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                                     Scottish Regional Scientific Meeting and AGM

 
                                                          St John’s Hospital

                                                                  Livingston

                                                    Wednesday 22nd March 2006

10:30 - 11:00 Coffee and registration

Morning session: Chair: Dr Simon Walker, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

11:00 – 11:40     How cells become malignant – a current perspective
                        Dr Eyal Gottlieb,

                        Beatson Institute for Cancer Research, Glasgow

11:40 – 12:20     Multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes
                        Dr. Mark Strachan,

                        Department of Medicine, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

12:20 – 13:00     Genetics of common cancers
                        Dr. Mary Porteous,

                        Department of Genetics, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

13:00 – 14:00     Lunch

Afternoon session: Chair: Dr Peter Rae, Royal Infirmary, Edinburgh

14:00 – 14:40     Hypercalcaemia of malignancy
                        Professor Bill Fraser,

                        Department of Clinical Chemistry, Royal Liverpool University Hospital,

                        Liverpool

14:40 – 15:20     Prostate specific antigen– a Scottish perspective for 2006
                        Mr. Prasad Bollina,

                        Urology Department, Western General Hospital, Edinburgh

15:20 – 16:00     “FOB-ing” all over the world
                        Dr. Callum G. Fraser,

                        Department of Biochemical Medicine, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School,

                        Dundee

16:00 – 16:30 AGM

16:30 Close



                    This meeting is supported by generous sponsorship from Abbott