MEDLAB TRACK 1 MEDLAB TRACK 2
October 20, 2020 - Tuesday

0900 - 1000

Panel discussion: Lab and pandemic management: Lessons learned

Moderator:

Dr Navapun Charuruks, Thai clinical pathologist, Educator;
Diplomat, Thai Board Clinical Pathology, National Blood Center, Thai Red Cross, Bangkok, Thailand

Panelists:

Prof Aw Tar Choon, Senior consultant and Director of Chemical Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Changi General Hospital, Singapore

Carlo Kaabar, Laboratory Manager, Al Qassimi Women & Children Hospital, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Dr Januario Veloso, Consultant Hematopathologist, Department of
Pathology, UP  College of Medicine and the Philippine General Hospital, Manila, Philippines

Dr Mongkol Kunakorn, Head, Department of Pathology, Faculty of
Medicine- Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

  

1030 – 1130

Application of AI & big data to the medical lab,how to do and is it time?

Speaker: 

Dr Ricardo Pais, Data Scientist, Digital Phenomics, Lisbon, Portugal 

 

Moderator:

Dr PK Menon, HOCD Clinical Lab, Fakeeh University Hospital, Dubai, UAE

 

1030 – 1130

KEYNOTE Live - Surveillance systems in a pandemic

Speaker: 

Dr Indumathi Venkatachalam, Consultant, Infectious Diseases, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore

Moderator:

Prof Nisarat Opartkiattikul, President, Thai Society of Clinical Pathology, Bangkok, Thailand

 

1200 – 1300

Networking break
 

1330 – 1430

ICAP Updates – Netherlands and Japan

ICAP: From HEp-2 IIFA pattern definition towards clinical relevance

Speaker:

Jan Damoiseaux, Laboratory specialist, Medical Immunology, Central Diagnostic Laboratory, Maastricht UMC, Maastricht, The Netherlands    

 

Rare patterns of ANA and approach to ICAP standardization in Japan

Speaker:

Prof Tsuneyo Mimori, Professor, Department of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan

Moderator:

Dr Mongkol Kunakorn, Head, Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine- Ramathibodi Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

1500 – 1600

Road to zero cases – Vietnam

Speaker:

A/Prof Le Thi Anh Thu, President, Ho Chi Minh City Infection Control Society, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

  

1630 – 1730

Lessons learned from successful management of COVID-19 in Thailand

Speaker:

Dr Tanarak Plipat, Deputy Director General, Department of Disease Control, MOPH, Thailand

End of day 1