2026 CRB Symposium & Workshop
May 5-8 • Las Vegas (Summerlin), Nevada
JW Marriott Las Vegas Resort & Spa
Preliminary Schedule of Events
As of April 20, 2026 v1.1
Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Time Pre–Conference Events
7:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Conference Registration Valencia Ballroom
7:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. American Board of Bioanalysis (ABB) Meeting Murcia
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. American Board of Bioanalysis (ABB) Certification Examination Grand Ballroom ABCDE
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. AAB Board of Registry (ABOR) Certification Examination Cataluna Room
8:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. CRB Workshop: Beyond the Standard: Advances in Testicular and Ovarian Tissue Preservation and Cryobiology – A Hands-On Workshop Marquis Wednesday, May 6, 2026
AAB Conference – MolDx Symposium Cataluna Room CRB Symposium – “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Grand Ballroom CDE
7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Conference Registration
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:00 a.m. – 8:15 a.m. Housekeeping and Celebration of 30 Years of CRB and 70 Years of AAB
Melanie Clemmer, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
8:15 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Currently Available MolDx Technologies
Roya Pedram, Ph.D., HCLD/TS(ABB) Cataluna Room
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. MolDx Testing for Infectious Diseases
IVF: The Way It Was
Michael Vernon, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB-Ret) Grand Ballroom CDE
Mark Pandori, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB) Cataluna Room History of CRB
Brooks Keel, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB-Ret) Grand Ballroom CDE
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Break sponsored by Noblegen Cryogenics Valencia Ballroom
10:45 a.m. – 11:15 a.m. MolDx Testing Challenges in Public Health Laboratories
Leah Gillis, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
11:15 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.
Cataluna Room
Progress, Partnership and Purpose: The Road Ahead for CRB
Matthew Hudnall, M.Sc., TS(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
Getting it Right: ART Laboratory Coding
Melanie Clemmer, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
Time
Wednesday, May 6, 2026 (continued)
AAB Conference – MolDx Symposium Cataluna Room
CRB Symposium – “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Grand Ballroom CDE
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch and Scientific Roundtable Presentations Marquis
1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. “He Said, She Said” - Female and Male Reproductive Physiology
Joseph Conaghan, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
Dolores Lamb, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
2:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Male Infertility Genetic Testing
Cataluna Room
Dolores Lamb, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB) Cataluna Room
2:30 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. Controversies in Evaluating Embryonic Aneuploidy
Richard Scott Jr., M.D., HCLD/ALD(ABB)
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (3:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.)
Cataluna Room
Donor Gamete Use in an Era of Rapidly Developing Technology J. Wes Edmonds, Ph.D., HCLD/ELD/TS(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
(2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.)
What Can We Learn from the Collection Dish?
Sharon Anderson, Ph.D., HCLD/ELD/CC(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
Break sponsored by Cryohexagon Valencia Ballroom (2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.) Break sponsored by Cryohexagon Valencia Ballroom
3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Controversies in Evaluating Embryonic Aneuploidy (cont.)
Richard Scott Jr., M.D., HCLD/ALD(ABB) Cataluna Room
(3:30 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.)
Rapid Vitrification Update
Christine Allen, Ph.D., M.Sc., TS(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
4:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. Oral Abstracts Cataluna Room (4:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) Oral Abstracts
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Welcome to the AAB/CRB Seis de Mayo Celebration and Poster Session Sponsored by IVF Store and Biotech, Inc. Valencia Ballroom
Thursday, May 7, 2026
Time
AAB Conference – MolDx Symposium Cataluna Room CRB Symposium - “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Grand Ballroom CDE
7:00 a.m. – 7:30 p.m. Conference Registration Valencia Ballroom
7:30 a.m. – 8:30 a.m. Continental Breakfast Valencia Ballroom
7:15 a.m. – 7:45 a.m. AAB Business Meeting (Open To All AAB Members) Cataluna Room
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Major Anti-Trust Lawsuit: Health Care Providers vs. Health Care Insurance Companies
Jeff Sherrin, O’Connell & Aronowitz
Cataluna Room
(8:00 a.m. – 8:30 a.m.)
Legislative Update
Stefanie Rinehart, CRD Associates
Erin Morton, CRD Associates Grand Ballroom CDE
(8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.)
Beyond the Routine Semen Analysis: The Advanced Diagnostic Semen Tests Described in WHO 6
Dolores Lamb, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
Time
9:00 a.m. – 9:45 a.m.
