The Trent, Northern and Yorkshire region are delighted to invite you to attend their regional event which will be held at the Hilton Hotel Newcastle Gateshead, a 13 minute walk from Newcastle Central Station.

The agenda for the day is as follows, and rules for entry and application form to the Geoffrey Walker Award are detailed below.

Morning – Renal

9:30 – 10:00: Registration

10:00 – 10:45: Pre-dialysis Care – Dr Jamie Willows

10:45 – 11:30: Dialysis in Kidney Disease – Dr Tim Shipley   

11:30 – 12: Break

12:00 – 12:45: Metabolic Stone Disease – Dr Shalabh Srivastava  

12:45 – 1:30: Glomerulonephritis – Dr Rebecca Ryan

Afternoon – Geoffrey Walker Award (TNY Trainee presentations)

1:30 – 2:00: Lunch

2:00 – 2:15: Developing guidance for the investigation of low alkaline phosphatase – Dr Elodie Hanon (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

2:15 – 2:30: The effect of sample extraction on recovery of Sirolimus from whole blood – Dr Gregory Heikel (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

2:30 – 2:45: Development and Validation of a Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Method for Quantification of Serum Cortisol and Dexamethasone – Hannah Wheeler (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

2:45 – 3:00: Improving compliance with myeloma screening guidelines in primary care using IT interventions and reflex testing of serum free light chains – Dr Naomi Carne (York and Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

3:00 – 3:20: Break

3:20 – 3:35: To HbA1c or not to HbA1c - that is the question. – Dr Sally Morton (Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospital NHS Foundation Trust)

3:35 – 3:50: Development of an extended LC-MS/MS androgen panel – Dr Rachel Norman (Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)

3:50 – 4:05: Clinical audit of urine ACR requesting in primary care – Jenny Lake (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust)

4:05 – 4:20: Break

4:20 – 4:30: Closing

Geoffrey Walker Award

We invite trainees from the Trent, Northern and Yorkshire Region to enter the Geoffrey Walker Award. This award is in recognition of Dr Walker’s contribution to Clinical Biochemistry in the Yorkshire-Trent Region, and in particular to staff training. Trainees will be required to give a short (10 minute) presentation on clinical or scientific research, which will be judged on both content and presentation. A trainee would usually be considered as someone who is pre-registration or working towards FRCPath.

Please see the rules for entry, and application for entry below:

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If you have any questions regarding the award, please contact [email protected]

The deadline for booking and entering for the award is Tuesday 22 August.