Oxford 2017

Meetings

7th Annual UKIAFT AGM Meeting

Oxford, August 31^st - September 1^st 2017

Host Organisation

Susan Grosse, LGC Forensics, UKIAFT2017@lgcgroup.com

The two day Oxford conference on the 31 st August and 1 st September 2017 will include the UKIAFT AGM (Thursday morning), with scientific sessions running on Thursday afternoon, Friday morning and Friday afternoon.

Main Conference Themes: Developments in Forensic Toxicology, Drugs and Driving and New Psychoactive Substances.

Anyone wishing to give a presentation in the scientific sessions (oral or poster) should submit an abstract of the presentation/poster which should not exceed 500 words in length. Abstracts should be submitted electronically as Microsoft Word files to UKIAFT2017@lgcgroup.com

The deadline is Friday 7th July for oral or poster presentation abstracts.

Registration

- Conference Rate: £160
- Student Rate: £90

UKIAFT are offering bursaries for the first 10 students who submit an abstract which is accepted for a poster or oral presentation. This bursary will cover the cost of the registration (£90 per student).

Registration for the meeting is now open

Please click on the buttow below to register
Register to 7th Annual UKIAFT AGM Meeting

There is a password required to allow registration and that has been circulated by email to all members of UKIAFT. Any non-members wishing to attend the meeting should contact UKIAFT2017@LGCGroup.com and the password will be forwarded.

Closing date for registration is Friday 11th August at 18:00

Agenda

Thursday 31^st August

9.30 – 9.55: Arrival – Tea and Coffee
9.55 – 10.00: Welcome
10.00 - 11.00: Dr Sue PatersonUKIAFT Chair
UKIAFT AGM (Members Only)
11.00 – 12:00: Prof Marilyn HuestisPresident, Huestis & Smith Toxicology, LLC
"Cannabis and Driving"
12:00 – 13:00: LUNCH (buffet)
13:00 – 13:30: Rob Giles
Hampshire Constabulary and Thames Valley Police Joint Operations Unit, Roads Policing Unit
"Roadside Drug Testing – Section 4 vs Section 5A"
13.30 – 14:00: Dr Peter Maskell
Senior Lecturer in Forensic Toxicology, Abertay University
"How accurate are the various methods of calculating the volume of distribution of ethanol for alcohol calculations?"
14:00 – 14:30: Dean Acreman
WEDINOS Project Manager
Trends in Substance Misuse & Harm Reduction
14:30 – 15:15: Tea and Coffee (Including Poster Session)
15:15-15:45: Dr Hilary Hamnett
Lecturer/Forensic Toxicologist, University of Glasgow
Contextual bias in forensic toxicology
15:45-16:00: Monika Vezse
Analytical Account Manager, Biotage
Analysis of cannabinoids by SLE
16:00 – 16:30: TBC
18:30: Social Event – Oxford Castle Unlocked followed by 3 course dinner at Malmaison

Friday 1^st September

8.45 – 9.15: Arrival – Tea and Coffee
9.15 - 10.00: Dr Simon Elliot
UKIAFT Committee
UKIAFT Lab Guidelines
10.00 - 10.30: Amber Crampton
Principal Clinical Scientist, Royal Sussex County Hospital
"NPS Challenges in Coroner's Cases"
10.30 – 11.00: Tea and Coffee (including Poster Session)
11:00 – 11:30: Dr Gillian Tully
Forensic Regulator
"Forensic Toxicology: A Discipline in Crisis?"
11:30 – 12:00: TBC
Kings College, London
"Stability of drugs in oral fluid
12:00 – 13:00: LUNCH (buffet)
13:00 – 13:30: Peter Cain
LGC Forensic Drugs, Scientific Advisor
Title TBC – Drug trends – updates on purities etc.
13.30 – 14:00: Simon Hudson
LGC Laboratory Managed Services, Technical Director
"Drug use/misuse in prisons – Results of a drug prevalence study in over 12,000 anonymised urine samples from prisons in the North West and South East of England
14.00 – 14:30: TBC
14:30 – 15:00: Tea and Coffee
15:00 – 16:00: Marilyn Huestis
Why is it Difficult to Interpret Blood Cannabinoid Results?
16:00-16:15: Student prizes, close of meeting

Meeting Location

Wolfson College,
Linton Road,
Oxford
OX2 6UD

Tel: +44 (0) 1865 274 100
See www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/

Getting to/from Wolfson College

Buses to and from the city centre of Oxford are numerous and frequent, and leave from the end of Linton Road. All buses from the College into town stop on St Giles’ and most buses from the centre to Summertown along Banbury Road stop at the end of Linton Road. For timetables and fares, visit The Oxford Bus Company or Stagecoach websites.

Travelling to Oxford

Train:
The train station is approximately 10 minutes walk from the centre of Oxford and 45 minutes walk from Wolfson College.

Coach travel:
To get to and from London, there are two regular coach services run by The Oxford Bus Company (the X90 coach) and Stagecoach (Oxford Tube). The journey takes between 90 and 120 minutes depending on the traffic. Both leave from Gloucester Green Bus Station, Queen’s Lane on the High Street, St Clement’s and numerous other stops.

