3thCourse Clinical Laboratory Medicine in the Third Millennium: Challenges and Opportunities

16 December

14:00 Opening remarks – Welcome address by Authorities and Academicians

Keynote Lecture

14:30 Cholangiocytes, liver stem cells, cholangiopathies and cholangiocarcinoma: from bench to bedside

Eugenio Gaudio (Rome)

Chair: Francesco Salvatore (Naples)

The landscape of aging

Chair: Francesco Salvatore (Naples), Antonio Russo (Palermo)

 15:15 New challenges of Laboratory Medicine due to population aging

Daniela Capello (Novara)

15:35 Age-related changes in laboratory test results.

Martina Montagnana (Padua)

15:55 Organoids as an Emerging Tool in the Era of personalized medicine, also through long reads nucleic acid sequencing

          Federica Di Maggio (Napoli)

16:15 Discussion

 16:30 Coffee Break

16:45 Round Table – The future of Clinical Laboratory Medicine in the healthcare and clinical research of the third millennium: promoting integrative diagnostics.

Discussant: Marina Turco

Partecipant: Marcello Ciaccio, Carlo Della Rocca, Silvio Garattini, Giuseppe Lippi, Massimo Midiri, Teresa Palamara, Mario Plebani, Giuseppe Remuzzi, Claudio Ronco, Antonio Russo, Paolo Simioni, Francesco Salvatore, Paolo Villari

Artificial Intelligence in the Clinical Laboratory: regulation and application

 Chair: Anna Carobene (Milan), Giuseppe Banfi (Milan)

18:00 Laboratory medicine and artificial intelligence: is it Wéijī?

Francesco Curcio (Udine)

18:20 Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in laboratory medicine – State of the art and applications

         Fabio Del Ben (Aviano)

 18:40 Artificial intelligence in healthcare: a critical analysis of the legal and ethical implications

Alice Pisapia (Varese)

 19:00 Discussion

17 December

 Keynote Lecture

09:00 Prevention is revolution

          Silvio Garattini (Milan)

Chair: Marcello Ciaccio (Palermo)

 Critical role of Laboratory Medicine in high-incidence diseases

Chair: Vincenzo De Laurenzi (Chieti), Maria Grazia Perilli (L’Aquila)

 09:45 AKI diagnosis: from clinical to molecular approach

Claudio Ronco (Padua)

10:05 The importance of screening for thrombophilia

Paolo Simioni (Padua)

10:25 Antibodies for the screening of type I diabetes and celiac disease: preliminary data of the project The D1Ce Screen Project – ISS

Damiana Pieragostino (Chieti)

 10:45 The role of Laboratory in the Monkeypox Virus Infection

            Giuseppe Lippi (Verona)

11:05 Discussion

The link between research and Laboratory Medicine

Chair: Giuseppe Banfi (Milan), Eustachio Vitullo (Matera)

11:30 Nanotechnology in diagnosis: progress, challenges, and opportunities

            Miriam Colombo (Milan)

12:05 In vitro produced platelets: towards diagnostic and clinical use

           Alessandra Balduini (Padua)

12:25 Intrinsic limitation of the cut-off values for vitamin D: metabolic approaches for a functional assessment

          Giovanni Lombardi (Milan)

 12:45 Discussion

13:00 Lunch

Keynote Lecture

14:00 A “small” revolution in Medicine: from the causes of Aging to Personalized Earlier Prevention

Francesco Salvatore (Naples)

Chair: Mario Plebani (Padua)

 Keynote Lecture

14:45

        Francesco Vaia (Rome)

Chair: Francesco Salvatore (Naples)

Harmonization in Clinical Laboratory Medicine: current and future strategies

Chair: Tommaso Trenti (Modena), Antonio Fortunato (Ascoli Piceno)

15:30 Harmonization in laboratory medicine: more than clinical chemistry?

             Mario Plebani (Padua)

15:50 Promoting clinical and laboratory interaction by harmonization.

            Laura Sciacovelli (Padua)

16:10 An overview of harmonization activities in Europe

          Martina Zaninotto (Padua)

16:30 Discussion

16:45 Closing Remarks and end of the Course