The UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping scientific meeting was held on Monday 29th June 2015 at Sheffield Hallam University. A detailed programme can be found below.
The Impact of The Barnes Report
Speaker: Dr David Hughes, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
Chair: Mr Neil Porter, Chairman of the UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping Steering Comittee, Sheffield, UK.
Flow Cytometry and Molecular Diagnostic in the Clinical Laboratory:
What Really Is Best Practice?
Speaker: Professor David Barnett
Chair: Mr Neil Porter, Chairman of the UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping Steering Comittee, Sheffield, UK.
What Do I Need to Pass ISO 15189:
An End User Experience?
Speaker: Mr David Bloxham, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK.
Chair: Professor Thomas Denny, Chief Operating Officer, Duke Human Vaccine Institute and Center for HIV/AIDS Vaccine Immunology and Director, Immunology and Virology Quality Assessment Center, Durham, USA
Establishing Competency of Staff in Flow Cytometry
Speaker: Mr Andrew Moran, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Manchester, UK
How to Diagnose AML and MDS by Flow Cytometry: ICSH Guidelines for Flow Cytometric Evaluation of Patients with Suspected Acute Myeloid Leukaemia and Myelodysplastic Syndromes
Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Kern, Munich, Germany
Chair: Professor David Barnett
Next Generation Sequencing in Haematological Malignancy: A European Perspective
Speaker: Professor Wolfgang Kern, Munich, Germany
Next Generation Sequencing in Haematological Malignancy: A UK Perspective
Speaker: Dr Nicholas Lea, Kings College Hospital, London
Translocations and clonality detection in lymphoproliferative disorders by capture-based Next-generation sequencing
Speaker: Mrs Dörte Wren, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK
Chair: Professor John Snowden, Consultant Haematologist & Director of BMT, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield, UK
Flow Cytometry Focus Session
Chair: Mr Neil Porter, Chairman of the UK NEQAS for Leucocyte Immunophenotyping Steering Comittee, Sheffield, UK.
Unsatisfactory Performance and the Root Cause Analysis Process
Standardised Nomenclature for Mutation Reporting
Extracting Nucleic Acids from UK NEQAS LI
Chair: Dr Chris Dalley, Consultant Haematologist, The Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton, UK