The activities of the eighth annual conference of the Saudi Society for Clinical Chemistry and the Fourth International Conference on Clinical Chemistry and Medical Laboratories of the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties were concluded on Thursday, December 8, 2022. It was held at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Riyadh, during the period from the sixth to the eighth of December 2022 with the participation of more than forty speakers from inside and outside the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and in partnership with more than twenty international organizations and companies in biotechnology for medical laboratories.
The activities of the first day included a workshop on toxicology and primary care tests in diagnosing diseases that preceded the opening of the conference sessions. Conference participants will receive fifteen credit hours in continuing medical education. Hadhramout University participated with three working papers submitted by male and female students of the Medical Laboratory Sciences Department at Medicine and Health Sciences Faculty, with the support of Hadhramout University and the Hadhramout Foundation – Human Development.
The delegation participating in the conference consisted of Dr. Lutfi Saeed Bin Dahman; Head of the Medical Laboratories Department, Khalid Jamal Moamen; General Director of Training at the Student Affairs Deputyship, Asila Saleh Al-Tuffy ;Speaker, Shahd Hamid Al-Attas ;Speaker, Hamza Abdulaziz Al-Saadi ;Speaker, and Majed Muhammad Bel-Aqel; Speaker. In addition to a number of male and female students of the department , Afraa Hussein Al-Amoudi, Zina Ahmed Bajaber, Abeer Abdullah Bassilal, Mahdi Awadh Amra, Ammar Hamdi bin Talib.
The papers presented in the conference are:
- A study on the prevalence rate of metabolic syndrome among male and female Hadhramout University students for the academic year 2021-2022.
- Establishing reference values for cardiac and liver enzymes in a sample of Yemeni population with good health attending blood donation centers in Mukalla.
- Evaluation of blood and biochemistry indicators in Yemeni patients suspected of having COVID-19: positive and negative polymerase chain reaction PCR.
