LabMed Scotland Scientific Meeting
LabMed Scotland Scientific Meeting
LabMed Scotland Scientific Meeting
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?
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Hear from experts including Naomi Elkin, Bill Simpson, and Naveed Sattar
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Discover evolving diagnostic pathways and national audit data
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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 LabMed Scotland Medal Award
Georgia Conrich-Wilks NHSGGC Validation of a dried blood spot immunoassay method for the measurement of Haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c)
Andrew Deans Ninewells Clearly, it’s not lipids…
Jenny Nobes Ninewells Data-independent acquisition proteomics to identify novel protein biomarkers for colorectal cancer
Data-independent acquisition proteomics to identify novel protein biomarkers for colorectal cancer
Grianne Daly TBC
12:45am Lunch & exhibition
1:45pm Cardiovascular session
Naomi Elkin Developments in cardiac markers
Bill Simpson Anybody else bored with cholesterol?
Filippo Pigazzi Timings matter in hypertension
IMMUNOLOGY SESSION
10:30am Alpha gal allergy – a rising caseload across Scotland
Fran Henriquez, Chris Servier-Guy, Alison Gall
12:00am Liver antibodies – a national audit
Liz Furrie
12:45am Lunch & exhibition
Site specific approaches and challenges with liver screening
1:45pm Case studies from across Scotland
Noushin Lawson Is IFF sensitive enough for adrenal antibody detection?
Charlene Porter-Morrison Maternal transfer of PR3 antibodies
Rachael Steven Possible CVID detected by routine autoantibody testing
Marina Frleta-Gilchrist Unusual DHR case
Nadia Shahid Delayed onset primary immunodeficiency
JOINT SESSION
3:00pm Tea & Coffee Break
3:30pm Plenary Lecture
Naveed Sattar Incretins, obesity and the heart: what we know so far
4:15pm LabMed Scotland Award with Roundup and Close
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