Salina, KS 67401
The Joint Annual Meeting of
ASCLS KS and ASCP Wheatlands
for Laboratory Professionals
As is the custom ASCLS-KS, ASCP Wheatlands will join together in 2025 to celebrate our profession and commitment to quality patient care by sponsoring an Annual Spring Meeting This year’s meeting will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8-9 at The Hilton Garden Inn and Convention Center, Salina KS.
A block of rooms is reserved at the rate of $139/night for king or queen rooms. This rate is available until March 9. Rooms have small fridges, microwaves, and Keurig coffeemakers.
Use the code 4ASCLS when making reservations.
Online: Click here
Call hotel directly: 844-202-9699
Block room Rate expires 3/6/2025
If paying by check there are 2 options: Make payable to ASCLS Kansas
1. Register and bring check to meeting
2. Register and mail check to Richard Harmon Post Office Box 4502 Topeka, KS 66604-0502
Schedule
TUESDAY, April 8, 2025
7 am – | REGISTRATION |
08:00 – 8:15 am | Welcome |
08:15 – 9:45 am | The Road to Leveraging Laboratory Medicine and Value Based Care Pat Tille Ph.D. MLS(ASCP) AHI(AMT) ASCLS President - University of Cincinnati |
9:45 – 10:00 am | BREAK |
10:00 –10:50am | 2025 Transfusion Medicine Update Matthew Coleman, MD, Regional Director ARC (timing may change) |
11:00 –11:50am | Hematology Topic- TBA (timing may change) |
12:00 – 1:30 pm | EXHIBITS OPEN – |
1:30 - 2:20pm | OMG! What is OGM? Eric Elsinghorst, PhD, MPH, MLS(ASCP)CM, MB(ASCP)CM Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Kansas |
2:30 – 3:20pm | How to Use the new State Operations Manual (SOM)Appendix C-advanced copy Leigh Spear, BS, MT(ASCP) State of Kansas CLIA Surveyor |
3:20 – 4:00pm | EXHIBITS OPEN – BREAK |
4:00- 4:50pm | Micro AST Breakpoints – TBA (timing may change) |
5:00 – | Exhibits – Social Hour – |
6:30 pm | ASCLS – KS Business Meeting |
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2025
7:00 am – 2:00 pm | Registration |
07:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast with the Exhibitors / ascp wHEATLANDS BUSINESS MEETING |
8:30 – 9:45 am | Will There Be Blood? Characteristics of the Laboratory Workforce Providing Blood Bank Services in Rural Kansas Alexandra Corns, MLS(ASCP)CM, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Salina |
9:45 – 10:00 am | BREAK |
10:00 –10:50 am | Listening to Blood: Hemosonics Quantra impact on blood product utilization Lance Trewhella (MSN, RN) Hemosonics |
11:00 –11:50 am | POC- TBA (timing may change) |
12:00 - 12:50 pm | LUNCH Break Last chance to visit the Exhibits |
1:00pm – 1:50 pm | Antigens and Antibodies of the RhCE Proteins Yan Zheng, PhD, MS, MLS (ASCP)CM Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences The University of Kansas Medical Center |
2:00 – | What’s Next? Emerging Viruses You Probably Have Never Heard Of Jan Hudzicki, PhD, MLS(ASCP)cm, SM(ASCP)cm KUMC Professor Emerta Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences |
3:00 – | IT Disaster Recovery- TBA (timing may change) |
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm | TBD |
- P.A.C.E.® Credit
- The ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program approves KSCLS as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences.
- All sessions are pending approval for P.A.C.E.® credit. The P.A.C.E.® credits awarded for each session will be published in the final program.
- CE Organizer will be used for P.A.C.E.® documentation.
- For those individuals participating in the ASCP Certification Maintenance Program (CMP), the program committee has attempted to offer continuing education sessions which meet the CMP for generalists (MLS and MLT). A minimum of 36 points over a period of three years is required and must include the following: 1 point in safety, 2 points each in blood bank, chemistry, hematology, and microbiology. Other areas that may be counted toward CMP are immunology, molecular diagnostics, management, education, and/or other related laboratory area(s) of interest.
