Society Workshops & Scientific Meetings

With effective from 1st Jan 2005, the Hong Kong Society of Clinical Chemistry is an accredited provider of continuing professional development (CPD) by the Medical Laboratory Technologists Board.

LOCAL

2008

Asian Pacific Federation of Clinical Biochemistry (APFCB) Travelling Lectureship

Date:   7 March 08
Time:   Lecture 19:00 - 20:00
Dinner 20:15 - 22:00
Venue:   Marco Polo Hotel at TST
Speaker: Professor Leslie Lai
APFCB Travelling Lecturer
Lecture title:   Type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome in the Asian-Pacific Region
Remark:   Jointly Organized by SEMR, HK College of Pathologists, HK Society of Atherosclerosis

Graham Beastall Dinner Lecture

Date:   28 March 08
Time:   Lecture 19:00 - 20:00
Dinner 20:15 - 22:00
Venue:   Intercontinental Grand Standford Hotel at TST
Speaker: Professor Graham Beastall
Lecture title:   Markers of Metabolic Bone Disease: Theory and Practise
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2007

Annual Scientific Meeting and 8th Annual General Meeting
(Recent Advances in Laboratory Techniques for Cancer Diagnostics)

Date:   19th January 2008 (Saturday)
Time:   1:30 - 9:30 pm
1:30 - 2:30 pm   Registration and Industrial Exhibition
2:30 - 2:40 pm Opening Remarks
Dr. Joseph Lee, President, HKSCC
2:40 - 3:20 pm   Origin and Diagnostic Promise of Tumor-specific Serum Peptidome Patterns
Professor Paul Tempst, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, U.S.A.
3:20 - 4:00 pm   Application of Glycomics and Glycoproteomics to the Discovery of Biomarkers for Liver Cancer
Professor Terence Poon, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
4:00 - 4:30 pm   Coffee Break and Industrial Exhibition
4:30 - 5:10 pm   Prognostic and Predictive Factors in Breast Cancer
Professor Marc van de Vijver, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Netherlands
5:10 - 5:50 pm   A Promising Technology in Circulating Tumor Cells Detection
Professor Cesar Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
6:00 - 7:00 pm   8th Annual General Meeting
7:00 - 9:30 pm   Chinese Banquet
CPD: Activity code - 15080011
MLT Board 2.5 credit points
Program Registration Form

APFCB-BC Education Symposium

Date:   11th December 2007 (Tuesday)
Time:   6:00 - 9:00 pm
6:00 - 6:30 pm   Registration
6:30 - 7:30 pm Supporting the Complete Laboratory Diagnostic Process
Professor Sunil Sethi - MBBS, PhD, MRCP, FRCPath, FAMS
Senior Consultant and Chief
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Head, Division of Clinical Chemistry
National University Hospital, Singapore
President, Singapore Association of Clinical Biochemistry
7:45 - 9:00 pm   Chinese Dinner
CPD: Activity code - 15060061
MLT Board 1.0 credit point
Program Registration Form

IFCC Visiting Lecturer Program - Interactive Workshop & Dinner Lecture

Interactive Workshop
Date:   20th October 2007 (Saturday)
Time:   2:30 - 6:00 pm
2:30 - 3:00 pm   Registration
3:00 - 6:00 pm Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine: From Basics to Application
Professor Andrea Rita Horvath - MD, PhD, EurClinChem, FRCPath (UK)
Professor of Clinical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary
CPD: Activity code - 15070041
MLT Board 3.0 credit points
Dinner Lecture
Date:   22nd October 2007 (Monday)
Time:   6:00 - 9:30 pm
6:00 - 6:30 pm   Registration
6:30 - 7:45 pm   The Relationship Between Evidence-based Laboratory Medicine and Quality Management/Accreditation of Medical Laboratories
Professor Andrea Rita Horvath - MD, PhD, EurClinChem, FRCPath (UK)
Professor of Clinical Chemistry, University of Szeged, Hungary
7:45 - 9:30 pm   Dinner
CPD:   Activity code - 15070051
MLT Board 1.0 credit point
Program Registration Form

