Presentations were grouped around future developments in the following areas: Advances in Diagnostics, Pathology Imaging, Pathology Informatics, Data Analytics and Pathology.
The programme for 2015 is below.
Thursday November 5:
Evening: 18.00-20.00 Registration & Welcome reception near the Poolside Bar
Demo zone open during the conference.
Friday November 6:
Morning : 9.00 Registration & Conference proceedings
Lunch : 12.30-13.30
Afternoon: Conference proceedings
Conference dinner 19.00 Aussie BBQ Buffet on the Dingo Deck
Saturday November 7:
Morning : 9.00 Conference proceedings & close
Lunch :12.30-13.30
Afternoon: 14.30 -16.30 Cruise around Fraser Island Coast
Detailed Programme of Talks
Friday November 6:
9.00 Welcome: Hugh Cormican | Cirdan
Theme: Advances in Diagnostics:
9.10-9.50
Speaker: Dr Anthony Gill |Royal North Shore Hospital, NSW (TBC)
Title: Lessons learnt for pathologists from the International Cancer Genome Consortium
Theme: Data Analytics for Pathology
9.50-10.25
Speaker: Ronan Herlihy | Clinical Excellence Commission and eHealth NSW
Title: Engaging Clinicians with Data on their ordering practices
10.25-10.50 Coffee Break
10.50-11.30
Speaker: Dr Damian Fogarty | Consultant Nephrologist, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust
Title: Pathology in the era of Connected Health: linking patients outcomes and data
11.30-12.10
Speaker: Dr. Malcolm Pradhan | Alcidion Corporation
Title: Integrating Pathology with Clincial Decision support & future impacts of deep learning development
12.10-12.30
Panel Discussion: Data Analytics
12.30-13.30 Lunch
Theme: Pathology Imaging
13.30-14.10
Speaker: Dr David Snead | Head of the UHCW NHS Trust Digital Pathology Centre of Excellence
Title:The use of digital pathology in the primary diagnosis of histopathology samples
14.10-14.50
Speaker: Prof. Peter Hamilton | PathXL & Queens University Belfast
Title: Next generation Imaging and Computer Vision in Pathology: pipedream or reality?
14.50-15.10
Speaker: Dr. Christine Swarbrick | Speciality Doctor, Cellular Pathology, Craigavon Hospital
Title: Pathology Imaging System – a User’s Perspective and wishlist for the future
15.10-15.30
Panel Discussion: Pathology Imaging
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
Theme: Advances in Diagnostics:
16.00-16.40
Speaker : Prof. Manuel Salto-Tellez | Queens University Belfast
Title: Personalised Medicine and the Future of Tissue Pathology
16.40-17.10
Panel Discussion: Advances in Diagnostics
Saturday November 7:
Theme: Pathology Informatics
9.00-9.30
Speaker: Colin Truesdale, Evolve of Kainos
Title: Bringing everyone together for efficient, better care
9.30-10.00
Speaker: Peter O’Halloran |The National Blood Authority of Australia
Title: Interfacing, automation and the internet of things – the digital disruption of transfusion laboratories is happening now
10.00-10.30 Coffee Break
10.30-11.00
Speaker: Hugh Cormican | Cirdan
Title: The Laboratory Information System of the future
11.00-11.30 Panel Discussion: Pathology Informatics
11.30-11.40 Conference Close: Hugh Cormican
Conference close: Hugh Cormican
12.30-13.30 Lunch