• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Continental Breakfast
• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Breakfast Sponsored by TBD
• 8:00 – 9:00 AM: Arrival & Registration for Administrators

• 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM: Patient Outreach: Meeting the needs of patients with SLE: Physician, Lab Director session – More information to come
• 12:00 – 1:30 PM: Luncheon Seminar (Hosted by TBD)
• 2:00 – 5:00 PM: PLENARY SESSION 1 – Early Career Laboratory Directors Present Diagnostic Challenges and Interesting Cases in Medical Laboratory Immunology

CHAIRS: Nahed Ismail, M.D., Ph.D., David Manthei, M.D. and Lisa Peterson, Ph.D.

• • 2:00 PM: Ty Chiaro, Ph.D., Activated PI3K Delta Syndrome (APDS)
• • 2:25 PM: Caleb Cornaby, PhD, F(ACHI), Characterization of rapid chimerism engraftment monitoring of CGD patients post-hematopoietic stem cell transplant utilizing DHR flow cytometry
  • 2:50 PM: Lauren Gunderman, M.D., Co-Occurring X-Linked Agammaglobulinemia and X-Linked Chronic Granulomatous Disease: Two Isolated Pathogenic Variants in One Patient
  • 3:15 PM: Break
  • 3:30 PM: Ria C. Fyffe-Freil, Ph.D., NRCC, The Road to Diagnosis – IgG Heavy Chain Disease Associated with Lymphoma
  • 3:55 PM: Qian Wang, Ph.D., Optimizing Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) Testing: a provincial test utilization initiative in Alberta, Canada
  • 4:20 PM: Patrick Vanderboom, Ph.D., D.A.B.C.C., Large language models (LLMs) in pathology report generation: Characterizing efficiency gains and model performance
  • 5:00 – 5:30 PM: Keynote: Roshini Abraham, Re-armament: Expanding the diagnostic arsenal for complex disorders of immunity
• 6:00 – 8:00 PM: Opening Mixer Sponsored by TBD

• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Continental Breakfast
• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Breakfast Sponsored by TBD
• 8:00 – 8:15 AM: President’s Welcome Address
• 8:30 – 11:30 AM: PLENARY SESSION 2 – Immune Dysregulation

CHAIRS: Tracey Bonfield, Ph.D. and Aaruni Khanolkar, M.B.B.S., PhD.

• • 8:30 AM: Brad Lindell, M.D., Immune Dysregulation in the Setting of Sepsis
  • 9:15 AM: Bruce Blazar, M.D., Immune Dysregulation in the Setting of GVHD
  • 10:00 AM: Break
  • 10:30 AM: Bruce C. Trapnell, M.S., M.D., Immune Dysregulation in the Setting of Pulmonary Alveolar Proteinosis
  • 11:15 AM: Benjamin P. Davis, M.D., Ph.D., Immune Dysregulation in the Setting of Eosinophilic Esophagitis and IBD
• 12:00 – 1:30 PM: Luncheon Seminar Hosted by TBD
• 2:00 – 5:00 PM: PLENARY SESSION 3 – Immune Therapies and Laboratory Monitoring

CHAIRS: Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Ph.D. and David Murray, M.D., Ph.D.

• • 2:00 PM: Allan Dietz, Use of Immune Profiling to Stratify Patients
  • 2:45 PM: John Wagner,  Immune Monitoring in Cell Therapy
  • 3:30 PM: Break
  • 3:45 PM: Speaker to be announced soon
  • 4:15 PM: Speaker to be announced soon
  • 5:00 – 7:00 PM: Poster and Exhibition – Meet the Exhibitors

• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Continental Breakfast
• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Breakfast Sponsored by TBD
• 8:00 – 8:15 AM: Updates and Others by President/Administrator
• 8:30 – 11:30 AM: PLENARY SESSION 4 – Autoimmune Diagnostics and Management

CHAIRS: Lusia Sepiashvili, Ph.D. and Anne Tebo, Ph.D.

• • 8:30 AM: Bryant R. England, M.D., Ph.D., Beyond Seropositive RA: Biomarkers for Advanced RA Phenotyping
  • 9:15 AM: Jason S. Knight, M.D., Ph.D., Recent Efforts on the Development of Biomarkers to Optimize the Diagnosis, Prediction, and Treatment of Antiphospholipid Syndrome
  • 10:00 AM: Break
• • 10:30 AM: Timothy B. Niewold, M.D., Unmet Needs in the Diagnosis and Management of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Diverse Disease Subsets
  • 11:15 AM: Speaker to be announced soon
• 12:00 – 1:30 PM: Luncheon Seminar (Hosted by TBD)
• 2:00 PM: Erwin Neter Award presented by the President
• 3:00 PM: Abstract Awards presented by President-Elect
• 5:00 – 7:00 PM: Poster and Exhibition Meet the Exhibitors

• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Continental Breakfast
• 7:00 – 8:00 AM: Breakfast – Breakfast Sponsored by TBD
• 8:00 – 8:15 AM: Updates and Others by President/Administrator
• 8:30 – 12:00 AM: PLENARY SESSION 5 – Validation and Regulations
• 8:30 AM: Jonathan R. Genzen, M.D., Ph.D., M.B.A., FDA’s Final Rule on Laboratory Developed Tests
• 9:15 AM: Dennis Dietzen, Ph.D., Recommendations for Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning in Pathology
• 10:00 AM: Break
• 10:30 AM: Jansen Seheult M.D., M.B.B.Ch., M.S., M.Sc., F.C.A.P., Recommendations for Performance Evaluation of Machine Learning in Pathology
• 11:15 AM: Ajay Grover, Ph.D., Application of LDT in Flow Cytometry
• 12:00 – 1:30 PM: Lunch
• 2:00 PM: Closing Remarks/Conclusion of the Meeting