8th EFLM GENERAL MEETING Sunday 21st June 2015

President’s Report

Prof Mauro Panteghini

EFLMpresident@efcclm.eu

40 Countries are represented in EFLM

After the merger of the Belgian National Societies into one National Society the “Royal Belgian Society of Laboratory Medicine”

at the end of 2014, in January 2015, the two professional societies in Romania (Romanian Society of Laboratory Medicine and Romanian

Association of Medical Laboratories) merged, forming the Romanian Association of Laboratory Medicine (RALM).

Representing 22,000 Laboratory Medicine Specialists Bielorus, Malta, Moldova are the only European Countries that still have to join EFLM

The voice of EFLM

EFLM represents IFCC in Europe

With its 40 Members, EFLM represents almost half of the total IFCC members.

EFLM should act as a collector of proposals and/or concerns from EFLM members and, if necessary, to bring these to the attention of

the international community.

The voice of EFLM

To enable better connection between Regional and International policies and improve

consistency and cohesion between National Societies, EFLM has promoted the presence of

Regional Federations in IFCC EB.

National Societies feeding into their Regional organisation to inform IFCC policy making.

EFLM structure

and organization

EFLM functional units involve 127 officers

representing 25 European Countries

ALBANIA LITHUANIA

AUSTRIA 3 LUXEMBOURG

BELGIUM 4 MACEDONIA 2

BOSNIA HERZEGOVINA MONTENEGRO 1

BULGARIA NETHERLANDS 14

CROATIA 5 NORWAY 8

CYPRUS POLAND 3

CZECH REPUBLIC 4 PORTUGAL 3

DENMARK 4 ROMANIA 2

ESTONIA RUSSIA

FINLAND 2 SERBIA 2

FRANCE 9 SLOVAK REPUBLIC 1

GERMANY 4 SLOVENIA 1

GREECE 2 SPAIN 13

HUNGARY 1 SWEDEN 6

ICELAND SWITZERLAND

IRELAND TURKEY 1

ISRAEL UK 17

ITALY 15 UKRAINE

LATVIA

EFLM EB @ EFLM Members National Congress

Title of the congress Date of the congress Venue EB Representative Topic

50th Anniversary of the Polish Society of Laboratory Diagnostics

“Laboratory medicine in Poland-past present and future”

5-7 February 2015 Kielce Mauro Panteghini

Verification of in vitro medical diagnostics (IVD) metrological

traceability: responsibilities and strategies in the EU context

8th Congress of the Croatian Society for Medical Biochemistry and

Laboratory Medicine 22-26 September 2015 Rijeka Mauro Panteghini

Harmonization in Laboratory Medicine

23rd Meeting of the Balkan Clinical Laboratory Federation

7-9 October 2015 Sarajevo Mauro Panteghini Defining performance specifications

in laboratory testing

12th Annual Society Meeting 14-17 October 2015 Leipzig to be defined to be defined

27th National Congress of Turkish Biochemical Society

3-8 November 2015 Antalya Ana-Maria Simundic Blood gases and

preanalytical errors

AACC (American Association of Clinical Chemistry)

AACB (Australasian Association of Clinical Biochemists)

CEN-CENLEC

CEPLIS (European Council of the Liberal Professions)

EC (European Commission)

EA (European co-operation for Accreditation)

EAPM (European Alliance for Personalised Medicine)

EAS (European Atherosclerosis Society)

EASL (European Association for the Study of Liver)

EDMA (European Diagnostic Manufacturers Association)

EuPA (European Proteomics Association)

EUCOMED (Medical Devices Industry)

IFCC (International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Med)

ISO (International Organization for Standardization)

EPMA (European Ass. for Predictive, Preventive & Personalized Medicine)

EQALM (External Quality Assurance Programmes in Laboratory Medicine)

ESPT (European Society for Pharmacogenomics and Theranostics)

UEMS (European Union of Medical Specialists)

Collaborations with other organizations

New EFLM initiative: Task Force on Performance Specifications in Laboratory Medicine

An EFLM Task Force on Performance Specifications in Laboratory Medicine (TF-PS)

has been created to coordinate the activities of the Task & Finish Group (TFG) established as outcome of the 1st Strategic

Conference

EFLM Task Force on Performance Goals in Laboratory Medicine

TFG Allocation of

laboratory tests to different models for performance

specifications

TFG Performance specifications

for EQAS

TFG Total error

TFG Performance

specifications for the extra-analytical

phases

TFG Biological variation database

www.eflm.eu

Involvement of Young Lab Scientists

12 YS members are currently active in EFLM WGs (one is chairing a WG!)

A number of bursary programs to attend the

main EFLM events are available (an important part of the EFLM budget is

allocated to this)

EFLM bursaries for Paris 2015

EFLM is glad for having actively contribute to the attendance of Young Scientists at

the EuroMedLab Congress by allocating 10 bursaries covering participation costs.

