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Lecture Programmes: Tuesday 27 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

Tuesday 27 September

Clinical Chemistry

08.15 - 09.00

Breakfast session

08:15 ‑ 09:00
Minimum Analytical Performance Standards (MAPS) – clinically relevant analytical standards for the laboratory.

Mr Darren Ames, St Helens and Knowsley NHS Trust

Sponsored by UNA Health Ltd

09.00 - 10.00

Vitamins Chairman: Mr David Cameron
Sponsored by: DiaSorin Ltd

09:00 ‑ 09:30
Clinical usefulness of water-soluble vitamins

Dr Dinesh Talwar, Glasgow Royal Infirmary

09:30 ‑ 10:00
The role of vitamin D in diagnosis and treatment

Dr Sandra Rainbow, North West London Hospitals NHS Trust

10.30 - 12.00

Mass Spectometry Chairman: Mr David Wells

10:30 ‑ 11:00
The use of biomarkers to diagnose childhood diseases

Dr Kevin Mills, Great Ormond Street Hospital

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Tandem MS/MS: A universal approach to screening

Mr Adeboye Ifederu, Great Ormond Street Hospital

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Using ICP-MS for clinical sample analysis

Dr Simon Nelms, Thermo Fisher Scientific

14.00 - 15.30

The Poisoned Patient Chairman: Mr David Whittle

14:00 ‑ 14:30
Metals

Dr Andrew Taylor, Royal Surrey County Hospital

14:30 ‑ 15:00
Alcohol and other volatiles

Mr Peter Streete, St Thomas' Hospital

15:00 ‑ 15:30
Drugs

Dr A F Jones, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust

16.00 - 17.00

Cardiovascular Risk Factors Chairman: Mr Geoffrey Lloyd
Sponsored by: Roche Diagnostics Limited

16:00 ‑ 16:30
Clinical usefulness of cardiac markers

Dr Dev Datta, University Hospital of Wales

16:30 ‑ 17:00
Novel cardiac markers

Prof Alistair Hall, Leeds Institute of Genetics, Health and Therapeutics

Cellular Pathology

08.15 - 09.00

Breakfast session

08:15 ‑ 09:00
Learning how to achieve a 7day Turnaround time (TAT) in histopathology

Lesley Wright, NHS Improvement

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Dr Guy Orchard

09:00 ‑ 09:20
Examiner forum on Higher Specialist Diploma (Q&A session) – Attendees to submit their questions prior to session

Mr Dave Muskett, Dr Guy Orchard, Dr Tony Rhodes

09:20 ‑ 10:00
HPV and head and neck cancer

Dr Selvam Thavaraj, Guy's and St Thomas'

10.30 - 12.00

Prognostic Markers Chairman: Dr Guy Orchard

10:30 ‑ 11:00
New prognostic and predictive markers in breast cancer

Dr Tony Rhodes, University of the West of England

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Colon cancer markers

Prof Marco Novelli, University College London

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Bowl cancer screening programme (outcome & implications for patient management)

Dr Paul Simcock, Mid-Cheshire NHS Foundation Trust

14.00 - 15.30

Session 3 Chairman: Dr Guy Orchard

14:00 ‑ 15:30
Short papers

Short paper judges: Mr Alex Javed, Mrs Sally Barrett

Poster judges: Mr David Muskett, Dr Tony Sims

16.00 - 17.00

Diplomas of Expert Practice Chairman: Dr Tony Rhodes
Sponsored by: Thermo Scientific

16:00 ‑ 16:30
Immunocytochemistry Diploma of Expert Practice

Dr. Tony Rhodes, University of the West of England

16:30 ‑ 17:00
The Specimen Dissection Exam - Pitfalls, Portfolios and Passes

Mrs Vanda McTaggart, Crosshouse Hospital Kilmarnock

Cytopathology

09.00 - 10.00

HPV Chairman: Mr Allan Wilson

09:00 ‑ 09:30
HPV – what is it?

Mr Nick Dudding, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

09:30 ‑ 10:00
HPV – how can it be tested?

Dr Kate Cuschieri, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Mrs Sue Vryenhoef
Sponsored by: Hologic Ltd

10:30 ‑ 11:00
HPV testing – how to include it in the cytology repertoire

Dr Karin Denton, North Bristol NHS Trust

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Do we need cytology?

Prof Peter Sasieni, Wolfson Institute of Preventative Medicine

11:30 ‑ 12:00
What is the future of cytology?

Ms Margaret Morgan, The Doctors' Laboratory Ltd

14.00 - 15.30

Session 3 Chairman: Mrs Roseanna Bignell

14:00 ‑ 14:30
Why do we miss things?

