Events in 2022

Chair: Matthew O’Dwyer
9.00 HSST experience in Microbiology
Phillipa Burns, Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
9.30 A drive for change: a Queen’s Medical Centre perspective Bhavin Mistry, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
10.30 From Acrophialophora to Zygosaccharomyces: Expanding the potential of the Bruker Biotyper for fungal identification
Dr Mark Fraser, UK National Mycology Reference Laboratory, UK Health Security Agency
11.00 Rapid identification from blood cultures
Robert Impey, Portsmouth University Hospitals Trust
11.30 The microbiome and mental health
- potential future diagnostics in microbiology Matthew Fairbrother, University Hospitals of
Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust

Chair: Mike Palmer
9.00 Major Haemorrhage – a
laboratory perspective Newcastle Hospitals
NHS Foundation Trust
9.20 How electronic requesting systems for blood products like ICE could be utilised to reduce incidences of TACO
Natalie Hennessy, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
09.40 HDFN caused by Anti-K
Gemma Harte, Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
10.30 Blood group – Kidd
Martin Maley, University of Sunderland
11.00 Blood Group – MNSs
Dr Tom Bullock, Red Cell
Immunohaematology - NHSBT
11.30 International Blood Group Reference Laboratory (IBGRL)
– finding new blood group antigens Shane Grimsley, International Blood Group Reference Laboratory - NHSBT
12.45 Antibody workshop
Jill Caulfield, NHSBT and Martin Maley, University of Sunderland

Chair: Jonathan Evans 9.00 Caring for the UKs first COVID-19 patients
Dr Richard Capstick, South Tyneside and Sunderland NHS Foundation Trust
9.20 The June Almeida COVID-19 laboratory set up: lessons learnt Bamidele Farinre, Viapath Analytics, An NHS partnership with SYNLAB
9.40 Hepatitis C - West Midlands Test & Treat Roadshow Philippe Bonnet, Hepatitis C Trust
Outbreak control
10.30 Tattoo and Piercing Infection Cases
Deborah Fenelon, UK Health Security Agency
11.00 COVID-19 - local outbreak control Owen Seddon, Public Health Wales
11.30 Outbreak control: Value of epidemiology & whole-genome sequencing Derren Ready, UK
Health Security Agency

10.30 The National Genomics Test Directory and its implications for cellular pathology laboratories Siobhan Taylor, Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Keeley Thwaites, Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust

09.30 Clinical informatics: the importance and impact for pathology Robert Simpson, ME-5 Pathology Network

11.30 How genomics is helping to revolutionise cancer care: integration of pathology and genomics in the NHS
Jane Starczynski, University Hospitals
Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

Development of the Biomedical Scientist workforce in molecular pathology and additional speaker with Victoria is Wendy Leversuch, Health Services Laboratories LLP

14.30 Diploma of expert Practice in Histological Dissection
Chris Ward, Head of Examinations, IBMS

14.00 Expert practice in histology – it’s more than just dissection
Tracey De Haro, Specialist Scientific Lead for Electron Microscopy, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust

09.00 How green is your laboratory
– Embedding sustainability into practice?
Sheri Scott, Nottingham Trent University