Full Professor, Head of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs Officer
Prof, Belgium
Professor Elisabeth Dequeker is Master in Chemistry (M.S.) and Doctor (Ph.D.) in Science (Organic Chemistry) from the University of Leuven (Belgium). Since her postdoctoral research, she specialized in Quality Assessment aspects of medical diagnostic laboratories. She is currently full professor and Head of the Biomedical Quality Assurance Research Unit (University of Leuven) and Quality Manager for the Division Medical Diagnostics at the University Hospitals Leuven.
Prof. Dequeker has been active for more than 25 years in the field of quality management in medical laboratories, where she is an internationally recognized expert and key opinion leader. She built a strong reputation as initiator and organizer of large international external quality assessments (EQA) in diverse disease areas, and published groundbreaking manuscripts from associated research on EQA outcome data. Her current research largely emphasizes on observational studies of various quality aspects of molecular oncology and pathology applied in diagnostic laboratories. The work of prof. Dequeker at the University of Leuven was at the basis of the design of clinically important quality assessment programs for genetic diseases and oncology biomarker tests.
In her role as Quality Manager at the University Hospitals Leuven she is responsible for the strategy and coordination of the overall quality management system across the Medical Diagnostics division. She oversees the implementation of the quality management system as well as the validation and verification of new tests and instruments used, including in vitro diagnostic (IVD) tests. The various members of this division (laboratories of Clinical Pathology / Chemistry, Anatomic Pathology, Human Genetics, Forensic Medicine, and the departments of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology) are required to adhere to varying quality standards.
As certified auditor for ISO-15189, ISO-17025 and ISO-17043, prof. Dequeker regularly performs audits on behalf of the Belgian accreditation authority BELAC and other members of the European Accreditation Cooperation.
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Thursday, May 11, 2023
15:00 – 16:00 CEST