Mr Allan Wilson, Monklands Hospital

14:30 ‑ 15:00
Borderline nuclear change? High grade

Mr Nick Dudding, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

15:00 ‑ 15:30
Case studies

Mrs Vivienne Beavers, Mrs Jackie Jamison and Mr Allan Wilson

16.00 - 17.00

Session 4 Chairman: Mrs Vivienne Beavers

16:00 ‑ 16:30
Case studies

Ms Margaret Morgan, Mr Behdad Shambayati

16:30 ‑ 17:00
The report on national audit of invasives

Mrs Sue Vyrenhoef, Royal Derby Hospital

Education, Training & Management

08.15 - 09.00

Breakfast session

08:15 ‑ 09:00
Specialist Portfolio: Guidance for Training

Alan Wainwright, IBMS Executive Head of Education

09.00 - 10.00

Leadership and NHS Initiatives Chairman: Mr Derek Bishop

09:00 ‑ 09:30
Role of leadership in driving the business of pathology

Mr Gary Nicholson, James Paget Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

09:30 ‑ 10:00
Early consolidation implementations: sharing lessons learned

Dr Ian Fry, Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

10.30 - 12.00

Demand Management Chairman: Mr Derek Bishop

10:30 ‑ 11:00
A practical guide to targeting demand management strategies effectively

Mr David Holland, Keele University

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Partnership approaches: the interplay between NHS and private provisions

Mr Simon Brewer, Trinity HCS Consulting Ltd

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Inappropriate testing: can we change behaviour?

Prof Tony Fryer, University Hospital of North Staffordshire NHS Trust

14.00 - 15.30

Organisational Change: Session 1 Chairman: Mr Robert Simpson

14:00 ‑ 14:30
The management of gossip

Dr Kathryn Waddington, City University

14:30 ‑ 15:00
Managing financial and organisational change in difficult times

Dr David Clark, United Lincolnshire Hospitals NHS Trusts

15:00 ‑ 15:30
Women in science: knowing her place

Dr Val Bevan, HPA, Colindale

16.00 - 17.00

Organisational Change: Session 2 Chairman: Dr. David Ricketts

16:00 ‑ 16:30
Understanding your future staffing levels: assessing the impact of organisational change on your workforce

Mr Chris Hunton, The Mid Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust

16:30 ‑ 17:00
Experiences of consolidation: a journey too far?

Dr. Martin Myers, Lancashire Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Haematology

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Mr Alun Roderick

09:00 ‑ 10:00
Morphology quiz

Ms Michelle Brereton

Central Manchester Foundation Trust

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2

10:30 ‑ 12:00
Short papers

Short paper judges:

Dr Gary Moore, Dr Sukhjinder Marwah, Mr Alun Roderick

14.00 - 15.30

Session 3 Chairman: Ms Lynn Hill
Sponsored by: Sebia (UK) Ltd

14:00 ‑ 14:30
Added value of rapid sticky platelet screening in thrombophilia

TBC

14:30 ‑ 15:00
Advances in haemoglobinopathy diagnostics

Dr. John Old National Haemoglobinopathy Reference Laboratory, John Radcliffe Hospital

15:00 ‑ 15:30
Case studies

Dr John Burthem

Ms Michelle Brereton

Central Manchester & Manchester Children’s Hospital

16.00 - 17.00

Session 4 Chairman: Mr Nigel Humble

16:00 ‑ 16:30
Demand management (POCT)

Mrs Annette Thomas, Cardiff & Vale UHB

16:30 ‑ 17:00
Demand management (inappropriate testing in general from clinicians)

Mr Neil Porter, Royal Hallamshire Hospital

Immunology

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Mr Richard Cartwright

09:00 ‑ 09:30
Gut immunology

Professor Carrock Sewell Scunthorpe General Hospital

09:30 ‑ 10:00
NICE guidelines on Crohn's and coeliac disease

Dr Mohammed Abuzakouk, Hull Royal Infirmary

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Mr David Wilson

10:30 ‑ 11:15
Incompatible solid organ transplants

David Briggs

11:15 ‑ 12:00
Blood Group Incompatibible Renal Transplantation

Dr. Simon Ball, University Hospitals Birmingham

14.00 - 15.30

Autoimmune Chairman: Mr Sean Conlan

14:00 ‑ 14:45
Autoimmune case studies medical and laboratory perspectives

Ms Jennifer Harvey, Royal Free NHS Trust, London

14:45 ‑ 15:30
Autoimmune case studies – medical & laboratory perspective

Dr Syranjith Seneviratne, St. Mary's Hospital, London

16.00 - 17.00

Session 4 Chairman: Miss Jenny List

16:00 ‑ 16:30
HLA class 1 molecules on the surface of human trophoblast cells: a model to understand the physical interactions of HLA G with other molecules in facilitating fetomaternal development

Prof Nelson Fernandez, University of Essex

16:30 ‑ 17:00
The use of biological agents, how can we improve them?

