AIMS NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING 

08.00 – 17.30	Registration                                                                                                                            Hall K
08.45 – 09.30	Official Opening                                                                                                                     Hall C His Excellency Rear Admiral Kevin Scarce AC CSC RANR, Governor of South Australia   AIMS Award presentations
09.30 – 10.15	Keynote Address                                                                                                                   Hall C  Peter Rathjen Stem Cell Research; Today and Tomorrow
10.15 – 11.00	Saal-Foley Lecture                                                                                                                  Hall C  John Glasson Innovation, Automation and Art
11.00 – 11.30	Morning break                                                                                                                        Halls J & K
11.30 – 13.00	Plenary Session 1                                                                                                                   Hall C Chair: John Stirling   Susan Branford Molecular monitoring of chronic myeloid leukaemia – recent developments and their clinical significance   Stuart Blacksell Commercial diagnostics for acute dengue infection – the Southeast Asian experience
13.00-14.00	Lunch and Posters                                                                                                   Halls J & K
14.00 – 15.30	Session 1 Biochemistry Riverbank Room 2 Chair: Peter Coyle	Session 2 Microbiology Riverbank Room 1 Chair: Peter Traynor	Session 3 Haematology Hall C Chair: Marco Di Girolamao	Session 4 Histopathology Meeting Room 9 Chair: Michelle Tamblyn	Session 5 Transfusion and Transplantation Meeting Room 10 Chair: Brian Dale	Session 6 Molecular Pathology Meeting Room 11 Chair: David Nielsen
	Helen Martin Case studies   RCPA QAP Shaw Callen Monitoring your methods with chemical pathology QAP	Jan Bell MBLs and ESBLs   John Merlino MRSA: a successful pathogen today and tomorrow   Ian Kay Vancomycin resistant enterococci	Ross Brown Multiple myeloma   RCPA QAP Ros Bonar and Fifin Intan Advances in haematology QAP including virtual microscopy   Colin Story Measurement Uncertainty (MU) - in haematology	Janette Thurley Neuronal and axon guidance in brain development   Ruth Davies IHC Case studies   Sharin Prakash Lynch Syndrome (HNPCC) – the role of Immunohistochemistry for mismatch gene protein in screening of patients	Sue McLennan Blood salvage     David Roxby Advances in response to massive blood loss	Graeme Suthers The State of Play: genetic testing in Australia   Elizabeth Thompson Huntington Disease: clinical aspects of genetic testing   Lesley Snell Laboratory Diagnosis of Huntington’s Disease
15.30 – 16.00	Afternoon break                                                                                                     Halls J & K
16.00 – 17.30	Session 7 Biochemistry Riverbank Room 2 Chair: Marco Di Girolamao	Session 8 Microbiology Riverbank Room 1 Chair: Peter Traynor	Session 9 Haematology Hall C Chair: Olivia Jacoub	Session 10 Histopathology Meeting Room 9 Chair: Michelle Tamblyn	Session 11 Changing patterns of disease Meeting Room 10 Chair: Peter Coyle	Session 12 Immunology Meeting Room 11 Chair: David Nielsen
	Michael Metz Cases in kids' chemistry   Peter Clements Metabolomics: revolutionising today’s medical science for tomorrow	Andrew Lawrence Laboratory diagnosis and further differentiation of meningococcal disease and strains of neisseria meningitides   RCPA QAP Elizabeth Haremza Overview and key challenges   Mitchell Brown Unusual isolates: tips and troubleshooting ideas	Pam Dyson Monitoring post transplant recovery   Neil Horton Bone Marrow Donation "The Agony and the Ecstasy"   Matthew Jackson Experiences of a bone marrow recipient	David Eitzen and Maria Bellis SA Forensic Histopathology: from the beginning to now	John Merlino Changing Patterns of Antimicrobial Resistances in Bacterial Infections   Beverly Mühlhäusler Future health challenges: an intergenerational perspective   Keith Eastwood Influenza update: paradigms and pandemics	RCPA QAP Loretta Wheatland Immunology QAP and your laboratory   Deane Byers Serology QAP case studies
17.30 – 18.30	APACE Happy Hour (open to currently APACE accredited delegates only)                          Halls J & K
19.30 - Late	Haematology Discipline Dinner: Red Ochre Restaurant Histology Discipline & Clinical Chemistry Discipline Dinner: Jolley’s Boathouse Microbiology Discipline Dinner: Alphutte Restaurant

