Congress posters for judges
Posters timetable
Tuesday
Genomics and Molecular Pathology
Haematology
Transfusion Science
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
Wednesday
Virology
Medical Microbiology
Cellular Pathology
Cytopathology
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
Thursday
Quality Management
Point of Care Testing
Clinical Chemistry
Immunology
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
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Tuesday posters
Genomics and Molecular Pathology
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aakifa Abdullah | Manchester Metropolitan University | Investigating the effect of ApoE gene variation on diabetes risk | 1 |
| Niamh Tracey | Ulster University | Folic acid supplementation during preganancy effects neurocognition at 11 years | 2 |
| Chloe McCully | Ulster University | Investigation of microRNA-30a and selected target genes in prostate cancer | 3 |
Haematology
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Samantha Connelly | Synnovis | A cross sectional study to identify the potential for maternal indices as a predictor for red cell values in neonates | 4 |
| Jason Eyre | Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | A comparative study of the impact of Haemoglobin variants on HbA1c measurement. ARKRAY HA-8190V & Sebia Capillarys 3 | 5 |
| Barbara Joan De La Salle | West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Reticulocyte Haemoglobin Content: UK NEQAS External Quality Assessment | 6 |
| Sabina McCann | Health Service Laboratories (HSL) | Acquired Glanzmann's Disease with IgG and IgA against activated αIIbβ3 | 7 |
| Ciara Gore | Could the use of Immature Platelet Fraction monitoring during a case of life-threatening ITP predict haemorrhagic risk | 8 | |
| Mark Ferguson | Diagnostic challenge of d-dimer negative upper extremity DVT | 9 | |
| Bashori Rahman | West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust | Learning from EQA: Hb Knossos | 10 |
| Surani Samarasinha | Keele University | SYSMEX complete blood count optical verification for cold agglutinin detection | 11 |
| Tze-Kiong Er | Analytical performance of the VIDAS® D-Dimer Exclusion™ II assay and Beckman Coulter D-dimer assay | 12 | |
| Caitlin Davis | NHS Highland/London Metropolitan University | Evaluation of full blood count stability in rural Scotland | 13 |
Transfusion Science
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Laura Eastwood | NHS Blood and Transplant, Barnsley | Collaborative Management of a Pre-Stem Cell Transplant Patient Requiring Rare Blood | 14 |
| Leigh Gregg | SYNLAB - Pathology First | Use of DTT treatment in antibody screening methods | 15 |
| Victoria Tuckley | Serious Hazards of Transfusion, NHS Blood and Transplant | Is that your final answer? SHOT laboratory testing errors 2018-2022 | 16 |
| Victoria Tuckley | Serious Hazards of Transfusion, NHS Blood and Transplant | What have I missed? A SHOT cognitive bias case study | 17 |
| Hannah Caldwell | Belfast Health And Social Care Trust | Appropriate blood provision for Sickle Cell Disease patients in Northern Ireland | 18 |
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dr Valerie Hinch | Ulster University | Successful employer participation as part of a university curriculum | 19 |
| Joanne Martin | QR Codes in the Workplace for Instant Access to Learning | 20 | |
| Bibiana Onyeachom | South West London Pathology | Paper based training - End of an Era? | 21 |
| Rachel Turnbull | University of Sunderland | Use of Simulation In Alternative Delivery of Clinical Placement Training | 22 |
| Shpresa Haliti | London South Bank University | 'Bridging the Gap' between academic learning and practical skills - Developing a professional competencies module for 2nd-year undergraduate Biomedical Science students | 23 |
| Victoria Heath | Great Ormond Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust | Why did the scientist cross the road? A case study on using science comedy to improve communication skills in the healthcare science workforce | 24 |
| Ansel Godinho | Great Ormond Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust | Mind the gap: providing transferrable skills training for NHS pathology apprentices | 25 |
| Mehwish Khalid | NHS England | Innovative ways of upskilling staff: A Pathology Practice Educators' initiative | 26 |
| Clare Morrow | East Suffolk North Essex NHS Foundation Trust | Local Training Success During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond | 27 |
| Adele O'Neill | Examining workflow impact in a Biochemistry Laboratory during instrument replacement | 28 | |
| Jim Taylor | Head of Digital Education, IBMS | GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 1) | 29 |
| Jim Taylor | Head of Digital Education, IBMS | GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 2) | 30 |
