Scientific Program
Time Topic Speaker
Day 1 April 20th Morning Session Session Chair: Sharon Nofech-Mozes
11:00 Welcome CBQA
11:15 Keynote lecture: Overview of Breast Cancer Biomarker Testing Kimberley Allison, Stanford University, Stanford CA USA
12:00 Laboratory Accreditation in Canada Jennifer Roberts, Accreditation Canada, Ottawa, Canada
12:30 QuPath, an open-source Software for Bio-image Analysis: installation and practical example demonstrating Ki67 percentage calculation from IHC assays whole slide images Gilbert Bigras, Alberta Health Services, Edmonton, Canada
1:00 - 1:45 Break
Day 1 April 20th Afternoon Session Session Chair: Tracy Stockley
1:45 Clinical Laboratory Implementation of Optical Genome Mapping Adam Smith, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
2:15 Applications of Image Analysis to PD-L1 Combined Positive Score (CPS) Readout Pierre Fiset, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
2:45 Quality Assurance for Clinical Whole Genome Sequencing Christian Marshall, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto
3:15 Closing remarks CBQA
Time Topic Speaker
Day 2 April 21st Morning Session Session Chair: Tracy Stockley
11:00 Welcome CBQA
11:15 Keynote Lecture: Overview of the European Molecular Quality Network (EMQN) Simon Paton, EMQN, Manchester, UK
12:00 Immunohistochemistry; The NordiQC Experience Søren Nielsen, NordiQC, Aalborg, Denmark
12:30 Harmonization of Ki67 Analytical Performance Megan Troxell, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA
1:00 - 1:45 Break
Day 2 April 21st Afternoon Session Session Chair: Sharon Nofech-Mozes
1:45 Repurposing Biomarker Assays (general concepts) Emina Torlakovic, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada
2:15 Immunohistochemistry for Ki67 in Breast Cancer Allen Gown, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
2:45 HER2 Immunohistochemistry in Breast Cancer Sharon Nofech-Mozes Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Canada
3:15 Closing remarks CBQA