Invited Seminars / Presentations
Invited faculty
at 29th Annual Course in Flow Cytometry - Research Methods and Applications
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine - June 2006
Invited faculty - 18th Annual Clinical Course on Flow Cytometry hosted by
Roswell Park Cancer Institute July 2005, Buffalo, NY.
Guess Faculty at 27th Annual Course in Flow Cytometry - Research Methods and Applications Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine - June 2004
Guess Faculty at
Sixteenth Annual Clinical Course on Flow Cytometry, Dartmouth Medical School,
New Hampshire, USA July 27- Aug 1, 2003
Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists Annual Meeting, New and
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Chairman, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Aug 2003
13th International Conference on Lyme Disease and Other Tick-Borne Disorders. Panelist on Laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease. Conn, USA April 2000.
American Society of Clinical Pathologists National teleconference "Tick Borne diseases" Broadcast to 104 institutions in the United States and Canada. March 1997.
VI International
Conference on Lyme Borreliosis "Current status of the laboratory diagnosis
of Lyme borreliosis" Key Speaker, Bolongna, Italy, June 1994.
Second Scientific Workshop on Lyme Disease in Southern Europe, July 1993,
Institut d'Estudis Salut, Barcelona, Spain. "Quantitation and Use of
Western
Blots".
V International Conference on Lyme Borreliosis "Considerations in the
laboratory diagnosis of Lyme borreliosis" Key Speaker, Washington DC,
June 1992
Cold Spring Harbor Molecular Immunobiology of Lyme Disease International
Workshop, April 1991
LBF International Symposium on Lyme Disease, April 1991 Los Angeles, Ca "Humoral and CMI Responses in Lyme borreliosis".
Scientific Workshop
on Lyme Disease in Southern Europe, June 1991, Institut d'Estudis Salut,
Barcelona, Spain "Immunodiagnosis of Lyme Disease".
International Conference on Lyme Disease and Related Disorders "Modulation
of Natural Killer Cells by Borrelia burgdorferi," New York, NY, September
1987.
American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Workshop for Laboratory Professionals, "Flow Cytometry Update", Anaheim, Ca, Oct 2006
Western New York Flow Users Group 2nd Annual meeting, "Clinical Flow Cytometric evaluation of Granlocytic and related diseases" , Rochester, NY, July 2006
American Society of Clinical Pathology (ASCP) Workshop for Laboratory Professionals, "Flow Cytometry", San Francisco, April 2006
MetroFlow Winter meeting Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Plenary speaker,"Diagnosing granulocytic diseases in the Clinical Flow Cytometry Laboratory" Feb, 2006
NYSSMT-ASCP Seminar series, "Update on Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease", New York, May 2002.
Houston Workshops for Laboratory Professionals, "Current Topics in Diagnostic Immunology", Course Director, November 1998.
Conference on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease, Invited participant, sponsored by the NIH NIAID and CDC, Cold Spring Harbor, Aug 1998.
Teleconference Network of Texas,
University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio. "Emerging Tick
Borne diseases". Feburary 1998.
American Society of Clinical Pathologists National teleconference "Laboratory
diagnosis of Lyme disease" Broadcast to 110 institutions. September 1994.
11th Annual "Current topics
in Microbiology", Anne Arundel Medical Center, Annapolis, MD, Feburary,
1994.
"Topics in Clinical Immunology", Catholic University of America,
Washington, D.C., August 1993.
Seminar on "Laboratory evaluation of Lyme disease", Northshore University
Hospital, June 1992 .
American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) 1992 Spring National meeting,
Faculty member, Workshop on "Laboratory Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of
Lyme Borreliosis," Boston, Ma, March 1992.
Saint Lukes Medical Center, Symposium
on Laboratory diagnosis of Lyme disease., Cincinatti, Ohio (1991)
"Lyme Disease workshop" Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists
- 4th Annual National meeting, 1991. Chicago.
SUNY at Farmingdale, Symposium on Lyme disease, Farmingdale, NY(1991).
American Society of Clinical Pathologists
(ASCP) 1991 Spring National meeting, Faculty member, Workshop on "Laboratory
Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis," Nashville, Tn, March
1991.
American Society of Microbiology (ASM) Annual Meeting March 1991, "Problems
in the Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis" NYC, NY.
American Association of Clinical Chemistry (AACC) 1991 Annual Meeting, Selected
topics speaker "Update on the Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease".
