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We will provide the simultaneous interpretation from English to Japanese
in the plenary lecture,tutorial session and the symposium section.

 

Plenary Lecture

March 29
(SUN)
13:00 - 13:50

Chairman : Masahide Sasaki

Fuzzy Linguistic Approach to Reasonable Medical Diagnosis and Sophisticated Modeling
Takeshi Yamakawa
Prof. of Control Engineering and Science, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan

Tutorial Session

March 30
(MON)
8:30 - 9:50

Chairman : Tadashi Kawai

Expanding the automated laboratory; from Mobile Robots to Point-of-Care
Robin A. Felder
University of Virginia Health System, USA

March 30
(MON)
17:00 - 17:30

Chairman : Alain Donzel

Experiences and Future Directions in Laboratory Automation
Stephen Middleton
Autolab, Canada

March 31
(TUE)
8:30 - 9:00

Chairman : Noriyuki Tatsumi

The Role of Laboratory Automation in Health Care Process Reengineering
Pierangelo Bonini
St.Rafaelle Hospital,Milano,Italy

March 31
(TUE)
11:00 - 11:30

Chairman : Gerald Kost

From today's Scheduling Data Management and Process Contorol to Miniaturization : Implications for Pharmaceutical Reserch and Clinical Diagnostics
Alain Donzel
SCITEC,Switzerland

Symposium Program

1. Total Laboratory Automation

March 29
(SUN)
14:00 - 15:30

1) Present Situation of the Laboratory Automation in the World

Chairman : David A. Herold

  • The status of Laboratory Automation in Taiwan
    Jui San Chen

    Prof. Emeritus of Taiwan University, Taiwan
  • Total Laboratory Automation and Informatics in Korea
    Sang In Kim
    Prof. Emeritus of Seoul University, Korea
  • The status of Laboratory Automation in Japan
    Tadashi Kawai
    Prof. Emeritus of Jichi Medical School, Japan
  • The status of Laboratory Automation in World: USA
    Mark Simmons
    Boehringer Mannheim Corp.,USA
  • Workstation Consolidation and Robotics: Complementary Techniques
    Rolf Ruegg
    Rueg-Laboconsult, Rofkrenz, Switzerland

March 29
(SUN)
15:50 - 17:50

2) Practice and Experience

Chairman : Tony Beugelsdijk and Takashi Kanno

  • Implementation of Total Laboratory Automation and Its Outcome Analyses
    Dae Won Kim
    Sung Kyun Kwan University of Medicine,Korea
  • Total Urinalysis System in a General Hospital
    Noriyuki Tatsumi
    Osaka City University Medical School,Japan
  • A Comprehensive "Open" IDS Total Laboratory Automation
    Carl Teplitz, et al.
    Beth Israel Medical Center,USA
  • The South Bend Medical Foundation's Experience with Boehringer Mannheim/Hitachi CLAS System
    Dennis Lamb
    South Bend Medical Foundation, South Bend Medical Foundation,USA
  • "Lean Production" of Large-scale Commercial Clinical Laboratories:
    Practice and Intention of Laboratory Process Reconstruction

    Shouji Maruyama et al., BML Inc., Japan
  • Laboratory Reorganization Based on Computer Simulation
    Georg Hoffmann
    Trillium GmbH, Germany

2. Fundamental & Advanced Technology

March 30
(MON)
9:00 - 10:40

1)Transportation System

Chair man : Kjell Janne and Hiroaki Okabe

  • Clinical Laboratory Automation System (CLAS) Based on MODULAR Concept
    Katsuji Yamashita et al.
    Hitachi Co., Japan
  • A Plan of Structing Total Laboratory Automation
    Mark Hayashi et al.
    Sysmex Co., Japan
  • Approaching to the Higher Performance of LAS
    Shunji Matsuzaki
    A&T Corp., Japan
  • World Wide Strategy of Coulter CLA System
    Mark Hojo
    Coulter Corp., USA

March 30
(MON)
11:00 - 12:40

2) Instrumentation for Laboratory Automation

Chair man : Rodney S. Markin and Naotaka Hamasaki

  • What is Required for the Instruments in LAS ?
    Toshihide Fujiwara
    Olympus Optical, Japan
  • "Flexible Automation" after the Stepwise Approach :
    Laboratory Automation Made Flexible

    David Daly
    Abbott Diagnostics, Abbott Park, IL, USA
  • Preparing Your Laboratory for Automation
    Jeff Qunit
    Beckman Instruments, Brea, Ca, USA
  • Some methods and examples from the field of Chemometrics
    Kjell Janne
    Qualimetrics AB, Storvreta, Sweden
  • MODULAR-the New Complete System for Total Laboratory Automation
    Alexander Hagen
    Boehringer Mannheim GmbH, Germany

March 30
(MON)
15:00 - 16:40

3) Process Control and Expert Systems

Chair man : Jui San Chen and Sang In Kim

    • Laboratory Automation : Process Control and the Laboratory Information System (LIS)
      Rodney S. Marken
      University of Nebraska, USA
    • Dynamic Scheduling in a Distributed Lab Enviroment
      Reinhold Schae'fer
      Fachhochschule Wiesbaden,Germany
    • A trial of Supportive Diagnosing System in Our Clinical Laboratory
      Hiromi Kataoka et al.
      Kochi Medcical School,Japan
    • Laboratory System Infectious Disease Using AI Function
      Jutaro Tadano

      Saga Medcical School,Japan

3. Robotics

March 31
(TUE)
8:30 - 9:00

Application for Laboratory Automation

Chair man : Robin A. Felder and Jutaro Tadano

    • The use of robotics to support automation in a commercial laboratory
      David O'Bryan

      Smith Kline Beecham Laboratories, King of Prussia,PN, USA
    • How Should We Use the Robotics Function in the Laboratory
      - Case Studies and Key Questions -
      Katsumi Ogura et al.,

      Kochi Medical School,Japan
    • New Consolidated Systems
      Dieter J. Vonderschmitt

      Zurich University, Switzerland
    • Automating High Through Screening: Workstations, Integrated Robots and Ultra High Throughput Screening Solutions
      Edward M. Alderman

      Zymark Corp., USA

4.Laboratory Performance

March 31
(TUE)
14:30 - 12:55

Post Analytical System & Further Communication

Chair man : Robin A. Felder and Jutaro Tadano

    • Laboratory Performance-a Goal of the Laboratory Automation
      Takashi Kanno et al.

      Dept. of Hamamatsu Medical School, Japan
    • Evolutionary Pathways for Molecular Diagnostic Automation

Theodore E. Mifflin
Medical Automation Research Center,
The University of Virginia, USA

    • Computer Communication Services Trend
      Masao Tanabe et al.

      System Service, NTT, Japan
    • Development of the 21st Century Automated Laboratory and its Application to Infectious Disease
      Tony Beugelsdijk

      Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, USA
    • The Knowledge Optimization Toolbox : Critical Limits, Performance Maps, Algorithms, and Integrative Strategies
      That Unite Clinical and Laboratory Medicine to Improve Outcomes
      Gerald Kost

      University of Calfornia, Davis, USA

Open Public Report and Meeting of the NCCLS

March 31
(TUE)
11:30 - 12:15

Open Public Report of the activities from the NCCLS Laboratory Automation Standalization Efforts
Rodney S. Markin, chairholder

March 31
(TUE)
12:15 - 14:15

Open Public Meeting of the NCCLS Area Committee on Laboratory Automation
Rodney S. Markin, chairholder

March 31
(TUE)
14:15 - 16:15

Continuation of the Area Committee Meeting


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