Lab Sustainability Conference
5 February 2025 | Room 3
Lab Sustainability Conference
Overview:
Clinical laboratories should contribute to a sustainable healthcare system and environment-friendly laboratories ensuring that resources are used efficiently from ecological, social, and economical perspectives, while providing high-quality services to patients and physicians. As global temperature rises, the resulting impact on healthcare and laboratory professionals are consequently expected to significantly increase. The third edition of lab sustainability track will further discuss doughnut economy and its use in clinical laboratory.
Key topics:
- Greener laboratory practice: ISO14001
- Challenges and opportunities in implementing sustainability
- Collaboration among key stakeholders’ adoption of sustainability practices
- Impact of laboratory operations on the environment
Benefits of attending:
- Learn about standards of ISO14001 in efficient resource use and reduction of waste in clinical laboratories
- Discuss the various practices and resources labs can implement to a more sustainable healthcare environment;
- Review the key collaborative roles stakeholders can play to support sustainability practices
- Explore key practices laboratories can implement to initiate sustainable environment
Chairs:
- Dr Rana Nabulsi, Consultant, Head of Quality Assurance Unit, Pathology & Genetics Department, Dubai Health, Dubai, UAE
- Prof Damien Gruson, Head of the Department, Head of Medical Biochemistry, Dept of Clinical Laboratory, Cliniques Universitaires Saint Luc, Brussels, Belgium
