LabMed Trent Northern and Yorkshire Regional Scientific Meeting 

Agenda

9.30am Registration and refreshments 
10:00-10:05     Welcome, Stephen Gibbons Consultant Clinical Biochemist Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT)
Morning session
Chair: Roger Bramley Principal Clinical Scientist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (LTHT)
10:05 Why genetic tests alone can't give us all the answers
Mick Henderson Honorary Consultant Clinical Scientist, LTHT
10:45 Coffee break
11:15 Screening for Tyrosinaemia Type 1 – an overview on the expansion of the newborn screening program and implications for the future
Robert Barski Consultant Clinical Scientist, Director of the Newborn Screening Laboratory, LTHT
11:45 Removing the obstacles to measurement of ammonia
Ann Bowron Consultant Clinical Scientist, The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
12:15 Lunch
Afternoon session
Chair: Keir Bailey Principal Clinical Scientist, LTHT
1:15 Geoffrey walker award (3x15 min presentations)
2:00 Lead isotope ratios: A tool for exposure investigation
Adam Laycock Principal Analytical Toxicologist, UKHSA
2:30 Coffee break 
3:00 Case vignettes from the National Poisons Information Service
Pardeep Jagpal Service Manager, NPIS
3:30 Challenges in Trace Element Analysis and Interpretation
Elizabeth Fox Principal Clinical Scientist, SAS-Associated Trace Element Laboratory,  LTHT
4:00 Geoffrey walker award results & close of meeting