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Chair: Professor Sally Culter
9.00 Water quality and public health
- tracking human viruses in the aquatic environment Dr Kata Farkas, Bangor University, Wales 9.30 Update to enterovirus infections Dr Heli Harvala, NHS Blood and Transplant, Colindale
Transplantation
10.30 Transfusion and Transplantation
– Update on testing strategies
Vicki Maddox, NHS Blood & Transplant
11.00
Microbiological safety of organs for transplantation
– assessing the risk– benefit balance,
Dr Ines Ishiro-Lumb, NHS Blood & Transplant
11.30
Transplantation – virology clinical case studies
Dr Stephen Pettit, Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

Viral Infections Chair Jayne Harwood 14.00 Viral infections in risk groups
– infections in pregnancy
Dr Sheila Waugh, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Viral infections in risk groups
– infections in childhood
Emma Davies, UK Health Security Agency
15.00 Viral infections in risk groups – infections in prisons Jayne Harwood,
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
16.00 Hepatitis
C - elimination of a treatable pandemic. Where are we now? Dr Brendan Healy, Public Health Wales
16.30 Rabies
Prof Anthony Fooks, Animal and Plant Health Agency

13.00 Leadership at all levels
13.30 Certificate of Achievement
– why take it and how it could help you
Lee Ford-Huggins, South Tees Hospitals, NHS Foundation Trust
14.00 Flying the flag for degree apprenticeships - why everyone benefits
Sheri Scott and Claudia Pearse, Nottingham Trent University
14.30 Supporting support staff to undertake CPD
Kirstie Rice, The Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust and Tracey Bennett, The Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust
15.00 Support staff in quality management
Elisabeth North, UKHSA and Bristol Infection Sciences Laboratory, North Bristol NHS Trust
16.00 Don’t overlook me! Recognising the skills and potential of support staff
Dr David Ricketts, Health Services Laboratories LLP
16.30 Making the most of your appraisal
Sue Alexander, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Dr Guy Orchard
14.00
Immunohistochemistry (IHC) in breast pathology
Keeley Thwaites, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust
14.30 Lymphoma pathology:
The impact of immunohistochemistry, past and present
Dr José Cabeçadas’s, Oncology Institute of Lisbon, Portugal
16.00 Head and neck pathology: A new module from UK
NEQAS for ICC & ISH
Suzanne Parry,
UK NEQAS ICC & ISH
16.30 Clinical aspects of head and neck pathology
Dr Ann Sandison, Guy’s and St.Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Ashley Ballard
9.00 Consultant scientist reporting
– 2 years on
Patrick Kumah, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust
9.30 Genomic testing in histopathology: An ethical perspective Dr Mahomed Dada,
University Hospitals of Derby & Burton NHS Foundation Trust
10.30
Instrumentation – friend or foe?
Rob Hughes, UK NEQAS Cellular Pathology Technique
11.00 Digital pathology – pilot to practice
William Davies, Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
11.30 Digital pathology – to infinity and beyond
Dr David Brettle, Leeds Cancer Centre, St. James’s University Hospital

Chair: Graham Wilson
14.00 Future of Clinical Biochemistry
– health informatics and bioinformatics Prof. Dimitris Grammatopoulos, Warwick Medical School and University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust
14.30 A case of pseudohyperkalaemia and pseudo- hypercalcaemia in a patient with acute myeloid leukaemia with thrombocytosis Andrew Connor, PathLinks, North
East Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
14.50 A case of myeloma diagnosed from a random urine protein
Charlotte Atkin, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
15.10 A biochemistry Biomedical Scientist
– roles and career development beyond the laboratory Sheri Scott, Nottingham Trent University
16.00 Liver Pandemic
- Can the Laboratory save us?
Dr Andrew Fraser, Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow
16.30 Biochemical screening for phaeochromocytoma and paraganglioma (PPGL)
Dr Craig Livie, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde

Chair: Martin McFadden
9.00 Tumour markers for today and tomorrow
Prof. Joe Duffy, St Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin
9.30 Essential contribution of laboratory diagnostics in COVID-19
Prof. Giuseppe Lippi, University of Verona, Italy
10.30 Biomarkers in the diagnosis of sepsis
Andrew Teggert, South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
11.00 Urgent Biochemistry – impact of the 1 hour TAT
in the ED, does it benefit patients? Prof. Richard Body, University of Manchester
11.30 COVID-19: Cross skilling of healthcare workers Becky Kay, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust 12.45 Clinical Scientist Experiential Route and Process and
Q&A with the Clinical Chemistry Higher Specialist Diploma (HSD) Examiners
Jamie West, North West Anglia NHS Foundation Trust; Sheri Scott, Nottingham Trent University; Jennie Kettlewell, York Teaching Hospital
NHS Foundation Trust and Dr Nigel Brown, Wansbeck General Hospital

Diagnostic cytopathology
Chair: Alison Malkin
14.00 Molecular diagnostics in lung cytology
Dr Anca Oniscu, NHS Lothian
14.30 Molecular diagnostics in Thyroid
Dr Anca Oniscu, NHS Lothian
15.00 IBMS Specialist Portfolio in Diagnostic Pathology Tracey Stevenson, Royal Devon & Exeter NHS Foundation Trust
16.00 Liquid Based Cytology - Rapid molecular testing using the Biocartis Idylla Platform Leonie Wheeldon, Royal Cornwall Hospital NHS Trust
16.30 DEP & ASD in diagnostic cytology exam preparation Dr Behdad
Shambayati, Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services

Diagnostic cytopathology
Chair: Gary Collins
9.00 Bile duct brushings
– LBC versus clinician- prepared slides Hedley Glencross,
formerly of Portsmouth Hospitals University NHS Trust
9.30 ROSE - The role of biomedical scientist in On Site Assessment of sample adequacy
Dr Anita Jayadev, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 Experimenting with Digital Cytology: One lab’s experience Dr Cynthia Van der Horst, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, Queen Elizabeth Univeristy Hospital
11.00 Diagnostic Cytology UKNEQAS interpretive EQA scheme
John Crossley, UK NEQAS
11.30 Diagnostic Cytology UKNEQAS technical EQA scheme Chantell Hodgson,
UK NEQAS Cellular Pathology Technique
12.45 Diagnostic cytology workshop: Interactive case studies
Dr Behdad Shambayati, Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services; Tracey Stevenson, Royal
Devon & Exeter NHS
Foundation Trust

Chair: Dr Sukhjinder Marwah
Red cells 14.00
Haemoglobinopathy conundrums - small details, big difference! Daniel Monteiro, Viapath – An NHS partnership with SYNLAB
14.30 Standardised testing for Paroxysmal Haemoglobinuria Daniel Payne, Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service, The Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
15.00 Gene therapy and bone marrow transplant treatment in beta halassaemia patients
Prof. Josu De La Fuente, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust
Haemostatasis
16.00 Impact of COVID-19 on the haemostasis lab testing
Minal Dave, Barts Health NHS Trust
16.30 Rebalancing the scales
Dr David Gurney, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust