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
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| Presenter | Company | Title | Board no. |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
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 |