About this Event
The Haematological Malignancy Diagnostic Service (HMDS) Integrated Diagnostic Course is a new innovative two-day course running twice a year.
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.
This course is aimed for any health care professional with an interest in haematological malignancy diagnostics, including haematology trainees and consultants, histopathology trainees and haematopathology/histopathology consultants as well as clinical scientists.
CPD points will be awarded for attendance of this course.
All cases will be discussed in a tutorial format, helping delegates to bring all these skills together and apply them practically to patient cases.
Catering will be provided throughout the course.
Pre-course reading materials will be offered to all registrants, from which we recommend individuals to focus on the aspects they are not familiar with ahead of attending the course.
Feedback from previous attendees:
“There was a broad mix of cases and testing modalities explained, including some important caveats and pitfalls. It was excellent to have experts in person to discuss and answer questions.” - June 2025
"I really enjoyed the 'MDT' aspect of the course, the case-based learning and 'drip feeding' of information, just like in real life. The talks were really interesting, and it was helpful to have them interspersed with the case discussions so that it was varied and we could concentrate well." -December 2025
For any queries, please email [email protected].
Day 1
🕑: 08:45 AM
Arrival and Registration
🕑: 09:15 AM
Welcome and Introduction
🕑: 09:25 AM
The Principles of SIHMDS and Course Overview
Info: How the HMDS works, and what goes into an integrated report
Introduction to the case reviews
🕑: 10:00 AM
Case review no.1
🕑: 10:30 AM
Coffee/tea Break
🕑: 11:00 AM
Immunophenotyping
Info: Principles of the assay with newer versions/platforms and application to cases
🕑: 11:30 AM
Structural Variants / Translocations
Info: Understanding modus-operandi of the assays and what tests to do and when
🕑: 11:55 AM
Case review no.2
🕑: 12:35 PM
Copy Number Variants
Info: What types of copy number aberration are there, and how do we detect them. Weighing pros and cons of different techniques
🕑: 01:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:40 PM
Histopathology
🕑: 02:05 PM
Clonality & IGHV
🕑: 02:25 PM
Case review no.3
🕑: 03:10 PM
Coffee / Tea Break
🕑: 03:25 PM
Small Nucleotide Variants
🕑: 03:50 PM
Testing for Germline Predisposition to Haematological Malignancy
🕑: 04:20 PM
Case review no.4
🕑: 05:00 PM
End of Day 1
Day 2
🕑: 08:45 AM
Arrival
🕑: 09:00 AM
Case review recap
🕑: 09:30 AM
Future Developments
🕑: 10:30 AM
Coffee / Tea Break
🕑: 11:00 AM
Disease Monitoring
🕑: 12:00 PM
Case review no.5
🕑: 01:00 PM
Lunch
🕑: 01:40 PM
Review of all cases, recap and wrap up (1)
🕑: 03:00 PM
Coffee / Tea Break
🕑: 03:20 PM
Review of all cases, recap and wrap up (2)
🕑: 05:00 PM
End of Day 2
Event venue & nearby stays
King's College London, Strand, London, United Kingdom
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