08.00 – 17.15	Registration                                                                                                            Hall K
09.00 – 10.30	Plenary session 2                                                                                                    Hall C Chair: Tony Woods Ulysses Balis Update on Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) Technology: incremental algorithmic advances making deployment in surgical pathology an increasingly viable proposition   Brendan McMorran Novel host-protection mechanisms in malaria infection
10.30 – 11.00	Morning break                                                                                        Halls J & K
11.00 – 12.30	Session 13 QAP Hall C Chair: Penny Petinos	Session 14 Microbiology Rickettsial Symposium Riverbank Room 1 Chair: John Merlino		Session 15 Haematology Riverbank Room 2 Chair: Olivia Jacoub		Session 16 Histopathology Meeting Room 10 Chair: John Stirling			Session 17 Molecular Pathology Meeting Room 11 Chair: Jacqueline Carroll
	RCPA QAP Penny Petinos Key incident monitoring and management systems (KIMMS)   David Porter Using KIMMS to engender improvement in clinical practice   Kathy Bayley Pre - analytical errors – making a difference	Stuart Blacksell Diagnosis of Rickettsial disease in SE Asia   Steven Graves Epidemiology and diagnosis of Rickettsial disease in Australia		Joe Manitta Malaria update   Kaye McCallum Case studies   Valli Gomierato Case studies		Ulysses Balis Lessons learned from advanced bar code driven asset tracking, automation and workflow management for anatomic pathology: the combined Massachusetts General Hospital and University of Michigan experiences     Sue Sturrock Back to the future   Colin Gordon Something basic about fuchsin			Hamish Scott Towards your personal genome sequence   Madelyn Zawitkowski   Familial cancer and the genetic testing process   Hamish Scott Epigenetic hypermutation
12.30 – 13.00	Lunch and Posters                                                                                                   Halls J&K
13.00 – 14.00   14.00 – 14.30	AIMS Annual General Meeting                                                                              Meeting Room 10 Meet the AIMS Board (AIMS Members Only)   Tony Woods                                                                                                            Meeting Room 10 Update on Registration of Medical Scientists (All Welcome)
14.30 – 15.30	Session 18 Biochemistry Hall C Chair: David Nielsen	Session 19 Transfusion and Transplantation Riverbank Room 1 Chair: Maureen Jacobsen		Session 20 Flow cytometry Riverbank Room 2 Chair: Ross Brown		Session 21 Histopathology: Cut up Meeting Room 10 Chair: Tony Woods		Session 22 Pandemic Responses Meeting Room 11 Chair: Neil Horton
	Mark Shephard New initiatives in POCT for rural and remote communities   Penny Coates Case Studies	RCPA QAP Geoff Magrin General Transfusion program: transition to a web-based program   Arthur Joyce Laboratory performance in the detection of Weaker Expression of ABO Blood Group Antigens - a comparison of Educational Exercises from 2004 and 2008		Heddy Zola Monoclonal antibodies and flow cytometry – techniques made for each other and for pathology   Peter Gambell Monoclonal B-cell Lymphocytosis (MBL) & Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia (CLL) – Clinical Implication and Flow Cytometry Application		Case studies Yee Khong Changes to NPAAC documentation for the performance of the pathology surgical cut-up   Grant Taggart Surgical cut-up – skin and skin pathology		Keith Eastwood Lessons from H1N1 09: is Australia ready for a real pandemic?
15.30 – 16.00	Afternoon break                                                                                     Halls J&K
16.00 – 17.15   Proffered papers	Session 23 Proffered papers Hall C Chair: Maureen Jacobsen		Session 24 Proffered Papers Riverbank Room 1 Chair: Ralph Green		Session 25 Histopathology: Cut up (cont) Meeting Room 10 Chair: Michelle Tamblyn		Session 26 Young Scientists Meeting Room 11 Chair: Brian Dale
	Clifford Hughes A case presentation of polycythemia rubra vera related to Janus Kinase – 2 (JAK-2) Exon 12 mutation R541-E543delinsK   Robyn Wells Unusual cases of haemolytic anaemia in children   Vana Papasimeon Clinical utility of automated malarial discriminant factors for detecting malariaon the Beckman Coulter LH750		Sydney Yuen Ictal status   Merrianne Wardle Tackling training, competency and service delivery in a challenging environment		Case studies   Christine Mott   Kellie Madigan   Lisa Mills		Maria Garcia Metallothionein-I and -II are needed to protect the growing skeleton during acute methotrexate chemotherapy: possibilities for protective zine-therapy treatment   Deanna Wallis Investigation of the pre-analytical variables of the XACT test for the assessment of in-vivo platelet activation and preliminary clinical studies   Nesrine Kamal Bassal Regulation of indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase by polyunsaturated fatty acids-interfering with cancer mediated immunosuppression
19.00 – 23.30	Conference Dinner                                                  Hall F, Adelaide Convention Centre

