Malgorzata ms Gorniak Australasian Cytometry Society 41st Annual Conference

Malgorzata ms Gorniak

Malgorzata (Gosia) Gorniak- I am currently employed as a Senior Scientist in the Clinical Flow cytometry at Alfred Hospital in Melbourne. I am responsible for the daily supervision of the flow cytometry diagnostic services provided by Haematology Department including quality assurance activities. In addition to the routine clinical services I support the unit and supervise the performance of the assays for Clinical Trials. Clinical Flow at Alfred covers a wide range of test which include: lymphocytes subsets (T and B cells), CD34 counting and viability (fresh and frozen samples), FMH enumeration and the oncology immunophenotyping at diagnosis & disease monitoring that includes minimal residual disease. I worked in the Clinical flow cytometry area for over 20 years and played a leading role in: • Development and application of 5, 8 and 10 colour flow cytometry diagnostic tests (including high sensitivity minimal residual disease monitoring) • Standardization of protocols including an active involvement in Custom cocktails for 10c AML, NHL, B-ALL • Supervision of data analysing, involved in creating the gating strategies and implementation of Kaluza & Infinicyt software for MRD analysis • Implementation of EuroFlow Next generation testing for MMMRD (Salamanca group) • Winner in individual category for ‘Leading Innovation’ with recognition of our MRD work - Alfred Health in 2017 • Active in national assay guideline committees since 2016, involved in several of the taskforce committees currently updating the ACS Clinical Guidelines and international MM MRD proficiency analysis consortiums