Opening Lecture

Wednesday October 10th | 18:30 – 19:30

Michael Oellerich

Michael Oellerich

Laboratory medicine – challenges and opportunities

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Diagnostic approach to hemostasis disorders

Thursday October 11th | 09:00 – 10:30

Sophie Testa

Sophie Testa

Coagulation testing and new oral anticoagulants

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Tilman Hackeng

Tilman Hackeng

Biomarkers of hemostasis and thrombosis

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Hugo ten Cate

Hugo ten Cate

Diagnostic approach to hemostasis disorders

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Laboratory testing guideline in the intensive care unit

Thursday October 11th | 09:00 – 10:30

Ismail Cinel

The role of laboratory medicine in intensive care unit

Michael Meisner

Michael Meisner

Inflammation versus sepsis: Focus on biomarkers

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Paul M. Tulkens

Paul M. Tulkens

TDM of antibiotics

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Plenary Lecture

Thursday October 11th | 10:45-11:30

Michael Neumaier

Michael Neumaier

Liquid biopsy for cancer screening

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WASPALM Symposium

Thursday October 11th | 13:00 – 14:30

Cinzia Marchese

Cinzia Marchese

Perspectives on women’s health care: Novel approaches for rare diseases, aging and cancer

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Mariano Bizzarri

Mariano Bizzarri

Inositol metabolites as biomarkers of peripheral complications in insulin resistant and diabetes patients

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

Halide Akbas

Halide Akbas

Urinary biomarkers in kidney transplantation: Application of Mass Spectrometry to measure peptides and proteins

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Edmund J. Lamb

Edmund J. Lamb

The clinical laboratory and kidney disease

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Pediatric laboratory medicine

Thursday October 11th | 14:45-16:15

Juergen Okun

Juergen Okun

Newborn screening for metabolic and lysosomal diseases

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Luis Masana

The role of laboratory in diagnosis and management of familial hypercholesterolemia

The utility of biomarkers in neurological disorders

Thursday October 11th | 14:45-16:15

Sylvain Lehmann

Sylvain Lehmann

The diagnosis and managemet of demantia

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Medical guidelines and clinical decision making

Thursday October 11th | 14:45-16:15

Michel Langlois

Michel Langlois

Medical guidelines may not always be compatible with laboratory practice

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Wytze Oosterhuis

Wytze Oosterhuis

Laboratory and clinical cooperation in enhancing clinical decision making

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Ana Maria Simundic

Ana Maria Simundic

Demand management (test utilization)

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Endocrinologist and laboratorian, a friendship under construction

Thursday October 11th | 16:30 – 17:30

Ilhan Satman

Ilhan Satman

What do the endocrinologists expect from laboratory?

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Howard Morris

Howard Morris

The role of laboratory in metabolic bone disease

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The rise and fall of total error concept in laboratory medicine

Thursday October 11th | 16:30 – 17:30

Anders Kallner

Anders Kallner

Uncertainty or total allowable error: The big debate

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Elvar Theodorsson

Elvar Theodorsson

From measurement to diagnosis: Uncertainty in laboratory medicine

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HbA1c will remain the preferred marker for assessing glycaemic control

Thursday October 11th | 17:30-18:30

Garry John

Garry John

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Eric Kilpatrick

Eric Kilpatrick

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A harmonised approach to generating and applying biological variation data

Friday October 12th | 09:00 – 10:30

Sverre Sandberg

Sverre Sandberg

Biological variation, from theory to practice. The projects of EFLM

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Anna Carobene

Anna Carobene

European Biological Variation Study (EuBIVAS): Sample collections from healthy volunteers from six European Labs for biological variation estimates’ update

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Abdurrahman Coskun

Abdurrahman Coskun

Biological variation of CBC tests: The effect of turnarround time

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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

Eberhard Wieland

Eberhard Wieland

Therapeutic drug monitoring in transplant patients

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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

Thomas Zima

Thomas Zima

Curricula of laboratory medicine in medical schools

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Pınar Tuncel

Pınar Tuncel

Standardization of education of specialists on medical biochemistry in Turkey

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Matthias Orth

Matthias Orth

Education of specialists on laboratory medicine in EU

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Strategic role of laboratory management and leadership in clinical outcome

Friday October 12th | 15:25 – 16:25

Roberto Verna

Roberto Verna

The role of laboratory specialist in clinical diagnostic team

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Fatma Taneli

Fatma Taneli

Laboratory medicine in the new regulatory and healthcare environment: From essentialism to consequentialism

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The role of clinical laboratories in diagnosis and manegement of cancer

Friday October 12th | 15:25 – 16:25

Brent L. Wood

Brent L. Wood

The impact of flow cytometry in clinical laboratory

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Therapy-resistant non-small cell lung carcinoma

Friday October 12th | 15:25 – 16:25

Leon Van Kempen

Leon Van Kempen

The role of molecular tumor boards for clinical management

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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

Ravishankar Sargur

The role of the laboratory in the diagnosis and management of allergic disease

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Kimberly Gilmour

Kimberly Gilmour

The role of the immunology laboratory in the diagnosis and management of primary immune deficiency

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Personalized medicine

Friday October 12th | 16:40-17:40

Mario Pazzagli

The role of laboratory medicine in personalized and precision medicine

Yesim Ozarda

Yesim Ozarda

Personalized reference intervals

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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

Yildiz Uludag

Lab-on-a-chip technology for clinical diagnostics

Dobrin Svinarov

Dobrin Svinarov

Enhancing precision medicine through clinical mass spectrometry platform

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Ahmet Tarik Baykal

MALDI imaging in clinical laboratories

PLENARY LECTURE

Saturday October 13th  |  10:45 – 11:30

George Lundberg

George Lundberg

Patient focused Laboratory Medicine

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Diet, inflammation and atherosclerosis

Saturday October 13th | 11:45- 12:45

Burcu Barutcuoglu

Burcu Barutcuoglu

Vascular inflammation and atherosclerosis

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Matthias Nauck

Matthias Nauck

Metabolomics and cardiovascular disease

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Biomarkers of heart failure and prognosis

Saturday October 13th | 11:45- 12:45

Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

Prognostic markers of heart failure

The utility of high sensitive troponins in early diagnosis or rule out of AMI

Saturday October 13th | 11:45- 12:45

Mehmet Agirbasli

Mehmet Agirbasli

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