| 08:10 – 08:40 |
Welcome coffee |
| 08:40 – 09:00 |
Awards Ceremony |
| 09:00 – 11:00 |
Part 1. Cardiovascular prevention and patient empowerment |
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Chairs: Dr. Michel Langlois (AZ St. Jan Bruges) and Prof. Ernst Rietzschel (UZ Gent, President BAS)
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| 09:00 – 09:30 |
Lp(a): What is it? And which are the available treatments?
Prof. Dr. F. Demeure, Department of Cardiology, CHU Namur, Belgium
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| 09:30 – 10:00 |
Standardization and Quantification of Lp(a)
Dr. M. Langlois, Department of Laboratory Medicine, AZ St. Jan Bruges, Belgium
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| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Okay, Lp(a) is high, what is next?
Prof. Dr. E. Rietzschel, Department of Cardiology, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium; President of the Belgian Atherosclerosis Society (BAS)
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| 10:30 – 10:45 |
Oral communication: Best abstract in Clinical Chemistry
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| 10:45 – 11:10 |
Coffee break |
| 11:10 – 11:50 |
Guided poster tour
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| 11:50 – 12:45 |
Lunch break |
| 12:45 – 13:30 |
Part 2. Siemens - Sponsored Symposium |
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Chairs: Mrs. Sabine Smets (Siemens Head of Marketing France and Belgium)
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| 12:45 – 13:30 |
The ELF test in a primary care setting: early liver fibrosis identification and risk stratification for improved patient care
M. Pugh , Siemens Marketing Manager Northwest Europe & D. De Clercq, Siemens Team Lead Clinical Excellence Southwest Europe.
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| 13:30 – 13:45 |
Oral communication: Second Best abstract in Clinical Chemistry
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| 13:45 – 15:35 |
Part 3. Early Detection of Disease in Asymptomatic Individuals |
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Chairs: Prof. Dr. E. Anckaert (VUB Brussels) and Prof. P. Vermeersch (KU Leuven)
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| 13:45 – 14:15 |
Population-based 1st-tier Genomic Newborn Screening - Results of BabyDetect Study
Prof. F. Boemer, Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, Newborn Screening Centre, CHU Liège, Belgium
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| 14:15 – 14:45 |
Optimization of CKD screening strategies by urine test strips using the albumin-creatinine read-out
Dr. M. Oyaert, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ghent University Hospital, Belgium
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| 14:45 – 15:35 |
Screening in (gestational) Diabetes
| 14:45 – 15:10 |
Screening gestational diabetes
Prof. K. Benhalima, UZ Leuven, Belgium
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| 15:10 – 15:35 |
(Pre) analytical challenges in the laboratory diagnosis of type I diabetes
Dr. L. Lutteri, Department of Clinical Chemistry, CHU of Liège, Belgium
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| 15:35 |
Wrap up and end of the 2025 RBSLM Annual Meeting |
