Program

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Wednesday, 14 September 2022

12:30 – 13:30 Registration (in front of Auditorium)

13:30 – 13:45 Welcome & Congress Opening (Auditorium)
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

- Reference Change Values – What are they, why are they important, how can we implement them?
tbd

- 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

16:30 – 17:30 Oral presentations of four selected abstracts
Chair: Dr. Daniel Müller, Institut für Klinische Chemie, Universitätsspital Zürich

17:30 – 18:30 Welcome Apéro (Exhibition Area)

Thursday, 15 September 2022

08:00 – 09:00 Registration (in front of Auditorium)

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, University of Kentucky Medicine 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
Prof. Dr. med. Arnold von Eckardstein, Institut für Klinische Chemie, Universitätsspital Zürich

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Break (Exhibition Area)

13:30 – 14:00 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)

- Nucleic Acid platforms
tbd

15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break (Exhibition Area)

16:00 – 17:30 SSCC General Assembly & Award Presentations (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

- LC/MS, Metabolomics and Drugs
tbd

- 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
tbd

12:15 – 12:30 Awards, announcement of next meeting & Farewell (Auditorium)
Prof. Dr. med. Wolfgang Korte, Zentrum für Labormedizin St.Gallen