

2005 Speakers

Charles F. Arkin	MD	Chairman, Department of Laboratory Medicine, the Lahey Clinic Medical Center, and Professor of Pathology Emeritus of Boston University School of Medicine.

Ronald A. Arky	MD	Charles S. Davidson Distinguished Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School, and Master of the Francis Weld Peabody Society, and a Physician at Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center

Shari Bassuk	PhD	Research Associate in Medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School

Joseph V. Bonventre	MD, PhD	Robert H. Ebert Professor of Medicine at Health Sciences and Technology at Harvard Medical School, and Master of Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences

Jonathan Burstein	MD	Medical Director, Emergency Prepardness Program, Mass Department of Public Health

Paul D. Camara	MS	Vice President, Applied Management Systems, Burlington, MA

Lori Cavaleri	BS, CVT	LRN Laboratory Coordinator, Mass Dept of Public Health

Kirsten Cowan		Senior Account Manager/Client Services SoftTech Health

Gregory G. Dolnikowski	PhD	Laboratory Director, Mass Spectrometry, Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrution Research Center on Aging Tufts University

Tara Doran	BS	Bacteriologist, Bioterrorism Response Laboratory, Mass Department of Health


David E. Drum	MD, PhD	Associate Professor of Radiology(Nuclear Medicine) Harvard Medical School, and Staff Physician Nuclear Medicine, Boston VA Healthcare System

Denise J. Fiore	MBA, MT (ASCP)	Director of Operations of Laboratory Medicine Yale New Haven Hospital

Jonathan A. Fletcher	MD	Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, and Pathologist Brigham and Women's Hospital

Cheryl Gathier	MA, MT (ASCP)	Director, Bioterrorism Resppponse Laboratory, Mass Dept of Public Health

Timothy Gilligan	MD	Instructor of Medicine Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Urological Oncologist Dana Farber Cancer Institute

Caley P. Heckman	BS	Assistant Coordinator, Chemical Terrorism Response Laboratory, Mass Dept of Public Health

Gary L. Horowitz	MD	Director of Clinical Chemistry and Point-of-Care Testing Program Beth Israel/Deaconess Medical Center, and Associate Professor of Pathology Harvard Medical School

Ralph K. Ito	PhD, MCLS	Senior Director of Diagnostic Systems and Market Support Protedyne Corporation, Windsor, CT

Paul Jankauskas	MS, MPA	Coordinator, Chemical Terrorism Response Laboratory, Mass Dept of Public Health

Jan S. Krouwer	PhD	statistician, principal in Krouwer Consulting. Author of "Managing Risks in Hospitals"


David Ladd		Director of Hazmat material Responses and Training Director, Mass Dept of Fire Services

Kent B. Lewandrowski	MD	Director Core laboratory Massachusetts General Hospital, and Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School.

Donna MacMillan	MBA, MT (ASCP)	Director of Operations Department of Pathology Massachusetts General Hospital

Barbarajean Magnani	PhD, MD	Director of Clinical Chemistry, Acting Chief Department of Laboratory Medicine Boston Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Boston University School of Medicine

Mike McGowan	MT (ASCP)	Laboratory Director, Marietta memorial Hospital, Marietta, OH and President Elect, LabNet of Ohio

David J. Morris	MA, D Phil	Director of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Immunology Lifespan AMC Pathology Laboratories, Professor of Pathology Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RI

James H. Nichols	PhD	Director of Clinical Chemistry Bay State Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pathology Tufts University School of Medicine

William Ottinger	PhD, DABCC	Tenical Director Quest Diagnostics, Cambridge, MA

George Parsons	PhD	Director of Business Development, Future Diagnostics, Arlington, MA

Nils Person	PhD, DABCC	Technical Director, Clinical Education and Support, DPC Instrument Systems Division


Vincent Ricchiuti	MD	Technical Director, NIH GCRC Core Laboratory Brigham and Women's Hospital, Instructor in Medicine Harvard Medical School

Jerry H. Seibert	MA	Vice President, Sales and marketing, SofTech Health

Tim Skelton	MD, PhD	Medical Director Core Laboratory Department of Laboratory Medicine, Lahey Clinic Medical Center, Burlington, MA

Roberta Teixeira	MT (AMT)	Technical Director, Clinical Services, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

Ravi Thadhani	MD, MPH	Director of Clinical Research Nephrology Massachusetts General Hospital, Assistant Director of Clinical Research Division MIT, Assistant Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School

Dennis J. Urnst	MT(ASCP)	Director of Center for Phlebotomy Education, Ramsay, IN, Editor of Phlebotomy Today, Coordinator of Coalition for Phlebotomy Standards

Jody Urquhart		Professional speaker in the healthcare field. Author of "All Work and No Say". Signature column "The Joy of Work" published in over 65 magazines.