Wednesday posters
Virology
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kayleigh Edmunds | UK Health Security Agency | Investigation into the clinical utility of HBsAg quantitation | 1 |
| Elizabeth Kalimeris | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Performance of the twist biosciences versus the biofire respiratory panel | 2 |
| Lubnaa Abdul-Razzaq | Manchester NHS Foundation Trust/ Manchester Metropolitan University | Verification of the DiaSorin Liaison XL | 3 |
| Nikolaos Kouvas | Barts Health NHS Trust | Clinical implementation of real-time PCRs for the detection of Mpox | 4 |
| Jay Moorcroft | Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust, Liverpool Clinical Laboratories | Automated Molecular: The Next Steps for Liverpool Clinical Laboratories Virology | 5 |
| Sanjiv Rughooputh | UK NEQAS, Microbiology | UK NEQAS respiratory viruses point of care EQA | 6 |
| Robert Usher | EUCAST revised breakpoints: The Implications To Treating Pseudomonas Infections | 7 |
Medical Microbiology
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emmanuel O Babafemi | Liverpool John Moores University | Public sensitisation and Incidence of Toxoplasmosis in pregnancy in Dar-es-Salaam | 8 |
| Jaqueline Croft | Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust | Department Journey to Improved Sepsis Daignosis, Liverpool Clinical Laboratories Microbiology | 9 |
| Jessica Gentry | Microbiology Department, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Genomic confirmation of an outbreak of NRCS-A Staphylococcus capitis | 10 |
| Benita Arakal | Cardiff Metropolitan University | Profilng antimicrobial peptides in myxobacteria from in-silico and in-vitro perspectives | 11 |
| Sacha Bhuchar | Cardiff Metropolitan University | A comparison of methods for the disinfection of ultrasound probes | 12 |
| Michael Collins | Possible physiological adaptation of respiratory pathogens: A novel approach to diagnosis | 13 | |
| Jack Dobson | Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust | Comparison of Biomérieux Reveal against Phoenix for antimicrobial susceptibility testing | 14 |
| Michael McCarthy | Cardiff Metropolitan University | Anticandidal Properties of Myxobacteria Isolated from Soil | 15 |
| Krishna Chavda | Leicester Royal Infirmary | How do macrophages deal with multiple infection challenges by the lethal fungus Cryptococcus neoformans? | 16 |
| Deugi Dipika | Evaluation and clinical suitability of enteric viral RT- PCR assay in diagnosis of infectious gastroenteritis in comparison to lateral flow test | 17 | |
| Bronte Drummond | Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Comparison of BD-COR and BD-Viper molecular instruments in STI diagnostics | 18 |
| Joy Oloya | Pathology First Synlab | Arthrographis kalrae onychomycosis: Isolation, Implications for diagnosis and treatment | 19 |
| Aishwarya Arungirinathan | UK NEQAS | Development of a Bespoke External Quality Assessment Scheme for Heart Valves | 20 |
| Rasiyan Salih | University Of Greenwich | Novel application of PRAME/MelanA IHC double-labelling within Lentigo Maligna (LM) | 21 |
Cellular Pathology
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ana Catarina Marques Andrade | University Of Greenwich | A retrospective study investigating how common serrated adenocarcinomas are using morphological and immunohistochemical data | 22 |
| Joanne Martin | Phox2b staining in the evaluation of enteric neuropathies | 23 | |
| Aoife McArdle | Queen's University, Belfast | 7-plex immunofluorescence and one object classifier to rule them all? | 24 |
| Zainab Ramji | St John's Institute of Dermatology, Synnovis | A novel approach to rapid on site slow Mohs processing | 25 |
| Ana Raquel Lobo da Rocha | York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Can immunohistochemistry detect KRAS G12D mutations in colorectal carcinoma | 26 |
| Gillian Stewart | Northern Health & Social Care Trust | Digital pathology: streamlining breast pathology reporting in symptomatic cores | 27 |
| Natalie Wilson | University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust | Analysis of normal range glomerular basement membrane thickness and variability with glomerular disease | 28 |
| Rita Carreira | CRUK- Cambridge Institute - University Of Cambridge | Comparison of hybridisation chain reaction and RNAscope® for mRNA detection | 29 |
| David Allen | Sonic Healthcare/Health Service Laboratories | Stability testing in immunohistochemistry | 30 |
| Imogen-May Hammond | Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust | The reclassification of colorectal hyperplastic polyps to sessile serrated lesions | 31 |
Cytopathology
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alison Knight | South West Pathology, Synlab | Red blood cell removal from heavily bloodstained diagnostic cytology serous fluid samples using Sigma Red Blood Cell Lysing Buffer | 32 |
