C-MD Membership
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Membership
|
Name |
Position |
Country |
Term |
Time in
Office |
| M. Pazzagli |
Chair |
IT |
1st |
2010 01 - 2012 12 |
| J. Beilby |
Member |
AU |
1st |
2010 01 - 2012 12 |
| M. Maekawa |
Member |
JP |
1st |
2012 01 - 2014 12 |
| D. Payne |
Member |
US |
2nd |
2010 01 - 2012 12 |
| H.J.T. Ruven |
Member |
NL |
1st |
2010 01 - 2012 12 |
Terms of Reference
- To foster dynamic exchanges between IFCC and molecular
diagnostic laboratories and industry
- To produce guidelines on clinical validation of tests, conduct
and reporting of molecular diagnostic tests
- Provision of reference materials
- Creation of a network of locus-specific IFCC Molecular
Diagnostics Centres
- Establishment of databases of sequence variations and allele
frequencies in regions bracketing disease loci
- Creation of a C-MD web page within the IFCC web site
Current Projects
- Establish an International Network of IFCC Reference Centres in
Molecular Diagnostics
- Production of well defined but "low level" reference materials
capable of being used as positive and negative controls in clinical
testing
- Develop a checklist for technology transfer from development to
clinical laboratory testing
- Standardise formats for reporting of molecular diagnostic
results
List of Corresponding Members, nominated by Full
Members' Societies
|
Name
|
Full Member
Society |
| François Rousseau |
Canadian Society of
Clinical Chemists (CSCC) |
| Katell Peoc'h |
Société Française de
Biologie Clinique (SFBC) |
| Parviz Ahmad-Nejad |
German Society of
Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (DGKL) |
| Ching-Wan Lam |
Hong Kong Society of
Clinical Chemistry (HKSCC) |
| István Balogh |
Hungarian Society of
Laboratory Medicine (MLDT) |
| Demak L Tobig |
Indonesian Association
for Clinical Chemistry (HKKI) |
| Matthew Lawless |
Association of Clinical
Biochemists in Ireland (ACBI) |
| Nurit Rosenberg |
Israel Society for
Clinical Laboratory Science |
| Aleksandar Dimovski |
Macedonian Society of
Medical Biochemists |
| Youssef Bamou |
Société Marocaine de
Chimie Clinique (SMCC) |
| Sajjad Sial Iqbal |
Pakistan Society of
Chemical Pathologists |
| Katarina Baluchova |
Slovak Society of
Clinical Biochemistry (SSKB) |
| Jesus Molano Mateos |
Sociedad Española de
Bioquímica Clínica y Patología Molecular (SEQC) |
| Patricia Esperón |
Asociación Bioquímica
Uruguaya (ABU) |
List of Corresponding Members, nominated by
Corporate Members
|
Name
|
Corporate Member |
| Barbara Baggiani |
A. MENARINI
Diagnostics |
| Jan Turczyn |
SIEMENS |
Committee Chair's contact:
Prof. Mario Pazzagli
EurClinChem
Professor of Clinical Biochemistry and Clinical Molecular
Biology
Clinical Biochemistry Unit
Department of Clinical Physiopathology
University of Florence
Viale Pieraccini 6
50139 Florence
Italy
Tel.: 39 055 4271442
Fax: +39 055 4271371