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Faculty

Subrat Kumar Acharya Ammonia in Acute Liver Failure: It’s influence on pathogenesis, Prognosis and ManagementPro-Chancellor, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar India
Maurizio Ferrari Expanding space for Next Generation Sequencing diagnostics applications University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan Italy
Sampath Parthasarathy Alzheimer’s a cerebrovascular disease? University of Central Florida USA
David W Kinniburgh The Opioid Crisis in North America University of Calgary Canada
AACC Global Lab Quality Initiative: Adding value to patient care using quality control (AACC)

Victoria Zhang University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial Hospital, USA
Sridevi Devaraj Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor Collage of Medicine, Texas Children's Microbiome Center USA
Robert Rej School of Public Health State Univ of NY at Albany Wadsworth Center of the New York Department of Health Albany, NY USA
David D Koch Washington
Thuppil Venkatesh Foundation for Quality India (FQI) & National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI) India
A S Kanagasabapathy ACBI India
Alzheimer's Workshop (IFCC - ETD)

Sergio Bernardini University of Tor Vergata, Rome-Dept of Experimental Medicine Italy
Kaj Blennow University of Gothenburg, Mölndal Hospital Sweden
Armand Perret-Liaudet Hospices Civils de Lyon France
Mass Spectrometry in the clinical laboratory (AACB)

Ronda Greaves Victoria Clinical Genetics Service Australia
Brett McWhinney Pathology Queensland Australia
Kevin Carpenter New South Wales Department of Health Sydney Australia
Building Tomorrow's leaders by the young generation (IFCC-CCLM / IFCC-TFYS)

Sedef Yenice Group Florence Nightingale Hospitals, Department Of Core Clinical Laboratory Services, Istanbul, Chair IFCC-CCLM Turkey
Praveen Sharma All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur India
Pradeep Dabla G.B. Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education &, Research (GIPMER) India
Edward Randell Clinical Laboratory Services, Government of Newfoundland Labrador, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John's NL Canada
Requirement for High Quality liquid profiling for cancer diagnostics in clinical laboratory practice (IFCC - EB)

Michael Neumaier Univeresity Institute of Clinical Chemistry Germany
Maurizio Ferrari University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan Italy
Tomris Ozben Akdeniz University Turkey
Multi-dimensional perspectives of Laboratory (ACBI - Roche)

Sam Yew Mah Roche Diagnostics Singapore
AS Kanagsabhapathy ACBI India
Lee Chien-Chang National Taiwan University Hospital Taiwan
Marco Valencia Sanchez Roche Diagnostics Singapore
Symposium 1 : Proteomics and Metabolomics for Medical Laboratories (AACC)

Chairperson/Moderator

Sridevi Devaraj Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor Collage of Medicine, Texas Children's Microbiome Center USA
P Usha Sarma Past President ACBI India
Speaker

Robert Rej School of Public Health State Univ of NY at Albany Wadsworth Center of the New York Department of Health Albany, NY USA
Victoria Zhang University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial Hospital, USA
Sridevi Devaraj Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor Collage of Medicine, Texas Children's Microbiome Center USA
Symposium 2 : Diabetes - The changing face of the disease and the laboratory response (APFCB)

Chairperson/Moderator

Tony Badrick RCPAQAP Australia
D M Vasudevan Past President ACBI India
Speaker

Sunil Sethi National University Hospital Singapore
Leslie Lai Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Sam Vasikaran Department of Clinical Biochemistry, PathWest-Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia
Mithu Banerjee AIIMS Jodhpur
Symposium 3 : eHealth and Digital Tools (IFCC-ETD)

Chairperson/Moderator

Bernard Gouget Public Health FHF France
Sucheta Dandekar Past President ACBI
Speaker

Bernard Gouget Public Health FHF France
Alexander Haliassos ESEAP- Proficiency Testing Scheme for Clinical Laboratories Luc Greece
Sergio Bernardini University of Tor Vergata, Rome-Dept of Experimental Medicine Italy
Symposium 4 : Risk Management (SACB)

Chairperson/Moderator

Wong Moh Sim Department of Laboratory Medicine, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Singapore
Elizabeth Frank Chair APFCB Mysore
Speaker

Wong Moh Sim Department of Laboratory Medicine, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Singapore
Leslie Lam Department of Laboratory Medicine, Ng Teng Fong General Hospital Singapore
Sharon Saw Department of Laboratory Medicine, National University Hospital Singapore
Symposium 5 : Molecular Genetics and Genomics

Chairperson/Moderator

Subrata Sinha Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi India
David W Kinniburgh The Opioid Crisis in North America University of Calgary Canada
Speaker