Air travel:
Birmingham International, London Heathrow International Airport and Gatwick Airport have easy public access to Oxford. All have regular bus services to Oxford. Heathrow and Birmingham are also easily accessible by train

London Heathrow International Airport and Gatwick Airport are linked to Oxford by The Airline coach service, which operates 24 hours a day, seven days a week from many of the same bus stops as the X90 and the Oxford Tube.

Car Parking Suggestions near to Wolfson College

There will be a limited number of parking spaces available at the college – please let Susan Grosse know if you will be bringing your car so she can reserved a place.

Street parking around the college is restricted.

A Park and Ride bus service operates between the Water Eaton site (north of the ring road near Kidlington) and the City Centre. There is a stopping point on the northbound and southbound routes, on Banbury Road opposite the end of Linton Road (tell the bus driver you want to get off at the "St Margaret's Road stop"). It is approximately a five-minute walk from this junction to the College.

Accommodation suggestions

Further rooms at Wolfson College have been added for delegates from 30th to 3rd (allowing you to stay after the event if required to explore Oxford further)

Price £50 per night with promotional code UKIAFT2017

To book accommodation, please follow these steps:

To book: www.wolfson.ox.ac.uk/node/905

STEP ONE: Input UKIAFT2017 into the Promotion Code box
STEP TWO: Identify your requested arrival date
STEP THREE: Identify your requested departure date

Oxford has a range of accommodation available. Advise searching Google or Trip Advisor.

Social Events:

Wednesday 30th August 2017 – Evening Meal – to be arranged if required.
Please contact Susan Grosse on UKIAFT2017@lgcgroup.com if you would like to attend the meal.

Thursday 31st August 2017
Oxford Castle Unlocked Social event including guided tour of Oxford Castle followed by a 3 course dinner at the nearby Malmaison.

UKIAFT GDPR policy

The following outlines the General Data Protection Regulation Policy for The UK and Ireland Association of Forensic Toxicologists (UKIAFT). Applicable from 12/06/2019.

The purposes for collecting and storing personal data relating to UKIAFT members are:

UKIAFT initially collects data to verify an individual’s status when they apply for membership of the Association. All data is provided by the individual and their sponsors for membership.
When membership has been agreed, data is then transferred to two online facilities: (1) WebCollect and (2) The UKIAFT Website.
(1) WebCollect is used so that individuals can maintain their membership. Personal data that may be stored in WebCollect can include email address, contact address, work address, telephone number, qualifications and membership grade/status. The minimum stored will be email address. All data that is stored in an individual’s profile can be accessed and amended by the individual using a personal log in and password. Web Collect can be used by individual UKIAFT members with suitable administration status, to send group emails to the UKIAFT membership.
(2) The UKIAFT website. The website is used to give online notifications to individuals of forthcoming meetings, interesting news items and to store, where authorised, presentations that have been given at past meetings that may be of future interest to the membership. Personal data that may be stored may include name, membership grade, email address and telephone number. All data that is stored in an individual’s profile can be accessed and amended by the individual using a personal log in and password, or by website administrators. This log in and password will allow a member to access other members declared email addresses.
Data is stored securely within the members area of the UKIAFT website.
The website is managed by www.bibibus.com.
Membership lists may also be stored by the UKIAFT secretary and the UKIAFT treasurer to allow identification of current members of the association.

The overarching principles of the General Data Protection Regulation Policy for UKIAFT are:

Data stored by UKIAFT is for the sole purposes of UKIAFT business and an individual’s relationship with UKIAFT. This will include, but is not limited to, membership communication and internal notification of events/meetings. An individual’s personal data will not be shared with a third party without prior written consent. Data is only accessible by UKIAFT members.
No member of UKIAFT will share any personal data with a third party without the prior consent of the individual. This includes, but is not limited to Name, address, email address and phone details. Data is only accessible by UKIAFT members.

Data Storage

Both Web Collect and the UKIAFT website are considered as secure storage, but individuals can edit their personal data contained within both resources to limit of amount of data stored. The minimum requirement is a current email address.
UKIAFT stores no financial data relating to individuals but does store data relating to membership fees having been paid.

Membership

UKIAFT will not under any circumstances use members data for any other purpose than for processing and marketing of UKIAFT and membership deliverables. The data will not be circulated to third parties unless members they give their prior written consent.
From time to time the Association have been approached to circulate relevant matters on behalf of scientific third parties (e.g. The LTG, TIAFT or the Forensic Regulator). These items may be circulated by UKIAFT by email for information only.

Data Rights

The data held by UKIAFT can only be as accurate as the information supplied to UKIAFT by individual members. It is the responsibility of the individual to ensure their data is accurate.
Once an individual’s membership with UKIAFT has become inactive, their personal data will be removed immediately from Web Collect and will be made inactive on the UKIAFT website which will then allow only Website administrators to view this data.

Amendments to this data privacy statement

We reserve the right to change our data privacy statements in case this should become necessary due to new technologies. The latest version will always be available in the members area of the UKIAFT website. Any important changes to this data privacy statement will be disclosed on our website.

We will ensure that technical and administrative safety precautions are taken to protect your personal data against loss, destruction, manipulation and unauthorised access.