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Lecture Programmes: Monday 26 September

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Clinical Chemistry
Cellular Pathology
Cytopathology
Education, Training & Management
Haematology
Immunology
Medical Microbiology
Transfusion Science
Virology
Plenary Session

Please note: parallel sessions are displayed in time order

Monday 26 September

Clinical Chemistry

09.00 - 10.00

Fluid Proteins Chairman: Mr Derrick Edgerton

09:00 ‑ 09:30
Urine protein electrophoresis

Mr Jean Deenmamode, Homerton University Hospital

09:30 ‑ 10:00
Clinical Utility of Fluid Protein Measurement

East Kent Hospital University NHS Foundation Trust

10.30 - 12.00

POCT Chairman: Mr Steve Snewin
Sponsored by: Roche Diagnostics Limited

10:30 ‑ 11:00
POCT: opportunity knocks?

Gilbert Wieringa, Royal Bolton NHS Foundation Trust

11:00 ‑ 11:30
POCT: the commissioner perspective

Les Martin, Commissioning Business Services, NHS North Lancashire

11:30 ‑ 12:00
POCT: the industry perspective

Dr Stuart Rosen, Imperial College London

Cellular Pathology

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Ms Sally Barratt

09:00 ‑ 09:30
Quantum dots

Dr Richard Byers, Central Manchester Hospital

09:30 ‑ 10:00
Image analysis in the field of cellular pathology

Mrs Alison Bigley, AstraZeneca, Macclesfield

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Mr Alex Javed

10:30 ‑ 11:00
D&E dissection

Mr Gordon McNair, Antrim Area Hospital

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Laser dissection on molecular work for histodissection

Prof Paul Murray, University of Birmingham

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Mohs surgery

Dr Saqib Bashir, King's College Hospital

Cytopathology

09.00 - 10.00

Centralisation Chairman: Mrs Sara Smith

09:00 ‑ 10:00
Debate: Centralisation, Concentration, Rationalisation, Modernisation – Is big beautiful?

Ms. Kay Ellis, Mrs. Sue Vryenhoef, Mrs. Vivienne Beavers, Mr. Dave Nutall, Mr. Allan Wilson, Mrs. Jacqueline Jamison

10.30 - 12.00

Centralisation Chairman: Mrs Jacqueline Jamison

10:30 ‑ 11:00
Debate: Centralisation, Concentration, Rationalisation, Modernisation - Is big beautiful?

Ms. Kay Ellis, Mrs. Sue Vryenhoef, Mrs. Vivienne Beavers, Mr. Dave Nutall, Mr. Allan Wilson, Mrs. Jacqueline Jamison

11:00 ‑ 12:00
Future Delivery of Screening Programmes

Julietta Patnik, Director, NHS Cancer Screening Programmes

Education, Training & Management

09.00 - 10.00

Training & Development: Session 1 Chairman: Mr Nick Kirk

09:00 ‑ 09:30
IBMS qualifications for biomedical support workers

Mr David Eccleston, University Hospital Aintree NHS Foundation Trust

09:30 ‑ 10:00
Institute qualifications for biomedical scientists – recent developments

Mr Alan Wainwright, Executive Head of Education, IBMS

10.30 - 12.00

Training & Development: Session 2 Chairman: Mrs Mary Macdonald

10:30 ‑ 11:00
Career Journey from a Junior B

Dr Jane Needham, The North Hampshire Hospital

11:00 ‑ 11:30
More for less or less for more

Dr Mike Bosomworth, Leeds Teaching Hospitals

11:30 ‑ 12:00

Haematology

09.00 - 10.00

Coagulation Chairman: Mr Ian Jennings

09:00 ‑ 09:30
ADAMTS 13

Dr Ian Mackie, University College, London

09:30 ‑ 10:00
What's the point of care?