| Molly McDowell-Sweet | Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust | CytoFoam use for Ancillary Testing in Cytology | 33 |
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Taylor | Head of Digital Education, IBMS | GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 1) | 34 |
| Jim Taylor | Head of Digital Education, IBMS | GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 2) | 35 |
Thursday posters
Quality Management
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Margaret Babatunde | UK NEQAS for Microbiology | UK NEQAS Novel EQA in development – Group B Streptococcus Screening | 1 |
| Felicity Newman-Webb | University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust | Identifying an efficient Quality Management System: Comparisons of Lighthouse Laboratories | 2 |
| Thomas Phillips | University of The West of England | What the Laboratory Medicine Community Thinks of ISO 15189:2012 Accreditation | 3 |
| Dipali Pindoria | UK Health Security Agency | Use of Concentration Systems for Parasite Recovery in UK NEQAS Parasitology | 4 |
| Victoria Heath | Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust | Breaking the Lab Barrier: A case study on biomedical scientists utilising pathology knowledge, skills and behaviour in strategic leadership roles | 5 |
Point of Care Testing
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lilia Brown | UK NEQAS For Blood Coagulation | EQA for activated clotting time:UK NEQAS study on gem hemochron100 | 6 |
| Lilia Brown | UK NEQAS For Blood Coagulation | EQA for activated clotting time:UK NEQAS study on istat | 7 |
| Fiona Riddoch | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | D-dimer; understanding pitfalls in comparing POCT and laboratory methods | 8 |
| Sophie Shepherd | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Internal Quality Assessment in the absence of an EQA scheme | 9 |
| Elifcan Topsogut | Berkshire and Pathology Services, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Blot the difference: comparing automated vs manually read urinalysis results | 10 |
| Shazeena Hussain | Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust | Developing Microbiology Point of Care Testing during the Covid-19 Pandemic | 11 |
| Naomi Mason | University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust | Introducing a rapid molecular POC Group A Streptococcus test | 12 |
| Rebecca Sharkey | Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust | Point of Care Abbott iSTAT Hydroxycarbamide interference in Creatinine results | 13 |
| Carolyn Piggott | NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Southern Hub | Analytical sensitivity of 11 qualitative faecal immunochemical tests for haemoglobin | 14 |
Clinical Chemistry
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carolyn Piggott | NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Southern Hub | Method comparison and commutability study among four FIT systems | 15 |
| Sarah Sprawling | Northumbria NHS Trust | Interfrence from butanediols in a commercial ethylene glycol assay | 16 |
| Godwin Tetteh | Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services | An lcms c-peptide method for dry blood spot samples | 17 |
| Panna Mistry | Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust | Association of Inflammatory markers with COVID-19 Outcomes and Severity: A Retrospective Cohort Study | 18 |
| John Shepherd | SHYPS - York And Scarborough NHS FT | Using FAI for Biochemical Evidence of Hyperandrogenaemia in Females : Mass spectrometry vs Immunoassay derived results | 19 |
| Sukhjinder Marwah | Haematology Department, Sandwell General Hospital, Birmingham | Lactate dehydrogenase based-ratio predicts multiorgan response following COVID-19 infection | 20 |
| Rachel Marrington | Does your EQA falsely reassure you? | 21 | |
| Hannah Wauchope | Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust | Optimisation of a microsampling device for collection of HbA1c samples | 22 |
| Gareth Davies | WEQAS, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board | WEQAS Problem Solving Algorithm – Troubleshooting Performance Issues; A Case Study | 23 |
| Philip Logue | Northern Trust Health and Social Care | A Laboratory suspicion of a hidden cryoglobulin directly impacting on patient care | 24 |
| Shane O'Driscoll | NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Southern Hub | Comparison of Eiken OC-FCa and BHULMANN fCAL-Turbo faecal calprotectin methods | 25 |
Immunology
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Taylor | Head of Digital Education, IBMS | GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 1) | 37 |
| Jim Taylor | Head of Digital Education, IBMS | GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 2) | 38 |