Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society Oversight on Genetic Testing Report- An update. CLIAC Atlanta, GA September 6 2007.
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society Oversight on Genetic Testing Report- An update. Advisory Committee on Heritable Disorders and Genetic Diseases in Newborns and Children. Washington DC September 21, 2007.
Regulatory Update. Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society: Draft Report on the U.S. System of Oversight of Genetic Testing. Annual Meeting Association for Molecular Pathology, Los Angeles, CA November 2007.
Integrating Microarray Technology in the Clinical Laboratory. Drug Information Association, Washington DC, December 13 2007
Regulatory Update. Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society: Draft Report on the U.S. System of Oversight of Genetic Testing. AdvaMed Annual Meeting, Washington DC, February 2008
Laboratory Perspective of Multiplex Assays. American College of Medical Genetics Annual Meeting, March 2008, Phoenix AZ
Regulatory Update. Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health, and Society: Draft Report on the U.S. System of Oversight of Genetic Testing. American Association for Clinical Chemistry. Webcast. Washington DC, March, 2008
Case Study: Hospital and Academic Medical Center Lab Molecular Strategy. Business & Financial Strategies for Molecular Diagnostics – G2 Conference, April 1 2008, Cambridge, MA
Laboratory organization, regulation, and reimbursement in molecular pathology. Principles and practices of molecular diagnostics. AMP and AACC review course. Baltimore, May 2008.
Laboratory organization, regulation, and reimbursement in molecular pathology. Principles and practices of molecular diagnostics and pharmacogenomics. Annual Meeting American Association for Clinical Chemistry, Washington DC July 2008.
Laboratory Testing in Personalized Medicine: Regulatory and Legislative Issues from the Laboratory Perspective. The 2009 Personalized Medicine Conference, Baltimore, MD April 2009
Laboratory Testing in Personalized Medicine: Regulatory and Legislative Issues from the Laboratory Perspective. Molecular Diagnostics: Expert Opinion - Clinical Human Genetic Testing Clinical Laboratory Management Association. Tampa Fl, May 4 2009
SACGHS Report on Genetics Testing oversight in the USA. Institute of Medicine (IOM). June 6 2009
Oversight of genetic testing in the United States of America. Direct to consumer genetic testing: a cross academies workshop. National Academies of Science, August 2009.
Clinical Laboratory Improvement Advisory Committee (CLIAC). Member advisory committee to Secretary of HHS.
Professional Relations Committee, Chair. Association for Molecular Pathology, 2001-03
Nominating Committee. Molecular Diagnostics Subdivision. American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2002
Nominating Committee. Molecular Diagnostics Subdivision. American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2003
Professional Relations Committee. Member. Association for Molecular Pathology, 2004-present
Molecular Pathology Division, Treasurer. American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2004-05
Subcommittee in Sequencing Methods (MM-9). National Committee for Clinical Laboratory Standards (NCCLS). Member, 2002-05
Molecular and Clinical Genetics Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA. Consultant, 2002-05
Molecular and Clinical Genetics Devices Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, Center for Devices and Radiological Health, FDA. Member, 2004-07
Annual Meeting Organizing Committee 2006, American Association for Clinical Chemistry. Member, 2005-06
Nominating Committee, Chair. American Association for Clinical Chemistry, 2006-07
President. Association for Molecular Pathology, 2007
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society. Member, advisory committee to Secretary of HHS, 2006-09
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society Genetic Testing Oversight Task Force. Chair, Advisory Committee to Secretary of HHS, 2007-10
Personalized Healthcare Workgroup. Member, advisory committee to Secretary of HHS, 2006-09
Shiffman ML, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Reddy KR, Sterling RK, Luketic VA, Stravitz RT, Sanyal AJ, Garrett CT, De Medina M, Schiff ER. Comparison of three commercially available assays for HCV RNA using the international unit standard: implications for management of patients with chronic hepatitis C virus infection in clinical practice. Am J Gastroenterol. 2003 May;98(5):1159-66.
