Webinar: Artificial Intelligence in the Haematology Laboratory

A KACP webinar held on 22 September 2021, from 6:00pm to 7:20pm EAT on Zoom, in partnership with Mindray and Crown Healthcare. It introduced artificial intelligence and showed, through practical examples, how it is already being applied in the haematology laboratory.

Host: Dr. Muthoni Kabera, then Assistant Chair of KACP, Chief Pathologist and Laboratory Director at Gertrude’s Children’s Hospital, Consultant Haematopathologist and Fellow of the College of Pathologists of East, Central and Southern Africa (COPECSA).

Speakers

• Dr. Ramon Simon-Lopez, MD, Scientific Research and Medical Affairs, Mindray, and lecturer in artificial intelligence at the University of Applied Sciences of Southern Switzerland, with over 40 years of experience in laboratory and haematology practice and industry
• Mr. Otieno Horace Ochieng, Mindray IVD Product Specialist, Kenya

Programme

• 6:00pm: Welcome and opening remarks, Dr. Muthoni Kabera
• 6:05pm: Artificial intelligence, an introduction with basic examples of its use in the haematology laboratory, Dr. Ramon Simon-Lopez
• 6:55pm: Invitation to the online launch of the Mindray MC-80 digital morphology analyser, Mr. Otieno Horace Ochieng
• 7:00pm: Questions and answers, all speakers