Section 6.5 – Poster Presentations
1. PathCape 2018
A virtual poster was presented at a congress, PathCape in 2018 held in the beautiful town of Stellenbosch at a wine farm. The Audit, which I have done has been used for this poster presentation. The congress was an amazing experience. There were sessions with Prof. Tahir Pillay (University of Pretoria) for exam preparation aimed at specifically the Chemical Pathology registrars, which helped with preparations for the Chemical Pathology part 1. There were also various interesting presentations and case discussions presented from registrars, scientists and consultants in the field of Chemical Pathology (Clinical Chemistry). Some of the most interesting presentations which I could attend, were:
- History of HbA1c in diabetes mellitus management – Prof Gillery
- Glycated Albumin – an emerging biomarker for Diabetes – Prof Zemlin
- Performance of glycated albumin for diabetes and prediabetes diagnosis in a Mixed-Ancestry South African population – Marizna Barkhuizen
- Reference interval determination for glycated albumin in a South African population – Marizna Barkhuizen
- A case of X-linked childhood cerebral Adrenoleukodystrophy – Tumelo Satekge
- Seasonal pseudohyperkalaemia in a temperate climate – South Africa – Ashlin Rampul
- The role of Mass Spectrometry in improving the diagnosis and management of Adrenal and thyroid diseases – Prof Soldin
- Endocrine Disruptors – Prof Verena Gounden
- Conflict resolution- Prof Aye Aye Khine
- Spectrum of genetically confirmed mitochondrial disease diagnosed at the UCT/NHLS IMD laboratory over the past 27 years -Surita Meldau
- Two unrelated cases with identical genotype suggest underdiagnosis of hyperphosphataemic familial tumoral calcinosis in Southern Africa – Justine Cole
- Discordant thyroid function test results in a patient with metabolic bone disease – Doreen Jacob
- Identification of pathogenic TP53 and PTEN mutations in circulating cell-free DNA of a patient with triple negative breast cancer – Armand Peeters
My Virtual Posters:
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Download2. Auto-immune chylomicronemia in a child with hypertriglyceridaemia & acute pancreatitis
2. Annual Research Days – Department of Pediatrics and Child Health 2019 – Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital – Cape Town
Poster:
3. PathRed – 2019
Poster:
Invited Speaker:
1. ChemHelp, an automation script to help reviewers of chemistry results.
2. Development of on Online Results Portal for Downtime Results Viewing
4. AACC 2020
A project on which I collaborated with the WITS Chemical Pathology team, Reinhardt Hesse and Jaya George, was selected to be presented as a poster at the international AACC (virtual) conference in December 2020.
The aim of this study was to describe the biochemical and haematological analyte changes seen in COVID-19 patients using South African laboratory data, and to determine the effect of HIV, TB and DM on the risk for acquiring SARS-CoV-2 and the outcomes as measured by intensive and high care admission.
We reported on data for 842,197 individuals, of which 11.7% (98,335) had at least one positive SARS-CoV-2 PCR test, and 88.3% (743,862) tested negative.
Our findings did not support an increased prevalence of either HIV or TB in individuals with SARS-CoV-2 infection but did indicate an increase in disease severity with HIV-positive status. Our findings of clear differences in several commonly measured analytes between the critical and non-critical group suggested that these may be useful in our setting to triage patients.
