Virtual Training Program

Six Sigma Driven QC in Serology

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Sten Westgard, MSDirector of Client Services and

Technology, Westgard QC, Inc. U.S.A

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Learning Objectives:• Recognize the challenges of QC in qualitative

testing• Learn how to optimize QC through Six Sigma

metrics• Simplify Lab QC practices by the adoption of

Westgard Sigma Rules in SerologyMust attend all the 3 sessions to receivethe Certificate.

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Session 1: 18th March| 8:00 – 9:30PM SST (UTC+08:00) Session 2: 28th April | 8:00 – 9:30PM SST (UTC+08:00) Session 3: 25th May | 8:00 – 9:30PM SST (UTC+08:00)

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Sten Westgard Speaker Bio

Sten Westgard, MS, is the Director of Client Services and Technology for Westgard Quality Control. Mr. Westgard earned his MS degree in Computer Science from Pace University (New York, New York).

For nearly 25 years, Sten has managed the Westgard website, course portal, and blog, creating and administering online training, as well as editing and writing hundreds of reports, essays, and applications on quality control, method validation, Six Sigma, Risk Management and other laboratory management topics.

He has edited and contributed to numerous books on quality, including Basic QC Practices, Basic Method Validation, Basic Quality Management Systems, Six Sigma QC Design and Control, Six Sigma Risk Analysis, CLIA Final Rules, Assuring the Right Quality Right, The Poor Lab’s Guide to the Regulations and Nothing but the Truth about Quality. He has co-edited two special issues of Clinics in Laboratory Medicine (2015 and 2017), as well as a special issue of Biochemica Medica (2018)

Sten is also an adjunct faculty member of the Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences in Rochester, Minnesota; an adjunct faculty member of the University of Alexandria, Egypt; an adjunct visiting faculty member of Manipal University in Mangalore, India; and an honorary visiting professor in 2017 at Jiao Tong University, Shanghai.

As of June 2018, a few of his peer reviewed publications:

Planning Risk-Based SQC Schedules for Bracketed Operation of Continuous Production Analyzers. Westgard JO, Bayat H, Westgard SA. Clin Chem. 2018 Feb;64(2):289-296. doi: 10.1373/clinchem.2017.278291. Epub 2017 Nov 2. PMID: 29097516

The use of error and uncertainty methods in the medical laboratory. Oosterhuis WP, Bayat H, Armbruster D, Coskun A, Freeman KP, Kallner A, Koch D, Mackenzie F, Migliarino G, Orth M, Sandberg S, Sylte MS, Westgard S, Theodorsson E. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2018 Jan 26;56(2):209-219. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2017-0341. PMID: 28796637

Assessing precision, bias and sigma-metrics of 53 measurands of the Alinity ci system. Westgard S, Petrides V, Schneider S, Berman M, Herzogenrath J, Orzechowski A. Clin Biochem. 2017 Dec;50(18):1216-1221. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2017.09.005. Epub 2017 Sep 14. PMID: 28918132

Selecting a Risk-Based SQC Procedure for a HbA1c Total QC Plan. Westgard SA, Bayat H, Westgard JO. J Diabetes Sci Technol. 2017 Sep 1:1932296817729488. doi: 10.1177/1932296817729488. [Epub ahead of print] PMID: 28905657

Preface. Westgard JO, Armbruster D, Westgard SA. Clin Lab Med. 2017 Mar;37(1):xiii-xvii. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2016.12.001. PMID: 28153374

Six Sigma Quality Management System and Design of Risk-based Statistical Quality Control. Westgard JO, Westgard SA. Clin Lab Med. 2017 Mar;37(1):85-96. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2016.09.008. Epub 2016 Dec 22. Review. PMID: 28153372

Rhetoric Versus Reality? Laboratory Surveys Show Actual Practice Differs Considerably from Proposed Models and Mandated Calculations. Westgard SA. Clin Lab Med. 2017 Mar;37(1):35-45. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2016.09.004. Epub 2016 Dec 5. Review. PMID: 28153368

Measuring Analytical Quality: Total Analytical Error Versus Measurement Uncertainty. Westgard JO, Westgard SA. Clin Lab Med. 2017 Mar;37(1):1-13. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2016.09.001. Epub 2016 Dec 20. Review. PMID: 28153359

Utilizing global data to estimate analytical performance on the Sigma scale: A global comparative analysis of methods, instruments, and manufacturers through external quality assurance and proficiency testing programs. Westgard SA. Clin Biochem. 2016 Jun;49(9):699-707. doi: 10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2016.02.013. PMID: 26948097

Quality control review: implementing a scientifically based quality control system. Westgard JO, Westgard SA. Ann Clin Biochem. 2016 Jan;53(Pt 1):32-50. doi: 10.1177/0004563215597248. Epub 2015 Jul 6. Review. PMID: 26150675

How to assess the quality of your analytical method? Topic E, Nikolac N, Panteghini M, Theodorsson E, Salvagno GL, Miler M, Simundic AM, Infusino I, Nordin G, Westgard S. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2015 Oct;53(11):1707-18. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2015-0869. PMID: 26408611

Assessing quality on the Sigma scale from proficiency testing and external quality assessment surveys. Westgard JO, Westgard SA. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2015 Sep 1;53(10):1531-5. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2014-1241. PMID: 25719323

Transplant patient classification and tacrolimus assays: more evidence of the need for assay standardization. Agrawal YP, Cid M, Westgard S, Parker TS, Jaikaran R, Levine DM. Ther Drug Monit. 2014 Dec;36(6):706-9. doi: 10.1097/FTD.0000000000000094. PMID: 24784024

Sigma metrics used to assess analytical quality of clinical chemistry assays: importance of the allowable total error (TEa) target. Hens K, Berth M, Armbruster D, Westgard S. Clin Chem Lab Med. 2014 Jul;52(7):973-80. doi: 10.1515/cclm-2013-1090.

Quality control (QC) clinic. Preface. Westgard JO, Westgard S. Clin Lab Med. 2013 Mar;33(1):xi-xii. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2012.11.010. Epub 2012 Dec 20. No abstract available. PMID: 23331738

Prioritizing risk analysis quality control plans based on Sigma-metrics. Westgard S. Clin Lab Med. 2013 Mar;33(1):41-53. doi: 10.1016/j.cll.2012.11.008. Epub 2012 Dec 20. Review. PMID: 23331728

The quality of laboratory testing today: an assessment of sigma metrics for analytic quality using performance data from proficiency testing surveys and the CLIA criteria for acceptable performance. Westgard JO, Westgard SA. Am J Clin Pathol. 2006 Mar;125(3):343-54. PMID: 16613337

QC Validator 2.0: a computer program for automatic selection of statistical QC procedures for applications in healthcare laboratories. Westgard JO, Stein B, Westgard SA, Kennedy R. Comput Methods Programs Biomed. 1997 Jul;53(3):175-86. PMID: 9230452