The SMH Board was successfully elected at the last General Meeting. We would like to thank Jacqueline Schoumans for her many years of work as SMH President. The new Board will continue this important work in the exchange of knowledge and in representing the interests of SMH members in various political bodies.

We congratulate the newly elected and re-eclected Board members, who were all elected unanimously. You can find the positions of the new Board members under the heading „Board members“. The Board took up its work after the last business meeting and will be in office for the next three years.

The next Business Meeting took taking place virtually from 10 to 12:15 a.m.

The scientific topic was lymphoma and with a very intresting and comprehensive presentation on liquid biopsy in lymphoma. You can find the presentations in the member area.

Further the new Board Election took place for the next three years regular legislature.

Further the important topic IvDV was updated by Britta Hartmann, and we keep up with regular insights in the work from the working group of the SSMG.

You will find the minutes of the meeting in the member area.

We would like to thank the Molecular Diagnostics team and all involved persons at the CHUV for a successful day!

The meeting was very well attended and the presentations on plasma cell myeloma were exciting and excellent presented. The event was crowned by the lab tour with a breathtaking view.

You can find the presentation from the meeting in the member area. If you are interested to become a new SMH member, please apply via the form on our website.

We have more good news and can already announce the next meeting: Ticino will welcome us in Bellinzona on the 4th of February 2025 and provide us with further training on the topic of CLL. We are already looking forward to it!

We look forward to welcoming you to the

Annual Technician Meeting, Tuesday 23rd of January 2024

Main topic: Plasma cell myeloma

Here you can find the program

The auditorium Alexandre Yersin is located in the main hospital building. Stay at the ground floor (BH08) and follow the signs „auditorium“.

Dear members
Enclosed you will find information and the link to the CAS in Personalized Molecular Oncology 2024 from the university of Basel in collaboration with CHUV and the University Hospital of Basel.

The next business meeting is just around the corner with the important IVD-R topic. You can find the detail program in the member area.

Please be advised that there will be amendments to the statues and your vote as member will be counting.

We are looking forward to the next Business Meetingn in September 2023 meeting in Berne in person with important topics about IVD-R. But before we will have the 3rd Diagnostic Meeting organised by the SGH with paticipation of the SMH and the SCS followed by the microscopy course. This will take place 22. / 23. of June 2023.

You can find the minutes of the last Business Meeting in the member area as well as the talks from the last Technician Meeting.

We are pleased to invite you to the SMH Technician Workshop in Aarau the 9^th of march. Here you can find the program and registration form. If you should encounter problems registering with the pdf, you can also send an email to labor at ksa.ch (please change word at to the symbol) with „Zurückgesendetes Formular: SMH Program.pdf“ as subject/Betreff.

It is free of charge and a certificate of attendance can be issued on demand.

We are looking forward to the meeting!

The Businessmeeting took place the 25th of January virtually. There was an important talk about the new WHO 2022 classification of myeloid and lymphoid malignancies highlighting the difference to the new International Consensus Classification, which complexifies the diagnostic work. Find further information on the business meeting in the member area.

We are happy to announce that Kantonsspital Aarau invites us to join the the technicians and academics meeting Thursday 9th of March 2023. More detail will follow. Please make sure to spread the word and save the date!