Registration fees were kindly offered by the Organizing Committee.

76 applications were received from 14

EFLM Countries. After careful evaluation, 10 applicants were selected to receive the

EFLM support.

EFLM bursaries for Paris 2015

The following 10 applicants were selected to receive the EFLM support: · Giulia CANU, Italy · Svitlana DEMYANETS, Austria · Margarita FEDEROVA, Russia · Simona FERRARO, Italy · Zeynep KUSKU KIRAZ, Turkey · Caroline Marie LE GOFF, Belgium · Maja MALENICA, Bosnia and Herzegovina · Anna MICHNO, Poland · Luis Francisco SAENZ MATEOS, Spain · Juan Antonio VILCHEZ, Spain

EFLM Strategic Plan 2014-2015

Strategic plan

33 actions

Structure & organization

Promotion

Relationship with other

organizations

Scientific affairs

Education & training

Quality & regulation

Professional affairs

Achievement: 24 of 33 Actions achieved so far;

9 Actions are still pending

1. Develop relationships and collaboration with IFCC ☜

2. Strengthen and formalize relationship with industrial partners ☜

3. Standardize EFLM operating procedures ☜

4. Review activities of Committees, WG and TFG ☜

5. Consolidate EC4 activities in the EFLM structure Legal advice on achieving a merger whilst preserving the EC4 register is in progress.

6. Ensure the financial position of EFLM ☜

Strategic Plan 2014-2015 1. Structure & Organization

7. EFLM Publications ☜

8. Improve EFLM communication ☜

9. Implementation of the relationship with CCLM ☜

10. Promote the profession increasing awareness of the importance of clinical laboratories ☜

11. Renewal of EFLM awards and identification of new ones ☜

Strategic Plan 2014-2015 2. EFLM Promotion

12. Promote active participation of young scientists to EFLM activities ☜

13. Map the EFLM history

14. Engagement of EFLM with NSs Satisfaction survey - Ongoing

15. Promote the agreement with CCLM among the NSs ☜

Strategic Plan 2014-2015 2. EFLM Promotion (cont)

16.Work with the other IFCC Regional organizations ☜

17.Establish basis for relationships with clinical organizations

18.Consolidate partnership with UEMS ☜

Strategic Plan 2014-2015 3. Relation with other organizations

19. Ensure that scientific questions are identified as topics ☜

20. & 21. Ensure that C-Science/C-ET publications acknowledge the EFLM contribution ☜

22. Provide governance to e-learning projects ☜

23. Promote educational courses ☜

24. Develop CPD Scheme First draft of the ‘Rulebook on EFLM CPD system” prepared

25. Create the EFLM Speakers Bureau ☜

Strategic Plan 2014-2015 4/5. Scientific & Education Affairs

26. Ensure that C-QR publications acknowledge the EFLM contribution ☜

27. Liaise with EC and EA to ensure needs of Laboratory Medicine are met ☜

28. Promotion of the ISO 15189 accreditation using the ‘flexible scope’ approach ☜

29. Disseminate information to NSs

30. IVD Regulation IVD regulation has not been released yet

Strategic Plan 2014-2015 6. Quality and Regulatory Affairs

31. Harmonize training and education of the profession across Europe

Common Training Framework & recognition of specialists in laboratory medicine under EU Directive 2013/55/EU

32. Increase the number of EC4 registration at the Register Commission ☜

33. Revise the EC4 Syllabus for education and training in laboratory medicine

V.6 of EC4 syllabus circulated for comment amongst WG-CTF members

Strategic Plan 2014-2015 7. Professional Affairs

EFLM Symposium

Cutting Edge at Laboratory Medicine Prague, 1-2 October 2015

Forthcoming EFLM events

15th EFLM Continuous Postgraduate Course in Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine

How to access the quality of your method? Zagreb, 24-25 October 2015

Forthcoming EFLM events

4th Joint EFLM-UEMS Congress

Laboratory Medicine @ the clinical interface Warsaw, 21-24 September 2016

Forthcoming EFLM events