Congress Information Date: Saturday to Tuesday, November 26-29, 2016 Venue: Taipei International Convention Center (TICC), Taipei World Trade Center Exhibition Hall 1 (TWTC) http://www.apfcbcongress2016.org
Map around TICC & TWTC 6 Hotels within 10 mins walking distance MRT Station Taipei 101/World Trade Center 5 Bus Stops 3 mins walking distance Area A
Meeting Room Opening Ceremony 3F Plenary Hall
Meeting Room Parallel sessions
Welcome Reception 3F Banquet Hall, TICC
Cultural Night Grand Hyatt Taipei
Exhibition in TWTC Welcome Reception 3F Banquet Hall
Program at a Glance (Tentative) Saturday, November 26, 2016 Time Topics 08:00-18:00 Registration 13:30-16:30 Roche-APFCB Value of Diagnostics Hypothetical Workshop WASPaLM-APFCB Accreditation Workshop CACB-Roche Workshop R-statistical Programming Language for Clinical Laboratory 17:00-18:00 Opening Ceremony 18:00-18:30 Keynote Speech Director-General, Centers for Disease Control, Taiwan 18:30-19:15 Plenary Lecture 1 Lab Data and Precision Therapy in Lung Cancer 19:15-21:00 Welcome Reception
Sunday November 27, 2016 Time Topics 08:00-18:00 Workshop: R-statistical Programming Language for Clinical Laboratory 07:30-09:00 Registration 09:00-10:30 Symposium 1 APFCB Pre-analytical Symposium 2 IFCC-SD Standardization Globally Symposium 3 Pediatric Laboratory Medicine 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break Symposium 4 Cardiac Markers Mass Spec Workshop 1 Basics- Method 11:00-11:45 Plenary Lecture 2 The Future of Molecular Biology in the Diagnostic Laboratory 12:00-13:30 Parallel Industry Lunch Symposia 14:00-15:30 Symposium 5 Emerging Infectious Diseases Symposium 6 Standardization in Japan Symposium 7 IFCC EMD Clinical Cancer Genomics Symposium 8 Lab Automation, Workflow and Informatics Mass Spec Workshop 2 Metabolomics 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:30 Poster and Oral Presentation Parallel Industry Workshops
Monday November 28, 2016 Time 07:30-08:30 09:00-10:30 Elsevier-IFCC Author Workshop Symposium 9 Applying Big Data in the Improvement of Lab Practice Symposium 10 Standardization in Korea Topics Parallel Industry Workshops Symposium 11 Posioning Symposium 12 Mass imaging Mass Spec Workshop 3 Biomarkers 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:45 12:00-13:30 Elsevier- IFCC Author Workshop for Young Scientist Plenary Lecture 3 Getting the Right Answer, the Importance of Traceability Parallel Industry Lunch Symposia 14:00-15:30 Symposium 13 Siemens APFCB Young Scientist Award Competition Symposium 14 EFLM Harmonization of Total Testing Process Symposium 15 Point of Care Testing Symposium 16 Inherited Metabolic Diseases Mass Spec Workshop 4 Endocrinology 15:30-16:00 Coffee Break 16:00-17:00 Poster and Oral Presentation 19:00-21:30 Cultural Night
Tuesday, November 29, 2016 Time Topics 07:00-08:30 Parallel Industry Workshops 09:00-10:30 Symposium 17 Viral Hepatitis and HIV Symposium 18 Asian Features of Reference Values Symposium 19 Liquid Biopsies Symposium 20 (TBA by AACB) Mass Spec Workshop 5 Lipidomics/validation 10:30-11:00 Coffee Break 11:00-11:45 Plenary Lecture 4 Mass Spectrometry in Clinical Application 12:00-13:30 Parallel Industry Lunch Symposia 13:30-15:00 Symposium 21 CKD Symposium 22 Patient Safety Symposium 23 Neurodegenerative Disorders Symposium 24 (TBA by CSLM) Mass Spec Workshop 6 Toxicology-TDM 15:00-16:00 Closing Ceremony
Registration Fees Registration fee International Participants Category Early Bird August 1, 2016 Regular Aug. 2-Oct. 31, 2016 On-site Registration Nov.26-29, 2016 Regular USD 550 USD 650 USD 950 Student USD 300 USD 400 USD 500 Local Participants Workshop fee Regular TWD 7500 TWD 9500 TWD 12000 Student TWD 3000 TWD 4500 TWD 6000 Accompanying Person USD 120 Workshop 1: R-statistical Programming Language for Clinical Laboratory Entitlements International Participants USD 100 Local Participants TWD 600 Category Admission to 4-day Conference Coffee Break & Lunch Welcome Reception Banquet Participants included included included included Accompanying Person Opening Ceremony Only x included included
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