Congress Posters

Poster winners

Congratulations to the winning posters:

Genomics and Molecular Pathology - Niamh Tracey

Haematology - Barbara Joan De La Salle 

Transfusion Science - Hannah Caldwell

Education, Training and Laboratory Management - Bibiana Onyeachom

Virology - Jay Moorcroft

Medical Microbiology - Robert Usher

Cellular Pathology - Ana Raquel Lobo da Rocha

Cytopathology - Alison Knight and Molly McDowell-Sweet

Quality Management - Dipali Pindoria

Point of Care Testing - Elifcan Topsogut

Clinical Chemistry - Sarah Sprawling

Immunology - Nicholas Armfield

 

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Tuesday posters
Genomics and Molecular Pathology
Presenter Company Title Board no.
Aakifa Abdullah  Manchester Metropolitan University  Investigating the effect of ApoE gene variation on diabetes risk 1
Niamh Tracey Ulster University Folic acid supplementation during preganancy effects neurocognition at 11 years 2
Chloe McCully Ulster University Investigation of microRNA-30a and selected target genes in prostate cancer 3
 
Haematology
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Samantha Connelly Synnovis A cross sectional study to identify the potential for maternal indices as a predictor for red cell values in neonates 4
Jason Eyre Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust A comparative study of the impact of Haemoglobin variants on HbA1c measurement. ARKRAY HA-8190V & Sebia Capillarys 3 5
Barbara Joan De La Salle  West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Reticulocyte Haemoglobin Content: UK NEQAS External Quality Assessment 6
Sabina McCann Health Service Laboratories (HSL) Acquired Glanzmann's Disease with IgG and IgA against activated αIIbβ3  7
Ciara Gore   Could the use of Immature Platelet Fraction monitoring during a case of life-threatening ITP predict haemorrhagic risk 8
Mark Ferguson   Diagnostic challenge of d-dimer negative upper extremity DVT 9
Bashori Rahman West Hertfordshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Learning from EQA: Hb Knossos  10
Surani Samarasinha Keele University SYSMEX complete blood count optical verification for cold agglutinin detection 11
Tze-Kiong Er   Analytical performance of the VIDAS® D-Dimer Exclusion™ II assay and Beckman Coulter D-dimer assay 12
Caitlin Davis NHS Highland/London Metropolitan University Evaluation of full blood count stability in rural Scotland 13
 
Transfusion Science
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Laura Eastwood NHS Blood and Transplant, Barnsley Collaborative Management of a Pre-Stem Cell Transplant Patient Requiring Rare Blood 14
Leigh Gregg SYNLAB - Pathology First Use of DTT treatment in antibody screening methods 15
Victoria Tuckley  Serious Hazards of Transfusion, NHS Blood and Transplant Is that your final answer? SHOT laboratory testing errors 2018-2022 16
Victoria Tuckley  Serious Hazards of Transfusion, NHS Blood and Transplant What have I missed? A SHOT cognitive bias case study 17
Hannah Caldwell Belfast Health And Social Care Trust Appropriate blood provision for Sickle Cell Disease patients in Northern Ireland 18
 
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
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Dr Valerie Hinch Ulster University Successful employer participation as part of a university curriculum  19
Joanne Martin   QR Codes in the Workplace for Instant Access to Learning 20
Bibiana Onyeachom South West London Pathology Paper based training - End of an Era? 21
Rachel Turnbull University of Sunderland Use of Simulation In Alternative Delivery of Clinical Placement Training 22
Shpresa Haliti London South Bank University 'Bridging the Gap' between academic learning and practical skills - Developing a professional competencies module for 2nd-year undergraduate Biomedical Science students 23
Victoria Heath Great Ormond Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Why did the scientist cross the road? A case study on using science comedy to improve communication skills in the healthcare science workforce 24
Ansel Godinho Great Ormond Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Mind the gap: providing transferrable skills training for NHS pathology apprentices 25
Mehwish Khalid NHS England Innovative ways of upskilling staff: A Pathology Practice Educators' initiative 26
Clare Morrow East Suffolk North Essex NHS Foundation Trust Local Training Success During the Covid-19 Pandemic and Beyond 27
Adele O'Neill   Examining workflow impact in a Biochemistry Laboratory during instrument replacement 28
Jim Taylor Head of Digital Education, IBMS GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 1) 29
Jim Taylor Head of Digital Education, IBMS GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 2) 30

 

