Agenda
Morning Session
09:00 Registration and refreshments
09:30 Welcome from LabMed NI Chair
09:35 Quality improvement in the laboratory
Emma Murray, Northern HSC Trust
10:05 Nutritional challenges in modern society
Ian Young, Foods Standards Agency
10:35 Heavy metal poisoning
Michelle Hookham, Belfast HSC Trust
11:05 Tea and coffee
11:30 Big data and AI in laboratory medicine
Michael Quinn, Queen’s University Belfast
12:00 Investigating Cushing's Syndrome: Establishing Reference Intervals for Urinary Free Cortisol Output in a Northern Irish Population
David McClelland, Belfast HSC Trust
12:30 Lunch
Afternoon Session
13:30 The future of genomic medicine in Northern Ireland
Dr Caoimhe McKenna, Belfast HSC Trust
14:00 The role of the immune system in diseases of the brain
Dr Yvonne Dombrowski, Queen’s University Belfast
14:30 Respiratory metagenomics to diagnose infection in ICU patients
Dr Derek Fairley, Belfast HSC Trust
15:00 Tea and coffee
15:30 Trainee presentations
16:30 Closing remarks
This meeting has been organised by LabMed and sponsored through funding by various commercial companies who have had no involvement in the organisation of this meeting.