Tuesday 17 September 2024

Plenary session on Cardiovascular disease : Lipid profile and cardiovascular disease

Chair:  U Tietge (Sweden)

 Prof. B G. Nordestgaard (Denmark)

The Lorentz Eldjarn Prize Competition for Best Publication

Prof. J P Berg, Managing Editor of SJCLI (Norway) 

The three nominated authors will present their articles

The price ceremony will be held at the congress dinner on Thursday at the Vasa museum

Clinical chemistry through the ages: milestones, discoveries and innovations

Chair: H Dahl (Sweden)

Assoc Prof. A Kallner  (Sweden)

Prof. K Pulkki (Finland)

Kidney function measurement – what is needed in clinical practice?

Chair: U Tietge (Sweden)

Prof. M de Borst (The Netherlands) Kidney function: glomerular filtration rate and beyond

PhD MD P Delanaye (Belgium)

Session by NFKK: Recommendations from The Nordic preanalytical scientific working group

Chair: M Nybo (Denmark)

Prof. Dr. J Cadamuro (Austria) Progress in Europe on the preanalytical area?

Clin Biochemist PhD J Pelanti (Finland) How do we use pneumatic tube systems in the Nordic countries?

Lecture PhD B Willman (Sweden) Survey on Nordic blood sampling recommendation/status for blood sampling QC

PhD G B Berge Kristensen (Norway) Recommendation on how to handle hemolysis indices

Assoc prof. M Nybo (Denmark) Nordic fasting recommendation – how to proceed?
 

Wednesday 18 September

Educational session

Hematology – selected case discussion

PhD MD S Beshara (Sweden)

Educational session

Hot debate - Pros and cons of large-scale screening

PhD MD N Bark (Sweden)

Nordic screening and testing programs

Chairs: L Franzon (Iceland) & P Bjellerup (Sweden)

Prof. S Y Kristinsson (Iceland) Screening for monoclonal gammopathy of undetermined significance: a nationwide randomized clinical trial

Prof. O Bratt (Sweden) Outcome of organised PSA testing in Sweden - Is there enough benefit?

Erythrocyte disorders

Chair: S Beshara (Sweden)

Prof. A Iolascon (Italy) New insight in red cell membrane disorders: diagnosis and treatment

PhD MD O Klingenberg (Norway)

PhD MD S Beshara (Sweden)

MSc A Lundholm (Sweden)

Predicting the unpredictable? Novel developments to personalize healthcare

Chair: P Parini (Sweden)

Prof. S Meijer (Sweden)

Prof. M Benson (Sweden) Digital twins of individuals for predictive, preventive and personalised medicine

Serum biomarkers for diagnosing cancer – where do we stand today?

Chair: M Hansson (Sweden)

PhD MD Nome (Norway)

Alcohol and drug testing - new substances and new analytical problems

Chair: G Eggersten (Sweden)

Assoc Prof. A Helander (Sweden)

Transfer of PFAS from the mother and associated metabolic and neurodevelopmental changes in the child

Chair: I Hokstad (Norway)

PhD MD A Bjørke Monsen (Norway) 

The Margareta Blombäck plenary session on Coagulation: Thrombotic Microangiopathies (TMA) - many diseases not so many tests- Special Focus om Preeclampsia 

Chair: Prof. J Antovic (Sweden)

 Prof. V Garovic  (USA) 

Laboratory Medicine in times of crisis

Chair: M Lambert (Sweden)

Médecins Sans Frontières 

MD C Tosterud (Sweden)  - Healthcare during war

Thrombotic microangiopathies - many diseases not so many tests

Chair: J Antovic (Sweden)

Prof. J Antovic (Sweden) New approaches in the laboratory diagnosis of HUS/TTP

PhD mD M Farm (Sweden) Laboratory role in the diagnosis and follow up the treatment in HIT

MD A Kimiaei (Sweden) Implementing the ISTH guidelines for the diagnosis of lupus anticoagulant - our experience and lessons learned

Session by Institutet för biomedicinsk laboratorievetenskap

Chair: S Kronberg (Sweden) and M Quttineh (Sweden)

Assoc Prof. G Lillsunde Larsson (Sweden) 70 years with the International Federation of Biomedical Science (IFBLS)

Biomed lab scientist Å Gyberg-Karlsson (Sweden) : Future developments in biomedicine and health with the potential to impact our profession (and the society)

Assoc Prof. G Lillsunde Larsson (Sweden) Actionplan for the Future- the situation for biomedical laboratory scientists in Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden

Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Workers: Tips and Tricks for Lab Pros

Chair: A Dahlin (Sweden)

RN. CCN. MSc. M Flodberg (Sweden)

Å Malmenklev (Sweden)

S Lööv (Sweden)

New targets, new opportunities? Cardiovascular biomarkers today and tomorrow

Chair: U Tietge (Sweden)

Prof. U Tietge (Sweden)

Liver diseases - an expanding medical field

Chair: M Hansson (Sweden)

Dr. M van Berkel (Netherlands)

Adjunct Prof. H Hagström (Sweden) Diagnosis and prognosis of steatotic liver disease

Thursday 19 September

Educational session

Dyslipidemia – selected case discussion

Prof. G Eggertsen (Sweden)