2004 Speakers

Gyorgy Abel	MD	Medical Directory, Clinical Immunology and Molecular Diagnostic laboratory, Lahey Clinic, Burlington, and Clinical Instructor in Pathology, Harvard Medical School
Michael Blanchard	MS MT (ASCP)	Director, New England Hospital Sales, Quest Diagnostics

Jeffrey Booth	JD	Attorney at Holland & Knight LLP, Washington, DC

Joanne Born	MT (ASCP)	Executive Director, Laboratory Accreditation Program,, JCAHO

Irene Bosch	PhD	Associate Professor of Medicine, Center for Infectious Disease and Vaccine Research, U Mass Medical School, Worcester, MA

Michael T. Bourke	PhD	Criminalist Connecticut State Plice Crime Laboratory

Catherine E. Costello	PhD	Professor of Chemistry, Boston University, Director of Mass Spectroscopy Resource, Boston Univ. Medical Center

David Dorfman	MD, PhD	Associate Pathologist and Director of Hematology Laboratories Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Prof Pathology, Harvard Medical School


Denise J. Fiore	MBA, MT (ASCP)	Directory of Operations of Laboratory Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital
M. Michael Gaziano	MD, MPH	BostonDirector of Preventive Cardiology, VA Boston Healthcare System, Chief of the Division of Aging, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School


Ellen Goonan	MS, MT (ASC))	Technical Director of Compliance, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA


Beth Harubin	MS, CLS	Supervisor of Laboratory Quality Assurance and POCT, Tufts-New England Medial Center, Boston, MA

John Higgins	MD	Co-Director of Noninvasive Cardiac Laboratories, VA Bosotn Healthcare System, and Instructor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Mark A. Jandreski	PhD, DABCC, FACB	Manager of Manufacturing Development, Nucleic Acids Division, Bayer Healthcare

Robert Kalish	MD	Associate Rheumatologist and Assistant Professor of Medicine, Tufts-New England Meical Center, Boston, MA

Kent Lewandrowski	MD	Director, Core Lab, Massachusetts General Hospital, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Donna MacMillan	MBA, MT(ASCP)	Director of Operations Dept. of Pathology, Mass. General Hosp.

Robert B. V. Masters		VP Consulting Div., Medical Bureau of Economics, Worcester, MA


Janet Means	MS, MT(ASCP)	Laboratory Quality and Compliance Specialist, Boston Medical Center, Boston, MA

David Morrow	MD, MPH	Assistant Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Associate Physician Cardiovascular Division, and Director, TIMI Biomarker Core Laboratory, Brigham and Women's Hospital

Kilmer S. McCully	MD	Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, and Chief of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director Boston Area Consolidated Laboratories VA Medical Center, West Roxbury, MA

James M. Nichols	PhD, DABCC, FACB	Director of Clinical Chemistry, Baystate Medical Center, Associate Professor of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine

Connie Ohnstad	BS, NCA	Laboratory Supervisor, Charlton Laboratory Services, Mayo Medical Center Rochester MN

Darryl Palmer-Toy	MD, PhD	Visiting Assistant Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School, Assistant Pathologist, Mass General Hospital

Nils B. Person	PhD	Technical Director, Clinical Education and Support, Instrument Systems Division, Diagnostic Products Corporation

Andrea Pierce	PhD	Principal AMP Scientific, Holliis, NH; Consultant AlvaMed, LLC

Jorge Plutzky	MD	Assistant Professor of Medicine and Director, Vascular Disease Prevention Program, Harvard Medical School

Heidi L. Rehm	PhD	Instructor in Pathology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and harvard Medical School; Associate Medical Geneticist, Center for Genetics and Genomics, Harvard Medical School and Partners Healthcare System


B. Robson	PhD	Staff Scientist, IBM Healthcare and LIfe Sciences

Ruth Simon	BA, MT (ASCP)	Senior Marketing Support, Medical Information Technology, Inc. Westwood, MA

Tim Skelton	MD, PhD	Assistant Director Dept of Laboratory Medicine, Boson Medical Center, and Assistant Professor of Pathology, Boston university School of Medicine

Roberta Teixeira	MT (AMT)	Technical Director, Clinical Services, Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary

William Thomas	PhD	Director Infectious Disease Laboratory, Univeristy of Massachusetts Medical Center

Elizabeth M. Van Cott	MD, PhD	Director of Coagulation laboratory, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Assistant Professor Pathology, Harvard Medical School

Susan Waisbren	PhD	Associate Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychiatry, The Children's Hospital and harvard Medical School, and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School

