The ARUP Institute Posters and Presentations

In 2007, the ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology® presented at over 175 conferences, workshops, annual meetings, and symposiums for several national and international organizations, including:

  • AACR—American Association for Cancer Research
  • AACC—American Association for Clinical Chemistry
  • ACLPS—Academy of Clinical Laboratory Physicians and Scientists
  • ACMG—American College of Medical Genetics
  • AGT—Association of Genetic Technologists
  • American Federation for Medical Research
  • American Medical Informatics Association
  • American Medical Technologists
  • American Society for Bone and Mineral Research
  • American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  • AMLI—Association of Medical Laboratory Immunologists
  • AMP—Association for Molecular Pathology
  • AOECS International Conference on Celiac Disease
  • ASBMT—American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation
  • ASC—American Society of Cytopathology
  • ASCLS—American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science
  • ASCO—American Society of Clinical Oncology
  • ASH—American Society of Hematology
  • ASHG—American Society of Human Genetics
  • Asilomar Conference on Mass Spectrometry in Clinical Chemistry
  • ASM—American Society for Microbiology
  • ASMS—American Society for Mass Spectrometry
  • CAP—College of American Pathologists
  • DGHM Congress in Goettingen
  • ENDO—The Endocrine Society
  • HHT International
  • ICAAC—Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
  • IDSA—Infectious Disease Society of America
  • International Conference on Autoimmunity: Mechanisms and Novel Treatments
  • International Congress of Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Clinical Toxicology
  • ISTH—International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis
  • NSGC—Lab Automation National Society of Genetic Counselors
  • NSH—The National Society for Histotechnology
  • PASCV—Pan American Society for Clinical Virology
  • Society of Investigative Dermatology
  • SOFT—Society of Forensic Toxicologists
  • USCAP—United States an Canadian Academy of Pathology
  • WSPR—Western Society for Pediatric Research

Selected Posters and Presentations

Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Assay. Michael T. Pyne, Eric Q. Konnick, Amit Phansalkar, and David R. Hillyard. ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, and University of Utah Department of Pathology. Presented at the 23rd Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2007.

Evaluation of the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 Assay. Michael T. Pyne, Eric Q. Konnick, Amit Phansalkar, and David R. Hillyard. ARUP Institute for Clinical and Experimental Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine, and University of Utah Department of Pathology. Presented at the 23rd Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2007.

Evaluation of the COBAS HBV TaqMan Analyte Specific Reagent (ASR) and COBAS HCV ASR Assays Using the Vidiera NSP Sample Preparation Instrument. Eric Q. Konnick, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 22nd Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2006.

Mycobacterium arupense sp. nov., a non-chromogenic bacterium isolated from clinical specimens. Joann L. Cloud, Jay J. Meyer, June I. Pounder, Kenneth C. Jost, Jr, Amy Sweeney, Karen C. Carroll and Gail L. Woods. Presented at the International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 2006

A Quantitative Real Time PCR Assay for Detecting BK Virus in Serum, Plasma and Urine. Jeff Stevenson, Arthur Turlak and David Hillyard. Presented at the Molecular Virology Workshop in 2005.

Evaluation of the Versant HBV bDNA 3.0 Assay and Comparison with the COBAS HBV TaqMan Analyte Specific Reagent Assay. Eric Q. Konnick, Lorraine Comanor, James Di Canzio, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 21st Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2005.

A Quantitative Real Time PCR Assay for Detecting EBV Virus in Multiple Sample Types. Jeff Stevenson and David Hillyard. Presented at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in 2005.

A Novel One Step Real Time RT-PCR Assay for the Detection of Enterovirus. Weston C. Hymas and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in 2005.

An Eclipse Probe Assay for the Detection of Mycoplasma pneumoniae. Sam Parker, Jeffery Stevenson, David Hillyard. Presented at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in 2005.

A Real Time RT-PCR Assay for Norovius Detection with Eclipse Probes and a Non-Competitive Internal Control. Weston Hymas and David Hillyard. Presented at the Molecular Virology Workshop in 2005.

Evaluation of the Alliance HCV Quantitative Analyte Specific Reagent (ASR) Assay and Comparison to the COBAS HCV TaqMan ASR Assay. Eric Q. Konnick, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 20th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2004.

Evaluation of the COBAS HBV TaqMan Analyte Specific Reagent (ASR) Assay and Comparison to the COBAS Amplicor HBV Monitor Assay. Eric Q. Konnick, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 20th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2004.

Real Time PCR Assay for the Detection of CMV Using Eclipse Hybridization Probes. Jeff Stevenson, Weston Hymas and David Hillyard. Presented at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in 2004.

A Single Tube Real-Time RT-PCR Assay for the Detection of Enterovirus. Wade K. Aldous, Weston Hyman, Jeffery B. Stevenson, Edward W. Taggart, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the Association of Molecular Pathology Annual Meeting in 2004

A Quantitative Real Time PCR Assay for the Detection of Human Herpes 6. Weston Hymas, Jeff Stevenson, Bill Taggart, and David Hillyard. Presented at the Molecular Virology Workshop in 2004.

Performance Characteristics of the COBAS HCV TaqMan ASR Using Armored RNA Calibrators. Eric Q. Konnick, Sheri M. Williams, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 19th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2003.

Real Time PCR Assays for the Detection of Viral Pathogens - Are they the Gold Standard? Jeff Stevenson, Melinda Procter and David Hillyard. Presented at the Molecular Virology Workshop in 2003.

Performance Characteristics of the COBAS HCV TaqMan ASR and Comparison to the COBAS Amplicor HCV Monitor, Version 2.0 and Versant HCV bDNA 3.0. Eric Q. Konnick, Sheri M. Williams, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 18th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2002.

Comparison of the DIGENE HBV Hybrid Capture II and ROCHE COBAS Amplicor HBV Monitor Assays. Eric Konnick, Maria Erali, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 17th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2001.

Comparison of the National Genetics Institute (NGI) HCV Superquant and Roche COBAS Amplicor HCV Monitor, Version 2.0 Assays. Eric Konnick, Maria Erali, Edward R. Ashwood, and David R. Hillyard. Presented at the 16th Annual Clinical Virology Symposium in 2000.