Opening Lecture
Wednesday October 10th | 18:30 – 19:30
Diagnostic approach to hemostasis disorders
Thursday October 11th | 09:00 – 10:30
Laboratory testing guideline in the intensive care unit
Thursday October 11th | 09:00 – 10:30
Plenary Lecture
Thursday October 11th | 10:45-11:30
WASPALM Symposium
Thursday October 11th | 13:00 – 14:30
Detecting kidney disease: From proteomics to the clinical laboratory
Thursday October 11th | 13:00 – 14:30
Elisabetta Verderio Edwards
Urinary exosomes as a novel source of biomarkers of kidney disease

Pediatric laboratory medicine
Thursday October 11th | 14:45-16:15
The utility of biomarkers in neurological disorders
Thursday October 11th | 14:45-16:15
Medical guidelines and clinical decision making
Thursday October 11th | 14:45-16:15
Endocrinologist and laboratorian, a friendship under construction
Thursday October 11th | 16:30 – 17:30
The rise and fall of total error concept in laboratory medicine
Thursday October 11th | 16:30 – 17:30
HbA1c will remain the preferred marker for assessing glycaemic control
Thursday October 11th | 17:30-18:30

Garry John
CV | SUMMARY

Eric Kilpatrick
CV | SUMMARY
A harmonised approach to generating and applying biological variation data
Friday October 12th | 09:00 – 10:30

Role of Gut microbiota in metabolism and inflammatory bowel diseases
Friday October 12th | 09:00 – 10:30
Ahmet Uygun
Gut microbiota and its relationship with obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes
Jurgen Stein
Celiac disease antibody testing: New trends in diagnosis, guidelines and new markers
Murat Toruner
Faecal biomarkers in diagnosis and monitoring of inflammatory bowel disease
Plenary Lecture
Friday October 12th | 10:45-11:30
Nurdan Tözün
The Liver: Maestro of metabolism
IATDMCT Symposium
Friday October 12th | 13:00 – 14:30
Katharina Rentsch
The future of LC-MS/MS in forensic laboratory and clinical toxicology

Erik van Maarseveen
Therapeutic drug monitoring for anti-hypertensive drugs
Harmonisation of training and continuing professional development in laboratory medicine
Friday October 12th | 13:00 – 14:30
Strategic role of laboratory management and leadership in clinical outcome
Friday October 12th | 15:25 – 16:25
The role of clinical laboratories in diagnosis and manegement of cancer
Friday October 12th | 15:25 – 16:25
Therapy-resistant non-small cell lung carcinoma
Friday October 12th | 15:25 – 16:25
Autoimmunity, allergic disorders and immunodeficiency
Friday October 12th | 16:40-18:10
Joanna Sheldon
The role of the laboratory in diagnosis and management of autoimmune disease

Ravishankar Sargur
The role of the laboratory in the diagnosis and management of allergic disease
CV | SUMMARY
Personalized medicine
Friday October 12th | 16:40-17:40
Mario Pazzagli
The role of laboratory medicine in personalized and precision medicine

Patient safety and ethical issues in laboratory medicine
Saturday October 13th | 09:00- 10:30
Mustafa Serteser
Improvement of laboratory test value by evidence based strategies
John Harris
Ethical issues in laboratory medicine
Smart technologies in the diagnosis and monitoring of patients
Saturday October 13th | 09:00- 10:30
PLENARY LECTURE
Saturday October 13th | 10:45 – 11:30
Diet, inflammation and atherosclerosis
Saturday October 13th | 11:45- 12:45
Biomarkers of heart failure and prognosis
Saturday October 13th | 11:45- 12:45

Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz
Prognostic markers of heart failure