Scientific program

PCS

Pre-congress symposium

Chair: Nora Nikolac Gabaj

12:00-12:30

10 most common mistakes when writing a scientific paper.

Marijana Miler (Zagreb, Croatia)

12:30-13:00

(Mis)use of statistics in scientific publishing

Nora Nikolac Gabaj (Zagreb, Croatia)

13:00-13:30

What has salami got to do with science?

Vesna Šupak Smolčić (Rijeka, Croatia)

13:30-14:00

Where to submit my paper?

Ana Turčić (Zagreb, Croatia)

14:00-14:30

Break

PISW

14:30-15:00

Pre-congress industry sponsored workshop​

PCS

Young scientists pre-congress symposium

Chair: Ivana Lapić

15:00-15:20

Personalized diet based on the gut microbiota profile

Ena Melvan (Split, Croatia)

15:20-15:40

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic and the laboratory: experience from the University-Hospital of Padova

Ada Aita (Padova, Italy)

15:40-16:00

Challenges in introducing the expanded newborn screening in Croatia

Iva Bilandžija Kuš (Zagreb, Croatia)

16:00-16:20

Everything is easier when you are young: personal experiences of involvement in professional activities

Tara Rolić (Osijek, Croatia)

19:00-19:45​

Opening Ceremony ​KRAŠ Auditorium

19:45-20:30​

Honorary Lecture​ KRAŠ Auditorium

20:30-22:00

Welcome reception​ KRAŠ Auditorium

ME1

Meet the expert session

Chair: Lara Milevoj Kopčinović

8:00-8:45

Biomedical journal editing: a view from the inside

Daria Pašalić (Zagreb, Croatia)

ME2

Meet the expert session

Chair: Dario Mandić

8:00-8:45

Everything you always wanted to know about the external quality control (but were afraid to ask) - CROQALM

Jasna Leniček Krleža (Zagreb, Croatia)

8:45-9:00

Break

S1

Symposium 1

New technologies in laboratory medicine

Chair: Željko Debeljak

9:00-9:20

Total automation, Point-of-care testing and wearables: which will be the winner in laboratory medicine?

Mario Plebani (Padova, Italy)

9:20-9:40

Next generation sequencing (NGS) in personalized medicine and pharmacogenomics

Mario Štefanović (Zagreb, Croatia)

9:40-10:00

Diagnostic applications of mass sectrometry imaging

Željko Debeljak (Osijek, Croatia)

10:00-10:15

Discussion

10:15-10:45

Break

PL1

Plenary lecture 1

Chair: Dunja Rogić

10:45 - 11:30 

Is external quality assurance useful?
Sverre Sandberg (Bergen, Norway)

ISW

11:45-12:45

Industry sponsored workshop​

PS

12:45-13:45

Poster session​

13:45-14:30

Lunch

ISW

14:30-15:15

Industry sponsored workshop​

S2

Symposium 2

Application of data science in laboratory diagnostics improvement

Chair: Lidija Bilić-Zulle

15:15-15:35

Development of (laboratory) medicine in digital revolution

Bojan Hadžisejdić (Zagreb, Croatia)

15:35-15:55

Data analysis as a source of new knowledge

Lidija Bilić-Zulle (Rijeka, Croatia)

15:55-16:15

Application of laboratory data mining

Vesna Šupak Smolčić (Rijeka, Croatia)

16:15-16:30

Discussion

ME1

Meet the expert session

Chair: Nora Nikolac Gabaj

8:00-8:45

Biostatistics and results interpretation

Lidija Bilić-Zulle (Rijeka,Croatia)

ME2

Meet the expert session

Chair: Vesna Šupak Smolčić

8:00-8:45

Autovalidation

Vladimira Rimac (Zagreb, Croatia)

Ana Turčić (Zagreb, Croatia)

8:45-9:00

Break

S3

Symposium 3

News in hematology

Chair: Leida Tandara

9:00-9:20

New parameters measured by hematology counters as an added value in the diagnostics of thrombotic microangiopathies

Marija Miloš (Zagreb, Croatia)

9:20-9:40

Automated methods for extravascular body fluid cell and differential count

Lara Milevoj Kopčinović (Zagreb, Croatia)

9:40-10:00

Microscopic analysis of peripheral blood smear in the digital era

Leida Tandara (Split, Croatia)

10:00-10:15

Discussion

10:15-10:45

Break

PL2

Plenary lecture 1

Chair: Sanja Mandić

10:45-11:30

There is a leader in every specialist in laboratory medicine. Let's wake him up!

Ana-Maria Šimundić (Zagreb, Croatia)

ISW

11:45-12:45

Industry sponsored workshop​

PS

12:45-13:45

Poster session​

13:45-14:30

Lunch

ISW

14:30-15:00

Industry sponsored workshop​

S4

Symposium 4

A modern laboratory and a medical biochemist in it

Chair: Dunja Rogić

15:00-15:20

Rational test ordering - from impression to action

Dunja Rogić (Zagreb, Croatia)

15:20-15:40

Biochemist as a consultant - myth or reality

Ivana Rako (Zagreb, Croatia), Margareta Radić Antolic (Zagreb, Croatia)

15:40-16:00

Laboratory as a business process: automation, informatization and optimization

Vatroslav Šerić (Osijek, Croatia)

16:00-16:20

Accreditation according to the ISO 15 189 in Croatia - are we for or against it?

Ivana Lapić (Zagreb, Croatia)

16:20-16:30

Discussion

19:30-23:30

Congress Dinner*

 
*Poster Presentation and the Best Poster Presentation Award will take place during the Congress dinner

ME1

Meet the expert session

Chair: Željko Debeljak

8:30-9:15

The perfect public procurement procedure – mission impossible

Leida Tandara (Split, Croatia)

ME2

Meet the expert session

Chair: Sanja Mandić

8:30-9:15

Let"s talk about human reproductivity - fertility and problems of infertility

Marijan Tandara (Split, Croatia)

9:15-9:30

Break

S5

Symposium 5

Pediatric laboratory diagnostics

Chair: Dario Mandić

9:30-9:50

Starvation biomarkers in pediatric anorexia nervosa

Orjena Žaja (Zagreb, Croatia)

9:50-10:10

Laboratory diagnostic of congenital adrenal hyperplasia using LC-MS/MS

Dario Mandić (Osijek, Croatia)

10:10-10:30

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia – diagnostic challenges

Katja Dumić Kubat (Zagreb, Croatia)

10:30-10:45

Discussion

10:45-11:15

Break

ISW

11:15-12:15

Industry sponsored workshop​

12:15-12:45

Lunch

S6

Symposium 6

Thyroid hormone analysis: challenges and solutions

Chair: Sanja Mandić

12:45-13:00

Thyroid hormones during pregnancy

Vesna Horvat (Osijek, Croatia)

13:00-13:15

Catch me if you can

Iva Lukić (Osijek, Croatia)

13:15-13:30

Laboratory assessment of thyroid function from a physician’s perspective

Darko Kaštelan (Zagreb, Croatia)

13:30-13:45

Designing, implementing and evaluating autoverification rules for thyroid hormones

Sanja Mandić (Osijek, Croatia)

13:45-14:00

Discussion

14:00-14:15

Closing Remarks

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