Thursday, May 7, 2026 (continued)
AAB Conference – MolDx Symposium
Cataluna Room
OIG Report On Spike in 2024 Medicare Spending for Genetic Tests and Importance of the RESULTS Act
Stefanie Rinehart, CRD Associates
Erin Morton, CRD Associates
Cataluna Room
9:45 a.m. – 10:20 a.m. CLIA’s New “Alternate Pathway” for Non-Traditional Doctoral Degrees and Other CLIA Changes (Virtual Presentation)
Karen S. Sutterer, BS, MT(ASCP), Technical Advisor
Survey Branch, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Division of Clinical Laboratory Improvement & Quality
Cataluna Room
CRB Symposium - “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Grand Ballroom CDE
(9:30 a.m. – 10:20 a.m.)
Quality Control and Validation of CLIA Waived Andrology Testing
Eva Schenkman, Ph.D., M.Sc., HCLD/ELD/TS/CC/ALD(ABB)
10:20 a.m. – 10:50 a.m. Break sponsored by Sapyen
10:50 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Billing/Payment Challenges for MolDx and Toxicology Procedures
Moderated by Stefanie Rinehart, CRD Associates
• Medical Necessity/Clinical Utility
Matthew Rutledge, President MD LABS
• Audits/Compliance
Jeff Sherrin, O’Connell & Aronowitz
11:45 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. Lunch and Sponsor-associated Roundtables
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m. Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS)
Moderated by Jeanne Ohrnberger, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
Cataluna Room
Quality Matters: Publishing and Dissecting Literature
Christopher Barratt, Ph.D.
1:15 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. NGS vs. Long Read Sequencing: What Fits Best
Roya Pedram, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
2:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. Operational Challenges and Practical Solutions in Routine Clinical NGS Testing
Joy Nakitandwe, Ph.D., HCLD/CC(ABB)
2:15 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. CRB Business Meeting/Awards
2:45 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. Break sponsored by Juno Genetics
Cataluna Room
The Great Debate: Are Sperm Counts Declining?
Dolores Lamb, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
Christopher Barratt, Ph.D.
Time
Thursday, May 7, 2026 (continued)
AAB Conference – MolDx Symposium Cataluna Room
3:30 p.m. – Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) (continued)
Moderated by Jeanne Ohrnberger, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
3:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Making NGS Work in the Clinical Laboratory: Validation Considerations
Pan Zhang, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
4:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. Reporting: Case Studies and Dilemmas
Pan Zhang, Ph.D., HCLD (ABB)
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Networking Reception
Sponsored by CooperSurgical Fertility Solutions
Cataluna Room
CRB Symposium - “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Grand Ballroom CDE
(3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.)
Current and Emerging Genetic Testing Methodologies
Maria Katz, M.Sc., LCGC
CDE
(4:30 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.)
Whole Genome Sequencing of Embryos—Technical Challenges and Clinical Opportunities
Richard Scott Jr., M.D., HCLD/ALD(ABB) Grand Ballroom CDE
(5:30 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.)
Question and Answer: Pandora's Box
Maria Katz, M.Sc., LCGC
Richard Scott Jr., M.D., HCLD/ALD(ABB)
Jenna Miller
Friday, May 8, 2026
Time CRB Symposium - “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Grand Ballroom CDE
7:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Conference Registration
7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Continental Breakfast
8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. Old IVF Practices – What Have We Learned?
Kimball Pomeroy, Ph.D., HCLD(ABB)
9:30 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. What to Do with Non-2PN Embryos
Jenna Miller Grand Ballroom CDE
10:00 a.m. –10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Informed Consent: Whose “Job” Is It Anyway?
Lisa Rinehart, RN, BSN, JD
Friday, May 8, 2026
Time CRB Symposium - “Looking Back and Moving Forward” Grand Ballroom CDE
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Question and Answer: Ask the Experts All Remaining Presenters Grand Ballroom CDE
12:30 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Optional CAP Reproductive Laboratory Accreditation Program Inspector Training Seminar
The CAP Workshop is not included in the CRB Symposium registration package. Separate registration for the CAP program is required.
Preliminary Breakdown of Continuing Education
The AAB Conference, CRB Workshop, Symposium, and CAP Reproductive Laboratory Accreditation Program Inspector Training Seminar have been approved by PEER (American Board of Bioanalysis). In addition, contact hours earned can be used to satisfy CE requirements in the states of California, Florida, Louisiana, and Montana.
Disclaimer: The content and views presented in this educational activity are those of the faculty/authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the American Association of Bioanalysts (AAB) or the AAB College of Reproductive Biology (CRB). The presented materials and information are not necessarily exhaustive of the subject matter, and laboratory professionals and all other individuals should review and consider other relevant materials and professional opinions and advice on the subject matter before making appropriate decisions.