Don't forget to get your abstracts in for The Clinical Cytometry Society Annual Meeting, held October 11-16, 2002 in Keystone Resort, Keystone, Colorado! The Sessions this year are as follows: Next Generation Studies for Clinical Flow Cytometry: Chaired by Dr. Maria Jorge Arroz (Egas Moniz Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal), will cover the type of assays clinical laboratories will be doing in the next 5-7 years. The session will cover molecular and functional assessments such as tetramer applications, markers of resistance to chemotherapy, measurement of oncogene expression, and clinically relevant flow cytometric cytokine measurements. Immunotherapy and Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation: Chaired by Dr. Lawrence Lamb (South Carolina Cancer Center, Columbia, South Carolina), and Dr. Robert Bray (Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Georgia) is a session that will cover important aspect of clinical flow cytometric testing and important new developments in the field of transplant medicine. This session is sponsored by the American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics. Regulating Quality: Assays, Instruments, and Institutions: Terri Oldeker (Quest Diagnostics) and Bruce Davis (Maine Medical Center Research Institute, South Portland, Maine). This session will cover vital topics for the clinical labo, includinghow to survive CAP flow lab inspections, the FDA and flow cytometry related diagnostic device clearance and mmulti-color compensation Dusky Disks at Dawn, chaired by Dr. Maria Jorge Arroz (Egas Moniz Hospital, Lisbon, Portugal), will have the always popular "Difficult Questions" session where you get to ask a panel of experts your most difficult questions. This year there will be a "Difficult Cases in Leukemia and Lymphoma" session where well known clinicians will present their most difficult cases and tell us how they figured them out. Luncheon workshops: Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia; Acute Myeloid Leukemia; Lymphoma; Standardization; Plasma Cell Neoplasms; Functional Assays in Clinical Flow Cytometry; and PNH testing. The Accommodations: Keystone has 2 first-class hotels, The Keystone Lodge special CCS single room rate is $120 and the double is $135. The Inn at Keystone special CCS single room rate is $100 and the double is $115. Cost Saving Measures: A room mate finding service will be provided for those who are interested, bringing shared room rates at Keystone Lodge to $67.5 per person and at the Inn at Keystone to $57.5 per person. Keystone resorts will allow CCS members to extend their stay beyond the meeting at this special CCS price, so an inexpensive vacation can be incorporated into your meeting trip. Keystone Resorts will arrange travel completely from your nearest airport to the resort and back again at a competitive price so you don't have to worry about taxi's or taking a bus from the airport to the meeting For further information contact Clinical Cytometry Society (clinicalcytom@adelphia.net) or visit web site (http://www.cytometry.org/) Maryalice Stetler-Stevenson Chief, Flow Cytometry Unit Laboratory of Pathology, NCI, NIH Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.
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