Mas VR, Fisher RA, Maluf DG, Wilkinson DS, Garrett CT, Ferreira-Gonzalez A. Hepatic artery thrombosis after liver transplantation and genetic factors: prothrombin G20210A polymorphism. Transplantation. 2003 Jul 15;76(1):247-9.
Mas VR, Fisher RA, Contos M, Wilkinson DS, Garrett, CT, Ferreira-Gonzalez A. Host genetic factors in cytokine and growth factor genes and acute rejection and recurrence of HCV disease in liver transplantation. Clinical Genetics 65: 191-201, 2004.
Mas VR, Maluf DG, Thompson M, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Fisher RA. Engraftment measurement in human liver tissue after liver cell transplantation by Short Tandem Repeat analysis. Cell Transplantation, 2004;13(3):231-6..
MM-9-P Nucleic Acid Sequencing Methods in Diagnostic Laboratory Medicine, Proposed guideline. NCCLS, 2004 Vol 24 Number 18. Zoccoli M, Chan M, Erker J, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Lubin IM
Mas VR, Maluf DG, Stravitz R, Dumur CI, Clark B, Rodgers C, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Fisher RA. Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) in HCV-infected patients awaiting liver transplantation: Genes involved in tumor progression. Liver Transpl. 2004 10(5):607-620.
Fisher RA, Stone JJ, Wolfe LG, Rodgers CM, Anderson ML, Sterling RK, Shiffman ML, Luketic VA, Contos MJ, Mills AS, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Posner MP: Four Year Follow Up of a Prospective Randomized Trial of Mycophenolate Mofetil with Neoral or Tacrolimus Following Liver Transplantation. Clinical Transplantation 2004; 18: 463-472.
Dumur CI, Garrett CT, Archer KJ, Nasim S, Wilkinson DS, Ferreira-Gonzalez A. Evaluation of a small sample RNA linear amplification method for gene expression analysis on high-density oligonucleotide microarray. Analytical Biochemistry, 2004 Vol 331 (2): 314-321
Ferreira-Gonzalez A. Shiffman ML. Use of diagnostic testing for managing Hepatitis C virus infection. Semin Liver Dis. 2004;24 Suppl 2:9-18.
Mas VR, Alvarellos T, Maluf DG, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Oliveros L, Maldonado RA, de Boccardo G. Molecular and clinical response to angiotensin II receptor antagonist in kidney transplant patients with chronic allograft nephropathy. Transpl Int. 2004 Oct;17(9):540-4.
Dumur CI, Nasim S, Best AM, Archer KJ, Ladd AC, Mas VR, Wilkinson DS, Garrett CT, Ferreira-Gonzalez A. Evaluation of quality-control criteria for microarray gene expression analysis.Clin Chem. 2004 Nov;50(11):1994-2002.
Chen B, O'connell CD, Boone DJ, Amos JA, Beck JC, Chan MM, Farkas DH, Lebo RV, Richards CS, Roa BB, Silverman LM, Barton DE, Bejjani BA, Belloni DR, Bernacki SH, Caggana M, Charache P, Dequeker E, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Friedman KJ, Greene CL, Grody WW, Highsmith WE Jr, Hinkel CS, Kalman LV, Lubin IM, Lyon E, Payne DA, Pratt VM, Rohlfs E, Rundell CA, Schneider E, Willey AM, Williams LO, Willey JC, Winn-Deen ES, Wolff DJ. Developing a Sustainable Process to Provide Quality Control Materials for Genetic Testing. Genet Med. 2005 Oct;7(8):534-549.
Fossey SC, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Garrett CT, Dumur CI, Vnencak-Jones CL. BCRABL Transcript Detection by Quantitative Real-Time PCR : Are Correlated Results Possible from Homebrew Assays? Mol Diagn. 2005;9(4):187-93.
