Section 5.6 – Chemical Pathology Tutorials Received

We were very fortunate to receive occasional tutorials from pathologists within our department, as well as from alumni that had moved to private practice. Each pathologist covered a variety of topics but also had special interest areas that they focussed on. Repetition of some of these topics through the years has been very helpful as our insight deepens and we appreciate the relevance of each topic to a greater extent.

PRESENTER TOPICS
Dr J Stanfliet Benchmarking, Accounting, Point-Of-Care Testing, Accreditation, Automation, Ion Sensitive Electrodes, Electrophoresis, Enzymology, Mass Spectrometry, Prenatal diagnosis, Tumour, Markers, Vitamins, Haemoglobin, Liver Enzymes, Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Thyroid Disorders, Clinical Cases.
Dr P Fortgens Biological variation, Chromatography, Enzymology, Immunoassays, Interference, GIT, Renin & Aldosterone measurement and application, Phaemochromocytoma, Pseudohyperparathyroidism, Requisition and the process of obtaining new analysers
Dr F Omar Method validation, Quality Control, External Quality Assurance, Interference, Molecular Lab, Bone Disease and Mineral Metabolism, Endocrine Causes of Hypertension.
Assoc Prof G vd Watt IMD, GIT, Carbohydrates, Renal Function, Paeds Lab Management, Gas Chromatography
Prof AD Marais Lipidology, Toxicology, TLC, biochem lab techniques
Dr H Vreede Autoverification, Electronic Gatekeeping, Cost Coding, Data Mining
J Pillay Lab Practicals
S Meldau Molecular Tutorials
B Southon Laboratory Practicals: Interference and recovery, Safety in the Laboratory, Good Laboratory Practice, Protein assays Bradford and Lowry, Calculations and Solution Preparation