Pathology Horizons 2019
Day 1 – Thursday, 8th August 2019
18.00Registration. Opening of Conference & Welcome Reception
Day 2 – Friday, 9th August 2019
09:00 – Dr. Hugh Cormican – CEO, Cirdan Welcome & Conference Introduction
09:15 – Dr. Ulysses G. J. Balis, University of Michigan, USA
Title: “Empowering Pathologists to Directly Interrogate Digital Histology Subject Matter with Open Source – Introducing the VIPER Studio Histology Machine Learning Platform as an Exemplar”
09:45 – Dr. Niamh Buckley, Queen’s University Belfast, N.Ireland Title: “Where We Are and Where We Are Going – The Winding Road of Cancer Immunotherapy Biomarkers”
10:15 – Q&A
10.25 – Coffee Break
10:45 – Dr. Darragh McArt, Sonrai Analytics, N. Ireland
Title: “Data Integration Driving Analytics for Modern Day Healthcare”
11.15– Dr. Louise Harewood, Precision Medicine Centre, N. Ireland
Title: “Cancer Genomics: A Precision Medicine Centre Perspective”
11:45 – Grahame Grieve, Health Intersections Pty Ltd, Australia Title: “FHIR: Transforming the Pathology Business Relationship”
12:15 – Q&A
12.25 – Lunch
13:30 – Dr. Jonathan Liu, University of Washington, USA
Title: “Non-destructive 3D Pathology with Open-top Light-sheet Microscopy for Precision Medicine”
14:00 – Prof. Peter Hamilton, Philips, N. Ireland Title: “Integrated Computational Pathology: Making Workflow Seamless”
14:30 – Q&A
14:40 – Coffee Break
15:00 – Prof. Stephen Fox, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, Australia. Title: “Using ctDNA for Precision Cancer Medicine: Is this the Future?”
15:30 – Dr. Anant Madabhushi, Case Western Reserve University, USA. Title: Artificial Intelligence and Computational Pathology: Implications for Precision Medicine
16:00 – Q&A
16.15 – Close
18.30 – Conference Dinner
Day 3 – Saturday, 10th August
09.30 – Mark Inglis ‘Unlimited’, New Zealand Title: The Accidental Opportunity’ Where Innovation meets Necessity
10.30 – Coffee Break
10:50 – Dr. Glenn Edwards, Eastern Health, Australia
Title: “The Value – and Future – of Public Pathology”
11.20 – Dr. Sanmarié Schlebusch, University of Queensland, Australia
Title: “Clinical Metagenomics – Are We There Yet?”
11.50 – Prof. Richard Levenson, UC Davis, USA
Title: “Path, Present & Future. Novel Microscopies, Novel Insights”
12:20 – Q&A
12:35 – Conference Close
12:45 – 13:45 – Lunch
15:15 – Conference Activity – TSS Earnslaw Cruise & Walter Peak Evening Dining.
A quintessential Kiwi experience- a delicious gourmet BBQ Dinner and a farm demonstration in a stunning lakeside setting.
*Please note: The Agenda is current as of the 5th July 2019 but is subject to change.