| 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 |
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| Venue: | Marco Polo Hotel at TST | |
| Speaker: | Professor Leslie Lai APFCB Travelling Lecturer |
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| 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 |
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| Venue: | Intercontinental Grand Standford Hotel at TST | |
| Speaker: | Professor Graham Beastall | |
| Lecture title: | Markers of Metabolic Bone Disease: Theory and Practise |
| Registration Form |
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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 5:10 - 5:50 pm | A Promising Technology in Circulating Tumor Cells Detection Professor Cesar Wong, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| CPD: | Activity code - 15070041 MLT Board 3.0 credit points |
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| 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 |
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| 7:45 - 9:30 pm | Dinner | |
| CPD: | Activity code - 15070051 MLT Board 1.0 credit point |
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| 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 |
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| 8:15 - 9:30 pm | Dinner | |
| CPD: | Activity code - 15070031 MLT Board 1.0 credit points |
| Program | Registration Form |
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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 2:40 - 3:20 pm | Estimating GFR: Creatinine and Other Measurements Dr Graham Jones, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney, Australia |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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