Dr BEN HEDLEY

Ben Hedley was born in the Wales and educated in Belgium, the United Kingdom and Canada. At Imperial College he read chemical engineering and graduate with masters of engineering. His post graduate studies were in molecular biology and cancer research at Western University in Canada. His research allowed him to develop into different areas and started me on the path toward my current position as Medical Scientist within the teaching hospital in London Ontario. The hospital is the largest tertiary health center in the region and a referral site and covers approximately 2.5 million people. In his role he oversee multiple laboratories in the immediate for hematology and coagulation and the only flow cytometry laboratory one for the region. Ben's laboratory is also a Canadian reference site for measurable residual disease (MRD) testing for B and T cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Currently they do referral work for 14 centers across Canada and see approximately 500 cases a year. Ben currently sit of the College of American Pathologists Diagnostic Immunology and Flow Cytometry Committee, actively involved with the Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute and also a board member for the International Council on Standardization of Hematology. His interests have been primarily on furthering the standardization of flow cytometry, through guidelines or products with the goal of elevating our practices. He has had the opportunity to published a number of scientific articles on standardization and was part of the latest Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute guideline for flow cytometry testing. With current regulations evolving he believe this will form the basis for some of the regulations that will come. Most recently Ben has started a collaboration with a group that has artificial intelligent software for perform analysis of clinical flow cytometry which he holds to bring to their laboratory as a Canadian first.