45th ACBI annual conferenceEvent Programme
Friday 20th October 2023
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08:30am – 09:00am.
Arrival and Registration -
09:00am – 09:05am.
Opening Remarks
Dr Paula O’Shea, Chairperson, Conference Organising Committee -
09:05am – 09:15amPresident’s Address
Dr Jennifer Brady, ACBI PresidentSESSION 1
Chair: Ms Siobhan Stokes, Principal Clinical Biochemist. -
09:15am – 09:55amTrends in drug monitoring in Ireland: what festival pill testing and syringes can tell us.
Sinead McNamara, National Drug Treatment Centre, Dublin. -
09:55am – 10:35am.Drug Trend Monitoring in a Changing Drug Use Landscape’
Prof Eamon Keenan, HSE National Clinical Lead – Addiction Services, Assistant National Director Primary Care Clinical Professor in Addiction Studies at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, Trinity College -
10:35am – 11:15am.Mass Spectrometry in Forensic Science
Dr John Bradley, Medical Bureau of Road Safety, Dublin. -
11:15am – 11:45am. Tea/Coffee and poster viewing
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11:45am – 12:25pm.An agile and modern approach to post mortem toxicology screening in the State Laboratory
Mairéad Webster, The State Laboratory -
12:25pm – 13:05pm.Drugs and ED Admissions
Dr Adrian Moughty, Emergency Medicine Consultant, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin. -
13:05pm – 13:30pm.Panel Discussion
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13:30pm – 14:30pm.LUNCHSESSION 2
Chair: Michéal Ryan, Senior Clinical Biochemist, University Hospital Limerick -
14:30pm – 15:10pmGestational Diabetes Mellitus; How should we screen and how should we treat?
Professor Fidelma Dunne, Consultant Endocrinologist, Galway University Hospitals Group, School of Medicine, University College Galway -
15:10pm – 15:50pm.B wise with B12 (& Folate) testing!
Dr Graham Lee, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital -
15:50pm – 16:15pm. Tea/Coffee and poster viewing
SESSION 3
Chair: Dr Séan Costelloe, Consultant Clinical Biochemist, Cork University Hospital. -
16:15pm -16:55pm.If internal quality control is inefficient or insufficient; consider patient-based real-time QC.
Dr Huub H van Rossum, Specialist in laboratory Medicine and Clinical Chemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute -
16:55pm – 17:35pm.Disruption versus Evolution in Laboratory Medicine
Prof Janne Cadamuro, Professor for laboratory Medicine at the Department for Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine of the University Hospital Salzburg -
17:35pm – 17:55pm.Oral presentations from abstracts
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17:55pm – 18:00pm.Day 1 Close
Dr Paula O’Shea, Chair Conference organising committee
Saturday 21st October 2023
SESSION 4
Chair: Dr Martin Healy
Chair: Dr Martin Healy
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09:00am – 09:35am.Oral Presentations from abstracts
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09:35am – 10:15am.Vitamin D in an Irish population: status, determinants and testing
Dr Helena Scully, Children’s Health Ireland. -
10:15am – 10:55am.Vitamin D Public Health
Dr Daniel McCartney, Director of Human Nutrition & Dietetics at TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin -
10:55am – 11:20am. Tea/Coffee and poster viewing
SESSION 5
Chair: Dr Jennifer Brady -
11:20am – 12:00pm.Shared Care Pathology
Helen Seddon, Clinical Scientist, Derbyshire Pathology. -
12:00pm – 12:40pm.Diabetes & Technology – What’s in a number?
Dr Tomás Griffin, Consultant Endocrinologist, University Hospital Limerick -
12:40pm – 13:20pm.Drugs and thyroid dysfunction
Dr Carla Moran, Consultant Endocrinologist, Beacon Hospital, Dublin -
13:20pm – 13:30pm.Awards/Meeting
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Close
Dr Paula O’Shea, Conference Chairperson -
13:30pm – 14:30pmLUNCH
