Register for a Werfen Education Event

Join us for an educational event, featuring a comprehensive lineup of expert-led sessions, designed to explore key topics in healthcare technology and patient care. The event will conclude with hands-on demonstrations, offering participants an opportunity to interact with the technologies discussed throughout the day.

Event Agenda by Topic

Welcome

8:30–9:00 am: Registration and Breakfast

9:00–9:30 am: Werfen Welcome

9:30–10:30 am: Managing Hemolysis in Whole Blood at the Point of Care***‡

christopher-farnsworth  Christopher Farnsworth, PhD
Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry POCT
St. Louis, MO

Objectives

  • Identify challenges in current practices for managing hemolysis at the point of care​
  • Review how point of care hemolysis detection compares to laboratory methods​
  • Discuss the experience of detecting hemolysis at the POC, to improve quality of care​
Transfusion

10:30–11:00 am: Power of Portfolio
Charles Jackson, Blood Bank Business Manager, Werfen

11:00–11:30 am: ImmuLINK® - A New Frontier in Antibody Identification
Mark Bernhardt, Digital Solutions Sales Support Specialist, Werfen

12:30–1:30 pm: Reducing Clerical Errors: Vision to Capture
Kristen M. Pilkington, MLS
Corporate Blood Bank Technical Supervisor, Virtua Health

1:30–2:00 pm: Echo Lumena® : Tips for Keeping your Instrument in Top Shape
Veronica Schaubs, Blood Bank Technical Specialist, Werfen

2:00–2:30 pm: Cracking The Code: Complex Case Studies***
Wendy Disbro, Transfusion Marketing Manager, Werfen

Objectives

  • Explain the process of antibody identification, including the interpretation of weak and strong antibodies
  • Apply and analyze the techniques of preparing an eluate, performing adsorption using WARM, and utilizing RESt to remove cold agglutinin activity
  • Evaluate various methodologies and analyze antibody reactivity to investigate a potential Delayed Hemolytic Transfusion Reaction

2:30–3:30 pm: Instrument Demonstrations

Patient Blood Management

10:30–11:30 am: ROTEM® sigma with VerifyNowTM
Christine Battaglia, Patient Blood Management Specialist, Werfen

12:30–1:30 pm: Patient Blood Management: A Focus on Perioperative Coagulation Management in Cardiac Surgery and Liver Transplantation***‡

christopher-farnsworth  Christopher Farnsworth, PhD
Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry POCT
St. Louis, MO

Objectives

  • Describe the utility of thromboelastometry
  • Assess the potential need for thromboelastometry at the point of care
  • Discuss intraoperative cases using ROTEM–guided treatment

1:30–2:30 pm: Hands-on Demonstration with Q&A
Christine Battaglia, Patient Blood Management Specialist, Werfen

2:30–3:30 pm: Instrument Demonstrations

Acute Care

10:30–11:30 am: Improving Preanalytical Practices to Enhance Blood Gas Testing Accuracy***‡​
Elizabeth Odom MBA, MLS (ASCP), Clinical Applications Manager, Werfen

Objectives

  • Define common sources of preanalytical error in blood gas testing
  • Recognize the impact of preanalytical errors on blood gas results
  • Describe practices to reduce the potential for preanalytical error

12:30–1:30 pm: Patient Blood Management: A Focus on Perioperative Coagulation Management in Cardiac Surgery and Liver Transplantation***‡

christopher-farnsworth  Christopher Farnsworth, PhD
Assoc. Professor, Dept. of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University School of Medicine
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry POCT
St. Louis, MO

Objectives

  • Describe the utility of thromboelastometry
  • Assess the potential need for thromboelastometry at the point of care
  • Discuss intraoperative cases using ROTEM–guided treatment

1:30–2:00 pm: Introducing the GEM® PremierTM 7000 with iQM®3
Jenna Finegold, Product Manager, Werfen

2:00-2:30 pm: Quality Assurance and Data-Driven Solutions with GEMweb® Plus 500 Custom Connectivity
Nick Zaia, Product Manager, Werfen

2:00–3:30 pm: Instrument Demonstrations

Hemostasis

10:30–11:30 am

Anticoagulation and Anti-Xa: Heparin and DOACs in the Laboratory
Maddie Wiegman, Product Manager, Werfen 

Objectives

  • Describe the anticoagulant effect of heparin
  • Discuss why monitoring unfractionated heparin (UFH) with Anti-Xa has benefits compared to activated partial thromboplastin time (APTT)
  • Review results of studies comparing Anti-Xa monitoring with APTT in patients on UFH therapy
  • Outline a plan to transition from APTT to Anti-Xa monitoring
  • Discuss Anti-Xa assay and direct oral anticoagulant (DOAC) measurement

12:30–1:30 pm

Introducing the ACL TOP® Family 70 Series Hemostasis Testing System
Annie Lopatin, Product Manager, Werfen

1:30–2:30 pm

Reaction Curves - A Fantastic Tool for Coagulation
Linda Mooney, Clinical Applications Manager, Werfen

2:30–3:30 pm: Instrument Demonstrations

Autoimmunity

10:30–11:00 am: Autoimmune Portfolio Overview
Michael Padberg, Product Manager, Werfen

10:30–11:00 am: Introduction to Aptiva®
Michael Padberg, Product Manager, Werfen

12:30–1:30 pm: Introduction to IFA Methodologies & HEp-2 Fundamentals

Screenshot 2025-04-15 at 2.07.03 PM  Sam Siporin, Clinical Autoimmune Specialist, Werfen

Objectives

  • Define IFA and what it is used to test for
  • List what makes IFA methods perform well
  • Describe strategies for interpreting positive fluorescence

1:30–2:30 pm: Featured Tests in Autoimmunity***
Sam Siporin, Clinical Autoimmune Specialist, Werfen

2:30–3:30 pm: Instrument Demonstrations

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Credits

Attendees earn CE credit hours offered through P.A.C.E.®, AARC or Florida Broker credit. Amount of credits earned is dependent on track. Werfen is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. Program.

Sessions indicated with *** will receive P.A.C.E. credit; sessions indicated with ​‡ will receive AARC credit.

 

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