
Program
Wednesday, 14 September 2022
Dr. Pierre Alain Binz, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV) and
Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Korte, Zentrum für Labormedizin St.Gallen
13:45 – 15:15 Session I (Auditorium)
Chair: Prof. Dr. Nicolas Vuilleumier, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève – HUG
- Likelihood Ratio (LR)
Prof. Dr. Xavier Bossuyt, Klinische und Diagnostische Immunologie Leuven BE (online)
- Reference Change Values – What are they, why are they important, how can we implement them? (online)
Dr. William A. Bartlett, School of Science and Engineering, University of Dundee
- Plenary Discussion
15:15 – 15:45 Coffee Break (Exhibition Area)
15:45 – 16:30 Special Session SULM (Auditorium)
- Pipette – quo vadis ?
Dr. phil. II Philipp Walter, Solothurner Spitäler AG, Kantonsspital Olten and
Prof. Dr. med. Michael Nagler, Inselspital, Universitätsinstitut für Klinische Chemie Bern
- Presentation Richterich Medal
Chair: Dr. Daniel Müller, Labormedizin, Universitätsspital Basel
18:00 – 19:00 Welcome Apéro (Exhibition Area)
Thursday, 15 September 2022
09:00 – 09:45 Keynote I (Auditorium)
Chair: Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Korte, Zentrum für Labormedizin St.Gallen
- Point of Care Testing coming of age – What it Means for the Future of the Core Lab
Alison Woodworth, PhD, CTI Clinical Trials Services and University of Kentucky Medical Center
09:45 – 10:30 Coffee Break (Exhibition Area)
10:30 – 12:30 Session III : Current topics in Cardiac Markers (Auditorium)
Chair: PD Dr. med. Angelika Hammerer, Kantonsspital Aarau AG, Institut für Labormedizin
- Troponin T vs I – up for discussion again?
Dr. med. Luca Koechlin, Herzchirurgie Universitätsspital Basel, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel
- High sensitive Troponin POC – as reliable as from the central lab? (online)
Dr. Pedro Lopez Ayala, MD Msc PhDc, Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB)
- Interferences in Troponin assays
Dr. Joanna Gawinecka, Ph.D., Institut für Klinische Chemie, Universitätsspital Zürich
12:30 – 14:00 Lunch Break (Exhibition Area)
12:30 – 13:30 Guided Poster Exhibition
Dr. Véronique Viette, ADMED Laboratoires Neuchâtel
Dr. med. Binja Feusi Häne, Luzerner Kantonsspital
14:00 – 15:30 Session IV : Progress in diagnostic methods (Auditorium)
Chair: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Martin Hersberger, Universitäts-Kinderspital Zürich,
Labor Klinische Chemie und Biochemie
- Liquid Biopsy: Status quo and applications outside oncology
Prof. Dr. phil. nat. Ursula Amstutz, Inselspital Bern
- Smart use of LC/MS
Dr. Pierre-Alain Binz, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV)
- Genetics in a clinical setting. Nucleic acid approaches and platforms
Dr. Jean-Louis Blouin, PhD, PD, FAMH, Head of Laboratory of Genomic and Molecular Diagnostics,
University hospitals of Geneva
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break (Exhibition Area)
16:00 – 17:30 SSCC General Assembly (Auditorium)
19:00 Gala Dinner (Restaurant nett’s)
Friday, 16 September 2022
08:00 – 09:00 Registration (in front of Auditorium)
09:00 – 11:00 Session V : The laboratory supporting pharmacological therapies (Auditorium)
Chair: Prof. Dr. sc. nat. Katharina Rentsch, Universitätsspital Basel, Klinische Chemie
- Pharmacometabolomics guided by breath analysis
Prof. Dr. Pablo Sinues, PhD, Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel (UKBB),
Department of Biomedical Engineering
- Pharmacogenetics and Clinical Decision Support
Prof. Dr. Dr. Ingolf Cascorbi, Institut für Experimentelle und Klinische Pharmakologie, UKSH, Kiel DE
- Pharmacogenetic Testing vs TDM in Switzerland: where we are
Prof. Dr. Carlo Largiadèr, Universitätsinstitut für Klinische Chemie, Inselspital Bern
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break (Exhibition Area)
11:30 – 12:15 Keynote II (Auditorium)
- How Big Data and Artificial Intelligence impact patients
Prof. Dr. Janna Hastings, Institut für Implementation Science in Health Care, Universität Zürich
12:15 – 12:30 Awards, announcement of next meeting & Farewell (Auditorium)
Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Korte, Zentrum für Labormedizin St.Gallen