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Laboratory Medicine Leaders Summit
Laboratory Medicine Leaders Summit
LabMed is hosting the Laboratory Medicine Leaders Summit as part of The IBMS Congress (22-25 September 2025). This is an essential strategic meeting for senior laboratory staff and managers, across all pathology disciplines.
LabMed Members can book the event at IBMS member rates to attend both the Congress as a whole and/or the Laboratory Medicine Leaders Summit.
To get the member discount, you must use our unique discount link - https://ibmscongress25.eventreference.com/labmed. To get an additional earlybird discount, book your tickets before 30 June.
Laboratory Medicine Leaders Summit
Date: 25 September 2025
Location: The International Convention Centre (ICC), Birmingham
Programme
9am
Welcome from the LabMed President
Ian Godber, LabMed President, Consultant Clinical Scientist, QEUH, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
9.10am
Delivering great organisational leadership
Dennis Dunn MBE, Former Chair of Mid Cheshire Hospitals Foundation Trust
9.35am
Digital readiness: responding to the unexpected
Karen Mitchell, NHS Grampian
10.30am
The missing link in the governance process
Finlay McKenzie, UK NEQAS, Birmingham
11am
Value-added EQA can check clinical appropriateness in the use of assays
Rachel Marrington, Consultant EQA Scientist & Deputy Director, Birmingham Quality (UK NEQAS)
Naomi Elkin, UK NEQAS, Glasgow
11.30am
The role of laboratory EQA in patient safety
Gwen Wark, Berkshire & Surrey Pathology Services
2pm
AI: What can we learn from its application in cancer research
Harriet Unsworth, Cancer Research UK, University of Manchester
2.30pm
Algorithmic bias and health inequity: addressing risks in medical artificial intelligence
Joseph Alderman, Clinical Research Fellow, Anaesthesia and Critical Care Doctor, University of Birmingham
3pm
Project PathLAKE: selecting the right patients for the best therapy
David Snead, University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire
4pm
Diagnostic stewardship: a lever to lower carbon?
Rob Shorten, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals
4.30pm
Inappropriate testing: the cost to the planet
Tim Lang, Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals
Ticket prices
The prices below are at LabMed/ IBMS member rates.
Find out more by visiting the IBMS Congress website.