Dear members,

We invite you to participate in e-seminar „Rational use of laboratory tests" on April 26th 2016 at 18:00 CET. Seminar will be given by Prof.Gustav Kovac, Chair of the EFLM Workgroup for Congresses and postgraduate Education, President of Slovak Society of Laboratory Medicine and Chair of the Institute of Biochemistry, Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine at Slovak Medical University in Bratislava (Slovakia)

To participate in the e-seminar please register at the link:
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/eflm20162

On the day of the e-seminar you will have to link to e-seminar room:
https://connect.cesnet.cz/eflm (login as Guest)

The number of attendees is limited. This e-seminar is free of charge.

Committee for information and public relations

Dear members,

It is with great sadness that we inform you that prof.dr.Gerard Siest has passed away. He was president of IFCC (1991-1996) and for 12-year period he was Editor-in-Chief of CCLM. His last "pet project" was the foundation of the European Society for Pharmacogenomics and Personalized Therapy in which he was a president. Please find in attachment a letter from Prof. Dr. Michael Neumaier (on behalf of the EFLM Executive Board),vice president of EFLM.

Committee for information and public relations

Dear members,

on behalf of the EFLM Task and Finish Group for Standardization of the colour coding for blood collection tube closures we would like to ask you to fill out their questionnaire. On the following links you can find more information about the questionnaire and proposal for the color coding standard of the blood:

Letter from Ana-Maria Šimundić, Chair of the EFLM TFG-STCC

EFLM TFG-STCC Proposal for the color coding standard of the blood

The deadline to fill in this questionnaire is 25 April, 2016. You may access the questionnaire here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/TFG-STCC

Committee for information and public relations