The IFCC Executive Board, in consultation with the Korean Society of Clinical Chemistry and MZ Organising Secretariat, has arrived at the difficult and undesired decision to reschedule the upcoming WORLDLAB Congress to 2022 because of the uncertainties and the revolving scenarios with regards to COVID-19 in the coming months, including major international travel restrictions.
The 24th International Congress of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine will now be held on 26-30 June 2022.
The venue remains the same: the Coex Convention and Exhibition Center in SEOUL, South Korea.
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In this issue, our President Prof. Khosrow Adeli is discussing with all of you the IFCC strategic plan, new taskforces are announced, the first series of LIVE IFCC webinars will be starting in September.
Most of you have met Prof. Donald S. Young, who passed away recently. The entire IFCC community mourns his passing. His life is a perfect example of somebody dedicated to our job but, at the same time, to LIFE itself. He will be missed as Prof. Peter Wilding writes in his excellent article.
Two interesting opinion articles on the new “meetings world” in the pandemic times are presented in this issue. Go through them: What do you think of the virtual meetings? Are face-to-face meetings necessary? Are they valuable? Shall we live in a virtual world?
Take notice and respond, please, to the call for manuscript submission for a thematic eJIFCC issue on “Measurably better Healthcare.” If you wish to understand better the meaning of this title, go through the conversation with the eJIFCC issue editors Dr. Ellie Dow and Dr. Tim James about leading healthcare excellence.
“A dose of AI in developing vaccines at pandemic speed." What a title! Dr. Bernard Gouget is offering a lot of exciting information on AI use in vaccine development.
Keep healthy dear colleagues! And do try to entertain yourselves!
Read and distribute the eNews to your colleagues to keep up with news and current activities around the laboratory medicine world!
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