Subrata Sinha Department of Biochemistry, AIIMS, New Delhi India
Partha Majumder National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, Kalyani, West Bengal India
Mitali Mukherji CSIR-Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology, New Delhi India
Symposium 6 : Biochemical Assessment of Key Nutrients (AACB)

Chairperson/Moderator

Helen Martin Secretary APFCB
Chemical Pathology Directorate SA Pathology Adelaide South Australia Australia
T Malati Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Helen Martin Secretary APFCB
Chemical Pathology Directorate SA Pathology Adelaide South Australia Australia
Mohamed Saleem Senior Consultant Chemical Pathologist at South Australia Pathology in Adelaide South Australia
Ross Wenzel Royal North Shore Hospital Austarlia
Symposium 7 : Cardiac Biomarkers and future trends

Chairperson/Moderator

Sergio Bernardini University of Tor Vergata, Rome-Dept of Experimental Medicine Italy
Abbas Mahdi Past President ACBI
Speaker

Sampath Parthasarathy
(IFCC - Abbott VLP) Alzheimer’s a cerebrovascular disease? University of Central Florida USA
Damien Gruson Cliniques Universitaires Saint LucBelgium
Evgenija Homsak University Clinical Centre Maribor Slovenia
Pradeep Dabla G.B. Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education &, Research (GIPMER) India
Symposium 8 : The Liquid Biopsy approach: Following the tumour in peripheral blood (IFCC-EMD)

Chairperson/Moderator

Evi Lianidou University of Athens Greece
Rajendra Prasad Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Evi Lianidou University of Athens Greece
Dave Hoon Santa Monica CA USA
Harriet Wikman University Medical Centre Hamburg
Symposium 9 : Laboratory is a key for Health (WASPaLM)

Chairperson/Moderator

Roberto Verna Sapienza University of Rome Italy
Sunil Sethi National University Hospital Singapore
Speaker

Roberto Verna Sapienza University of Rome Italy
Cinzia Marchese Sapienza University of Rome Rome
Elisabetta Stenner Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Trieste Italy
Mariano Bizzarri Spaienza University of Rome Italy
Symposium 10 : Biomarkers in Infectious Diseases

Chairperson/Moderator

Sadhna Sharma AIIMS Patna
S V Rana Professor Biochemistry AIIMS Rishikesh
Speaker

Sadhna Sharma PGIMER Chandigarh
Indu Verma PGIMER Chandigarh
Jyotdeep Kaur PGIMER Chandigarh
Symposium 11 : Novel Biomarker & their possibility from Japan (JSCC)

Chairperson/Moderator

Satoshi Kimura Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital Japan
Dinesh Puri UCMS New Delhi
Speaker

Satoshi Kimura Showa University Northern Yokohama Hospital Japan
Naofumi Yoda LSI Medience Corporation Japan
Hidetsugu Fujigaki Fujita Health University Graduate School of Health Sciences Japan
Symposium 12 : Approaches and challenges of automation & interferances in clinical laboratories

Chairperson/Moderator

Qing H Meng MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston USA
Endang Hoyaranda    
Speaker

Qing H Meng MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston USA
Lakshmi V Ramanathan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York USA
Yi-Wei Tang Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York USA
Amitava Dasgupta    
Symposium 13 : Detection and Management of Non-Communicable Diseases in Africa through laboratory testing (AFCC)

Chairperson/Moderator

Rajiv T Erasmus Stellenbosch University South Africa
Neelima Singh Past President  
Speaker

Rajiv T Erasmus Stellenbosch University South Africa
Hilary Lumano John Snow Incorporated SAFE Project Zambia
Layachi Chabraoui University Hospital of Rabat Morocco
Symposium 14 : Chronic Kidney Disease (MACB)

Chairperson/Moderator

Leslie Lai Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Krishnajyoti Goswami Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Pavai Sthaneshwar University Malaya Malaysia
Leslie Lai Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Siti Sharina Anas Hospital Putrajaya Malaysia
Symposium 15 : Clinicolaboratory approach to Hemostasis (AMBI)

Chairperson/Moderator

Thuthi Mohan ESIC Medical College Hospital & Research Institute, Chennai India
Shanthi Naidu Kamatham Hon Secretary, AMBI  
Speaker

Anila Sushma Challa Continental Hospital Hyderabad
Sowmya Gayatri Chukkayapalli Tapadia Diagnostic and Research Centre Hyderabad
Shanthi Naidu Kamatham Hon Secretary, AMBI  
Symposium 16 : Decoding Lab challenges: Interferances and Immunoassays, Standardisation of LC-MS/MS assays and Pediatric Laboratory Testing (AACC)

