LabMed Scotland Scientific Meeting 2025

Join Scotland’s leading laboratory medicine professionals for a day of cutting-edge insights, national research updates, and clinical innovation across biochemistry and immunology. With sessions spotlighting cardiac markers, lipid diagnostics, alpha-gal allergy trends, and liver antibody audits, this multidisciplinary event offers valuable learning for specialists and trainees alike.

Why attend?

• Hear from experts including Naomi Elkin, Bill Simpson, and Naveed Sattar

• Discover evolving diagnostic pathways and national audit data

• Network with colleagues and explore the exhibition

Who should attend? Clinical biochemists, immunologists, lab scientists, medical trainees, and healthcare professionals with an interest in laboratory diagnostics and innovation.

Agenda

10:00am  Registration

BIOCHEMISTRY SESSION

10:30am  Welcome
10:40am  Morning Session LabMed Scotland Medal Award
12:00am  Lunch & exhibition
1:00pm  Afternoon Session Cardiovascular session
Naomi Elkin, Developments in Cardiac Markers
Bill Simpson, Experiences with Lipids
Filippo Pigazzi, TBC

IMMUNOLOGY SESSION

10:30am  Session 1: Alpha gal allergy – a rising caseload across Scotland
Regional cohorts, diagnostic pathways and improvements to practice
12:00am  Lunch & exhibition
1:00pm  Session 2: Liver antibodies – a national audit
Presentation of national audit data
Site specific approaches and challenges with liver screening
2:00pm  Session 3:  Case studies from across Scotland

JOINT SESSION

3:00pm  Tea & Coffee Break
3:30pm  Plenary Lecture
Naveed Sattar GLP agonists
4:15pm  LabMed Scotland Award with Roundup and Close

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