Comments from Past Symposium Participants

• I strongly recommend that physician lab directors attend a COLA Symposium a minimum of at least once/year. For either the moderate or high complexity lab director, this conference is more or less a ‘must.’ This seminar provided great insights on management and organizational skills needed for the operation of moderate and high complexity labs. - B. Rizvi, MT, CLS, MCLD, Director Laboratory Services, Central Indiana Cancer Centers

• You should know that I hate this sort of organizational stuff normally, but … I’m actually excited about getting back home and getting to work on this. I have a much clearer sense of what our strengths and weaknesses are and what we need to do. - J. Gettinger, MD, Family Practice Associates, Madisonville, TN

• I am a lab director in California. I like your symposia because of the wide variety of speakers to choose from, wide variety of subjects, and always well put together! I always pick up some new information, and I especially appreciate speakers who graciously share their forms, reports, and tips.

• I learned so many things at the Symposium...the importance of how to write a procedure, a new way of looking at quality through Quality Systems concepts, and ways to be more organized and efficient in the laboratory.

• I’m happy to have the CDROM of all the workshops, breakouts, and general sessions, not just the ones I attended. I hope to return next year.

• From check-in, breakfast sessions, lunch, inspectors, speakers, every single second has been just wonderful. I can't tell you how much it meant to be a part of this. I learned so much to take back and use. "Thank you" just doesn't seem good enough - I will forever appreciate this.

• This conference is high quality, fast paced, and energizing, with high caliber speakers; well worth the cost, with very up-to-date information.