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Day 2 - Friday 31st October

7.00 am-8.30 am

Conference Registration and Breakfast

8.30 am-10.30 am

Keynote sessions

Moderators: Dr Mahir Petkar and Dr Amal Aly

8.30 am-9.10 am

Keynote session 1- Artificial Intelligence in Laboratory Medicine

​Dr Bernie Croal, President, Royal College of Pathologists, United Kingdom

9.10 am-9.50 am

Keynote session 2: Diagnostic Stewardship: The Right Test for the Right Patient at the Right Time

Ms. Debra Padgett, Immediate Past President, Institute of Biomedical Science, United Kingdom

9.50 am-10.30 am

Keynote session 3: Research-driven innovations in Laboratory Medicine

Dr Lori J West, Professor of Pediatrics, Surgery, Medical Microbiology/ Immunology and Laboratory Medicine/Pathology at the University of Alberta, Canada

10.30 am-11.00 am

Tea/coffee break

11.00 am-1.00 pm

Friday prayer break and Lunch (served from 11:30 am)

 

Parallel scientific sessions

1.00 pm-2.45 pm

STREAM 1

SESSION HEADLINE: Pathology in national programs

STREAM 2

SESSION HEADLINE: Bringing the laboratory to the patient /Advances in rapid diagnostics

STREAM 3

SESSION HEADLINE: Current trends in Precision Medicine: Delivering molecular pathology diagnostics for individual and population level healthcare

Moderators

Dr Syed Hasan Rizvi

Dr Aliaa M Amer

Dr Francis Lam

Dr Dina Soliman

Dr Aziz A. Chentoufi

Dr Medhat Askar

 

1.00 pm-1.35 pm

National cancer screening programs in Australia: an overview

Dr Travis Brown, Clinpath, Adelaide, Australia. Member, Pathology Informatics and the Digital Pathology committees for The Royal College of Pathologists of Australasia

1.35 pm-2.10 pm

Pediatric Cellular Therapy Program in Qatar

Dr Chiara Cugno, Director-Advanced Cell Therapy Core, Sidra Medicine, Qatar


2.10 pm-2.45 pm

Qatar national programs for infections and antimicrobial stewardship

Dr Emad Ibrahim, Senior Consultant and Microbiology Division Head, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

1.00 pm-1.30 pm

The pathologist’s role in the future of POCT; ensuring quality in a rapid response world

Mrs. Katy Heaney, Consultant Clinical Scientist, Specialty lead Point of Care Testing,

Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust, Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services, United Kingdom

(on behalf of the Association for Laboratory Medicine, United Kingdom)

1.30 pm-1:55 pm

Rapid diagnostics in microbiology update

Professor Walid Al-Wali, Senior Consultant Microbiologist, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

1.55 pm-2.20 pm

Rapid diagnostics in Anatomic Pathology update

Dr Rajen Goyal, Senior Consultant in Anatomic Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

2.20 pm-2.45 pm

 Rapid tests in cancer diagnosis update

Dr Amal Aly, Vice Chair of Clinical Pathology and Senior Consultant Diagnostic Genomics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

1.00 pm-1.35 pm

Precision Medicine diagnostics: an overview from Qatar

Dr Radja Badji,

Translational Genomics Manager,

Qatar Precision Health Institute, Qatar

1.35 pm-2.10 pm

Precision Medicine Diagnostics: Kuwait’s Experience

Dr Shakir Bahzad

Geneticist at Kuwait Medical Genetics Center and Head of Pathology Lab at Kuwait Cancer Control Center (Ministry of Health – Kuwait).

2.10 pm-2.45 pm

Current trends in molecular profiling in Anatomic Pathology

Professor Emad Rakha, Senior Consultant in Anatomic Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

2.45 pm-3.15 pm

Tea/coffee break

3.15 pm-5.00 pm

3.15 pm-3.50 pm

Qatar national pre-marital screening program

 Dr. Moza Al Kowari, Clinical Scientist, Diagnostic Genomics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

3.50 pm-4.25 pm

Qatar national newborn screening programs

Dr Mamatha Ramaswamy, Senior Consultant in Metabolic Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

4.25 pm-5.00 pm

Qatar National Blood Donation Service

Dr Sara Adel Salim Division Head, Transfusion Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

3.15 pm-3.45 pm

Ethical, quality and accreditation considerations for point of care testing services

Ms Alyson Bryant Healthcare Accreditation Specialist,

United Kingdom Accreditation Service

3.45 pm-4.10 pm

 Point of care testing in trauma and emergency surgeries

Dr Sandro Rizoli, Medical Director of Trauma, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

4.10 pm-4.35 pm Point of care testing in mental health services

Dr Abdul Waheed Khan, Associate Consultant Psychiatry Department, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

4.35 pm-5.00 pm
Point of care and rapid tests in virology update

Dr Peter Coyle, Senior Consultant Virologist and Virology Section Head, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

3.15 pm-3.50 pm

Current trends in leukemia diagnosis: From phenotype to genotype to …?

Professor Torstan Haferlach, Director, Munich Leukemia Laboratory, Germany

3.50 pm-4.25 pm

Cellular Therapy (transplant and gene therapy) in hemoglobinopathies

Dr Emanuele Angelucci, Hematology and Cellular Therapy Unit Chair

“Alberto Marmont” Transplant and Cellular Therapy Program Chair

IRCCS Ospedale Policlinico San Martino, Genova,

 Italy.

4.25 pm-5.00 pm

Update on Diagnostic Genomics Testing- The key Driver of Precision Medicine

Dr. Wafa Abualainin

Consultant Clinical Scientist, Diagnostic Genomics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

5.00 pm-6.00 pm

Oral poster presentations

Moderator: Dr Hawabibee Petkar

5.00 pm-5.10 pm:Optimizing Newborn Screening in Qatar: Impact of earlier Guthrie card collection. Dr Mamatha Ramaswamy, Senior Consultant in Metabolic Medicine, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

5.10 pm-5.20 pm:Validation of Component-Resolved Diagnostics (CRD) for Allergy Testing. Foziyeh Naji, Laboratory Technologist- Immunology Laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

5.20 pm-5.30 pm: Epigenetic Profile of Preterm Babies in Qatar. Duaa Elshiekh, Department of Biomedical Sciences, Qatar University

5.30 pm-5.40 pm: Retrospective analysis of antimicrobial susceptibility profiles of Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates suspected of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) gene. John Patrick Tadiosa, Laboratory Technologist- Al Wakra Hospital laboratory, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

5.40 pm-5.50 pm: Specimen Dissection by Surgical Pathology Technologists: Early Experience from a Structured Training Model. Maryam Alabdulmalek, Laboratory Technologist-Anatomic Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

5.50 pm-6.00pm: Simulation-Based Training to Strengthen Operations and Teamwork in a Genomic Laboratory. Atiya Saif, Laboratory Manager- Diagnostic Genomics Division, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

7.30 pm onwards

Gala Dinner and DLMP Annual Lab Day (by invitation only)​​