Relationship Testing II
Program Code: 9119-TC
Saturday, October 24, 2009
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM (ET)

MODERATOR
Mary Mount, MT(ASCP), Memorial Blood Center

SPEAKERS
George Maha, JD, PhD, MT(ASCP), Laboratory Corporation of America Holdings
Michael Baird, PhD, DNA Diagnostics Center
George Riley, PhD, AABB
Jill Nystrom

DESCRIPTION
This session covers administrative actions affecting Relationship Testing Laboratories. It will include a discussion of the upcoming (effective Jan 2010) 9th edition of the Standards for Relationship Testing Laboratories. It will also include a review of a paper challenge from the CAP Relationship Testing profiency program including the proper method to calculate the Relationship Index. Finally, it will discuss the assessment process, give some examples of the nonconformances cited and how these nonconformances could be addressed.