The AACC Academy is pleased to announce the winners of the 2020 Distinguished Abstracts Awards. A group of Fellows selected these 31 abstracts for their scientific excellence from a pool of 733 abstracts accepted for the AACC Annual Scientific Meeting. Winning abstracts will display the Academy blue ribbon during the virtual AACC Annual Scientific Meeting poster sessions.
A-005 Reinhardt Hesse, Johannesburg, South Africa
Machine Learning Outperforms Traditional Screening and Diagnostic Tools for the Detection of Familial Hypercholesterolaemia
A-023 Eunhee Nah, Seoul, Republic of Korea
Usefulness of the Urine Dipstick Albumin to Creatinine Ratio and Dipstick Proteinuria for Screening of Chronic Kidney Disease in Health Checkups
A-105 Kristin Mullins, Baltimore, MD
Impact of Co-Morbidities on Temporal Changes 2-4 Hours after Presentation in Subjects with cTnI Values above the 99th Percentile
A-125 Zhimin (Tim) Cao
CLIA (2019 Proposed) Proficiency Testing Criteria for HbA1c - 5% vs 10% or in-between?
A-134 Mark Kushnir, Salt Lake City, UT
LC-MS/MS Measurements of PTHrP Revealed Higher Prevalence of PTHrP caused Hypercalcemia in Men than Women
A-143 Zhimin (Tim) Cao
Accuracy-Based Assessment of Estradiol Measurement Procedures
A-181 Christine Dolin, Lexington, KY
Bone Biomarkers Predict High Turnover vs. Low Turnover Osteoporosis
A-200 Blanca Dehesa, San Mateo de Gállego, Spain
New Alternatives for the Simultaneous Detection of Several Pathogens involved in Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STIs)
A-201 Ekkehard Schütz, Göttingen, Germany
Time Dependent Apparent Increase in dd-cfDNA Percentage in Clinically Stable Patients between One and Five Years following Kidney Transplantation
A-209 Nga Yeung Tang, Chicago, IL
Evaluation of a Pharmacogenomics Panel on the TaqMan OpenArray Genotyping Platform
A-213 Lingxia Jiang, Palo Alto, CA
Development and Validation of a Multiplexing Digital PCR Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA) Screening Assay on a Novel Integrated Digital PCR Instrument
A-220 Irene De Biase, Salt Lake City, UT
Laboratory Findings in a Large Cohort of Patients with Homocysteine Remethylation Disorders and Cystathionine-Beta-Synthase Deficiency
A-264 Roya Sheybani, San Francisco, CA
Rapidly Assessing the Host Immune Response for the Diagnosis of Sepsis, a Prospective Multi-Site Clinical Study in the Emergency Department (ED) Employing the Leukocyte Structural Index (LSI)
A-306 Mary Kathryn Bohn, Toronto, ON, Canada
Pediatric Reference Intervals for Critical Point of Care Assays in the CALIPER Cohort of Healthy Children and Adolescents
A-345 Ioannis Papassotiriou, Athens, Greece
Clinical Value of Serum Amyloid A (SAA) Protein, High Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol (HDL-C) and Apolipoprotein-A1 (Apo-A1) in the Diagnosis and Follow-Up of Neonatal Sepsis
A-367 Lingxia Jiang, Palo Alto, CA
A 4-Color Multiplexing Digital PCR Assay for Non-Invasive Prenatal Trisomy Testing Using a Novel Digital PCR Platform
B-006 Erica Fatica, Rochester, MN
Seeing Double: MASS-FIX Characterization of Immunofixation Bands as Monoclonal or Biclonal
B-018 Viola Borchardt-Lohölter, Lübeck, Germany
Identification of DAGLA as an Autoantibody Target in Cerebellar or Hippocampal Degeneration
B-055 Katie Thoren, New York, NY
A Validation Study of a Novel poly-MALDI-TOF-MS Assay for the Detection of Monoclonal Proteins
B-060 Seung-Jung Kee, Gwangju, Republic of Korea
Biomarkers for Detection of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Infection in Supernatant of QuantiFERON Gold In-Tube and Gold Plus
B-096 Ioannis Papassotiriou, Athens, Greece
Soluble P-Selectin Levels in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease Reflect Platelets’ Activation Rather than Endothelial Dysfunction
B-103 Mayukh Sarkar, Milwaukee, WI
Diagnostic Management of Errors in Clinical Laboratory Test Selection
B-149 Emily Garnett, Houston, TX
Comparison of Three Calculation Methods of Low Density Lipoprotein-Cholesterol: Results from the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis
B-156 Yasuki Ito, Tokyo, Japan
Smoking Adversely Affects Lipoprotein Profile by Causing Specific Increase in Atherogenic Small, Dense LDL-C Level
B-203 Douglas Stickle, Philadelphia, PA
Use of Electronic Text Processing for Automated, Paperless Review of Daily Quality Assurance Reports Generated by the Laboratory Information System
B-210 Lokinendi Rao, Marlboro, MA
Large-Scale Retrospective Analyses of the Effect of Iron Deficiency Anemia on Hemoglobin A1c Levels
B-237 Uttam Garg, Kansas City, MO
Simple Tool to Identify Intravenous (IV) Fluid Contamination through Glucose Measurement
B-238 Vinita Thakur, St. John’s, NL, Canada
Use of a Lean Six Sigma Approach to Investigate Excessive Quality Control Material Use and Resulting Costs
B-268 Y. Ruben Luo, San Francisco, CA
Exploration of Applying High-Resolution MS2/MS3 Mass Spectrometry for Screening Toxic Natural Products
B-311 Swarnima Singh, Patna, India
Clinical Significance of Circulating Tumor Cells in Ovarian Cancers
B-339 Danielle Zauli, Vespasiano, Brazil
Frequency of Variants in the BRCA1 and BRCA2 Genes in Patients without a Family History of Breast and/or Ovarian Cancer