Report from the 2nd EFCC-UEMS congress in Dubrovnik
Dear members of the CSMBLM,
We wish to inform you that 2nd EFCC-UEMS congress „Laboratory medicine at the clinical interface" was held in Dubrovnik (10-13 October 2012) under the auspices of IFCC and member of the European Parliament Bernadette Vergnaud (responsible for the directive for regulation of professions). Congress organizers were EFLM, UEMS LM-SMB and CSMBLM as this congress was also 7th Congress of the Croatian Society of Medical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine. International program of the congress was preceded by well attended pre-congress CSMBLM symposium organized by the Croatian center for quality assessment in laboratory medicine.
598 participants from 50 different countries attended the congress. English was official spoken language. Besides classic plenary lectures, symposia and industry sponsored workshops, congress educational sessions were supplemented by interactive pro-con sessions with themes like accreditation, pharmacogenetics, thrombophilia screening etc. More information about congress topics can be found on official congress web pages (www.dubrovnik2012.com). Lecture and poster abstracts are published in the latest issue of Biochemia Medica (http://www.biochemia-medica.com/node/497).
Among 263 submitted abstracts, 10 best posters were awarded. Interactive poster walk was organized as a way of poster evaluation; one of the poster authors was expected to stand by the poster and to shortly present her/his work to the Poster Committee. It is important to stress out that, besides international competition, Croatian authors won respectable number of awards. We would like to congratulate them all!
First prize (1000 EUR) won poster entitled:
Mirošević Skvrce N, Božina N, Pejnović L, Barišić I, Zibar L, Macolić-Šarinić V
ABCG2 gene variant and fluvastatin adverse drug reactions in renal transplant recipients
Second prizes (500 EUR each) were equally awarded to the following posters:
- Tendle K
Performance of Nova StatStrip point of care blood glucose meter in a neonatal intensive care unit - Vučić Lovrenčić M, Božičević S, Radišić Biljak V, Mesić R, Poljičanin T, Metelko Ž
Implications of variable preanalytical procedures for the diagnosis of diabetes mellitus in Croatia - Schenk P, Romijn F, Kolb R, Cobbaert C
Sodium measurements in urine by the patient at home: primary limitations overcome - Kristoffersen A, Stavelin A, Vannes S, Berge Kristensen GB
Pre-analytical routines in coagulation testing: are guidelines followed? - Mikulić I, Petrik J, Čepelak I, Tomić M, Baković V, Mikulić V
Nitric oxide and homocysteine in patients with chronic kidney disease - Somborac Bačura A, Rumora L, Šribar D, Popović-Grle S, Čepelak I, Žanić Grubišić T
MMP-9 and TIMP-1 concentrations in plasma of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease - Konderak J, Elmardi A, Farkas B, Pinter E
Screening for the urinary tract infections using Sysmex UF 1000i flow cytometer - Štefanović M, Delić R, Krivec Š
Standard and new laboratory markers and their usefulness in prediction of preeclampsia - Silva N, Martins S, Tuna D, Lourenço P, Bettencourt P, Guimaraes J
Vitamin D status in heart failure patients is dependent on the assay method used
By combining up-to-date and interesting themes from the fields of laboratory medicine and clinical practice and highly efficient congress organization, this conference strongly contributed to the promotion of laboratory medicine interdisciplinary. It also set up high standards to the organizers of the next EFCC-UEMS conference which will be held in Liverpool in 2014.
CSMBLM Committee for information and public relations