ACB Southern Region Committee would like to draw your attention to this
meeting and do hope you will be able to attend.

ACB Southern Region - Summer Scientific Meeting
Thursday 17th July 2003

The Well-Informed Laboratory"
and "Goodbye to John McVittie"

Unipart Conference Centre, Unipart House, Garsington Road, Cowley,  
Oxford
OX4 2PG

10:00           Coffee and Registration
10:30           The need for identifiers and the future of LIMS in the era of the
EPRs
Dr John McVittie
11:00           Lab Tests Online, communicating with patients about laboratory
medicine
Dr James McGuire
11:15   Laboratory Handbooks: why hypertext is the best medium and how it  
can
help us to collaborate
Dr Christos Bountis
11:30           Quality assessment of advice
                Dr Gordon Challand
12:00           Simulation is cheaper than experiment
                Dr Brian Shine
12:30   Laboratory information at the difficult side of the
clinical-laboratory interface
        Dr Jonathan Kay
13:00   Lunch
14:00   Evidence-based laboratory medicine
        Dr Andrew Moore
14:40           Lithium and Thyroid Registers: making sense of the numbers
                Dr James Falconer Smith
15:10           How clinical outcomes depend on laboratory medicine
Prof Chris Price
15:50           Summing up
16:00           Close

The Unipart Conference Centre is situated just off the A4142 Oxford  
ring;
less than 3 miles from the city centre and has easy access from the M40  
and
A34. Free car parking is available on site at the conference venue.  For
location map see:  http://www.univenue.co.uk/i_index.htm and follow the
link.
Cost: Meeting £15 (free to Grade A Clinical Scientists)
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Return with your fee (Cheque payable to ACB Southern Region) before  
Friday
4th July 2003 to:
Mrs Mary Ross, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Level 4, John  
Radcliffe
Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU
E-mail: [log in to unmask] Tel +44 (0)1865 220473, Fax +44 (0)1865  
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