LabCon 2021 – Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th November 2021
LabCon 2021 – Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th November 2021 |
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Tuesday 9th November |
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| Cellular Pathology Chair: Ciarán Love, Chief Medical Scientist, Tallaght University Hospital |
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| 10:00 – 10:15 | Case Study: Incidental finding of high-grade anaplastic meningioma in a GP lipoma excision. |
| Fiona Minogue, Medical Scientist, Connolly Hospital. | |
| 10:15 – 10:30 | Case Study: Merkel cell carcinoma with a concurrent squamous cell carcinoma. |
| Danielle Scally, Medical Scientist, UHG. | |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Validation of BxChip™ Technology for Prostate Biopsies @TUH. |
| Shane Hanley, Medical Scientist, St James’s Hospital. | |
| 10:50 – 11:25 | Efficiency v Effectiveness. Work Faster or Work Smarter: A Collaborative Approach to |
| reducing Turn Around Times within a Cellular Pathology Department. | |
| Aoife Madden, Senior Medical Scientist and Dr Kevin O’Hare, Consultant Histopathologist, TUH. | |
| 11:25- 12:00 | TU Dublin – Student Project Presentations |
| Haematology Chair: Mary Byrne, Chief Medical Scientist, St. James’s Hospital |
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| 13:00 – 13:40 | Investigation of TTP and HUS related MAHA in Cork University Hospital. |
| Adam Korneluk, Medical Scientist and Dr Maeve Crowley, Consultant Haematologist, CUH. | |
| 13:40 – 14:00 | Investigation of HIL indices on the ACL TOP550 instrument. |
| Gráinne O’Grady, Medical Scientist, MMUH. | |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Anticoagulation Clinic in a Pandemic. |
| Maura Hyland, CNM2 and Grace Ryan, RGN, Naas General Hospital. | |
| 14:15 – 14:35 | A Panhaemocytometric Approach to COVID-19: a Retrospective Study on the Importance |
| of Monocyte and Neutrophil Population Data. | |
| James Harte, PhD Candidate UCC, Medical Scientist, CUH. | |
| 14:35 – 14:50 | Case Study: PNH. Speaker TBC. |
| Immunology/Clinical Chemistry Chair: Cian Ryan, Medical Scientist and PhD Student at the Lancaster Medical School. |
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| 15:30 – 16:00 | Lipid Transfer Protein Syndrome. Dr Hanaa Awad, UHG. |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Immune Responses to SARS-CoV-2. Evan Brennan, Medical Scientist, SVUH. |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Active Vitamin B12. Mick Amoruso, Senior Medical Scientist, NOH, Cappagh. |
Wednesday 10th November |
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| Transfusion Science Chair: Fergus Guilfoyle, Chief Medical Scientist, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital |
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| 11:00 – 11:20 | Cork University Hospital ‘Pre-Hospital’ Transfusion Project, John Sheehy, Chief Medical Scientist, CUH. |
| 11:20 – 11:40 | A Tale of the Unexpected. Marie Culliton, Laboratory Manager, NMH. |
| 11:40 – 12:00 | The Unexpected Intra-Operative Major Haemorrhage Guideline. |
| Patsy Kelleher, Senior Medical Scientist, TUH. | |
| Microbiology & Virology Chair: Karen Hickey, Surveillance Scientist, Sligo University Hospital |
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| 15:00 – 15:20 | Covering all the Bases: Whole Genome Sequencing and SARS-CoV-2. Dr Jonathan Dean, NVRL, UCD. |
| 15:20 – 15:40 | The Emergence of Hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae in Ireland. Alma Tuohy, Medical Scientist, UHG. |
| 15:40 – 16:00 | Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci. Nicole Kavanagh Dublin Dental University Hospital (DDUH) and TCD |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | EUCAST Issues/Updates. Isabelle O’Callaghan, Specialist Medical Scientist, CUH. |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Case Study: Cluster of OXA-23 Acinetobacter baumanii. Dr Anne Mac Lellan & Gráinne Bowens – Surveillance Scientists, Connolly Hospital. |
| #LabCon2021 Programme updates and Registration: www.acslm.ie – Free Registration | |
| Booking: This event is free and open to all (Open Now), | |
| Full Programme: Click here | |
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Booking: This event is free and open to all (Open Now),
Full Programme: Click here
Members – www.acslm.ie | Members CPD Area | Login | Events | View detail and book your event
Non-Members: Create a non-member ACSLM account in order to register, Click here