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Training and
Education Committee Report
Awards
This year, generous funds from AMP membership donations to
the Leadership Fund were used to sponsor several awards to
help fund technologists whose institutions would not pay for
travel for our 2009 Annual Meeting. The AMP Training and
Education Committee thank all of the terrific and highly
qualified technologists who applied for the Technologist
Travel Award. The 2009 winners of this award are:
Lorraine
Dominguez, University
of Arizona
Debbie Nielsen, University of
Pennsylvania
Tong Zhang, The Ontario Cancer Institute
Congratulations from the AMP! Everyone should consider
making a donation to the Leadership Fund, which can be used
for valuable initiatives like the Technologist Travel Award.
Please visit the website:
www.amp.org/Awards/grantFund.htm.
The T& E Committee judges the Young Investigator Awards (YIA)
each year at the annual meeting. Please be sure to
visit these posters and encourage the authors.
Webinars
On
December
8, 2009, Tuesday, NOON EST, AMP will sponsor a webinar
titled: Update on Molecular Testing for Type 2 Diabetes
Risk presented by Alex H. Cho from the
Center
of Genomic Medicine, Duke University. This webinar will be
hosted by
Linda Jo Bone Jeng
and will review genomic
and other discoveries that have led to the creation of
molecular tests for Type 2 diabetes risk. This webinar
is supported by an unrestricted grant from
Roche Diagnostics. To register go to
the AMP website and click education.
Molecular Case Studies
The AMP Molecular Case Study program is led by
Matt Bankowski, Megan
Lim, and
Charles Hill. Two new case studies have been
posted at
www.amp.org/molecularcasestudies/casestudies.htm
| Fatal
Case of Pertussis Isolated from Blood,
recorded by
Rodney
Arcenas (on behalf of
Carol
Holland) |
| Diagnostic
Implications of the C-MYC Rearrangement in
B- cell Lymphoma,
by Megan Lim |
We
invite AMP members to view and contribute to this
initiative.
Resident Exchange Program
Madhuri Hegde and I have surveyed the MGP program
directors to determine the feasibility of an exchange
program that
will give fellows an added
benefit by visiting other laboratories to enhance their
direct exposure to laboratory management, new assays
which may not be performed by their host institution,
exposure to new equipment, new or alternative approaches
to develop new tests and exposure to different test
reporting formats. Feedback from program directors has
generally been positive. As expected, there will be
several logistical hurdles; trainees should attend the
Trainee Luncheon at the Annual Meeting to hear an
update. AMPs role in an exchange program would be to
provide information regarding participating institutions
to AMP member trainees.
The
T&E Committee would like to thank AMP staff member
Kathleen Carmody, who provides invaluable support for
all of these programs.
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