The 11th Annual Meeting of

Clinical Applications

of Cytometry

The 1996 Clinical Applications of Cytometry Program

9:00 - 12:00 am
NIAIDS HIV Workshop and Panel
Jeff Louie
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

1:00 - 6:00 pm
Commercial Workshops: Concurrent

8:00 pm
Welcome
John W. Parker, President
Clinical Cytometry Society

8:10pm
Wallace H. Coulter Distinguished Lecture
Cytometry vs. Cell Biology: Are we pulling on the same oar?
Peter Rabinovitch
University of Washington, Seattle, WA

9:15pm
Young Investigator Awards and Reception

Thursday, August 22

9:00 - 12:00 am
Plenary Session I

• Transplantation Applications of Flow Cytometry
  Chairs: Robert A. Bray & Paul E. Hurtubise
• Flow Cytometric Evaluation of Alloantibody in Patients Awaiting Solid Organ Transplantation
  Robert A. Bray
  Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, GA
• Post Transplant, Flow Cytometric Crossmatching: The New Frontier
  Daniel J. Cook
  Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
• The Use of Flow Cytometry Analysis and Purification of Hematopoietic Cells in Bone Marrow Transplantation
  Edmund J. Waller
  Emory University, Atlanta, GA
• Flow Cytometric Immune Monitoring Following Allogeneic Bone Marrow Transplantation: The Four "R's"
  Lawrence S. Lamb, Jr.
  Richland Memorial Hospital, Columbia, SC

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Luncheon Workshops

2:00 - 6:00 pm
Plenary Session II

• Issues in Managing a Successful Clinical Cytometry Laboratory: Surviving into the 21st Century
  Chairs: Carleton C. Stewart & Peter Tompson
• Practice Guidelines and the Assessment of New Diagnostics: An MCO Perspective
  Peter Juhn
  Kaiser Permanente, Oakland, CA
• Role of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in the Development of Practice Guidelines: Implications for New Diagnostics
  Robert Griffiths
  Health Technology Association, Washington, DC
• Round Table Discussion: An Interactive Discussion of Varied Viewpoints on Issues Pertaining to:
• Point of care testing versus regional testing
• Government regulations of reagents
• Single reagents for home brew versus combined reagents in kits
• Report on Leukemia/Lymphoma Concensus Conference
  Carleton Stewart & Bruce Davis

6:00 - 8:00 pm
Poster Session

Friday, August 23

9:00 - 12:00pm
Plenary Session III

• Future Directions in Cytometry
  Chairs: Janis V. Giorgi & Leon Wheeless
• Tumor Heterogeneity
  T. Vincent Shankey
  Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood, IL
• Oncogenes and Tumor Suppressor Genes
  Stanley Shakney
  Allegheny General Hospital, Pittsburgh, PA
• Direct Flow Cytometric Assessment of Antigen-Specific T Cell Responses Using Intracellular Cytokine Measurements
  Louis J. Picker
  Southwest Medical Center, Dallas, TX
• Flow Cytometry for the 21st Century
  Paul K. Horan
  Qed Technologies, Malvern, PA

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Luncheon Workshops

2:00 pm
Clinical Cytometry Society Business Meeting

5:00 pm
Beach Party

Saturday, August 24

9:00 - 12:00 am
Plenary Session IV

• Flow Cytometric Assessment of Cell Functions
  Chairs: Thomas A. Fleisher & Dorothy E. Lewis
• Leukocyte - Endothelial Adhesions Under Conditions of Flow
  C. Wayne Smith
  Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX
• Multi Parameter Flow Cytometric Analysis of Heterogeneity in Granulocytes from Burn Patients
  David G. Burleston
  US Army Institute of Surgical Research, San Antonio, TX
• Consequences of T Cell Activation
  Thomas A. Fleisher
  NIH, Bethesda, MD
• Impaired Activation Antigen Expression in Early Stage HIV+ Patients
  Stephen Perfetto
  Henry M. Jackson Foundation, Rockville, MD
• Mechanisms of CD8+ T Cell Dysfunction in HIV Infection
  Dorothy E. Lewis
  Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX

2:00 - 5:00 pm
Platform Presentations of Selected Abstracts