Washington D.C.
New York State Medical Technology Society (NYSMTS), 60th Annual Symposium,
"Lyme borreliosis problems facing the technologist" Marist College,
New York, Oct 1991.
Hackensack Medical Center, Infectious Disease Conference, "Serological
Diagnosis" Hackensack, NJ, May 1990.
American Society of Clinical Pathologists (ASCP) 1990 Spring National meeting,
Faculty member, Workshop on "Laboratory Pitfalls in the Diagnosis of
Lyme Borreliosis," San Francisco, CA, March 1990.
Current Topics in Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Lecture University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill "The State of Laboratory Lyme Borreliosis
testing in the United States," Chapel Hill, NC, April 1990.
U.S. Department of Transportation / United States Coast Guard Maintenance
and Logistics Command, Atlantic Medical Officers Symposium, "Diagnosis
and Management of Lyme Disease," Governor's Island, NY, April 1990.
CDC Pacific Area Resourse Office of the National Laboratory Training network
and California Association of Public Health Laboratory Directors, Lyme Borreliosis:
Laboratory Diagnosis Symposium, "Role of the Laboratory in the Diagnosis
of Lyme Borreliosis", Napa, CA, May 1990.
Current Topics in Clinical Microbiology,
Creighton University Medical Center, "Lyme Borreliosis", Omaha,
Nebraska, September 1990.
Dana Farber Cancer Institute, "Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Borreliosis",
Boston, Mass, October 1990.
Saint Francis Hospital Lyme Disease Symposium, "The present status of
Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease", Poughkeepsie, NY, October 1990.
Clinical Ligand Society NY Chapter, "Tests for Lyme Borreliosis Problems
Encountered," New York City, NY, March 1989.
National Lyme Borreliosis Foundation,
"Problems Encountered in Laboratory Diagnosis of Lyme Disease,"
Newburg, NY, April 1989.
Workshops in Clinical Lab Sciences A program of Continuing education, "Lyme
Disease," New York City, NY, May 1989.
Eastern Branch of the American Society for Microbiology Workshop, "Nonculture
Methods for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases," Philadelphia, PA,
June 1989.
Lyme Disease Symposium, Harrison
Conference Center, Glen Cove, NY, October 1989.
Nassau Suffolk Hospital Council Lyme Disease Symposium, Hauppauge, NY, October
1989.
Brookhaven National Laboratories, " Technical Advances in Diagnostic
Flow Cytometry," Upton, NY, March 1988.
Humbolt State University and US Forest Service, "Use of Lyme Diagnostic
Tests for Monitoring High Risk Field Workers," Arcata, CA, July 1988.
National Lyme Borreliosis Foundation
"Serologic Testing: IFA, Elisa, Western blot," Newburg, NY, October
1988.
CME Symposium on Lyme Disease, SUNY at Stony Brook, "Laboratory Evaluation
of Patients with Lyme Borreliosis" Stony Brook, NY, September 1988.
Cornell University, "Clinical and Laboratory Assessment of Lyme Borreliosis,"
Ithaca, NY, October 1988.
Brookhaven National Laboratories,
"The Immunology of Lyme Borreliosis," Upton, NY, June 1987.
39th Annual Seminar of the Empire State Association for Medical Technology,
"Flow Cytometry and Its Application in the Immunology Laboratory,"
New York City, NY, April 1986.
Diagnostic Technology's (NY) Seminar
on Infectious Diseases, "Recent Advances in the Serodiagnosis of Infectious
Diseases," Haupguage, NY, May 1986.
Long Island Hematology Association, "Lyme Disease: Clinical and Laboratory
Findings," Brookhaven, NY, June 1986.
White Plains Medical Center "Recent Advances in the Clinical Immunology
Laboratory," White Plains, NY, October 1986.
Bloodbanking Association of Greater Long Island, "Leukemias and Lymphomas:
The Role of Monoclonal Antibodies," Brookhaven, NY, October 1986.
American Society for Medical Technology Symposium on Laboratory Medicine:
Recent Advances and Future Trends, "Monoclonal Antibodies and Flow Cytometry:
Uses in Clinical Immunology," Brookhaven, NY, May 1985.
Nassau Community College's First Annual Biology Seminar "Tumor and Clinical
Immunology," Garden City, NY, May 1985.