Education Symposium

Date:   20th September 2007 (Thursday)
Time:   6:15 - 9:30 pm
6:15 - 7:00 pm   Registration
7:00 - 8:15 pm Reference Intervals: Theory, Application, and the
Canadian Laboratory Initiative on Paediatric Reference
Interval Database (CALIPER)
David A. Armbruster - PhD, DABCC, FACB
Scientific Affairs Manager, Abbott Laboratories
8:15 - 9:30 pm Dinner
CPD: Activity code - 15070031
MLT Board 1.0 credit points
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Seminar - Point of Care Testing

Date:   9 February 2007 (Friday)
Time:   5:30 - 9:30 pm
5:30 - 6:30 pm   Registration and Industrial Exhibition
6:30 - 7:05 pm   The Role of the Laboratorian after Point-of-Care Testing
Professor James H Nichols PhD, DABCC, FACB

Associate Professor of Pathology, Tufts University School of Medicine, USA
Medical Director, Clinical Chemistry, Baystate Health, USA
7:05 - 7:45 pm   Personal Perspective on Point-of-Care Testing: A Challenging Journey of 20 Years
Professor Ellis Jacobs PhD, DABCC, FACB

Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Sciences, State University of New York, USA
Head, Therapeutic Substance Monitoring & Clinical and Forensic Toxicology Programs, New York State Department of Health, USA
7:45 - 9:30 pm   Chinese Banquet
CPD:   Activity code - 15070021
MLT Board 1.0 credit points
Program Registration Form

Annual Scientific Meeting and 7th Annual General Meeting

Theme:   Chronic Renal Disease: Biochemical and Clinical Sciences
Date:   13 January 2007 (Saturday)
Time:    
1:30 - 2:30 pm   Registration and Industrial Exhibition
2:30 - 2:40 pm   Opening Remarks
Dr Joseph Lee, President, HKSCC
2:40 - 3:20 pm   Estimating GFR: Creatinine and Other Measurements
Dr Graham Jones, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia
3:20 - 4:00 pm   The Rationale and Application of GFR Estimating Equations - Experience in China
Dr Zhang LuXia, Peking University First Hospital, Beijing, China
4:00 - 4:30 pm   Coffee Break and Industrial Exhibition
4:30 - 5:10 pm   Chronic Kidney Disease: An Epidemiologic Perspective
Dr Sydney Tang, Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong
5:10 - 5.50 pm   The Impact of Chronic Kidney Disease on Adverse Clinical Outcomes in Chinese Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus
Prof Peter Tong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
6:00 - 7:00 pm   7th Annual General Meeting
7:00 - 9:30 pm   Chinese Banquet (Imperial Rooms)
CPD:   Activity code - 15070011
MLT Board 2.5 credit points
Program Registration Form

OVERSEAS

2008

Ten World Congress on Biosensors - Biosensors 2008
14-16 May 2008
Shanghai, China

56th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
1-5 June, 2008
Denver, USA

2008 AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo
27-31 July, 2008
Washington, DC, USA

IFCC-WorldLab Fortaleza 2008
20th International Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine
XXXV Brazilian Congress of Clinical Analysis
VIII Brazilian Congress of Clinical Citology

28 September-2 October 2008
Fortaleza, Brasil

2007

EUROMEDLAB Amsterdam 2007
17th IFCC - FESCC European Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

2 - 7 June 2007
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RAI Congress Centre Amsterdam

55th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry
3-7 June, 2007
Indianapolis, USA

2007 AACC Annual Meeting and Clinical Lab Expo
15-19 July, 2007
San Diego, USA

11th Asian Pacific Congress of Clinical Biochemistry
14-19 October, 2007
Beijing, China