We are delighted to welcome you to the 46th ACBI annual conference, taking place this year in the beautiful setting of the Hodson Bay hotel in Athlone, Co Roscommon. The theme of this year’s meeting is older age and the challenges of clinical management and diagnosis.

TOPICS COVERED

• Talks from a range of speakers as detailed below, with poster presentations for viewing during breaks
• Opening Remarks: Dr Paula O'Shea, ACBI President and Chairperson, Conference Organising Committee
• Nutrition and the Older person: Dr Daniel McCartney, Director of Human Nutrition & Dietetics at TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin
• Low Vitamin D in the Community - We Need a Solution: Prof Bernard Walsh, Trinity College Dublin
• Predicting dementia risk: Prof Emer McGrath, Galway University Hospital
• Keynote Lecture: The New Science of Living a Longer and Healthier Life: Prof Rose Anne Kenny, Regius Professor of Physic, Professor of Medical Gerontology Trinity College Dublin and Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital Dublin
• Atypical presentations & common endocrine disorders in older age: Dr Elizabeth Brosnan, Mayo University Hospital
• Renal disease in older adults: how interpretation of biochemical data will inform Care Pathways: Prof Liam Plant, Consultant Nephrologist, Cork University Hospital
• ICPOP Improving Outcomes in Falls and Syncope in Older People: Dr Maria Costello, Galway University Hospital
• SOLAR: Frailty Screening and CGA in the ED: Dr Aoife Leahy, University Hospital Limerick
• Oral presentations from abstracts
• The loaded matrix: biomaterial-aided cellular brain repair for Parkinson’s disease: Prof Eilís Dowd, University of Galway
• Hot Topic - Monitoring hCG in pregnancy and beyond: Dr Caroline Joyce, Principal Clinical Biochemist, Cork University Hospital
• The role of virtual clinics in community healthcare: Daniel Barnett
• EFLM Plenary Lecture: Digital transformation towards the clinical laboratory of the future: Prof. Dalius Vitkus, Associate Professor, Vilnius University.
• Oral presentations from abstracts
• Awards Presentation: Dr Paula O'Shea, Conference Chairperson

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Clinical Biochemists, Medical Scientists, other clinical laboratorians, and clinicians.

SPEAKERS

• Dr Paula O'Shea, ACBI President
• Dr Tomás Griffin, Galway/Roscommon University Hospitals
• Dr Daniel McCartney, TU Dublin and Trinity College Dublin
• Prof Bernard Walsh, Trinity College Dublin
• Prof Emer McGrath, Galway University Hospital
• Prof Rose Anne Kenny, Trinity College Dublin and Mercer’s Institute for Successful Ageing, St James’s Hospital Dublin
• Dr Caroline Joyce, Principal Clinical Biochemist, Cork University Hospital
• Dr Elizabeth Brosnan, Mayo University Hospital
• Prof Liam Plant, Cork University Hospital
• Dr Graham Lee, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
• Dr Maria Costello, Galway University Hospital
• Dr Aoife Leahy, University Hospital Limerick
• Dr Séan Costelloe, Cork University Hospital
• Prof Eilís Dowd, University of Galway
• Dr Jennifer Brady, Children's Health Ireland
• Daniel Barnett
• Prof. Dalius Vitkus, Vilnius University