Dr Chris Gardiner, University of Oxford

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Mr David Gurney
Sponsored by: Quadratech Diagnostics Ltd

10:30 ‑ 11:00
The end of haemophilia as we know it

Prof Edward Tuddenham, Haemophilia Centre, Royal Free Hospital

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Lupus anticoagulant detection: a guide through the guidelines

Dr Gary Moore, GSTS Pathology, St Thomas’ Hospital

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Thrombophilia guidelines

Prof Mike Greaves, School of Medicine and Dentistry, Aberdeen

Immunology

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Mr Christopher Scott

09:00 ‑ 09:30
Physiological factors affecting CD4 counts

Dr Matthew Helbert, Manchester Royal Infirmary

09:30 ‑ 10:00

10.30 - 12.00

Back to Basics Chairman: Mr Sean Conlan

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Increasing the potency of mAbs

Prof Martin Glennie, University of Southampton

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Monoclonals in laboratory diagnostics

Prof Bharat Jasani, University of Cardiff

Medical Microbiology

09.00 - 10.00

Globalisation and Infectious Disease Chairman: Mr Stuart Terrington

09:00 ‑ 09:30
The microbiological implications of climate change

Professor Marion Wooldridge, Veterinary Laboratories Agency

09:30 ‑ 10:00
Movements abroad – global infections and travel

Dr Ron Cutler, Queen Mary’s University London

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Dr Lynne Lawrance
Sponsored by: Thermo Scientific

10:30 ‑ 11:00
Addressing the Threat of Gram-negative Resistance

Dr. David Wareham, Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Tuberculosis – can we win the battle?

Apoorva Bhatt, University of Birmingham

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Infections and Afghanistan

Group Captain Andrew Green, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine

Transfusion Science

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Ms Jenny White

09:00 ‑ 09:20
Case studies (Higher Specialist Diploma exam & specimen answers)

Mrs Karen Madgwick, North Middlesex Hospital NHS Trust

09:20 ‑ 09:40
Case studies

Mr Bill Chaffe, William Harvey Hospital NHS Trust

09:40 ‑ 10:00
Case studies (serological & clinical)

Mr Malcolm Needs, NBS – Tooting

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Ms Carol Cantwell

10:30 ‑ 11:00
Major haemorrhage in trauma

Dr. Malcolm Tunnicliff, Kings College Hospital

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Major obstetric haemorrhage

Dr Fiona Regan, Imperial College Hospitals and NHSBT

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Laboratory support in major haemorrhage

Yvonne Scott, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Hospital NHS Trust

Virology

09.00 - 10.00

Hot topics Chairman: Dr Sarah Pitt
Sponsored by: DiaSorin S.p.A.

09:00 ‑ 09:30
Blood transfusion - emerging infectious threat

Dr Alan Kitchen, NHS Blood Transfusion, Colindale

09:30 ‑ 10:00
Virology & the media

Laurence Knight, Health Protection Agency, South West

10.30 - 12.00

Modern Approaches Chairman: Mrs Jane Shirley

10:30 ‑ 11:00
Virology strategy – saving patients, saving money

TBC

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Cutting-edge technology – applications in virology

Paul Kellam, Sanger Centre

11:30 ‑ 12:00

Plenary Session

13.30 - 14.15

Opening Ceremony & Albert Norman lecture

13:30 ‑ 13:35
President's Welcome & Opening Address

Ken Rae, President, IBMS

13:35 ‑ 14:15
Crime of the Century or Chance of a Lifetime?

Alan Potter, Vice President and Former Chief Executive IBMS

14.15 - 15.30

Plenary Lectures Chairman: Ken Rae, President, IBMS

14:15 ‑ 14:40
Lead Scientists: leading change, representing healthcare science

Ms Jane Blower, Lead Scientist, East Midlands

14:40 ‑ 15:05
A Transformed Pathology Service

Dr Ian Barnes, National Clinical Director for Pathology

15:05 ‑ 15:30
A Transformed Pathology Workforce

Mr Phil Hudson, Managing Director at Collinson Grant Healthcare

16.00 - 17.00

Plenary Sessions Chairman: Ken Rae, President, IBMS

16:00 ‑ 16:40
Pathology Transformation – the East of England approach (with questions and answers)

Mr Nick Kirk, Pathology Directorate Manager, Papworth Hospital

16:40 ‑ 17:00
Fit for purpose, fit for the future

Ms Jill Rodney, Chief Executive Institute of Biomedical Science