EuroGentest – ESHG and 3Gb-TEST present:
From genetic testing to genome diagnostics:
Quality, clinical utility and counselling issues
Friday, June 5, 2015, SECC - Room Dochart, Glasgow
Programme
| 10:00 | Registration and welcome coffee | |
10:20 | Introduction | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Noninvasive Prenatal DNA Testing anno 2015: an overview Brigitte Faas, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Newborn Screening: delivering a programme not just a test Jim Bonham, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK | |
| 11:30-12:00 | Pre- and Post-test counselling issues in genome diagnostics Luca Lovrecic, Clinical Institute of Medical Genetics, UMC Ljubljana, Slovenia | |
| 12:00-12:30 | Quality issues in EQA testing and validation Nicola Wolstenholme, EMQN, Manchester, UK | |
| 12:30-13:30 | Lunch | |
| 13:30-16:00 | Concurrent workshops 1 & 2 (Tea and biscuits served during workshops) | |
| Workshop 1 | Prenatal and newborn screening – what could and should we learn from each other? Coordination: Ros Hastings | |
| 1. | Clinical Implementation of NIPT – Technical and Biological Challenges Nathalie Brison, Laboratory for Cytogenetics and Genome Research, KU Leuven, Belgium | |
| 2. | Newborn screening: pretest information, selection of disorders and pilot studies, analytical performance, counselling issues Moderators: Viktor Kozich*, Charles University Prague, Czech Republic Jim Bonham*, Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, UK Brian Fowler*, Brian Fowler, University Children's Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 3. | Genome wide SNP-based array in prenatal diagnosis: data, decisions and discussion points | |
 * ERNDIM Members of Executive Committee and/or Scientific Advisory Board - ERNDIM has given generous financial assistanceto enable ten delegates from their EQA participating laboratories to attend this meeting. | ||
| Workshop 2 | NGS diagnostics - counselling, clinical utility and costs Coordination: Bert Bakker | |
| 1. | Pre- and post-NGS counselling: ethical and quality issues to consider Connie van Ravenswaaij, Dept. of Genetics, University Medical Centre Groningen, The Netherlands | |
| 2. | Clinical utility of WES/WGS and targeted panels Hans Scheffer, Department of Human Genetics, Radboud university medical center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands | |
| 3. | Evaluating the costs and benefits of new genomic sequencing technologies Katherine Payne, Manchester Centre for Health Economics, Manchester, UK | |
| 16:00 | Feedback on workshops | |
| 17:00 | End of meeting |
From genetic testing to genome diagnostics: quality, clinical utility and counselling issues
June 5, 2015, SECC Glasgow
Registration
Registration Fee: EUR 50.-, includes admission, coffee and lunch breaks.
Pre-registration is now closed.
Onsite registrations will be possible from 09:00 hrs on Friday, June 5, 2015 onwards.