Wednesday posters
Virology
Presenter Company Title Board no.
Kayleigh Edmunds UK Health Security Agency Investigation into the clinical utility of HBsAg quantitation 1
Elizabeth Kalimeris Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust  Performance of the twist biosciences versus the biofire respiratory panel 2
Lubnaa Abdul-Razzaq Manchester NHS Foundation Trust/ Manchester Metropolitan University Verification of the DiaSorin Liaison XL 3
Nikolaos Kouvas Barts Health NHS Trust Clinical implementation of real-time PCRs for the detection of Mpox 4
Jay Moorcroft Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust, Liverpool Clinical Laboratories Automated Molecular: The Next Steps for Liverpool Clinical Laboratories Virology 5
Sanjiv Rughooputh UK NEQAS, Microbiology UK NEQAS respiratory viruses point of care EQA 6
Robert Usher   EUCAST revised breakpoints: The Implications To Treating Pseudomonas Infections 7
 
Medical Microbiology
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Emmanuel O Babafemi Liverpool John Moores University Public sensitisation and Incidence of Toxoplasmosis in pregnancy in Dar-es-Salaam 8
Jaqueline Croft Liverpool Clinical Laboratories, Liverpool University Hospital Foundation Trust Department Journey to Improved Sepsis Daignosis, Liverpool Clinical Laboratories Microbiology 9
Jessica Gentry Microbiology Department, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Genomic confirmation of an outbreak of NRCS-A Staphylococcus capitis  10
Benita Arakal Cardiff Metropolitan University Profilng antimicrobial peptides in myxobacteria from in-silico and in-vitro perspectives  11
Sacha Bhuchar Cardiff Metropolitan University A comparison of methods for the disinfection of ultrasound probes 12
Michael Collins   Possible physiological adaptation of respiratory pathogens: A novel approach to diagnosis 13
Jack Dobson Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust Comparison of Biomérieux Reveal against Phoenix for antimicrobial susceptibility testing 14
Michael McCarthy Cardiff Metropolitan University Anticandidal Properties of Myxobacteria Isolated from Soil 15
Krishna Chavda Leicester Royal Infirmary How do macrophages deal with multiple infection challenges by the lethal fungus Cryptococcus neoformans?  16
Deugi Dipika   Evaluation and clinical suitability of enteric viral RT- PCR assay in diagnosis of infectious gastroenteritis in comparison to lateral flow test 17
Bronte Drummond Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Comparison of BD-COR and BD-Viper molecular instruments in STI diagnostics 18
Joy Oloya Pathology First Synlab Arthrographis kalrae onychomycosis: Isolation, Implications for diagnosis and treatment 19
Aishwarya Arungirinathan UK NEQAS Development of a Bespoke External Quality Assessment Scheme for Heart Valves 20
Rasiyan Salih University Of Greenwich  Novel application of PRAME/MelanA IHC double-labelling within Lentigo Maligna (LM) 21
 
Cellular Pathology
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Ana Catarina Marques Andrade University Of Greenwich  A retrospective study investigating how common serrated adenocarcinomas are  using morphological and immunohistochemical data 22
Joanne Martin   Phox2b staining in the evaluation of enteric neuropathies 23
Aoife McArdle Queen's University, Belfast 7-plex immunofluorescence and one object classifier to rule them all? 24
Zainab Ramji St John's Institute of Dermatology, Synnovis A novel approach to rapid on site slow Mohs processing 25
Ana Raquel Lobo da Rocha York And Scarborough Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Can immunohistochemistry detect KRAS G12D mutations in colorectal carcinoma 26
Gillian Stewart Northern Health & Social Care Trust Digital pathology: streamlining breast pathology reporting in symptomatic cores  27
Natalie Wilson University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust Analysis of normal range glomerular basement membrane thickness and variability with glomerular disease 28
Rita Carreira CRUK- Cambridge Institute - University Of Cambridge Comparison of hybridisation chain reaction and RNAscope® for mRNA detection 29
David Allen Sonic Healthcare/Health Service Laboratories Stability testing in immunohistochemistry 30
Imogen-May Hammond Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital Trust The reclassification of colorectal hyperplastic polyps to sessile serrated lesions 31
 
Cytopathology
Presenter Company Title Board no.
Alison Knight South West Pathology, Synlab Red blood cell removal from heavily bloodstained diagnostic cytology serous fluid samples using Sigma Red Blood Cell Lysing Buffer 32
Molly McDowell-Sweet Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust CytoFoam use for Ancillary Testing in Cytology 33
 
Education, Training and Laboratory Management
Presenter Company Title Board no.
Jim Taylor Head of Digital Education, IBMS GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 1) 34
Jim Taylor Head of Digital Education, IBMS GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 2) 35
Thursday posters
Quality Management
Presenter Company Title Board no.
Margaret Babatunde UK NEQAS for Microbiology UK NEQAS Novel EQA in development – Group B Streptococcus Screening     1
Felicity Newman-Webb University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust Identifying an efficient Quality Management System: Comparisons of Lighthouse Laboratories 2
Thomas Phillips University of The West of England What the Laboratory Medicine Community Thinks of ISO 15189:2012 Accreditation 3
Dipali Pindoria UK Health Security Agency Use of Concentration Systems for Parasite Recovery in UK NEQAS Parasitology 4
Victoria Heath Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust Breaking the Lab Barrier: A case study on biomedical scientists utilising pathology knowledge, skills and behaviour in strategic leadership roles  5
 
