2015 AACC

Laboratory Medicine’s Role in Reducing Health Disparities-73218 (Room Georgia World Congress Center - B304)

28 Jul 15
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Tracks: Biomarkers, Personalized Medicine

Speaker(s): Melinda Aldrich, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; Octavia Palmer, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; Alison Woodworth, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

After this session participants will be able to: 1) define the laboratorian’s role in identification and reduction of health disparities; 2) explain the appropriateness of using race/ethnicity as surrogates in diagnostic testing algorithms; 3) evaluate how race/ethnicity is or can be used as crude surrogates to identify functional biomarkers that stratify patients based on their genetic/biochemical profile rather than their self-identified race; and 4) develop and validate patient-specific diagnostic testing algorithms using data generated in both the clinical laboratory and translational research studies.