Events during March 2022

IBMS Professional Qualifications Seminar Wednesday 4:30pm - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
16.30 Institute portfolios and qualifications – your questions answered
Sarah May, Chris Ward, Alan Wainwright, Richardia Penn

IBMS Professional Qualifications Seminar Wednesday 4pm - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
16.00 Modules: a new approach to Specialist Portfolio training
Sarah May, Deputy Chief Executive, IBMS

IBMS Professional Qualifications Seminar Wednesday 9am - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
09.00 Preparing to pass the HSD Chris Ward, Head of Examinations, IBMS

Laboratory Management Programme Wednesday (Afternoon) - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
14.00 Pre-empting problems – may the workforce be with you Charley Frampton, Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services
15.00 The exit interview – a meaningful goodbye Joanna Frost,
Path Links North Lincolnshire & Goole NHS Foundation Trust
16.00 The importance of good laboratory design on staff health and wellbeing
Ian Cocking, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
16.30 Motivating a tired and exhausted workforce

Medical Microbiology Programme Wednesday (Afternoon) - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
Chair: Mike Palmer
14.00 Mapping the genomic architecture of COVID-19, a discovery that may aid in the fight against SARS-CoV-2 infection Dr Yasser El-Sherbiny, Nottingham Trent University
14.30 EUCAST update 2022
Pegah Hafezi, North Bristol NHS Trust
15.00 Antibiotic resistance spillover into wildlife - using birds of prey as signal species
Professor Mark Fielder, Kingston University
16.00 Whats new in mycology?
Prof. Elizabeth Johnson, UK Health Security Agency
16.30 Invasive Magnusiomyces capitatus infection in a patient with neutropenic sepsis Michael Collins, University Hospitals of Derby and Burton
NHS Foundation Trust

Transfusion Science Programme Wednesday (Afternoon) - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
Chair: Catherine Lorenzen
14.00 Column agglutination technology Kerry Dowling,
University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust
14.30 Technology – solid phase Samantha Reynolds, University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust
15.00 Microarray technology
Dr Janine Robb, Quotient, Edinburgh
16.00 Regular transfusion –- the patient experience Dipika Shah, UKNEQAS Haematology and Blood Transfusion
16.30 The Cambridge Cellular Therapy Laboratory
Sarah Albon, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Virology Programme Wednesday (Afternoon) - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
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

Cellular Pathology Programme Wednesday (Afternoon) - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
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

Cellular Pathology Programme Wednesday (Morning) - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
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

Clinical Chemistry Programme Wednesday (Afternoon) - IBMS Congress 2022

16/03/2022
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