Hi,
 
The West Midlands ACB Region are hosting a meeting on the 11th June 2014, at Walsgrave Hospital, Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust, Clinical Sciences Building,  Clifford Bridge Road, CV2 2DX to honour the career of Steve Smith.  Please see the programme below.
 

11.00                Arrival and coffee

 

Chair: Neil Anderson

 

11.15           Training Biochemists for the Future                                     Dr Frances Boa

 

11.45           Steve’s trainee: Genetic markers of Postnatal Depression           Amy Frank

 

12.00           Steve’s trainee: Building a Faecal Calprotectin service       Claudia Tomkins

 

12.15           Solving paediatric mysteries                                           Dr Heather Stirling

 

12.45           Lunch and networking

 

Chair: Prof. Dimitris Grammatopolous

 

13.30                      What does the future hold for working in laboratory medicine?

                                                                                                       Prof Eric Kilpatrick                          

14.00           Bowel cancer screening – the future looks even brighter!

                                                                                                  Prof Stephen Halloran

 

14.30           Laboratory-based screening for fetal anomalies      Dr Dave Worthington

 

15.00           Reconfiguration: More than ‘rearranging the deckchairs’!  Neil Anderson

 

15.30                      Meeting close

 

The registration costs are £20 for ACB members, £10 for pre-registration/retired members and £30 for non-members.  If you wish to register please go to the ACB website.  ACB members must login on the website to ensure they are charged at the correct delegate rates.  The meeting has been approved for CPD points by RCPath. The deadline for registration is the 5th June.  For directions to the venue please click on the following link http://www.uhcw.nhs.uk/for-patients-and-visitors/getting-here

 

Regards

 

Kam Chatha

Meeting Secretary West Midlands ACB

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