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Reports to: (i.e. Council on Scientific Affairs): CSA
Charge: To address the standardization requirements of current and evolving laboratory technologies for the benefit of patients; to serve as the focus for the CAP review and input on the activities of national and international standard setting organizations through recommendation of appropriate delegate and liaison members to other professional organizations; and to oversee the review of pathology and laboratory medicine components of standards set forth by medical specialty societies.
Time Commitment
Number of face-to-face meetings: 2
Length of each meeting: 1 day
Typical meeting days of the week: Saturday
Location of meetings: (i.e. all airport locations, 50 miles from airports, all DC.
Please note if there is a common location of a meeting – i.e. one meeting is always in Chicago or DC) – Chicago and National Meeting
Number of conference calls: 2
Hours of committee work required outside of meetings and conference calls:
(i.e. journal review, liaison activities, writing critiques, email communications) Varies – about 12 hours per year if not serving in a liaison capacity
Additional travel or time commitments::
(i.e. leadership meetings, other organization meetings) 0
Activities of Committee
(what the committee actually does in carrying out its responsibilities):
Oversees development of paper standards from CLSI and ISO; nominates members to working from CLSI and ISO; oversees outbound liaisons of committees reporting to the CSA; input into the development of accuracy based material offered as proficiency and educational products.
Expertise or Experience Required: (i.e. knowledge of specific organ system, interviewing experience): Interest in establishing national and global standards.
Benefits to membership on this committee:
(Experience to be gained, i.e. opportunity to be published, speaking engagements): Can influence the standards to which clinical laboratories must meet; accessibility to developing standards which can be applied to clinical labs
Representation on committee beyond the CAP:
(i.e., inbound liaison organization, consultants, and/or other industry representation): Possibility to be an inbound liaison to accuracy based working group; possibility to be nominated as outbound liaison to CSA committees, as needed.
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