Presentations - 2018

Assuring Quality and Building Trust: Providing High Quality, Low Cost EQAS at Both Laboratory and Community Settings

Cabuang L, Sahin D, Land S and Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the African Society for Laboratory Medicine (ASLM) 4th International Conference, Abuja, Nigeria, 13 December 2018

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A Roadmap to Establishing A National EQA Program

Dimech W

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the SLIPTA/SLMTA Symposium, Abuja, Nigeria, 9 December 2018

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Understanding Quality Control for Infectious Disease Testing

Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the ASLM Quality Control Workshop, Abuja, Nigeria, 9 December 2018

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QC in the Serology Laboratory

Vincini G
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the DiaSorin Users' Group Meeting, Melbourne, Australia,  31 October 2018

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QC Case Studies- How QC Makes the (Testing) World go Round

Vincini G

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 18 October 2018

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Westgard Rules- Appropriate or are we Jumping at Shadows?

Dimech W

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 18 October 2018

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Solving the EQAS Paradox: Can they be Low-Cost and High-Quality?

Cabuang L

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 17 October 2018

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Community Based HIV Screening in the Philippines

Wilson K

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 17 October 2018

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EQAS Software Reporting Updates

Cabuang L

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the Quality Assurance Users' Group Meeting, 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 16 October 2018

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What's New in NRL EQAS

Cabuang L

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the Quality Assurance Users' Group Meeting, 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 16 October 2018

Interesting QC Cases

Vincini G

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the Quality Assurance Users' Group Meeting, 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 16 October 2018

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Interfacing with EDCNet

Dimech W

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the Quality Assurance Users' Group Meeting, 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 16 October 2018

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QC: What's New

Vincini G
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the Quality Assurance Users' Group Meeting, 35th Annual NRL Workshop on Infectious Diseases, Melbourne, 16 October 2018

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HPV Molecular EQAS: Is Quantification Helpful?

Cabuang L

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the NRL Workshop on Molecular Diagnostics 2018, Melbourne, 15 October 2018

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Quality Assurance of Blood Screening Laboratories

Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the ROCHE 1st APAC Blood Safety Symposium, Ho Chi Minh City,  6 -7 September 2018

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Laboratory Quality Control in the Serology Testing- Are we Truly Out of Control or Jumping at Shadows?

Vincini G

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the AACB-AIMS Scientific Meeting, Sydney, Australia, 5 September 2018

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QConnect Limits and EDCNet

Vincini G

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the Australian Red Cross Blood Service, Melbourne, Australia, 12 July 2018

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Quality Control of CLIA in Blood Screening for Transfusion Transmitted Infections

Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at Chongqing Blood Transfusion ChLIA Workshop, Chongqing China, 27-28 June 2018

2nd Forum of China Biological Diagnostics in Yantai, 20 June 2018

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Are Traditional Approachs to QC Appropriate for Infectious Disease Testing

Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at NRL European Workshop on Quality, Athens, Greece, 15 May 2018

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QC Case Studies

Vincini G

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at NRL European Workshop on Quality, Athens, Greece, 15 May 2018

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Meaningful Quality Control in Blood Services

Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the10th Helenic Transfusion Medicine Conference, Ioninna, Greece 20 April 2018

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Transfusion Transmitted Infections (TTIs) Screening Laboratories and Quality Assurance

Vincini G

NRL, Melbourne, Australia

Presented at the Abbott Transfusion Medicine-Leading Through Transformation "Raising Blood Safety Standards to the Next Level" Meeting, Huderabad, India, 6 April 2018

Meaningful Quality Control

Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the 7th Abbott Global Symposium for Transfusion Medicine, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 17-18 April 2018

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Assuring quality in Blood Services

Hetzel P
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the NRL Asian Workshop on Quality 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 March 2018

Designing Low Cost Proficiency Programmes

Vincini G
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the NRL Asian Workshop on Quality 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 March 2018

The Benefits of Quality Control

Dimech W
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the NRL Asian Workshop on Quality 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 March 2018

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QC Case Studies

Vinici G
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the NRL Asian Workshop on Quality 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 March 2018

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Key Steps in IVD Performance Evaluation

Braniff S
NRL, Melbourne, Australia
Presented at the NRL Asian Workshop on Quality 2018, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 19-20 March 2018

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