- QUESTIONS: Please contact: Drew Jones (ajones9@kumc.edu)
The Joint Annual Meeting of
ASCLS KS and ASCP Wheatlands
for Laboratory Professionals
As is the custom ASCLS-KS, ASCP Wheatlands will join together in 2025 to celebrate our profession and commitment to quality patient care by sponsoring an Annual Spring Meeting This year’s meeting will be held Tuesday and Wednesday, April 8-9 at The Hilton Garden Inn and Convention Center, Salina KS.
A block of rooms is reserved at the rate of $139/night for king or queen rooms. This rate is available until March 9. Rooms have small fridges, microwaves, and Keurig coffeemakers.
Use the code 4ASCLS when making reservations.
Online: Click here
Call hotel directly: 844-202-9699
Block room Rate expires 3/6/2025
If paying by check there are 2 options: Make payable to ASCLS Kansas
1. Register and bring check to meeting
2. Register and mail check to Richard Harmon Post Office Box 4502 Topeka, KS 66604-0502
Schedule
TUESDAY, April 8, 2025
7 am – | REGISTRATION |
08:00 – 8:15 am | Welcome |
08:15 – 9:45 am | The Road to Leveraging Laboratory Medicine and Value Based Care Pat Tille Ph.D. MLS(ASCP) AHI(AMT) ASCLS President - University of Cincinnati |
9:45 – 10:00 am | BREAK |
10:00 –10:50am | 2025 Transfusion Medicine Update Matthew Coleman, MD, Regional Director ARC (timing may change) |
11:00 –11:50am | Hematology Topic- TBA (timing may change) |
12:00 – 1:30 pm | EXHIBITS OPEN – |
1:30 - 2:20pm | OMG! What is OGM? Eric Elsinghorst, PhD, MPH, MLS(ASCP)CM, MB(ASCP)CM Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, University of Kansas |
2:30 – 3:20pm | How to Use the new State Operations Manual (SOM)Appendix C-advanced copy Leigh Spear, BS, MT(ASCP) State of Kansas CLIA Surveyor |
3:20 – 4:00pm | EXHIBITS OPEN – BREAK |
4:00- 4:50pm | Micro AST Breakpoints – TBA (timing may change) |
5:00 – | Exhibits – Social Hour – |
6:30 pm | ASCLS – KS Business Meeting |
WEDNESDAY, April 9, 2025
7:00 am – 2:00 pm | Registration |
07:30 – 8:30 am | Breakfast with the Exhibitors / ascp wHEATLANDS BUSINESS MEETING |
8:30 – 9:45 am | Will There Be Blood? Characteristics of the Laboratory Workforce Providing Blood Bank Services in Rural Kansas Alexandra Corns, MLS(ASCP)CM, University of Kansas School of Medicine, Salina |
9:45 – 10:00 am | BREAK |
10:00 –10:50 am | Listening to Blood: Hemosonics Quantra impact on blood product utilization Lance Trewhella (MSN, RN) Hemosonics |
11:00 –11:50 am | POC- TBA (timing may change) |
12:00 - 12:50 pm | LUNCH Break Last chance to visit the Exhibits |
1:00pm – 1:50 pm | Antigens and Antibodies of the RhCE Proteins Yan Zheng, PhD, MS, MLS (ASCP)CM Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences The University of Kansas Medical Center |
2:00 – | What’s Next? Emerging Viruses You Probably Have Never Heard Of Jan Hudzicki, PhD, MLS(ASCP)cm, SM(ASCP)cm KUMC Professor Emerta Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences |
3:00 – | IT Disaster Recovery- TBA (timing may change) |
4:00 pm – 4:50 pm | TBD |
- P.A.C.E.® Credit
- The ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program approves KSCLS as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences.
- All sessions are pending approval for P.A.C.E.® credit. The P.A.C.E.® credits awarded for each session will be published in the final program.
- CE Organizer will be used for P.A.C.E.® documentation.
- For those individuals participating in the ASCP Certification Maintenance Program (CMP), the program committee has attempted to offer continuing education sessions which meet the CMP for generalists (MLS and MLT). A minimum of 36 points over a period of three years is required and must include the following: 1 point in safety, 2 points each in blood bank, chemistry, hematology, and microbiology. Other areas that may be counted toward CMP are immunology, molecular diagnostics, management, education, and/or other related laboratory area(s) of interest.
- QUESTIONS: Please contact: Drew Jones (ajones9@kumc.edu)