The first issue of the newsletter of the 4thJoint EFLM-UEMS Congress in Warsaw: the largest European event in Laboratory Medicine and Clinical Diagnostics in 2016.
Venue: DoubleTreeby Hilton, Warsaw
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The case for sharing data, and the consequences of not doing so, have been brought into stark relief by the Ebola and Zika outbreaks. In response, the New England Journal of Medicine has become a journal signatory to the following statement.
“In the context of a public health emergency of international concern, it is imperative that all parties make available any information that might have value in combatting the crisis. As research funders and journals, we are committed to working in partnership to ensure that the global response to public health emergencies is informed by the best available research evidence and data.
Journal signatories will make all content concerning the Zika virus free access. Any data or preprint deposited for unrestricted dissemination ahead of submission of any paper will not preempt later publication in these journals.
Funder signatories will require researchers undertaking work relevant to public health emergencies to establish mechanisms to share quality-assured interim and final data as rapidly and widely as possible, including with public health and research communities and the World Health Organization. We urge other journals and research funders to make the same commitments.”
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
| May 20 – 21, 2016 | IFCC Roche Conf Biomarkers in AD Mexico City | Mexico City |
| Nov 26 – 29, 2016 | 14th Asia-Pacific Federation for Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine Congress | Taipei, TW |
| Jun 11 – 15, 2017 | IFCC-EFLM EuroMedLab 2017 | Athens, GR |
| Sep 17 – 22, 2017 | XXIII COLABLIOCLI Congress 2017 and XI Uruguayan Congress of Clinical Biochemistry | Punta del Este, UY |
| Oct 22 – 25, 2017 | XXIII IFCC WorldLab 2017 | Durban, ZA |
| May 18 – 23, 2019 | IFCC-EFLM EuroMedLab 2019 | Barcelona, ES |
| May 24 – 28, 2020 | XXIV IFCC WorldLab 2020 Seoul | Seoul, KR |
| Feb 11 – 12, 2016 | Labquality Days – Nordic Congress on Quality in Laboratory Medicine | Helsinki, FI |
| Feb 18 – 20, 2016 | Turkish in vitro Diagnostic (IVD) Symposium | Izmir, TR |
| Feb 27, 2016 | 11° Annual Meeting of Quality Assurance and Topics on Nutriogenetics, Nutriogenomics and Immunology Upgrades | San Luis Potosi, MX |
| Mar 03 – 05, 2016 | XII Congress of the Catalan Association for Clinical Laboratory Sciences | Sitges, ES |
| Mar 03 – 05, 2016 | College of Chemical Pathologists of Sri Lanka 1st Annual Academic Sessions 2016 (CCPSL AAS 2016) | Colombo, LK |
| Mar 09 – 11, 2016 | IX National Congress of Clinical Pathology, CONAPAC 2016 | Havana, CU |
| Mar 09 – 11, 2016 | Flow Cytometry Course | Cordoba, AR |
| Mar 24 – 25, 2016 | 5th International Conference on Vitamin D Deficiency and its Clinical Implications | Abu Dhabi, UAE |
| Apr 20 – 22, 2016 | 10th International Conference of Clinical Laboratory Automation(Cherry Blossom Symposium 2016) | Seoul, KR |
| May 12 – 14, 2016 | XIII Baltic Congress of Laboratory Medicine | Tartu, EE |
| May 12 – 13, 2016 | XIV Meeting of the SEQC Scientific Committee | Madrid,ES |
| May 18 – 21, 2016 | 1st Conference of Romanian Association of Laboratory Medicine(RALM) | Cluj Napoca, RO |
| May 25 – 27, 2016 | XX Congress of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine | Belgrade, SRB |
| May 26 – 26, 2016 | 12th EFLM Symposium for Balkan Region | Belgrade, SRB |
| Sep 21 – 24, 2016 | 4th Joint EFLM-UEMS Congress “Laboratory Medicine at the Clinical Interface” | Warsaw, PL |
| Oct 27, 2017 | International Conference on Laboratory Medicine “Towards performance specifications for the extra-analytical phases of laboratory testing” | Padova, IT |
| Oct 20 – 22, 2017 | XIV International Congress of Pediatric Laboratory Medicine | Durban, ZA |
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine journal (CCLM)
Editorial
Review
Mini Review
Opinion Papers
Genetics and Molecular Diagnostics
General Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
Haematology and Coagulation
Reference Values and Biological Variations
Cancer Diagnostics
Cardiovascular Diseases
Infectious Diseases
Diabetes
Letter to the Editors
The 10th International Conference of Clinical Laboratory Automation, 2016. 4.20-22, Seoul, Korea
Since the first meeting in 1998, the biannual symposium has served as a fundamental platform for people involved in the field of clinical laboratory automation to share the most up-to-date developments, research results, and accomplishments in related fields.
