Featured Presentation:
A Comedy of Laboratory Errors: Cases Highlighting the Impact of Errors Rooted in Laboratory Medicine

Speaker:

Joe M. El-Khoury, PhD, DABCC, FADLM

Dr. Joe El-Khoury is Professor of Laboratory Medicine at Yale School of Medicine and Director of the Clinical Chemistry Laboratory and fellowship program at Yale-New Haven Health. He is board-certified by the American Board of Clinical Chemistry and a fellow of the Association for Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine Academy. He currently serves on the Editorial Boards of Clinical Chemistry and Clinical Biochemistry, as Chair of the IFCC Committee on Kidney Diseases and as Vice-Chair for the Faculty Advisory Council to the Dean of Yale School of Medicine. He is the recipient of the 2023 Young Investigator Award from the International Federation for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine. He has his own YouTube channel, entitled “Clinical Chemistry with Joe El-Khoury”, that infuses science with comedy and is focused on improving laboratory medicine practice. His interests include reducing preanalytical errors, biomarkers of kidney disease and injury, toxicology, mass spectrometry and science communication.

1. Describe how reference intervals for a new test are derived in laboratory medicine
2. Identify the impact of not accounting for biological and seasonal variation in reference intervals on clinical practice
3. Recognize the limitations of instructions provided in product inserts for FDA-approved tests