On the 25th april 2025, in the afternoon, the board of the SRMLB-KBGGG will be organising a scientific conference.
Abstracts for 15-20 min oral presentations (in english) are invited from all disciplines and should be sent to bram.bekaert@uzleuven.be till 28 march 2025.
The meeting will take place at the beautiful in Leuven.
Registration for the meeting will open soon!
More details will be provided through e-mail and our website, so do save the date in your diaries to make sure you will be able to attend the conference.
On behalf of the board, we are delighted to invite you to the 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐅𝐨𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐜 𝐒𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐒𝐲𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐢𝐮𝐦, scheduled to take place on 25th april in Huis De Munter, Naamsestraat 69, 3000 Leuven.
Abstracts for 15-20 min oral presentations (in english) are invited from all disciplines and should be sent to bram.bekaert@uzleuven.be
Registration for the meeting will open soon!
More details will be provided through e-mail and our website, so do save the date in your diaries to make sure you will be able to attend the conference.
Our society will be holding its annual General Assembly on the 19th January 2024 at the faculty Club in Leuven.
Program:
18u00 – 18u30: Reception
18u30 – 19u00: Keynote presentation by Mr. Frédéric Thiebaut, lawyer at the bar of Mechelen
19u00 – 20u00: General Assembly
20h00 – 21u00: Diner
21u00 – 21u30: Prof Dr Samuel Leistedt on Behavioural sciences and Terrorism
21u30 – … : Dessert and digestives
Registration for the meeting (including diner) costs €120 for (candidate) members, while students/medical trainees get a 50% discount and only pay €60.
Free parking at the Faculty Club with code 2069#.
You can register using this link. Registration deadline is 12th January 2024 at 17h.
Candidate members can still apply and should send their CV’s and motivation letter to bram.bekaert@uzleuven.be before the registration deadline.
It is with tremendous pride that the board can present the final program of the first ever Quality Assurance Symposium that we are organising on friday 15th December 2023 at Hof ter Musschen, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe.
This is the first time that your society in collaboration with the Belgian and Luxembourg toxicologists organise an event and we are convinced this will be a popular one, so do book early as places are strictly limited (early registration till 31st october, late registration till 30th november).
The interactive break-out sessions are focused on the practical aspects of quality assurance management and will therefore be organised in different languages (NL, FR and EN). We also invite you to attend the dinner after the symposium to get to know the speakers and other participants in a more informal setting.
Program 09u00 – 09u30: Keynote by Tom Hoorens, Advisor at the cabinet of the Vice-prime minister and the minister of Justice 09u30 – 10u00: Elke Van Rossen, Accreditation Manager at BELAC 10u30 – 10u30: Johan Guns, Head of QA and Regulatory Affairs Medical Laboratories and Tissue Establishments, UZ Brussel 11u00 – 11u30: Fabien Julemont, Quality Manager, Federal Judicial Police 11u30 – 12u00: Wim Van de Voorde, Professor at KU Leuven and Head of the Department for Forensic Medicine, UZ Leuven
13u00 – 14u45: Break-out sessions: 1. Els Dequeker, Quality assurance manager UZ Leuven – Professor at KU Leuven. Topic: managing quality assurance in practice (NL)
2. Didier Meuwly, Principal Scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute and Forensic Biometrics Chair at the University of Twente. Topic: a new ISO-norm for forensic science: ISO 21043 (EN)
15u15 – 17u00: Break-out sessions: 1. Anne Leriche, Scientific consultant at the Public Prosecutors office – course leader at ULB. Topic: Comparison of ISO norms in practice (FR)
2. Hedwig Stepman, Clinical Biologist at UZ Gent. Topic: IVDR in practice (EN)
17u00 Reception 18u00 Dinner at Hof ter Musschen
Registration costs:
Early bird deadline is 31/10/2023 : Member BLT/KBGGG-SRMLB : €135 (without dinner) – €225 (includes dinner) Non-member : €150 (without dinner) – €250 (includes dinner)
Late stage deadline is 30/11/2023. Member BLT/KBGGG-SRMLB : €180 (without dinner) – €260 (includes dinner) Non-member : €200 (without dinner) – €300 (includes dinner)
Please register HERE (confirmation after registration and payment).
IGO and RIZIV/INAMI point have been applied for and are pending approval.
It’s been a busy few months for the board of KBGGG-SRMLB and since our scientific afternoon in May we’ve been in the process of organising the next few meetings. 📆📝
So here are already some save-the-dates for your diaries to register :
🔜 24-25/11/2023 (1.5 days): National expert meeting on accidents in Liège organised by 6 professional societies, including yours truly KBGGG-SRMLB. The forensic part will be in the afternoon of the 24th
🔜 15/12/2023 (whole day): Quality assurance symposium in Hof ter Musschen, Sint-Lambrechts-Woluwe, organised by no one other than BLT (Belgian and Luxembourg Toxicologists) and KBGGG-SRMLB
🔜 19/01/2024 (afternoon): Our general assembly at the good old Faculty Club, Leuven
🔜 19/04/2024 (afternoon): Annual forensic scientific meeting of the SRMLB-KBGGG (location TBC)
🔔 Please do save these dates in your diaries. 🔔
More information about the programmes, how to register etc. will be sent out soon and will also be posted on our website
