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Thursday 29 October 2009
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6.00pm -
8.00pm |
Registration & Welcome Mixer | collect
name badge & materials
Bougainvillaea Pool &
Marquee
Catseye Beach (3 mins walking
distance from conference venue)
includes substantial canapés,
buffet & beverages (incl with registration) |
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Friday 30 October 2009
| Endeavour Room (next to Sails Restaurant) |
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Haematology / Infectious
Diseases Forum I |
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Session Chair:
Professor Jeff Szer
Department Clinical Haematology & Bone Marrow Transplant
Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne |
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8.30am - 9.15am |
Current Chemotherapy
Protocols and their Likely Impact on IFI's
Professor Ken Bradstock
Head of Bone Marrow Transplant Service, Westmead Hospital Sydney |
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9.15am - 10.00am |
Biological Markers -
Do They Improve the Outcome? (ASPID)
Dr Orla Morrissey
Infectious Disease Department, Alfred Hospital,
Melbourne |
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10.00am -
10.30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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Haematology / Infectious
Diseases Forum II |
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Session Chair:
Professor Ken Bradstock
Head of Bone
Marrow Transplant
Service, Westmead Hospital Sydney |
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10.30am - 11.00am |
Prevention of IFI's -
Has Posaconazole Made a Difference?
Professor Jeff Szer
Department Clinical Haematology & Bone Marrow Transplant
Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne |
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11.00am - 11.30am |
Management of
Breakthrough Infections
Associate Professor Monica Slavin
Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne
Hospital, Melbourne |
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11.30am - 12.00pm |
Clinical Case
Presentations & Discussion: Panel Discussion
Dr Nicky Gilroy
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
ON THE PANEL
Professor Jeff Szer
Department Clinical Haematology & Bone Marrow Transplant
Service, Royal Melbourne Hospital, Melbourne
Dr
John Bennett
Chief, Clinical Mycology Section, National Institutes of
Health
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, Program
Director, Infectious Disease Training, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Bethesda MD USA
Associate Professor Monica Slavin
Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne
Hospital, Melbourne |
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12.00pm -
1.00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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ICU / Infectious Diseases Forum |
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Session Chair:
Associate
Professor Debbie Marriott
Department
of Microbiology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney |
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1.00pm - 1.30pm |
Prospective
Surveillance of Candidemia in Australian ICUs
Professor Tania Sorrell
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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1.30pm - 2.00pm |
Rapid Diagnosis for
IFI in ICU Patients
Ms Anna Lau
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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2.00pm - 2.30pm |
Clinical Case
Presentations & Discussion: Panel Discussion
Dr Marjoree Sehu
Princess Alexandra Hospital,
Brisbane
ON THE PANEL
Professor Tania Sorrell
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney
Dr
John Bennett
Chief, Clinical Mycology Section, National Institutes of
Health
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, Program
Director, Infectious Disease Training, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Bethesda MD USA
Associate
Professor Debbie Marriott
Department
of Microbiology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney |
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2.30pm -
3.00pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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DEBATE SESSION
Should the Echinocandins be
Used as First Line Therapy for Candidemia? |
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Session Chair:
Professor Tania Sorrell
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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3.00pm - 4.00pm |
FOR:
Dr Sebastian van Hal
Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases,
Liverpool Hospital, Sydney
Associate Professor Monica Slavin
Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne
Hospital, Melbourne
Dr Orla Morrissey
Infectious Disease Department, Alfred Hospital,
Melbourne
AGAINST:
Associate
Professor Debbie Marriott
Department
of Microbiology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney
Associate Professor Tom Gottlieb
Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Concord Hospital,
Sydney
Dr Nicky Gilroy
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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Remainder of the afternoon &
dinner at leisure
(own arrangements)
::this afternoon/evening has
deliberately been left free for you to pursue your own
personal networking relationships! |
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Saturday 31 October 2009
| Endeavour Room (next to Sails Restaurant)
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Lung Transplantation /
Infectious Diseases Forum |
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Session Chair:
Associate Professor
Monica Slavin
Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne
Hospital, Melbourne |
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8.30am - 9.00am |
Lung Transplant
Protocols & their Likely impact on IFI's
Dr Peter Hopkins
Queensland Heart-Lung Transplant Unit, Prince
Charles Hospital, Brisbane |
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9.00am - 9.30am |
Combination
Antifungal Treatment Regimes fir IFI's in Lung
Transplantation
A Point -
Counterpoint Discussion
Dr Peter Hopkins
Queensland Heart-Lung Transplant Unit, Prince
Charles Hospital, Brisbane
Dr Orla Morrissey
Infectious Disease Department, Alfred Hospital,
Melbourne |
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9.30am - 10.00am |
Clinical Case
Presentations & Discussion: Panel Discussion
Dr Sebastian van Hal
Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases,
Liverpool Hospital, Sydney
ON THE PANEL
Dr Peter Hopkins
Queensland Heart-Lung Transplant Unit, Prince
Charles Hospital, Brisbane
Dr
John Bennett
Chief, Clinical Mycology Section, National Institutes of
Health
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, Program
Director, Infectious Disease Training, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Bethesda MD USA
Dr Sharon Chen
Clinical Mycology Centre, Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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10.00am -
10.30am |
MORNING BREAK |
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SESSION 6 |
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Session Chair:
Associate Professor Tom Gottlieb
Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Concord Hospital,
Sydney |
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10.30am - 11.00am |
Antifungal Agents in
Development
Professor Tania Sorrell
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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11.00am - 11.30am |
Monitoring
Voriconazole Levels: YES or NO?
