SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME – September 30 – October 1, 2021
Part A | Emmergent topics
– COVID-19 and role of Laboratory Medicine – Sunil Sethi
– What laboratory medicine in needed for refugees – Alexander Haliassos
– Multidimensional Laboratory Medicine: the case for AI – Michael Neumaier
– AI-assisted radiological imaging of systemic disease involvement: from technical implementation to cooperative diagnostic pathways – Stefan Schönberg
Part B | How is the progress of implementing the IVDR
– EU Health Policy-making: why academic and scientific societies should engage – Alan Fraser
– Countdown to the IVDR Date of Application: Priorities and Expectations of Manufacturers – Oliver Bisazza
– The rollout of the new EU IVD regulation: an imminent catastrophe – Christa Cobbaert (on behalf of the EFLM Task Force on European Regulatory Affairs)
Part C | New tools in education of people in laboratory medicine
– EFLM Syllabus – the framework for the education of EuSpLM – Snežana Jovičić
– Equivalence of standards in education in Europe – Evgenija Homšak
– EFLM Syllabus course – Lejla Alić
– How to develop and master soft skills? – Ana-Maria Šimundić
Part D | Progress in the harmonisation of measurement procedures
– New initiatives to harmonise measurement procedures – Ian Young
– Monitoring the harmonisation of measurement procedures by external quality assessment and patient medians – Sverre Sandberg
– Personalised reference interval – a valuable tool in diagnosis and monitoring – Abdurrahman Coskun |