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EFLM-IFCC-FIFBCML

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

Thursday Nov. 19 Friday Nov. 20
09:30 – 10:00 Welcome coffee (Redwood Area)
10:00 – 12:00 Part 1. Morning session organized by the FAKB/AABC
Chairs: Dr. Kobe Truijens & Dr. Antoine Laffalize
10:00 – 10:20 Growing against the odds: A diagnostic plot twist in a prosthetic joint
Dr. ass. Bénédicte Vanhove, AZ Groeninge, Kortrijk, Belgium
10:20 – 10:40 Syphilis diagnosis: when serology isn't enough
Mrs. Salomé Gallemaers, CHU UCL Namur - Site Godinne, Namur, Belgium
10:40 – 11:00 Isolated CNS blast crisis in chronic myeloid leukemia
Mrs. Cato Vercaeren, UZ Leuven, Belgium
11:00 – 11:20 Potassium Bromide monitoring case: Building a therapeutic interpretation without established reference values
Dr. Hadrien Cools, Clinique Notre-Dame de Grâce, Gosselies, Belgium
11:20 – 11:40 Unexpected gel displacement after centrifugation: When contrast media compromise adrenal vein sampling
Dr. Sofie Bournons, UZ Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
11:40 – 12:00 Unlocking the molecular vault: A clinical case in molecular oncology
Dr. Rim Fekkak, CHR Citadelle, Liège, Belgium
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch break (Redwood Area)
13:00 – 14:45 Part 2. Hot topics in laboratory hematology
Chairs: Stijn Lambrecht & Robbe Heestermans
13:00 – 13:30 How to follow MRD in plasma cell malignancies?
Prof. Hans Jacobs, Radboud University Medical Center, The Netherlands
13:30 – 14:00 How to monitor CAR-T cells?
Prof. Guillaume Dachy, Hematology Department, Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc, Brussels, Belgium
14:00 – 14:30 How to monitor unfractionated heparin in 2026: guidelines from ISTH
Prof Isabelle Gouin-Thibault, Department of Hemostasis, University Hospital Rennes, France
14:30 – 14:45 Oral Communication: Best abstract in Hematology
14:45 – 15:15 Coffee break (Redwood Area)
15:15 – 16:15 Part 3. Driving value in laboratory hematology
Chairs: Prof. François Mullier & Trainee
15:15 – 15:35 Appropriate prescription of hematology analyses, From overtesting to right testing
Prof Delphine Borgel, Department of Hemostasis, University Paris-Saclay, France
15:35 – 15:55 Appropriate ordering in hemostasis: interventions to reduce overuse and underuse
Prof. François Mullier, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Hematology-hemostasis laboratory, UCL Namur, Namur, Belgium
15:55 – 16:15 Minimal retesting intervals in hematology: how to determine them
Prof. Dr. Ivana Lapić, University Hospital Zagreb, Croatia
16:15 – 18:00 Part 4. Key Note session
Chairs: Prof. Pieter Vermeersch & Dr. Michel Langlois
16:15 – 16:30 Presentation Best Paper Prize
16:30 – 17:30 European working group on data exchange
Dr. Ruben Smeets, Radboud University Hospital, The Netherlands
17:30 – 18:00 Data exchange at a national level, the Belgian perspective
Apr. Ann Verdonck, Department of Laboratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Belgium
18:00 – 19:00 Congress Cocktail Reception
19:30 Congress Dinner

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