Veterinary Diagnostic Labs: Next-gen efficient operating models and design concepts

Many Veterinary Diagnostics Laboratories face operational challenges stemming from aging facilities, which can create biosafety risks and hamper testing efficacy and turnaround time. This session delivers planning and design lessons learned from the latest generation of facilities with a view to optimizing operations. Using multiple recent case studies, Jim Chen illustrates criteria and best practices for sample receiving/processing and testing workflows, circulation strategies that improve biosecurity/biosafety, optimized animal handling and necropsy, and BSL3 containment lab programming. Attend this session to make more informed facility decisions when developing specific program requirements.