PROGRAMME

FRIDAY 26th NOVEMBER

08.30
08.45
OPENING CEREMONY
Introduction of Congress and opening by Chair and IFCC President
Tim Lang (London, UK), Khosrow Adeli (Toronto, Canada)
08.45
09.30
Plenary 1
Chair: Tim Lang

COVID-19 and the impact on child health
Ruud Nijman (London, UK)
10.00
12.00
Symposium 1
Emerging Technologies in Pediatrics
Chairs: Tim Lang, Sharon Geaghan
  • Introduction to Emerging Technologies in Paediatrics
    Sergio Bernardini (Rome, Italy)
  • Paediatric related issue from Committee on Mobile Health and Bioengineering in Laboratory Medicine (C-MHBLM)
    Tahir Pillay (Cape Town, South Africa)
  • A Machine Learning Approach for the Automated Interpretation of
    Plasma Amino Acid Profiles
    Rachel Carling (London, UK)
12.15
14.15
Symposium 2
Mass spectrometry

Chairs: Yolanda de Rijke, Ronda Greaves
  • Updates in mass spectrometry related to paediatric topics
    Daniel Holmes, (Vancouver, Canada)
  • Lipidomics in Paediatrics
    Martin Hersberger (Zurich, Switzerland)
  • Differential diagnosis of steroid related disorders in DSD
    Stefan Wudy (Giessen, Germany)
14.30
15.30
Plenary 2
Chair: Sergio Bernardini

Ending diagnostic odyssey in undiagnosed rare diseases by WES
Ching-wan Lam (Hong Kong, China)
15.45
17.45
Symposium 3
Emerging applications of NGS in paediatrics

Chairs: Chloe Mak, Vijay Grey
  • Next generation sequencing on NBS using DBS, either second tier or first line screening
    Chloe Mak (Hong Kong, China)
  • Use of ultra rapid WGS in paediatrics
    Sebahattin Cirak (Cologne, Germany)
  • The Neonatal Intestinal Microbiome: Origins and Outcomes
    Nikhil Pai (Hamilton, Canada)

SATURDAY 27th NOVEMBER

08.30
09.30
Plenary 3
Chair: Klaus Kohse

Metabolic regulation of early growth and later health– opportunities for preventive strategies
Berthold Koletzko (Munich, Germany)
09.45
11.45
Symposium 4
Haematology
Chairs: Ioannis Papassotiriou, Sharon Geaghan
  • Prenatal genotyping for monitoring haemolytic anaemia of newborn
    Agnes Mailloux (Paris, France)
  • Endothelial dysfunction and coagulopathy in Covid-19
    Ioannis Papassotiriou (Athens, Greece)
  • Laboratory assessment of hematologic and immunologic parameters in Pediatric patients with Covid-19
    Chrysanthi Skevaki (Marburg, Germany)
12.00
14.00
Symposium 5
Data mining approach to clinical values

Chairs: Tze Ping Loh, Jakob Zierk
  • LIFE child study
    Wieland Kiess (Leipzig, Germany)
  • Data mining of pediatric reference intervals
    Jakob Zierk (Erlangen, Germany)
  • CALIPER Web and Mobile eApps: Electronic Tools for Pediatric Reference Interval Data Management
    Khosrow Adeli (Toronto, Canada)
14.15
15.15
Symposium 6
Oral Presentation of submitted abstracts

Chairs: Vijay Grey, Sharon Geaghan
  • A Novel Pipeline for the Estimation of Continuous Pediatric Reference Intervals using Real-World Data, Ammer Tatjana, Germany
  • Biochemical and liver biomarkers monitoring in Chilean hereditary tyrosinemic type-1 patients under NTBC treatment and protein-restricted diet, Fuenzalida Karen, Chile
  • Hypertension, hypokalaemia and metabolic alkalosis in a neonate, Chale- Matsau Bettina, South Africa
  • Maternal and neonatal vitamin B12 deficiency detected through expanded newborn screening in Southern Spain, Yahyaoui Raquel, Spain
15.15
15.30
CLOSING CEREMONY