LabCon 2021 – Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th November 2021
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LabCon 2021 – Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th November 2021
Tuesday 9th November
Cellular Pathology
Chair: Ciarán Love, Chief Medical Scientist, Tallaght University Hospital
10:00 – 10:30 Case Study: Incidental finding of high-grade anaplastic meningioma in a GP lipoma excision.
Fiona Minogue, Medical Scientist, Connolly Hospital.
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
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: Medical Scientist and PhD Student at the Lancaster Medical School.
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
Transfusion Science
Chair: Fergus Guilfoyle, Chief Medical Scientist, Coombe Women and Infants University Hospital
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
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 BowensSurveillance Scientists, Connolly Hospital
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