Chairperson/Moderator

Carmen Wiley VERAVAS, Inc.USA
D N Rao Past Editor in Chief, IJCB 
Speaker

Carmen Wiley VERAVAS, Inc.USA
Ravinder Singh Mayo Clinic USA
Khushbu Patel UT Southwestern Medical Center USA
Symposium 17 : Clinical Endocrinology

Chairperson/Moderator

Leslie Lai Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Arun Raizada Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Sam Vasikaran Department of Clinical Biochemistry, PathWest-Fiona Stanley Hospital, Murdoch, Western Australia Australia
Wong Moh Sim Department of Laboratory Medicine, Khoo Teck Puat Hospital Singapore
Leslie Lai Gleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur Malaysia
Symposium 18 : Global Developments in Quality Assurance (RCPAQP)

Chairperson/Moderator

Tony Badrick RCPAQAP Australia
Sverre Sandberg Norwagian Quality Improvement of Laboratory Examinations (Noklus) Norway
Speaker

Graham Jones UNSW Sydney Australia
Tony Badrick RCPAQAP Australia
Renze Bais Queensland Australia
Symposium 19 : Leading the Appropriate Utilization of Medical Laboratory Services (IFCC-CCLM)

Chairperson/Moderator

Edward Randell Clinical Laboratory Services, Government of Newfoundland Labrador, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John's NL Canada
Thuppil Venkatesh Foundation for Quality India (FQI) & National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI) India
Speaker

Praveen Sharma All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur India
Sedef Yenice (IFCC - Abbott VLP) Group Florence Nightingale Hospitals, Department Of Core Clinical Laboratory Services, Istanbul, Chair IFCC-CCLM Turkey
Edward Randell (IFCC - Abbott VLP) Clinical Laboratory Services, Government of Newfoundland Labrador, Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John's NL Canada
Symposium 20 : Pediatric Case Based Discussion of Integrated Patient Management

Chairperson/Moderator

Barnali Das Kokilaben Dhirubhai AMbani Hospital Mumbai
Jayashree Bhattacharya Past President ACBI
Speaker

Sridevi Devaraj Texas Children's Hospital, Baylor Collage of Medicine, Texas Children's Microbiome Center USA
Barnali Das Kokilaben Dhirubhai AMbani Hospital Mumbai
Kannan Vaidyanathan Amrita Institute of Medical Science, Kochi Kerala
Symposium 21 : New Era of Communication in P4 Medical Diagnostics Data Management (IFCC-CPD)

Chairperson/Moderator

Khosrow Adeli University of Toronto Canada
Speaker

Khosrow Adeli University of Toronto Canada
Eduardo Luis Freggiaro Argentina
Tahir Pillay University of Pretoria South Africa
Symposium 22 : COLABIOCLI Symposium

Chairperson/Moderator

Rosa Sierra-Amor Laboratorio LAQUIMS, SC. Mexico
A S Kanagasabapathy ACBI India
Speaker

Rosa Sierra-Amor Laboratorio LAQUIMS, SC. Mexico
Hernan Fares-Taie    
Juana Ortellano de Canece   Paraguay
Symposium 23 : Evolution of personalized laboratory medicine in diagnostic health care and digital health (EFLM)

Chairperson/Moderator

Michael Neumaier Univeresity Institute of Clinical Chemistry Germany
Tahir Pillay University of Pretoria South Africa
Speaker

Michael Neumaier Univeresity Institute of Clinical Chemistry Germany
Sverre Sandberg Norwagian Quality Improvement of Laboratory Examinations (Noklus) Norway
Ian Watson University Hospital Aintree Liverpool United Kingdom
Symposium 24 : Biomarkers in Cancer

Chairperson/Moderator

Lakshmi V Ramanathan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York USA
Speaker

Lakshmi V Ramanathan Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York USA
Qing H Meng MD Anderson Cancer Center, The University of Texas, Houston USA
Yi-Wei Tang Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York USA
Symposium 25 : Cancer Biology and Therapeutics

Chairperson/Moderator

Shyam S Chauhan AIIMS New Delhi
Victoria Zhang University of Rochester Medical Center, Strong Memorial Hospital, USA
Speaker

Kumaravel Somasundaram Indian Institute of Science Bangalore
Shyam S Chauhan AIIMS New Delhi
Shubhada V Chiplunkar ACTREC Tata Memorial Centre
Symposium 26 : Clinical Chemistry to Clinical Laboratory Science - Future Challenges (IFCC-TFYS)

Chairperson/Moderator

Pradeep Dabla G.B. Pant Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education &, Research (GIPMER) India
Maurizio Ferrari University Vita-Salute San Raffaele and IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan Italy
Speaker

Marie LENSKI University of Lille France
Santiago Fares Taie Buneos Aires Argentina
Giulia Sancesario University of Rome Italy
Joe El-Khoury    
Symposium 27 : Frontier in Laboratory Medicine (CSLM)

