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Each year ESPID sponsors an educational workshop for 20 trainees at the annual meeting. The goals and objectives of the workshop are:
- To discuss, in depth, management of common infectious diseases in children
- To provide tools to cope with common problems in paediatric infectious diseases
- To present updated knowledge on common paediatric infectious disease problems
- To conduct discussions among participants on the management of common problems
- To provide guidelines for dealing with the problems under discussion
WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
by invitation only
Saturday, May 5, 2007
| 08:30 – 09:00 |
Welcome - coffee and introduction to the programme
Jussi Mertsola, Finland |
| 09:00 - 09:45 |
Recurrent and prolonged fever syndromes
Sarah Long, USA |
| 09:45 - 10:30 |
Immunology of RSV Infections
Octavio Ramilo, USA |
| 10:30 – 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:00 - 11:45 |
Infection in the immunocompromised host
Dan Engelhard, Israel |
| 11:45 - 13:00 |
Clinical cases from students and teachers
Chairpersons: Shai Ashkenazi, Israel and Julia Clark, UK |
| 13:00 - 14:00 |
Lunch and discussions in groups |
| 14:00 - 14:45 |
Infection and autoimmunity
Francesco Zulian, Italy |
| 14:45 - 15:30 |
Immunomodulatory therapy – risk of infection?
Andrew Cant, UK |
| 15:30 - 16:00 |
Coffee Break |
| 16:00 - 17:30 |
Clinical cases
Chairpersons: Emmanuel Grimprel, France and Carlo Giaquinto, Italy |
Registration for the workshop is open to trainees in paediatric infectious diseases who will be expected to register for the 2007 ESPID Annual Meeting in Porto, Portugal and who must be ESPID members. Registration of the educational workshop is free of charge and will be open to a maximum of 20 persons on a first come, first served basis.
Participants receive a specially subsidised
package for accommodation, registration and travel for the
meeting. Registration for the annual meeting will be Euro
80 and accommodation will cost Euro 300 for 4 nights in a
single occupancy room at Hotel Quality Inn Portus Cale (the
hotel is located 5-8 minutes walk from the Sheraton Porto
where the Workshop will take place). Travel arrangements
are to be made on your own. You will be advised by the meeting
organisers as to the amount that you will be reimbursed for
your travel expenses (in accordance with your origin country,
based on economy APEX fare).
Do not send any payment with your application. You will be contacted by the meeting organisers regarding payment if your application is successful.
Applicants should send the following information to using the subject title “Educational Workshop 2007” to espid@kenes.ch
Applicants without access to e-mail may send applications by fax to +41 22 732 2607 or by mail to:
ESPID Secretariat
17 Rue du Cendrier, P.O. Box 1726
CH-1211 Geneva 1
Switzerland
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