When?
From: June 5, 2025 9:00 am
To: June 6, 2025 5:00 pm
Where?
London, United Kingdom
Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service (HMDS) Course | 5-6 June 2025 London, United Kingdom
The Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service (HMDS) Integrated Diagnostic Course is a new innovative two-day course running twice a year. This course is aimed for any health care professional with an interest in haematological malignancy diagnostics, to include: haematology trainees and consultants, histopathology trainees and haematopathology/histopathology consultants as well as clinical scientists.
This is an interactive, case-based course with interspersed micro-lectures to address all the aspects of haematological malignancy diagnostic testing, and is designed to simulate working in an HMDS setting and integrated reporting. The cases cover a wide range of myeloid and lymphoid neoplastic entities primarily involving the bone marrow. Each case will be available for participant-independent review of morphology (through whole slide imaging scans), immunophenotyping, histology, immunohistochemistry and genomic testing results. The participants will then be encouraged to determine the diagnoses followed by discussion with experts in the field. The interspersed lectures will discuss the different diagnostic test methodologies and their interpretation.
Course Leads
- Dr. Guy Hannah – Consultant Haematologist and Haematopathologist, South East Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service, King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr. Liron Barnea Slonim – Consultant Haematopathologist and Molecular Pathologist, South East Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service (SEHMDS), King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
- Dr. Vishal Jayakar – Consultant Haematologist, Kingston & Richmond NHS Foundation Trust, and Lead for Commercial Education, King’s Health Partners Haematology