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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