News from the Royal Belgian Society of Clinical Chemistry

Contributed by Professor Jean-Pierre Chapelle, IFCC representative for the RBSCC

In 2008, the Royal Belgian Society of Clinical Chemistry (RBSCC) organized its National Symposium on the following theme : Guidelines for cost effective use of Clinical Chemistry. This meeting was held in Grimbergen (Brussels) on April 25th, 2009. A joint meeting of the RBSCC and the Belgian Society of Clinical Biology (BSCB) took place in Mont Godinne Hospital (Namur, Belgium) on October 17th, 2009. The main topic of this meeting was Laboratory investigation of renal diseases.

On March 27th, 2009, the Euregio Conference of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine, a joint organization of the Universities of Liège (Belgium), Maastricht (The Netherlands) and Aachen (Germany) was held in Liège under the auspices of the RBSCC.

The next national meeting of the RBSCC will be held in Grimbergen (Brussels) on April 22nd 2010 with, as main topics, developments in allergy and mass spectrometry applications in Clinical chemistry.