In Honor of Dr. Nichols, Mrs. Tricia Nichols and the Nichols Trust are sponsoring an educational symposium organized by the Southern California Section of American Association for Clinical Chemistry (AACC). The symposium is going to be a yearly event in Southern California. The first symposium in 2017 is dedicated to endocrinology as Dr. Nichols was an endocrinologist. Future symposiums are going to cover a wide variety of topics in clinical laboratory medicine.

AGENDA

8:00am              Registration / Coffee

9:00-10:00am   Morning Session I

10-15am            Break and Exhibits

10:15-12pm      Morning Session II

12-1:00pm        Lunch and Exhibits

1-3:00pm          Afternoon Session I

3-3:30pm          Break and Exhibits

3:30-5:30pm    Afternoon Sessions II

5:30-6:30pm    Reception

 

PRESENTATIONS & SPEAKERS

 

Advances in Treatment of Hypothyroidism

Antonio C Bianco, MD, PhD

Department of Internal Medicine

Rush University, Chicago, IL

IGF-I Receptor as a Long-awaited Therapeutic Target

for Graves Ophthalmopathy

Terry Smith, MD

Department of Internal Medicine

University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

Pituitary Pitfalls: Challenges in the Measurement of

Growth Hormone IGF-I

John Carmichael, MD

University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

 

The Increasing Utilization of Mass Spectrometry in the

Diagnostic Lab: Where Have We Been and Where Are We Going?

Nigel Clarke, PhD

Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute, San Juan Capistrano, CA

 

Endocrine Hypertension: Update on Laboratory Diagnosis

Walt Chandler, PhD

LabCorp, Endocrine Sciences, Los Angeles, CA

 

Thoughts About Low Testosterone

Stanley Korenman, MD

Department of Medicine

UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

 

Progress in Understanding the Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes

Bill Winter, MD

University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

 

CONTINUING EDUCATION:  7 hours of CE and CME credits are available

Parking: Complimentary Self-Parking

Hotel/Lodging: A limited number of rooms available at reduced rate for the symposium. Please call 1-800-Hiltons and ask for the ZSD discounted rate.

 

Register Now! 

PRESENTED BY

About Dr. Albert Nichols

Dr. Albert Nichols was an Assistant Professor at UCLA Harbor Medical Center before he started Nichols Institute for Endocrinology in Southern California in the early 1970s. His journey started in the early 1960s when he was a Fellow of Endocrinology at Mass General Hospital (Harvard University) in Boston. He and others had developed endocrinology tests using a new technology called radioimmunoassay (RIA) that allowed the measurement of small quantities of hormones and other biomarkers in patient samples. These hormone tests have revolutionized the practice of medicine. He soon realized that these new tests were not available to most clinicians and there was a delay for the tests to go from research to clinicians. Dr. Nichols started the laboratory called Nichols Institute initially for endocrine tests with the help from academic investigators. He later expanded the tests in various other clinical disciplines such as oncology, genetics, infectious disease, toxicology, immunology, etc. Though he left us at an early age of 67, his legacy as Quest Diagnostics Nichols Institute continues.