We are pleased to share with you the preliminary programme of the meeting.


08:30 – 09:00 Welcome coffee
09:00 – 11:00 Part 1. Cardiovascular prevention and patient empowerment
Chairs: Dr. Michel Langlois (AZ St. Jan Bruges) and Prof. Ernst Rietzschel (UZ Gent, President BAS)
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
09:30 – 10:00 Standardization and Quantification of Lp(a)
Dr. M. Langlois, Department of Laboratory Medicine, AZ St. Jan Bruges, Belgium
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)
10:30 – 10:45 Oral communication: Best abstract in Clinical Chemistry
10:45 – 11:10 Coffee break
11:10 – 11:50 Guided poster tour
11:50 – 12:45 Lunch break
12:45 – 13:30 Part 2. Sponsored Satellite symposium
13:30 – 15:50 Part 3. Early Detection of Disease in Asymptomatic Individuals
Chairs: TBD
13:30 – 14:00 Population-based 1st-tier Genomic Newborn Screening - Results of BabyDetect Study
Prof. F. Boemer, Biochemical Genetics Laboratory, Newborn Screening Centre, CHU Liège, Belgium
14:00 – 14:30 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
14:30 – 15:40 Screening in (gestational) Diabetes
14:30 – 14:55 Screening gestational diabetes
TBD
14:55 – 15:20 Autoimmunity in diabetes, pre-analytics and analytics (HbA1c, fructosamine)
TBD
15:50 Wrap up and end of the 2025 RBSLM Annual Meeting