08.30 – 15.00	Registration                                                                                                                            Hall K
09.00 – 10.30	Plenary session 3                                                                                                                    Hall C Chair: John Stirling   Howard Morris Traceability and standardisation of immunoassays: a major challenge   Barney Rudzki Present and future directions in diagnostic molecular pathology
10.30 – 11.00	Morning break                                                                                                                        Halls J & K
11.00 – 12.30	Session 27 New Diagnostics and Research Hall C Chair: Peter Coyle	Session 28 Microbiology Riverbank Room 1 Chair: Stuart Blacksell	Session 29 Haematology/Haemostasis Riverbank Room 2 Chair: Brian Dale	Session 30 Histopathology Meeting Room 10 Chair: Tony Woods	Session 31 Economics and transfusion Meeting Room 11 Chair: John Lown
	Enzo Ranieri Neonatal screening for biochemical disorders   Greg Goodall MicroRNAs involved in tumour metastasis	Richard Lumb Update on TB   Harsha Sheorey Clinical parasitology   Bernard Hudson The fifth human malaria (with a case study)	Simon McRae New therapies and tests in haemostasis   Tom Exner Haemostasis techniques of tomorrow   Bronwyn Williams Paediatric Immunity	Rob Moore Biology of spinal fusion   Ulysses Balis Creating consortial momentum for the electronic exchange of clinical laboratory results via true interoperability standards: The LIDEx experience to date.   Roger Byard Recent advances in forensic pathology – South Australia’s Contribution	Shannon Farmer Economic modelling for blood usage   Kathryn Robinson Hospital transfusion practice improvement
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch and Posters                                                                                                                   Halls J&K
13.30 – 15.00	Plenary session 4                                                                                                                    Hall C   John McBride Dengue fever   Closing Address                                                     Mr Hieu Van Le Lieutenant Governor of South Australia and Chairman of the South Australian Multicultural and Ethnic Affairs Commission
	Close of conference

Conference Program

 

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Social Program

An exciting social program has been planned with functions listed below. Please book on the registration form.

 

Whisky Tasting

Date: Monday 12 October 2009

Time: 18.30

Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre

Dress Code: Smart Casual

Costs : $35.00

With guidance from an expert, sample 8 fine whiskies in an informal setting. Numbers are limited.

 

Opening Cocktail Reception

Date: Tuesday 13 October 2009

Time: 18.00 – 19.30

Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre

Dress Code: Smart casual

Costs: Included in full registration fee

Additional Ticket: $65.00

This evening is a great way to catch up with old friends and colleagues while celebrating the opening of what will be a fantastic Conference.

 

APACE Happy Hour

Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009

Time: 17.30 – 18.30

Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre

Dress Code: Smart casual

Costs: No cost. For APACE accredited delegates only.

The APACE Happy Hour recognises APACE accredited delegates and provides an opportunity for networking and to hear the latest information about the APACE program. It is a free event, open to currently APACE accredited delegates only.

 

 

Networking Discipline Dinners - Wednesday 14 October (Optional)

Book Early. Numbers are limited

The rates provided are current at time of printing, but are subject to change. Transport to and from the restaurant is the responsibility of the delegate. On booking to dine with one of these groups you commit yourself and agree to pay the additional fees should rates increase.

 

Haematology/Coagulation/Transfusion Discipline Dinner

Red Ochre Restaurant

Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009

Time: 19.00 – 22.30

Location: War Memorial Drive, North Adelaide

Cuisine: Australian

Includes: Entrée, Main and Dessert and a selection of beverages

Cost per person: $85.00

 

Histology/Clinical Chemistry Discipline Dinner

Jolley’s Boathouse

Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009

Time: 19.00 – 22.30

Location: 1 Jolleys Lane, Adelaide

Cuisine: Australian

Includes: Entrée, Main and Dessert and a selection of beverages

Cost per person: $85.00

  

Microbiology Discipline Dinner

Alphutte Restaurant

Date: Wednesday 14 October 2009

Time: 19.00 – 22.30

Location: 242-244 Pultney Street, Adelaide

Cuisine: Swiss

Includes: Entrée, Main and Dessert and a selection of beverages

Cost per person: $85.00

 

Conference Dinner

Date: Thursday 15 October 2009

Time: 19.00 – 23.30

Venue: Adelaide Convention Centre

Dress Code: Smart casual

Costs: Included in full registration fee

Additional Ticket: $130.00

The Conference Dinner will be a night of entertainment and a way to relax and enjoy yourself after four days of workshops and sessions. Bring your dancing shoes and be ready for a fun and exciting night.