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Kuala Lumpur General Conference 2012

Session 5b
Chair: Sergio Bernardini

Result of IFCC demonstration election, with explanation - Graham Beastall (UK)

Session 6 Interactive workshops 1 - Management issues
Chair Vanessa Steenkamp

• 'Labs Are Vital' and other public relations opportunities - Khosrow Adeli (CA) and Simon Shorter (Abbott)
• How can members get more out of IFCC? - Graham Beastall (UK)
• Distance learning opportunities - Janet Smith (UK) and Peter Vervaart (AU)
• Getting the best out of conferences - Tomris Ozben (TR)
• Supporting laboratory medicine in the developing world - Jocelyn Hicks (US) and Donald Young (US)
• How should the IFCC website develop? - Ellis Jacobs (US) and Andrew Lyon (CA)
• Clinical laboratory management - John Krahn (CA)
• Corporate Members meeting - Thomas Brinkmann (DE)

Session 7 Interactive workshops 2 - Clinical and scientific issues
Chair: Thomas Brinkman

• Reporting HbA1c - Cas Weykamp (NL)
• Chronic kidney disease - getting it right - David Seccombe (CA)
• Preventive, predictive and personalised medicine: the role of the laboratory - Ron van Schaik (NL) and Maurizio Ferrari (IT)
• Bone markers and their use - Howard Morris (AU)
• Promoting evidence-based practice - Rob Christenson (US)
• Method standardisation and harmonisation - Ian Young (UK)
• Optimal use of cardiac biomarkers - Graham Beastall (UK)
• Paediatric laboratory medicine - Vijay Grey (CA)
• Focus on Latin America (session in Spanish) - Carlos Daniel Navarro (AR)

Session 8 The evolving role of point of care testing - an interactive debate
Chair Bernard Gouget

Introduction - Rosy Tirimacco (AU)

Session 9 - IFCC in its 60th Year
Chair: Jocelyn Hicks

• Achievements and Future Opportunities - Graham Beastall (UK)

• Personal contributions from IFCC Past Presidents

• Donald Young (US)
• Matt McQueen (CA)
• Gerard Siest (FR)
• Mathias Müller (AT)