While the pandemic has affected our ability to meet face-to-face, it has also increased the need to learn, share, and connect with our colleagues to solve the many challenges affecting our world right now. For this reason, PASCV will host the Molecular Virology Workshop as a virtual meeting. In this virtual format, PASCV will be able to offer the same great content, speakers, and networking that you have come to expect from the Molecular Virology Workshop.
The 2021 Virtual Molecular Virology Workshop will focus on four areas that are highly relevant to Clinical Virology and Molecular Diagnostic laboratories. First, the workshop will provide practical education on the “Do’s” and “Don’ts” related to proficiency testing (PT) in a molecular diagnostics lab. Second, as healthcare institutions and public health agencies continue to grapple with COVID-19 and face the prospect of future outbreaks caused by infectious diseases, there is a need to discuss how clinical laboratories can better partner both within their hospital as well as with public health and reference laboratories to address these challenges. Third, healthcare is beginning to see the emergence and implementation of rapid, point-of-care molecular tests that offer similar performance to centralized lab tests. The workshop faculty will discuss this topic, and review why laboratory professionals will play a critical role in the success of point-of-care and near-patient diagnostic testing. Finally, the era of metagenomics for diagnosis of infectious diseases is upon us; however the role of this technology in patient care remains uncertain, as does its potential to become a front-line diagnostic approach. The 2021 Molecular Virology Workshop will address this issue head-on, and participants will debate the future applications of metagenomics in viral diagnostics.
The 2021 Virtual Molecular Virology Workshop will focus on four areas that are highly relevant to Clinical Virology and Molecular Diagnostic laboratories. First, the workshop will provide practical education on the “Do’s” and “Don’ts” related to proficiency testing (PT) in a molecular diagnostics lab. Second, as healthcare institutions and public health agencies continue to grapple with COVID-19 and face the prospect of future outbreaks caused by infectious diseases, there is a need to discuss how clinical laboratories can better partner both within their hospital as well as with public health and reference laboratories to address these challenges. Third, healthcare is beginning to see the emergence and implementation of rapid, point-of-care molecular tests that offer similar performance to centralized lab tests. The workshop faculty will discuss this topic, and review why laboratory professionals will play a critical role in the success of point-of-care and near-patient diagnostic testing. Finally, the era of metagenomics for diagnosis of infectious diseases is upon us; however the role of this technology in patient care remains uncertain, as does its potential to become a front-line diagnostic approach. The 2021 Molecular Virology Workshop will address this issue head-on, and participants will debate the future applications of metagenomics in viral diagnostics.
Registration link: https://www.pascv.org/page/MVW