Call for submittion of paper for new EFLM Awards sponsored by Abott Diagnostics

1. EFLM Award for Excellence in Outcomes Research in Laboratory Medicine
The Award is given to the best published paper, as judged by an independent panel of experts, which demonstrates improved clinical and/or economic outcomes of an in vitro diagnostic test or better management of laboratory/test data.

2. EFLM Award for Excellence in Performance Specifications Research
The Award is given to the best published paper, as judged by an independent panel of experts, which demonstrates an important and novel contribution to the theory or practical application of performance specifications.

Both awards, consisting of a certificate and a sum of 5,000 Euro each, will be presented at the 23rd IFCC-EFLM EuroMedLab Congress in Barcelona (May 19-23, 2019)

General criteria
- Entries must have been published or finally accepted for publication between 1 January 2018 and 15 February 2019
- Entries must be published in English in a peer-reviewed medical, scientific or health economics journal
- The submitting author must be the first or last author of the paper and a member of an EFLM National Society
- The Award will be presented to the first author, who is responsible for division of the

Submission Procedure
Applications, clearly marked for which award, must be submitted by first or last author of the paper and must be accompanied by:
- Reprint of the publication or (in the case of publications in press), a manuscript copy and a copy of the journal Editor’s letter indicating the final acceptance for publication
- Short CV of the submitting author
- Document proving membership to an EFLM Society
- Statement signed by all authors of the publication consenting to submission of the paper for the Award and to the conditions of entry

Applications should be submitted via e-mail to EFLM at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by 17 February 2019.

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Call for nominations for new member of IFCC Committe on analytical quality

Dear All,

Kindly find attached a letter on behalf of Prof Leslie Lai, Chair of IFCC Education & Management Division, announcing a call for nominations for one Member position within the EMD C-AQ.
Replies should be sent to the IFCC Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 07 January 2019.

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Call for nominations for one member within the IFCC EMD C-POCT

Dear all,

Kindly find attached a letter on behalf of Prof Leslie Lai, Chair of IFCC Education and Management Division, announcing a call for nominations for one Member position within the EMD C-POCT.
Replies should be sent to the IFCC Office (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) by 16 December 2018.

Best regards
Silvia Cardinale

New EFLM webinar „Preanalytical mysteries“

Dear members,

We invite you to participate in EFLM webinar„Preanalytical mysteries“ which will be held on 27th November 2018. at 6 PM.

The speaker will be professor Pieter Vermeersch who is working as a clinical pathologist at the University Hospitals Leuven. He is the head of the special chemistry laboratory unit and responsible for evidence-based laboratory medicine and metabolic disease. He is also the past president of the Royal Belgian Society of Laboratory Medicine. His special interests are optimizing the pre- and post-analytical phase including and test interpretation of diagnostic test utilization. He is Corresponding Member the EFLM Working Group “Preanalytical Phase” and Member of the EFLM Working Group „Personalised medicine“.

The aim of this webinar is to make participants aware of the wide range of possible causes of preanalytical errors, both outside the laboratory and inside the laboratory and illustrate these a number of mysteries from routine practice which ultimately allowed the identification of a pre-analytical problem

The participation is free of charge - The number of attendees is limited! Registration at: https://elearning.eflm.eu/enrol/index.php?id=36

See all our previous recorded webinars at https://elearning.eflm.eu/

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