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Patient Self-Testing: The Slides and Recording are Now Available!
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Summary: This webinar covered how PST first began and then move into present day with a review of the challenges of managing warfarin patients.
Vendor Sponsors: Accumetrics; Alere; Medical Automation Systems; Siemens
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About
our Presenter:
David Phillips brings over 30 years of experience in the
in-vitro diagnostics industry with the last 20 years in
the point-of-care segment. He has specific experience in
POC coagulation for the physician office, acute care
markets and patient self-testing (PST). He is currently
VP, Market Development at Alere. Prior to joining Alere,
he was Marketing Director for Abbott Point of Care, i-STAT
Division. From 1990 to 2001, he was Director of
Marketing in the Point of Care business unit for Roche
Diagnostics. During his tenure at Roche he launched the
CoaguChek for patient self-testing and was instrumental
in developing strategies for reimbursement and
regulatory issues affecting POCT. Additional industry
activities include serving as Chairman of the CLSI
Quality Management for Unit-use Testing Subcommittee
(EP-18A), member of the CLSI Point-of-Care Testing and
Point-of-Care Coagulation Subcommittees and an advisor
to the CLSI Area Committee on POC. He has also served
as the AdvaMed industry liaison to the College of
American Pathologists (CAP) POCT Subcommittee. Over the last
decade, his articles on point-of-care testing have
appeared in such publications as Archives Pathology and
Laboratory Medicine, Clinica Chimica Acta, Clinical
Chemistry, and Clinical Chemistry News and most recently
a book chapter on “Unit Use Quality Control” published
in Point of Care Testing, Second Edition by the AACC
Press.