Dr Sofia Grigoriadou, Barts and The London NHS Trust

Medical Microbiology

08.15 - 09.00

Breakfast session (Jointly with Virology) Chairman: Tony Oliver

08:15 ‑ 09:00
Realtime PCR Trouble Shooting

Dr. Duncan Clark and Mr Tony Oliver, Barts and the London NHS Trust

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Colin Walker

09:00 ‑ 10:00
Short Papers

Dr Ron Cutler, Dr Michael Ford

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Azra Khan

10:30 ‑ 12:00
Short papers

Short paper judges: Dr Ron Cutler, Dr Michael Ford

Poster judges: Dr Lynne Lawrance, Timothy Forster

14.00 - 15.30

Modern Approaches Chairman: Dr Michael Ford
Sponsored by: bioMérieux UK Ltd

14:00 ‑ 14:30
Clostridium difficile testing

Dr. Simon Goldenberg, Guys and St. Thomas' NHS Trust

14:30 ‑ 15:00
What a difference a day makes – clinical use of mass spectrometry

Mr Steve Davies, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals

15:00 ‑ 15:30
MALDI-TOF future direction

Markus Kostrzewa, Bruker Daltinik GmbH

16.00 - 17.00

Session 4 Chairman: Mr Tim Forster

16:00 ‑ 16:30
A history of cholera: a germ that changed cities

Dr David Petts, Institute of Biomedical Science History Committee

16:30 ‑ 17:00
The paralysing consequences of a killer trade

Dr Maria Asensio, Rotherham General Hospital

Transfusion Science

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1 Chairman: Mr Allan Morrison

09:00 ‑ 09:30
The old and the new (HDN)

Mr Malcolm Needs, NBS – Tooting

09:30 ‑ 10:00
The management of haemolytic disease – old and new

Professor Pranav Pandya, University College London Hospital

10.30 - 12.00

Session 2 Chairman: Mr Malcolm Needs
Sponsored by: DiaMed (GB) Ltd

10:30 ‑ 11:30
Keynote lecture: Relationship of Blood Groups to Disease – Do they play a biological role?

Prof George Garratty, American Red Cross Blood Services

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Quiz: Transfusion - How much do you know about this life saver?

Mr Christopher Elliott, The James Cook University Hospital and Ms Carol Cantwell, St. Mary's Hospital

14.00 - 15.30

Session 3 Chairman: Mr Bill Chaffe
Sponsored by: Fenwal

14:00 ‑ 14:30
Component production (old and new)

Mr John Bushrod, IBMS History Committee

14:30 ‑ 15:00
Component production (old and new)

Rebecca Cardigan, NHSBT

15:00 ‑ 15:30
Plasma Fractionation: Past, Present and Future

Dr. John More, Bio Products Laboratory

16.00 - 17.00

Session 4 Chairman: Mr Chris Elliott

16:00 ‑ 16:30
Reagent development

Michelle Weston, NBS Reagents

16:30 ‑ 17:00
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue: A brief history and outlook on current and future options in the correction of congenital and acquired defects of coagulation

Dr. Martin Besser, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Virology

08.15 - 09.00

Breakfast session (Jointly with Medical Microbiology) Chairman: Tony Oliver

08:15 ‑ 09:00
Realtime PCR Trouble Shooting

Dr. Duncan Clark and Mr Tony Oliver, Barts and the London NHS Trust

09.00 - 10.00

Session 1

09:00 ‑ 10:00
Short papers

Short papers & poster judges: Mr Ian Collacott & Dr Sarah Pitt

10.30 - 12.00

Global Emerging Threats Chairman: Dr Sally Cutler
Sponsored by: bioMérieux UK Ltd

10:30 ‑ 11:00
Chikungunya – Yet another exotic dish?

Martin Keys, formerly of the Special Pathogens Reference Unit

11:00 ‑ 11:30
Impact of climate change on vector-borne disease in the UK

Mr Jolyon Medlock, HPA Porton Down

11:30 ‑ 12:00
Congo Crimean haemorrhagic fever

John Chamberlain

14.00 - 15.30

Clinical Cases Chairman: Ms Laura Ryall

14:00 ‑ 14:30
A case of human rabies caused by EBL in the UK

Prof Dilip Nathwani, Ninewells Hospital

14:30 ‑ 15:00
An Oseltamivir Resistant Influenza A (H1N1) 2009 Outbreak - Meetings, Media and Mayhem

Catherine Moore, Public Health Wales – Microbiology Cardiff

15:00 ‑ 15:30
Quiz

Ms Laura Ryall Health Protection Agency, Cambridge and Dr. Sarah Pitt, University of Brighton

16.00 - 17.00

Session 4 Chairman: Mr Ian Collacott

16:00 ‑ 17:00
The 1962 Smallpox Outbreak in South Wales: cock-ups and consequences

Dr Diana Westmoreland, formally of the National Public Health Service, Wales