Maluf DG, Mas VR, Archer KJ, Yanek K, King A, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Fisher RA, Posner M. Apolipoprotein E genotypes as predictors of high-risk groups for developing hyperlipidemia in kidney transplant recipients undergoing sirolimus treatment.
Transplantation. 2005 Dec 27;80(12):1705-11.
Mas VR, Maluf DG, Archer KJ, Yanek K, King A, Cotterell A, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Rodgers C, Fisher RA, Posner M. Study of mRNA growth factors in urinary cells of kidney transplant recipients as predictors of chronic allograft nephropathy. Transplantation. 2006 Dec 27;80(12):1686-91.
Caliendo AM, Valsamakis A, Zhou Y, Yen-Lieberman B, Andersen J, Young S, Ferreira-Gonzalez GJ, Pyles R, Bremer JW, Lurain NS. Multilaboratory comparison of hepatitis C virus viral load assays. J Clin Microbiol. 2006 May;44(5):1726-32.
Archer KJ, Dumur CI, Taylor GS, Chaplin MD, Guiseppi-Elie A, Grant G, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Garrett CT. Application of a correlation correction factor in a microarray cross-platform reproducibility study. BMC Bioinformatics. 2007 Nov 15;8(1):447.
Sábato MF, Shiffman ML, Langley MR, Wilkinson DS, Ferreira-Gonzalez A. Comparison of performance characteristics of three real-time reverse transcription-PCR test systems for detection and quantification of hepatitis C virus. J Clin Microbiol. 2007 Aug;45(8):2529-36.
Archer KJ, Dumur CI, Taylor GS, Chaplin MD, Guiseppi-Elie A, Buck GA, Grant G, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Garrett CT. A disattenuated correlation estimate when variables are measured with error: Illustration estimating cross-platform correlations. Stat Med. 2008 Mar 30;27(7):1026-39
Amos Wilson J, Pratt VM, Phansalkar A, Muralidharan K, Highsmith WE Jr, Beck JC, Bridgeman S, Courtney EM, Epp L, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Hjelm NL, Holtegaard LM, Jama MA, Jakupciak JP, Johnson MA, Labrousse P, Lyon E, Prior TW, Richards CS, Richie KL, Roa BB, Rohlfs EM, Sellers T, Sherman SL, Siegrist KA, Silverman LM, Wiszniewska J, Kalman LV; the Fragile Xperts Working Group of the Association for Molecular Pathology Clinical Practice Committee. Consensus Characterization of 16 FMR1 Reference Materials: A Consortium Study. J Mol Diagn. 2008 Jan;10(1):2-12.
Sabato MF, Irani AM, Shwartz L, Buckavekas B,, Wilkinson DS, Ferreira-Gonzalez A. A Simple and Rapid Genotyping Assay for Simultaneous Detection of Two ADRB2 Allelic Variants Using FRET Probes and Melting Curve Analysis. J Mol Diagnostics. 2008 May;10(3):258-64.
Dumur, CI, Sana S, Ladd AC, Ferreira-Gonzalez, A, Wilkinson DS, Powers CN, Garrett CT. Assessing the impact of tissue devitalization time on genome-wide gene expression analysis in ovarian tumor Samples. Diagn Mol Pathol. 2008 Dec;17(4):200-6.
M Aspinall, S M Au, P Billings, R Dreyfuss, J P Evans, A Ferreira-Gonzalez, K T FitzGerald, C Fomous, J Licinio, B Burns McGrath, P S Miller, J Telfair, S Teutsch, M S Williams, P Wise. US system of oversight for genetic testing: a report from the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Genetics, Health and Society. Personalized Medicine, Sep 2008, Vol. 5, No. 5, Pages 521-528.
Brophy DF, Bukaveckas BL, Ferreira-Gonzalez A, Archer KJ, Martin EJ, Gehr, TWB. A pilot study of genetic polymorphisms and hemodialysis vascular thrombosis. Hemod Int 2009; 13:1-8.
