January 24, 2008

The 2008 ISBER Meeting and Exhibits

BY Dr. Keith J. Kaplan

The 2008 ISBER Meeting and Exhibits:

“Global Biobanking Collaborations: Challenges and Opportunities” will be held May 18-21, 2008 in Bethesda, Maryland

http://www.isber.org/mtgs/2008/index.html   

In conjunction with this meeting the API will be hosting a companion meeting http://www.isber.org/mtgs/2008/agenda.html :

Informatics for Repositories: How Pathology’s Data and Clinical Tissue Flow Can be Harnessed to the Mission of Biospecimen Repositories


Sunday, May 18, 2008    1:00PM – 6:00pm
Chair: John Gilbertson MD, Massachusetts General Hospital
Optional Event – Requires Separate Registration, Includes Lunch

Topics:
  Legal, Ethical, and Regulatory Issues: Use of clinical data and archived clinical specimens.
  The Anatomic Pathology Laboratory Information System and Enhancement of Tissue Banking Efforts
  The Clinical Pathology Laboratory Information System and Enhancement of Specimen Banking Efforts
  Informatics Open Source Tools for Tissue Banking and Annotation
  Roundtable: Panel discussion and Questions and Answers from all Participants

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