LC-MS User Meeting 2020 - Clinical Toxicology - English Afternoon Session

The Clinical and Forensic Toxicology laboratories are rapidly evolving as an increasing number of assays are moved to LC-MS. Toxicological screening is starving for reliable, comprehensive and always up-to-date databases to cope with the continuous appearance on the market of new psychoactive substances. Reducing the number of false positives and false negatives can significantly reduce the laboratory workload as well as improving its reputation. The opportunity to putatively identify unreported substances is also becoming a topic of increasing interest for the user. Multi-channel systems, with multiple LCs working in parallel on the same mass spectrometer taking advantage of its idle times, can dramatically improve the daily throughput. TurboFlow technology for online sample extraction can also help to overcome the bottleneck of extensive offline sample preparation. This part of the EMEA LC-MS users' meeting will interest those involved in Clinical and Forensic laboratories, focusing on target and unknown toxicological screening, quantitative confirmation and are interested in increased throughput analytical approaches.

You will learn about how high-resolution Thermo Scientific Orbitrap mass spectrometry can support both screening and quantitative approaches. You will also have a flavour of how multi-channel and TurboFlow technologies can speed up routine work in your lab.

14:30 BST (15:30 CEST - Prague) | How to realize a workflow approach for small basic compounds?

• Speaker: Petra Gerhards, Regional Marketing Manager, Chromatography Consumables, Thermo Fisher Scientific

15:00 BST (16:00 CEST - Prague) | Tox Explorer Collection – Inspiring Confidence with LC-MS for Every Toxicology Laboratory

• Speaker: Ed Goucher, Sr Manager, Vertical Marketing, Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific

Presenter: Petra Gerhards (Regional Marketing Manager, Chromatography Consumables, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Petra's background is over 30 years of experience in the field of GCMS, SPE and LCMS. Since joining the EMEA Regional Marketing Team for CCS she has been involved in a lot of workflow solutions combining Vials and Closures with SPE solutions, GCMS and LCMS. She works with KOL`s on data for regional specific marketing campaigns, organizes inhouse seminars and works on customer specific solutions. Her main expertise is in the field of Doping and Drugs of Abuse analysis.

Presenter: Ed Goucher (Sr Manager, Vertical Marketing, Life Sciences Mass Spectrometry, Thermo Fisher Scientific)

Dr Edward Goucher reports to the Clinical Research Vertical as a Sr Market Development Manager for the Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry Division at Thermo Fisher Scientific. Edward obtained his PhD from King’s College, London UK in analytical toxicology under the Pharmaceutical Science Research Division, incorporating the WADA accredited London Drug Control Centre. Since his academic tenure Edward has held a number of roles in research and industry with a focus on mass spectrometry for use in clinical translational research, IVD, and structural elucidation, quantitation and screening in forensic and sports anti-doping.