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*
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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