Dr
John Bennett
Chief, Clinical Mycology Section, National Institutes of
Health
Laboratory of Clinical Infectious Disease, Program
Director, Infectious Disease Training, National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease
Bethesda MD USA |
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11.30am - 12.00pm |
Cryptococcosis - In
the Immunocompetent Patient
Dr Sharon Chen
Clinical Mycology Centre, Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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12.00pm -
1.00pm |
LUNCH BREAK |
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SESSION 7 |
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Session Chair:
Dr Orla Morrissey
Infectious Disease Department, Alfred Hospital,
Melbourne |
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1.00pm - 1.30pm |
Immune Reconstitution
Syndromes in Invasive Fungal Infection
Associate
Professor Debbie Marriott
Department
of Microbiology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney |
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1.30pm - 2.00pm |
Antifungal Dosing
Issues in Paediatrics!
Dr Chris Blyth
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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2.00pm - 2.45pm |
Innate & Adaptive
Immunity in Aspergillus Infection
Dr Leighton Clancy
Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, Sydney |
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2.45pm -
3.15pm |
AFTERNOON BREAK |
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SESSION 8 |
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Session Chair:
Associate
Professor Debbie Marriott
Department
of Microbiology, St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney |
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3.15pm - 3.45pm |
Scedosporium
Infections in Australia
Dr Sharon Chen
Clinical Mycology Centre, Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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3.45pm - 4.15pm |
Prospective
Surveillance Systems for IFI - How Should
We Do It?
Dr Karin Thursky
Victorian Infectious Disease Service, Royal Melbourne
Hospital, Melbourne |
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4.15pm - 4.45pm |
Antifungal
Susceptibility Testing & Resistance Trends
Associate Professor David Ellis
Mycology Unit, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Adelaide |
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7.00pm - 11.00pm |
Conference Dinner - Surf's Up
Beach Party BBQ!
Outrigger Function Centre
Catseye Beach (3 mins walking
distance from conference venue)
includes BBQ dinner & beverages (incl with registration) |
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Sunday 1 November 2009
| Endeavour Room (next to Sails Restaurant)
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OPTIONAL SATELLITE WORKSHOP
| for laboratory staff (workshop fee applies) |
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Molecular Phylogeny, Epidemiology,
Diagnostic and Identification Methods: Using the Right
Tools for the Right Job |
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Workshop Chair:
Associate Professor David Ellis
Mycology Unit, Women’s & Children’s Hospital, Adelaide |
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9.00am - 9.45am |
Fungal Phylogenetics
Relevant to Medical Mycology
Associate Professor Wieland Meyer
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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9.45am - 10.30am |
Molecular
Epidemiology
Dr Sarah Kidd
Monash University - The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne |
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10.30am -
11.00am |
MORNING BREAK |
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11.00am - 11.45am |
Molecular Diagnostics
& Identification Methods
Dr Catriona Halliday
Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
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11.45am - 12.30pm |
What is the Clinical
Relevance? Discussion
Dr Sharon Chen
Clinical Mycology Centre, Centre for Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney |
