Genetic Testing and Counselling meeting in Leuven Thursday 6 May Plenary session 1 9.00 - Welcome and Introduction about the Aims of the 4th meeting G. Evers-Kiebooms 9.20 - What happened about the almost agreed upon four guidelines after the Rome meeting? Marina Frontali 9.40 - A short comment on the preparation of a discussion paper about “Reproductive options by the subgroup who initially prepared the PGD guidelines” Guido de Wert 9.50 – Discrepancies between local labs and BioRep Oliver Quarrell + Discussion 10.10 - Recent “Best Practice Guidelines” for molecular genetic testing for hereditary ataxias: what lessons can be learnt for the process of reaching international guidelines for predictive testing for HD? Jorge Sequeiros and Sara Seneca + Discussion 10.30 Coffee break Plenary session 2 11.00 - The view of the secretary general of WFNRHD on the future process to finalize International Guidelines on Predictive testing for HD Raymund Roos + Discussion 11.25 - The view of the IHA on the future process to finalize International Guidelines on Predictive testing for HD Asun Martinez (to be confirmed) + Discussion 11.50 - Suggested updating of guidelines related to discrimination Yvonne Bombard and Rhona MacLeod + Discussion 12.30 Lunch DISCUSSION IN SUBGROUPS (14.00-15.30 Coffee break 16.00-17.30) Subgroup 1: How to reach updated INTERNATIONAL guidelines? Leader: Marina Frontali Suggested other participants: Asun Martinez, Christiane Lohkamp, Raymund Roos, Dorota Hoffman, Arvid Heiberg, Sara Seneca Subgroup 2: Discrimination (Aim: incorporate the comments and suggestions from the plenary session discussion) Leader: Yvonne Bombard Suggested other participants: Rhona MacLeod, Bea De Schepper, Claudia Downing, Caterina Mariotti, Andrea Nemeth, Christina Costa Subgroup 3: Informing and/or counselling children/minors Leader: Aad Tibben Suggested other participants: Christine de Die, Marcela Gargiulo, Pascal Borry, Andrea Boogaerts, Ariane Van Tongerloo, Odile Perrousseaux, An Kershaw, Guido de Wert, Ruth Glew Subgroup 4: How to deal with age at onset information in a counselling context? Leader: Jorge Sequeiros Suggested other participants: Gerry Evers-Kiebooms, Oliver Quarrell, Mary Davis, Christine Verellen, Paola Mandich, Emilia Bijlsma Subgroup 5: Issues related to clinical trials for asymptomatic mutation carriers Role of our WG in this context? Leader: Bernhard Landwehrmeyer (to be confirmed) Suggested other participants: Alexandra Dürr, David Craufurd, Frances Heydon, Kim Tae, Reineke Bos, Jamie Levey 19.30 Dinner in Brasserie Zarza Friday 7 May Two Plenary sessions (9.00-10.30 Coffee break 11.00-12.30) Presentation by the subgroups followed by discussion and closing comments 12.30 Lunch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 14.00 - 15.00 Short CLOSED MEETING with the participation of Bernhard, Marina, Gerry, Reineke, Asun and Bea Aim: Agenda of the one-day meeting in Prague on Thursday 2 September | | |