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Honolulu Oct 21–22

George presents “Monitoring the New Anticoagulants, Whatever Happened to the PT and PTT?” and “Managing Trauma-induced Coagulopathy,” for the 2014 ASCLS-HI Clinical Laboratory Symposium Update at the Ko’olan Conference Center near Honolulu, Hawaii, October 21 and 22 (well, someone has to do it!). Times for George’s talks are to be announced. We hope you can […]

Mayo Conference Sept 10–12

You are invited to the Clinical and Laboratory Update in Thrombosis, Anticoagulation and Vascular Medicine: A Board Review Primer, this fall’s Mayo School of Continuous Professional Development at the Mayo Civic Center, Rochester, Minnesota. This is a new location for the meeting, and you will find both The Fritsma Factor and Precision BioLogic represented in the […]

AACC “Quick Takes” on Quality Assurance

Join George as he kicks off the American Association of Clinical Chemists (AACC) Quick Takes webinar series with “Quick Takes on Quality Assurance in Hemostasis.” George will present three 30-minute presentations on August 7, 14, and 21, 1–1:30 EDT. He will discuss: Employing local calibration for prothrombin time/international normalized ratio (PT/INR) monitoring of Coumadin therapy. Specimen management […]

ISTH SSC; Milwaukee, June 23–26

The International Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis Scientific and Standardization Subcommittee meets June 23–26 at the Wisconsin Center,Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Please stop by to meet George and our folks at the Precision BioLogic booth, #308. See you in Milwaukee!

Calendar and Fellow Hemostasis Site Update

We’ve just updated our 2014–2015 conference calendar. Also updated is our list offellow organizations with links to their sites. If your conference or organization does not appear, please provide a response below and it will be posted.

Kalamazoo Direct to You

George is in Kalamazoo where he will provide four Medical Laboratory Professionals Week presentations for the American Society for Medical Laboratory Sciences- Michigan. The ASCLS-MI annual meeting, “Move Forward in ’14 with ASCLS-Michigan” is Wednesday April 23–Friday, April 25 at the Radisson Plaza Hotel, 100 West Michigan Avenue, Kalamazoo. PowerPoints of each presentation are attached below. George’s presentations and times are… Thursday, April 24, […]

Medical Laboratory Professionals’ Week

Welcome to Medical Laboratory Professionals’ Week, April 20–26. We are the hidden profession that saves lives. In celebration, we’ve added a new audio PowerPoint to our series, Hematology Case Studies: Lupus Anticoagulant Profile and Specimen Management. Continue to consult with Fritsma Factor, as we receive new and updated entries regularly.

THSNA Thu-Sat

Please join our sponsor Precision BioLogic Inc at Booth 106 in the Thrombosis and Hemostasis Summit of North America Biennial meeting this week, Thursday, April 10–Saturday, April 12, 2014 at the Chicago Sheraton. While there, please plan to visit our posters, McGlasson DL, Fritsma GA, #53: Do We Need To Normalize the Dilute Russell Viper Venom Time Screen/Confirm Ratio?, Thursday, […]

World Thrombosis Day October 13

Thanks to colleague Ali Sadeghi-Khomami PhD for his heads-up announcing theInternational Society on Thrombosis and Haemostasis‘ World Thrombosis Day launch. World Thrombosis Day will be held annually on October 13, the birthday of Rudolph Virchow, 1821, who coined the terms embolism and thrombosis. See the ISTH World Thrombosis Day page for details.

November NASCOLA Newsletter

With thanks for notification from Elaine Benoit, your North American Specialized Coagulation Laboratory Association (NASCOLA) November Newsletter is attached, Among many noteworthy articles, the NASCOLA newsletter features a description of Fritsma Factor. Thanks to NASCOLA for featuring us and to Precision BioLogic Inc for hosting The Fritsma Factor since 2007! November NASCOLA Newsletter

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George Fritsma is a medical laboratory scientist, educator, and author. George holds faculty appointments with Rutgers University and Michigan State University, and is a member of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis, American Association of Clinical Chemists, and American Society for Clinical Laboratory Science.

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