Point of Care Testing
Presenter Company Title Board no.
Lilia Brown UK NEQAS For Blood Coagulation EQA for activated clotting time:UK NEQAS study on gem hemochron100 6
Lilia Brown UK NEQAS For Blood Coagulation EQA for activated clotting time:UK NEQAS study on istat 7
Fiona Riddoch Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust D-dimer; understanding pitfalls in comparing POCT and laboratory methods 8
Sophie Shepherd Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Internal Quality Assessment in the absence of an EQA scheme 9
Elifcan Topsogut Berkshire and Pathology Services, Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Blot the difference: comparing automated vs manually read urinalysis results 10
Shazeena Hussain Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust Developing Microbiology Point of Care Testing during the Covid-19 Pandemic      11
Naomi Mason University Hospitals of Derby and Burton NHS Foundation Trust Introducing a rapid molecular POC Group A Streptococcus test 12
Rebecca Sharkey Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust Point of Care Abbott iSTAT Hydroxycarbamide interference in Creatinine results 13
Carolyn Piggott NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Southern Hub Analytical sensitivity of 11 qualitative faecal immunochemical tests for haemoglobin 14
 
Clinical Chemistry
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Carolyn Piggott NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Southern Hub Method comparison and commutability study among four FIT systems 15
Sarah Sprawling Northumbria NHS Trust Interfrence from butanediols in a commercial ethylene glycol assay 16
Godwin Tetteh Berkshire and Surrey Pathology Services An lcms c-peptide method for dry blood spot samples    17
Panna Mistry Royal United Hospitals Bath Foundation Trust Association of Inflammatory markers with COVID-19 Outcomes and Severity: A Retrospective Cohort Study 18
John Shepherd SHYPS - York And Scarborough NHS FT Using FAI for Biochemical Evidence of Hyperandrogenaemia in Females : Mass spectrometry vs Immunoassay derived results 19
Sukhjinder Marwah Haematology Department, Sandwell General Hospital, Birmingham Lactate dehydrogenase based-ratio predicts multiorgan response following COVID-19 infection 20
Rachel Marrington   Does your EQA falsely reassure you? 21
Hannah Wauchope Princess Alexandra Hospital NHS Trust Optimisation of a microsampling device for collection of HbA1c samples 22
Gareth Davies WEQAS, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board WEQAS Problem Solving Algorithm – Troubleshooting Performance Issues; A Case Study  23
Philip Logue Northern Trust Health and Social Care A Laboratory suspicion of a hidden cryoglobulin directly impacting on patient care 24
Shane O'Driscoll NHS Bowel Cancer Screening Programme Southern Hub Comparison of Eiken OC-FCa and BHULMANN fCAL-Turbo faecal calprotectin methods 25
 
Immunology
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Emily Louise Apsley Health Services Laboratories A comparison of ISAC-E112i and ALEX-2 Immunoassay test results 26
Nicholas Armfield The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust Utility of CSF Kappa Free Light Chain in Determining Demyelination 27
Samantha Bex Sheffield Teaching Hospitals - UK NEQAS IIA Pilot UK NEQAS for N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor (NMDAR) antibodies 28
Rebecca Cottage   Reference range review for the RSR acetylcholine receptor antibody assay 29
Issam Hussain University of Lincoln Differentiation of human bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells towards a neural lineage: in vitro study 30
Arfa Mahmood Manchester Metropolitan University A study of the effects of immunomodulators 6-mercaptopurine and 6-thioguanine on the crosstalk between human colon cancer cells and macrophages in vitro  31
Nikita Sinha University Hospitals of Leicester The clinical relevance of non-HLA antibodies in antibody-mediated rejection in a single centre kidney transplant patient cohort 32
Daisy Metcalfe Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust Clinical utility of reflex testing for intrinsic factor antibody in patients positive for gastric parietal cell antibody 33
Arnold Awuah Great Ormond Street Hospital A Functional Assay To Measure The T-cell Response To SARS-COV-2 In Primary Immunodeficiency Patients 34
Samantha Maslin Sheffield Teaching Hospitals - UK NEQAS IIA UK NEQAS for Fungal and Avian Antibodies- Next Steps 35
Zoe Taylor Nottingham University Hospitals Trust A change in our ANCA testing strategy 36

 

Education, Training and Laboratory Management
Presenter Company Title Board no.
Jim Taylor Head of Digital Education, IBMS GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 1) 37
Jim Taylor Head of Digital Education, IBMS GOING DIGITAL: IBMS Registration Training Portfolio Version 5.0 (poster 2) 38