Tissue Archiving: Reality, Recommendations and Best Practices
Event Details
Originally Aired: January 26, 2017
Time: 1 p.m. ET
Presenter: Valérie Costes-Martineau, MD
Unless otherwise noted, P.A.C.E.™ accreditation will expire six months after the live webinar.
The Evidence, the Experience, the Future
This complimentary, PACE-accredited webinar will help you learn more about methods to improve your tissue block archiving. Traceability and accountability of tissue blocks are critical components to patient management: If tissue blocks are misplaced, it may delay a diagnosis and damage the sample or your lab’s reputation. Even when properly archived, it can take a lot of time and effort to find and return the blocks you need — an estimated 3,000 manual work hours are spent annually for a laboratory that processes 100,000 tissue blocks per year.
Learning Objectives
This complimentary, PACE-accredited webinar will help participants:
- Review U.S. and European tissue block archiving guidelines
- Learn how one lab saved time and increased compliance with a tissue block archiving system
- Identify best practices for archiving tissue blocks more efficiently
Presenter
Valérie Costes Martineau, MD
Professor of Medicine at University Montpellier
Dr. Costes-Martineau is Professor of Medicine at the University of Montpellier in France, and is the head of the Departments of Biopathology and Biobanking in the university’s teaching hospital. Her focus is head and neck pathology, and she has authored more than 100 peer-reviewed articles published in scientific journals. She is a member of the Scientific Board of the network for rare HN cancers, and an elected member of the board of directors of the French Society of Pathology.