Educational session

Coagulation

PhD MD M Farm (Sweden)

Educational session

New aspects on Vitamin B12 and folate deficience and the toxic effect of laughin gas

Assoc Prof. H Nilsson Ehle (Sweden)

Improvement and development

Chair: A Linko-Parvinen (Finland)

Assoc Prof. T Männistö (Finland) Hypothyroidism is increasing – is it true or overdiagnosis

Assoc Prof. S Wittfooth (Finland) Recent developments in troponin assays

AI - the future colleague in clinical chemistry

Chair: P Parini (Sweden)

Dr. G Menichetti (USA)

Assoc Prof. N Fyhrquist (Sweden)

Session by the Swedish Association of Clinical Biochemists - Clinical importance of measurements of low levels of sex hormones

Chair: A Engberg (Sweden)

Prof. A Lindén Hirschberg (Sweden)  

Assoc Prof. H Ryberg (Sweden) High-sensitive mass spectrometric assays for androgens and estrogens in the clinical lab

Mass is King - Novel mass spectrometric applications in clinical chemistry

Chair: L Tjernberg (Sweden)

Prof. J Lehtiö (Sweden) Proteomics for diagnosing disease

PhD S Gaunitz (Sweden) Glycomics at Clinical chemistry

Navigating Clinical Laboratory Values in the Era of CAR-T and CAR-NK Cell Therapy: Challenges and Opportunities

Assoc Prof. E Alici (Sweden)

What clinical chemists should know about the interpretation of blood tests in transgender individuals

Prof. M den Heijer (Netherlands)

Plenary session on Neurodegenerative disease:  Fluid biomarkers for Alzheimer’s – finding the place of blood and CSF tests at the memory clinic and in the clinical chemistry lab

Chair: L Tjernberg (Sweden)

Prof. K Blennow  (Sweden) 

How paradigm shifts shape the future of laboratory medicine

Chair: I Bartuseviciene (Sweden)

Assoc Prof. P Conner (Sweden) Prenatal paradigm

External quality assessment in laboratory medicine: what, how and why

Chairs: L Spendrup & M Johansson (Sweden)

Assoc Prof. L Björndahl (Sweden) How new standards are developed – the professions can be in charge

Blood biomarkers - A new era for diagnosing Alzheimer disease?

Chair: L Tjernberg (Sweden)

Dr. T Karikari (Sweden) pTau variants predict disease

Assoc Prof. S Schedin Weiss (Sweden) Glycans as novel biomarkers for Alzheimer disease

Prof. L Jönsson (Sweden) Can we justify screening for Alzheimer disease?

Laboratory and cancer associated thrombosis (CAT) - where we are

Chair: J Antovic (Sweden)

Prof. A Falanga (Italy) CAT overview

Prof. J Odeberg (Sweden) Proteomics in CAT

PhD MD C Gran (Sweden) Extracellular Vesicles, Tissue Factor, and NETosis

External quality assessment in laboratory medicine: what, how and why

Chairs: L Spendrup & M Johansson (Sweden)

BSc Å Claesson (Sweden) The significance of accreditation for the laboratory

MSc M Dajaku (Sweden) Differences between ISO 15189:2012 and ISO 15189:2022

Precision medicine: dream or reality?

Chair: P Parini (Sweden)

Prof. P Parini (Sweden)

Assoc Prof. Å Wheelock (Sweden)

Session by BALM

Chair: U Tietge (Sweden)

PhD MD V Banys (Lithuania) & M Bieliauskas (Lithuania) Roadtrip towards harmonized reporting of laboratory results in Lithuania. 

MD J Meisters (Latvia) 

PhD A Tamm (Estonia) Digital transmission of laboratory data in Estonia. 

Friday 20 September

Educational session

Brain calcification – selected case discussion

Assoc Prof. U Diczfalusy (Sweden)

Educational session - Analytical interference in Clinical chemistry 

MD PhD P Bjellerup (Sweden)

MD M Karlman (Sweden)

The future of laboratories: trends, challenges and opportunities

Chair: G Dahlfors (Sweden)

PhD B Schadenberg (Holland)

Biomed lab scientist L Nyman (Sweden)

Career and competence in laboratory medicine: challenges, trends and best practices

Session in Swedish

Chair: M Shafaati Lambert (Sweden)

BSc N Hourani Soutari (Sweden) -Integrerad forskning och kliniskt arbete               

MSc H Stenling (Sweden) - Norrtäljeprojektet

Biomed lab scientist A Collberg (Sweden) -  Runda Bordet

BSc M Kjellén & BSc J Borrman (Sweden) - Kompetensväxling vid proteinbedömningar 

Session by Svensk Förening för Klinisk Kemi -

Using labs wisely – laboratory medicine in an era of choosing wisely. 

Chair:  J Skogö (Sweden)

Prof. K Stordal (Norway)

MD K Bengtsson Linde (Sweden)

The NFKK Young Scientist Award 

Prof. MD LM Rasmussen (Denmark)

The three awarded will present their scientific work

PhD Msc K Elgstøen (Norway) Global metabolomics, why and how

Prof. R M A Heeren (Netherlands)

PhD MD  Y T Bliksrud (Norway) Interpretation challenges, the need for the medical doctor in the laboratory