IFCC Webinars (2023)

Dr. Lianna Kyriakopoulou is currently a director of Genome Diagnostics at the Hospital for Sick Children and Assistant Professor at the Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology at the University of Toronto. She received her PhD in Microbiology and Molecular and Medical Genetics from the University of Toronto. She is certified by the Canadian Academy of Clinical Biochemistry and the American College of Medical Genetics in Clinical Molecular Genetics. Dr. Kyriakopoulou’s professional interests are in the areas of genetic metabolic disorders and diagnostic assay development using high-throughput methodologies and genomic tests, particularly for rare disorders.

Prof Ronda Greaves is a Paediatric Clinical Biochemist with over 20 years of experience in the field. She is Deputy Head of the Newborn Screening and Metabolic Screening Laboratories, Victorian Clinical Genetics Services, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. These laboratories perform biochemical screening of all Victorian newborns and older children with clinical indications of an inborn error of metabolism. Ronda’s training and continued interest are in the appropriate analysis of disorders of sex development, appropriate application of mass spectrometry assays and lean process management.