Chairperson/Moderator

Wei Cui Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences National Cancer Center  
Tomris Ozben Akdeniz University Turkey
Speaker

Wei Cui Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences National Cancer Center  
Zhuo Li Xijing Hospital  
Hezhi Fang School of Laboratory Medicine and Life sciences Wenzhou Medical University
Symposium 28 : Accuracy monitoring program of IVD diagnostic reagents in Korea (KSCC)

Chairperson/Moderator

Sang-Guk Lee Yonsei University College of Medicine South Korea
P S Shukla Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Kyunghoon LEE Clinical Professor Seoul National University Bundang Hospital South Korea
Eun-Jung CHO Hallym University Dongtan Scared Hospital South Korea
Sang-Guk Lee Yonsei University College of Medicine South Korea
Symposium 29 : Alcohol related Health Problems

Chairperson/Moderator

Tomas Zima Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague Czech Republic
Sedef Yenice Group Florence Nightingale Hospitals, Department Of Core Clinical Laboratory Services, Istanbul, Chair IFCC-CCLM Turkey
Speaker

Tomas Zima Charles University and General University Hospital, Prague Czech Republic
Sachio Matsushita Kurihama Medical and Addiction Center Japan
Simon Worrall The University of Queensland Australia
Symposium 30 : MiRNA Theranostics and immunomodulation in Cancer: An emerging Concept

Chairperson/Moderator

Alpana Sharma AIIMS New Delhi
Speaker

Sadhna Sharma AIIMS Patna
Alpana Sharma AIIMS New Delhi
Purvi Purohit All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Jodhpur India
Symposium 31 : Resolving Lab puzzles (CCPSL/ACBSL)

Chairperson/Moderator

B.K.T.P. Dayanath North Colmobo Teaching Hospital Ragama Sri Lanka
Poornima Manjrekar Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Manjula Dissanayake Teaching hospital karapitiya, Galle Sri Lanka
B.K.T.P. Dayanath North Colmobo Teaching Hospital Ragama Sri Lanka
Rajitha Samarasinghe National Cancer Institute, Maharagama Sri Lanka
Symposium 32 : Clinical Applications of Mass spectrometry: Sample preparation, Diagnostics and Therapeutics (CACB)

Chairperson/Moderator

Jun-Jen Liu Associate Professor Taipei Medical University Taiwan
Ronda Greaves Victoria Clinical Genetics Service Australia
Speaker

Jun-Jen Liu Associate Professor Taipei Medical University Taiwan
Wei-Lan Chu    
Kang-Yi Su Assistant Professor Nationa Taiwan University Taiwan
Symposium 33 : From Biomarker to application of pharmacodynamics study (IACC)

Chairperson/Moderator

Rahajuningsih Dharma Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia Indonesia
U M Donde Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Settrin Chenderawasi Community Based Dengue Study Group - Faculty of Medicine, University of Indonesia Indonesia
Santy Pudjianto Dr. Sitanala Hospital, Tangerang Indonesia
Rahajuningsih Dharma Faculty of Medicine, Universitas Indonesia Indonesia
Symposium 34 : Total Quality Management in Raising the Quality of Laboratory Services in the Philippines (PAMET)

Chairperson/Moderator

Leila Lany M Florento PAMET - Philippine Association of Medical Technologists, Inc Philippines
Y V Sharma Past President, ACBI  
Speaker

Ronaldo Puno Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET) Philippines
Leila Lany M Florento PAMET - Philippine Association of Medical Technologists, Inc Philippines
Oliver Shane R Dumaoal Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET) Lyceum of the Philippines University - Batangas Philippines
Symposium 35 : Micronutrients and vitamins – What is the evidence (IFCC C-EBLM / C-PR)

Chairperson/Moderator

Annalise E Zemlin Stellenbosch University and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) South Africa
Damien Gruson Cliniques Universitaires Saint LucBelgium
Speaker

Seema Bhargava Sir Ganga Ram Hospital (SGRH), New Delhi India
Annalise E Zemlin Stellenbosch University and National Health Laboratory Service (NHLS) South Africa
Rajiv T Erasmus Stellenbosch University South Africa
Symposium 36 : Hypoxia, High Altitude, Lead and Bio-chemistry

Chairperson/Moderator

Thuppil Venkatesh Foundation for Quality India (FQI) & National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI) India
K K Srivastava President Delhi Chapter ACBI
Speaker

Gustavo Zubieta-Calleja    
Jan Marino Ramirez    
Natalia Zubieta DeUrioste    
Thuppil Venkatesh Foundation for Quality India (FQI) & National Referral Centre for Lead Projects in India (NRCLPI) India