ACB Southern Region - Summer Scientific Meeting
Thursday 17th July 2003

The Well-Informed Laboratory"
and "Goodbye to John McVittie"

Unipart Conference Centre, Unipart House, Garsington Road, Cowley,
Oxford
OX4 2PG

10:00 Coffee and Registration
10:30 The need for identifiers and the future of LIMS in the era of the
EPRs
Dr John McVittie
11:00 Lab Tests Online, communicating with patients about laboratory
medicine
Dr James McGuire
11:15 Laboratory Handbooks: why hypertext is the best medium and how it
can
help us to collaborate
Dr Christos Bountis
11:30 Quality assessment of advice
Dr Gordon Challand
12:00 Simulation is cheaper than experiment
Dr Brian Shine
12:30 Laboratory information at the difficult side of the
clinical-laboratory interface
Dr Jonathan Kay
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Evidence-based laboratory medicine
Dr Andrew Moore
14:40 Lithium and Thyroid Registers: making sense of the numbers
Dr James Falconer Smith
15:10 How clinical outcomes depend on laboratory medicine
Prof Chris Price
15:50 Summing up
16:00 Close

The Unipart Conference Centre is situated just off the A4142 Oxford
ring;
less than 3 miles from the city centre and has easy access from the M40
and
A34. Free car parking is available on site at the conference venue. For
location map see: http://www.univenue.co.uk/i_index.htm and follow the
link.
Cost: Meeting £15 (free to Grade A Clinical Scientists)
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Return with your fee (Cheque payable to ACB Southern Region) before
Friday
4th July 2003 to:
Mrs Mary Ross, Department of Clinical Biochemistry, Level 4, John
Radcliffe
Hospital, Headley Way, Headington, Oxford OX3 9DU
E-mail: mary.ross@... Tel +44 (0)1865 220473, Fax +44 (0)1865
220348