| 0900 - 0945 Plenary Lecture |
| Dade Behring Lecture |
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| The standardisation of Thyroid function tests |
| Professor Linda Thienpont, Gent, Belgium |
| 0945 - 1015 Break |
| 1015 - 1215 Parallel Sessions |
| Thyroid and Adrenal Issues |
| Subclinical hypothyroidism - diagnosis and treatment |
| Professor Jayne Franklyn, Birmingham |
| Thyroid function tests - emerging lessons from UK NEQAS |
| Mr Findlay MacKenzie, Birmingham |
| Adrenal insufficiency |
| Professor Wiebke Arlt, Birmingham |
| Familial phaeochromocytoma |
| Professor Eamon Maher, Birmingham |
| Laboratory Medicine and EQA Design |
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| EQA - a critical clinical activity |
| Dr David Bullock, Birmingham |
| Traceability - issues for analytical quality |
| Dr Jonathan Middle, Birmingham |
| EQAS results - any use in problem solving |
| Mr John Kane, Salford |
| Decision limits, assay bias and UK NEQAS |
| Dr Julian Barth, Leeds |
| Research Misconduct |
| Misconduct in medical research |
| Dr Peter Wilmshurst, Shrewsbury |
| Principles of research ethics |
| Professor Ian Young, Belfast |
| Statistics without data, and other things that go bump in the night |
| Dr Aubrey Blumsohn, Sheffield |
| The inside view on getting research published |
| Dr Trish Groves, BMJ, London |
| 1215 - 1345 Lunch and Exhibition |
| 1245 - 1330 Workshops |
| Industry Sponsored Workshops |
| 1245 - 1330 Attend Poster Session |
| 1345 - 1545 Parallel Sessions |
| Laboratory Aspects of Diabetes |
| Standardisation of insulin measurement |
| Dr Penny Clark, Birmingham |
| Laboratory aspects of proteinuria in diabetes |
| Dr Peter Gosling, Birmingham |
| Self monitoring of blood glucose |
| Dr Maurice O'Kane, Londonderry |
| Diabetes in ethnic minorities |
| Ms Janet Smith, Birmingham |
| SAS Symposium |
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| Why bother with specialist investigation? Its impact and future |
| Professor Vincent Marks, Haslemere |
| The impact of specialist diagnostics on cardiovascular disease |
| Professor Gordon Ferns, Guildford |
| The impact of specialist diagnostics on metabolic bone disease |
| Professor Bill Fraser, Liverpool |
| Interfacing with current and future specialist diagnostic needs as seen from the diagnostics industry |
| Dr Stuart Blincko, Abbott Diagnostics, Maidenhead |
| Current & future specialist diagnostics, an industry perspective |
| Dr Peter Bialk, Roche Diagnostics, Rotkreuz, Switzerland |
| Siemens Award |
| Oral Communication |
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| 1545 - 1615 - Break |
| Professors' Prize Lecture |
| Awarded by the UK Heads of Academic Departments of Clinical Biochemistry to an individual who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to the field. |
