Genetic haemochromatosis benchmarks

                                                             PROGRAMME

09.00 Registration, Coffee & Exhibition

Chair – Prof Rob Evans –Brunel University, Uxbridge

10.00 Testing for the Caucasian HFE mutation C282Y is not sufficient to identify patients with

haemochromatosis

Dr Kathryn Robson

Weatherall Institute of Molecular Medicine, University of Oxford

10.30 Measurement of liver iron in the management of haemochromatosis: an evolving approach

Prof Pierre Brissot

University Hospital Pontchaillou, Rennes, France

11.00 The pathology and treatment of iron overload due to inherited causes

Prof John Porter

University College, London

11.30 Break, networking and exhibition

12.00 Interpretation of laboratory tests of iron status

Prof Mark Worwood

Cardiff University

12.30 Test case studies -1–can you avoid the pitfalls?

Patricia Bignell & Alison May

John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford & Cardiff University School of Medicine

13.00 Lunch, networking and exhibition

14.00 Neonatal haemochromatosis, diagnosis and clinical management

Dr Suzanne Davison

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust

14.30 Development of a laboratory pathway to assist the diagnosis of hereditary

haemochromatosis in primary care

Catherine Ogilvie

Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow

15.00 Quantitation of serum hepcidin and related regulatory determinants of iron absorption-their

clinical application

Mark Busbridge

Imperial College, London

15.30 Break, networking and exhibition

16.00 Test case studies – 2 – can you avoid the pitfalls?

Patricia Bignell & Alison May

John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford & Cardiff University School of Medicine

16.30 Close of meeting

This meeting has been approved for 5 CPD credits by the Royal College of Pathologists which is also accepted by the IBMS.

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