2025-2026 Education Roundtable Series
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2025/2026 Roundtable Series Dates:
2025
Date | Time (Eastern) | Presenter(s) | Topic | |
1 | September 18 | 14:00-15:00 | Jiajia Liu | Monoclonal Gammopathy of Clinical Significance (MGCS) |
2 | October 2 | 14:00-15:00 | Amir Karin | Macrotroponin I Frequency |
3 | October 16 | 11:30-12:30 | Michelle Parker | Allergy Testing Utilization |
4 | October 30 | 11:30-12:30 | ADLM Abstract Awards Talk | |
5 | November 13 | 11:30-12:30 | Mathew Estey / Ruben Luo | Hemoglobinopathies / Hemogloinopathies and MS |
6 | November 27 | 14:00-15:00 | Eleonora Petryayeva | Mass-spec method development |
7 | December 11 | 11:30-12:30 | Archive Committee Talk |
2026
Date | Time (Eastern) | Presenter(s) | Topic | |
8 | January 22 | 11:30-12:30 | Michael Reid / Angela Rutledge | Estradiol Testing / Copeptin Testing |
9 | February 5 | 11:30-12:30 | Albert Tsui / Heather Paul | POCT high sensitivity troponin algorithm development and implementation in rural and POCT |
10 | February 19 | 11:30-12:30 | TBA | |
11 | March 5 | 11:30-12:30 | TBA | |
12 | March 19 | 14:00-15:00 | TBA | |
13 | April 2 | 11:30-12:30 | Yu Chen | Kidney stone analysis: analytical, clinical, NB data and utilization |
14 | April 16 | 14:00-15:00 | TBA | |
15 | April 30 | 11:30-12:30 | TBA | |
16 | May 14 | 11:30-12:30 | TBA | |
17 | May 28 | 14:00-15:00 | Fellows in Training Talks |
1. Sept 18, 2025 | Monoclonal Gammopathy of Clinical Significance (MGCS) |
Speaker: | Dr. Jiajia Liu is a hematologist at Trillium Health Partners in the Carlo Fidani Peel Regional Centre with a practice focused on hematological cancers including myeloma. Dr. Liu did a malignant Hematology fellowship at the Odette Cancer Centre/Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Hematology subspecialty residence and Internal Medicine residency at the University of Toronto, following medical school at McGill University. |
Overview: | This presentation will review monoclonal gammopathies of clinical significance (MGCS). The presentation will define MGCS, discuss most common presentations, review the workup and treatment of different MGCS, and emphasize the role laboratory medicine plays in the diagnosis and follow-up of MGCS. |
Objectives: | At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to: 1) Define what constitutes a monoclonal gammopathy of clinical significance; 2) Recognize the importance of sensitive laboratory medicine tests for the diagnosis and assessment of response to treatment in MGCS. |