From Waste to Wow: Optimizing Your Quality Control Workflow

Wednesday, July 30
7:00 - 8:30 a.m.
Location: Hyatt Regency McCormick Place
Room: Jackson Park B-D
Sponsored by Bio-Rad Laboratories

Overview

Join experienced laboratory professionals in this dynamic workshop at ADLM 2025 to gain practical, real-world insights into enhancing clinical laboratory efficiency through innovative quality control (QC) and workflow solutions. Learn strategies to streamline QC management across multihospital systems for system-wide efficiency, reduce waste streams in clinical chemistry, and recognize patient-based real-time QC to improve lab QC processes. This engaging session equips attendees with actionable tools to optimize lab efficiency and elevate patient safety.

This workshop will enable you to:

• Recognize and apply effective QC data management strategies for multihospital systems.
• Identify and assess waste streams from QC practices in clinical chemistry
• Relate how Patient-Based Real-Time QC approaches can improve laboratory efficiency

Moderator

Nico VandePoele
Senior Product Manager Informatics, Bio-Rad Laboratories

Speakers

Joshua Hayden, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
Section Director, Clinical Biochemistry, Cleveland Clinic

Joe Wiencek, PhD, DABCC, FADLM
Associate Professor in Pathology, Microbiology, and Immunology at Vanderbilt School of Medicine

John Yundt-Pacheco, MSCS
Principle Scientist, Sr, Bio-Rad Laboratories