Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine
Programme from 2009 Meeting
Austin Court, Birmingham

2009 Full Programme Brochure

FiLM 2009 PROGRAMME
The FiLM documents contain all speakers' presentations that were submitted in time for inclusion.

Day One: Tuesday 27th January 2009
0900 Registration

0945 Introduction
Ian Watson & Robert Michel
It’s a time of change and transformation in laboratory medicine across the globe.

1030 Delivering Lord Darzi’s Next Stage Review
Speaker to be confirmed

1115 How global trends in laboratory medicine will transform pathology in the UK
John Kershaw, Sysmex America, Inc, Mundelein, IL, USA

1215 Lunch

1300 The Australian experience
Tony Badrick, Sullivan Nicolaides, Australia

1340 The Canadian experience: Fred B. Swaine, Calgary Laboratory Services, Canada

1420 Neil Jenkinson, Network Director, Greater Manchester Pathology Network, UK

1450 Neil Anderson, Director of Coventry and Warwickshire Pathology Services, UK

1520 Interactive discussion (followed by afternoon break)

1600 Creating a high performance laboratory
Larry Siedlick, CEO, Sunrise Medical Laboratories, Hauppauge, NY, USA

1645 Interactive discussion and close

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Day Two: Wednesday 28th January 2009

0900 The need for integrated healthcare
James P Kingsland, President, National Association of Primary Care, UK

0945 An organisational approach to integrated patient centred care
Tom Petterson, St Goran’s Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

1030 Morning break

1100 Master classes
Delegates will have the opportunity to choose from a selection of master classes, in which Day One speakers share their experiences in small interactive groups.

1300 Lunch & Exhibition

1345 Knowledge Delivery
Gifford Batstone, National Clinical Pathology Lead for NHS Connecting for Health, UK

1430 Real-time digital medicine - moving towards patient access to electronic health records
Amir Hannan, Thornley House Medical Centre, Greater Manchester, UK

1515 Afternoon break

1545 The shift in health care to improving outcomes and the opportunity for Laboratory Medicine:
Lee Hilborne, Los Angeles, CA, USA

1630 Summary and closing remarks


See Post Conference page for Satellite Day Programme

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