Tuesday 19 May 2009
| 0800 - 0845 Breakfast Workshops |
| BW1 |
Cardiac troponins - current issues |
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Mrs Avril Wayte, Bangor |
| BW2 |
The practical issues of genetic testing in porphyrias and other disorders |
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Dr Sharon Whatley, Cardiff |
| BW3 |
Thyroid antibodies (aTPO, aTG and TRAb) |
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Dr Carol Evans, Cardiff |
| BW4 |
Investigating patients for porphyria; when and how |
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Dr Mike Badminton, Cardiff |
| BW5 |
Familial hypercholesterolaemia cascade screening |
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Dr Ian McDowell, Cardiff |
| BW6 |
Muscle mitochondrial dysfunction and its relevance to insulin resistance in obesity |
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Dr Graham Kemp, Liverpool |
| BW7 |
Managing lipids in CKD |
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Dr Charles Van Heyningen, Aintree |
| 0900 - 0915 Opening Ceremony |
| 0915 - 1000 Plenary Lecture |
| Roche Award Lecture |
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| Personalised medicine |
| TBC |
| 1000 - 1030 Break |
| 1030 - 1230 Parallel Symposia |
| Cancer and Bone |
| Abnormalities of phosphate metabolism in cancer |
| Dr Geeta Hampson, London |
| The metabolic effects of cancer and its treatment on bone |
| Dr Eugene McCloskey, Sheffield |
| Use of bone biomarkers in the treatment of cancer |
| Prof Robert Coleman, Sheffield |
| Imunology |
| Introduction of complement |
| Prof Paul Morgan, Cardiff |
| Complotypes - patterns in complement component variants that predispose to disease |
| Prof Santiago Rodriguex de Cordoba, Madrid |
| Nephritic factors - functional aspects and relevance to disease |
| Dr Claire Harris, Cardiff |
| Factor H lessons from mice and implication in disease |
| Dr Matthew Pickering, London |
Enhanced Industry Sponsored Workshop from Abbott:
Advancing Patient Management with Novel Diagnostic Markers |
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Innovative new markers can make a difference to patient management and outcoes. This workshop will explore how certain novel markers can impact currently unmet clinical needs.
The session will also review the opportunities and hurdles presented by implementation of novel markers in the UK healthcare system.
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| 1230 - 1400 Lunch and Focus Forum |
| 1300 - 1345 Workshops |
| Industry Sponsored Workshops |
| 1300 - 1345 Attend Poster Session |
| 1400 - 1600 Parallel Symposia |
| Acute Biochemistry |
| Serum biomarkers in the diagnosis and management of severe sepsis and septic shock |
| Dr Ryan Arnold, Camden, NJ, USA |
| The role of the Laboratory in the management of acute poisoning |
| Prof Philip Routledge, Cardiff |
| Point-of-care testing improving outcomes in emergency medicine |
| Prof Christopher Price, Oxford |
| Sport Science and Biochemistry |
| Biochemical moitoring of trining in elite athletes |
| Dr Marco Cardinale, Harrow |
| Drug Monitoring |
| Prof David Cowan, London |
| Olympic preparation - the perils and the pitfalls |
| Dr Richard Budgett, London |
| 1600 - 1630 Break |
| 1630 - 1715 Plenary Lecture |
| Professors' Prize Lecture |
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| Awarded by the UK Heads of Academic Departmnts of Clinical Biochemistry to an individual who has made an outstanding scientific contribution to the field. |
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