The Organizing Committee is gearing up for an exciting and informative conference program including plenary lectures, symposia, industry workshops and poster sessions.
As one of the most beautiful locations in the world to marvel at the cherry blossoms coming into full bloom, Seoul also offers magnificent state-of-the-art facilities and convenient public transportation, making it the ideal city to host the 2016 conference. Also, the venue, the Glad Hotel is located across from the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea, the center of the nation’s politics.
Symposium´s web site: www.labauto2016.org
The Labquality Days Congress will be held at Messukeskus, Expo and Convention Centre Helsinki on 11th-12th of February 2016. Labquality Days is one of the largest annual congresses in Scandinavia focused on quality and laboratory medicine.
The congress inspires clinical chemistry, laboratory medicine professionals, researchers, healthcare experts, users of point-of-care devices, medical staff working with quality issues, managers and higher level personnel adiminstration of social- and or healthcare sectors.
The 2016 congress themes are now announced: Point-of-Care Testing (POCT) and Preanalytics. POCT has already a major role in healthcare workflow. Test sensitivity or specificity, price, speed and patient convenience are some heavily discussed topics in scientific meetings. In preanalytics, various disciplines such as microbiology, clinical chemistry and haematology have their own characteristic variables. Individual analyses have some unique factors that should also be taken into account in order to get reliable results.
Labquality Days will gather leading international speakers and opinion leaders together. The program consists of scientific lectures and panel discussions. During the congress participants have the opportunity to meet colleagues, share ideas and experience the vast clinical laboratory exhibition.
Helsinki – one of the northern winter capitals is a safe, cool and clean place to visit next February.
More Information: Labquality Days 2016
Allan S. Jaffe, M.D., has spent his long academic career investigating the use of biomarkers to characterize the pathobiology of acute cardiovascular disease. For that reason, he is the chair of the Division of Clinical Core Laboratory Services in the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology at Mayo Clinic.
He is a member of most of the major cardiology and clinical chemistry editorial boards and sits on most of the major guidelines committees for the use of these biomarkers.
Professor Tomris Ozben Tomasi, (PhD, DSc), is a full professor since 1990 at the Dept. of Clinical Biochemistry, Faculty of Medicine, Akdeniz University, Antalya Turkey. She obtained her BSc. degree from American University “Robert College” in Istanbul, Turkey; Ph.D. in Biochemistry from Ege University, Izmir, Turkey; and Specialty in Clinical Biochemistry from Marmara University, Istanbul Turkey.
She has been serving actively IFCC since 2001, as the Chair of IFCC Committee on Congresses & Conferences (C-CC) (for two consecutive terms; six years); previously as Full Member (three years) and Corresponding Member (three years). In 2014, she has been elected as the IFCC Treasurer by the IFCC Council.
Interview about the IFCC WorldLab Istanbul 2014 (2014/01/01)
Congresses & Conferences of the IFCC (2013/02/06)
First Part
Second Part
Hilda Tendisa Marima-Matarira. University of Zimbabwe, Harare.
Secretary of the African Federation ogf Clinical Chemistry (AFCC)
Chemical Pathologist, National Health Laboratories, Harare and Parirenyatwa Hospitals Chemical Pathologist, University of Zimbabwe, College of Health Sciences (UZCHS);
coordinated the Development of a Unit of Immunology which developed into a new Department of Immunology in UZCHS, Developed the Zimbabwe External Quality Assurance Programme which later transformed into the Zimbabwe National Quality Assurance Programme where 138 Public and Private Clinical Laboratories are regularly monitored.
Interview about Ebola Virus in Africa
Next African Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (2014/07/23)
