Abstract II: Expanding the HLA Toolbox

Speaker(s)

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  Timothy Emery, BSc

  Australian Red Cross Lifeblood - SATIS
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  Robert Frick, MD

  Stanford University - Stanford Health Care
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  Cathy Gebhart, MB(ASCP), PhD, F(ACHI)

  LifeLink Foundation
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  Sarah Johnson, Clinical Laboratory Scientist

  Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network
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  Anna Morris
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  Michiko Taniguchi, HLA Associate Director

  Temple University Hospital

Moderator(s)

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  Rajdeep Das, MD, PhD, FIBMS

  University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
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  Ruth Koester, PhD, F(ACHI)

  Labcorp

Presentations:

• 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM US PDT

  Power BI for HLA
  

  Speaker: Michiko Taniguchi, HLA Associate Director – Temple University Hospital
• 3:00 PM – 3:15 PM US PDT

  Assessing the clinical utility of the ExPlex Panel in a cohort of highly sensitized Black Americans
  

  Speaker: Anna Morris
• 3:15 PM – 3:30 PM US PDT

  Uncovering New Potentials: High Resolution Deceased Donor Human Leukocyte Antigen Typing in Less Than 4 Hours
  

  Speaker: Sarah Johnson, Clinical Laboratory Scientist – Gift of Hope Organ and Tissue Donor Network
• 3:30 PM – 3:45 PM US PDT

  Evaluation of Spurious Luminex Bead Reactions with HISTO SPOT® HLA AB, Flow Cytometry Cross Matching and Adsorption with Crossmatch and Elution
  

  Speaker: Timothy Emery, BSc – Australian Red Cross Lifeblood - SATIS
• 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM US PDT

  Inverse Correlation between MFI and Bead Counts in Single Antigen Bead Assay for Anti-HLA Antibody Testing
  

  Speaker: Robert Frick, MD – Stanford University - Stanford Health Care
• 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM US PDT

  Evaluation of the Performance of Next Generation Sequencing ABO Probes in a Solid Organ Transplant Population
  

  Speaker: Cathy Gebhart, MB(ASCP), PhD, F(ACHI) – LifeLink Foundation