ACB Southern Region are pleased to invite everyone to join their Bill Richmond Prize Meeting which will take place from 11.00am on Wednesday 21 June, followed by the Regional AGM (1.00-2.00pm).

This meeting will take place over MS Teams, so all members from any region are welcome to attend for free. 

Agenda

11.00-11.05 Introduction to the Bill Richmond Prize

11.05-11.25  A computer vision approach to the assessment of dried blood spot size and quality in newborn screening – Mr. Nick Flynn Biochemical Genetics Unit, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Cambridge, UK

11.25-11.45 Comparison of biochemical analytes in capillary plasma against venous serum and the effect of time, pre-centrifugation, on the stability of those analytes – Mr. Adam Senessie, Lewisham and Greenwich Trust

11.45-12.05 Homozygous Tangier Disease with undetectable serum high density lipoprotein cholesterol and no clinical features – Dr. Charles van Heyningen (Retired), formerly Consultant Chemical Pathologist and Senior Clinical Lecturer at Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

12.05-12.25 Assessing role of Serum Tryptase a potential prognostic marker in Chronic Phase Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML-CP) - Dr. Anisha Mathew (MBBS, MD Biochemistry) Lady Hardinge Medical College, New Delhi, India

Each presentation will be 10 minutes long with 5 minutes Q&A

12.25-12.55 Analysis, inference, and prediction: changing the way we look at our data - Dr. Edmund Wilkes, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Imperial College NHS Trust

12.55-13.00 Announcement of prizes

13.00-14.00 AGM

In the meantime, as well as inviting you to register for this event, the ACB Southern Region would also like to invite you to submit abstracts for the Bill Richmond prize (deadline Friday 9 June). Please send abstracts to [email protected] (maximum of 250 words in length).

For clarity, members outside the region are welcome to apply and submit an abstract and the shortlisting criteria detailed below will apply, however they will not be eligible for the prize.

Authors of successful abstracts will be invited to perform a 10 minute presentation of their work at the Bill Richmond prize meeting in accordance with the rules below.

Rules for the Bill Richmond Prize Members' Papers Competition
  
AIM: to encourage high quality oral presentation of scientific data, cases and audits by Southern Region ACB members, especially trainees.
 
RULES:

1. Entrants must be members of the ACB.
2. Only one abstract and one presentation per first author is permitted.
3. The presenter must be the first author of the work and have made a substantive contribution to the reported results, where applicable.
4. Three judges will be nominated by the local meeting organiser and approved by the meeting’s secretary.  It is preferable to have at least one clinical and scientific judge and that all judges have FRCPath.
5. The abstracts will be anonymised and judged by the judges on the following criteria:
   1. Content including originality (mark out of 10)
   2. Clarity of information presented (mark out of 10)
6. Scores from the criteria above will be summed by each judge.  The mark from all three judges will be pooled and the abstracts ranked based on total score.
7. Invitations to present will start with the top ranked abstract and end depending on how many presentations are available in the meeting programme.  If someone invited is unable to present the next ranked abstract will be invited to present.
8. Presentations will be limited to 10 minutes with an additional 5 minutes for questions
9. The presentation will be judged on the following criteria:
   1. Content including originality (mark out of 10)
   2. Oral presentation e.g. diction, lucidity (mark out of 10)
   3. Use of audio visual aids (mark out of 10)
   4. Response to questions (mark out of 10)
   5. Adherence to the allotted time (mark out of 10)
10. Scores from the criteria above will be summed by each judge.  The mark from all three judges will be pooled and the winners will be the two individuals with the highest score.
11. Two prizes will be awarded; both of £100
12. Members outside the region are welcome to apply and submit an abstract and the shortlisting criteria above will apply, however they will not be eligible for the prize.
13. Consultant grade members can submit an abstract however they will not be eligible for the prize.
14. If there is an excess of abstracts then preference will be given to trainees (non-consultant grade).