Steven Wong	PhD, DABCC, FACB	Professor of Pathology, Psychiatry and Behavioral Medicine and director, Clnical Chemistry/Toxicology, TDM Pharmcogenomics and Proteomics, Medical College of Wisconsin, and Scientific Director, Toxicology Department, Mailwaukee Country Medical Examinsers Office, Milwaukee, WI

2003 Speakers

Jim Brayer	MS	Affymetrix
Timothy Brough	MT (ASCP)	Dartmouth-Hitchcok Medical Center
Desiree A. Carlson	MD	The Brockton Hospital
Paul Camara	MS	Applied Management Systems
Arthur Cassidy	SC (ASCP)	Brigham & Women's Hospital
Nancy Clark	MLT, CLT	Southern Maine Medical Center
Paul Conlin	MD	VA Boston HealthCare System
Christopher P. Crum	MD	Harvard Medical School
Tammy Galloway	MT (ASCP)	Beath Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Elaine Gardner	RN, MS	Visiting Nurse Association of Boston

Tim Hayes	DVM, MD	Maine Medical Center
Grace Shih-hui Kao	MD	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
Linda M. Kilbride	MS, MT (ASCP)	Saints Memorial Medical Center
Carol Kolenik	EdM	Harvard Bridge to Learning and Literacy
Jan Krouwer	PhD	Krouwer Consulting
Martin Levin	JD	Choate, Hall and Stewart
Kent Lewandrowski	MD	Massachusetts General Hospital
Barbarajean Magnani	PhD, MD	Boston Medical Center
Robert B. V. Masters		Medical Bureau of Economics
Sue Mills	MT	University of Massachusetts

Paula Fay Moon	DVM, ACVA	New Engalnd Veterinary Anesthesia Services
Cathy Mulloly	MS, RCEP, CDE	The Joslin Center
James M. Nichols	PhD, DABCC, FACB	Baystate Medical Center
William Oh	MD	Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
George Parsons	PhD	Future Diagnostics
Andrea Pierce	PhD	AMD Scientific, LLC
Frederic I. Preffer	PhD	Massachusetts General Hospital
Elanine Pridham		Harvard University
Vincent Richiutti	PhD	Brigham & Women's Hospital
Debra Steward	MT (ASCP)	Mt. Auburn Hospital

Katrian Thompson-Burnett	MS, CLS (ASCP)	formerly Caritas Norwood
Gregory J. Tsongalis	PhD, HCLD, FACB	Hartford Hospital
Rogbert D. Utiger	MD	Brigham & Women's Hospital
Elizabeth Van Cott	MD	Massachusetts General Hospital
Dorothy Grandolfi Wagg	JD, RHIA, CHP	Applied Management Systems
Louise Wilkins-Haug	MD, PhD	Brigham & Women's Hospital
K. T. Jerry Yeo	PhD, DABCC, FACB	Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center

2002 Speakers

Bruce Beckwith	MD	Beth Israel Deaconass Medical Center
Judy Bernice	MBA, MT (ASCP), CLMAF	Health Diagnostics
Stephen W. Bernstein	Esq.	McDermott, Willl & Emery
Ronald A. Blum	PhD	Quest Diagnostics
Desiree A. Carlson	MD	College of American Pathologists
Robert Christenson	PhD	University of Maryland School of Medicine
Calvin Cohen	MD	Community Research Initiative of New England
Thomas G. Cole	PhD	Core Laboratory for Clinical Studies
Doris DeGraves	MT (ASCP), BS, MA	Dept of Public Health-State of Massachusetts
Jean Egan	PhD	Business Consultatnt

Martha R. A Fields		Fields Associates, Inc.
Lisa N. Geller	PhD, JD	Genetic Screening Study Group
Michael Gonyeau	Pharm.D, BCPS	Northeastern University School of Pharmacy
Lesley A. Hawes		Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary
Pamela M. Mill	M.Ed	Joint Commission for Accrediation of Hospitals
Daryl Juran	MBA	Independent Consultant
Michael Laposta	MD	Massachusetts General Hospital
Donna Leach	MS, M.Ed	Winston-Salem University
Robert B. V Masters		Medical Bureau of Economics, Worcester
Theodore Mifflin	MPhD	University of Virginia

Kathleen A. Mitchell
Kathy Murphy	PhD	Park City Solutions
James B. Nichols	PhD, DABCC, FACB	Baystate Health System
Kevin O.Connell	BS, MLT (ASCP), BB	Quest Diagnostics
Denny Ryman	MS, Ed.D	Winston-Salem State University
Mary Jo Schmerr	PhD	National Animal Disease Center
Roberta Teixeira	MT (AMT) M.Ed	Massachusett Eye and Ear Infirmary
Arnold N. Weinberg	MD	Harvard University