Kerry has been the laboratory manager in an acute trust with multiple clinical specialities including trauma and transplant for 8 years. She has a keen interest in technology and education leading her to take up the role of the chair of the UKTLC. She is also the deputy chair of the national laboratory managers group for Blood Transfusion.
UKTLC Standards and survey Tuesday @ 11:30 AM
Shane is the Laboratory Manager at the International Blood Group Reference Laboratory (IBGRL). It is a tertiary reference laboratory where approximately half of the referrals are received from outside the UK, meaning that IBGRL resolve some of the world’s most complex immunohaematology cases.
The lab has identified many new blood groups, including recently, a number of new antigens within the Cartwright (YT), Lutheran (Lu), Indian (In) and Cromer (Cr) blood group systems. Shane finds working within this team and solving these puzzles a great challenge and extremely rewarding.
International Blood Group Reference Laboratory (IBGRL) – Finding New Blood Groups Wednesday @ 11:30 AM
Martin is senior lecturer in biomedical science in the Bioscience team at University of Sunderland, specialising in Haematology and Transfusion. He has previously worked for NHSBT, and NBS before it, for over 30 years, the last 25 of which was spent in the Red Cell Immunohaematology Laboratory.
Martin has a keen interest in mentoring, and overseeing placement students and of course lecturing and teaching the newer / younger potential biomedical scientists of the future.
Antibody Workshop Wednesday @ 12:45 PM
