ASTICON 2014 – SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME Friday, 31st October 2014 Day 1 TIME 08.00 - 09.00 am 09.00 - 09.30 am TOPIC Registration Free paper session- 1 SPEAKER CHAIRPERSONS 09.30 - 10.00 am Silver Jubilee Oration of Institute of Venereology: Sexually transmitted diseases –Past, Present and Future Dr. Dinesh .C.Govil Dr.A.D.Dharmaratnam Dr.Varsha Gupta Dr.Loganathan 10.00 - 11.00 am 11.00 - 11.30 am 03.15 - 03.30 pm 03.30 - 03.45 pm 03.45 – 04.00 pm 04.00 - 05.00 pm Inauguration Tea Break SESSION 1 STI in pregnancy Dr. Ragini Mehrotra Prevalence of STIs and PID in Dr. Jayashree Joshi ambulent women from different categories and measures to prevent PID in women White discharge and how to combat the Dr. Rathindra Nath Dutta problem Laboratory diagnosis of genital ulcer Dr. Sumati Murlidharan diseases – Whats’s new? The syndromic versus laboratory Dr. Daman Saluja diagnosis of STI pathogens in resource limited settings : Urgent need for strengthening diagnostic capabilities Q & A session Lunch SESSION 2 Is Chlamydia trachomatis screening Dr. V.K.Sharma important in India? Laboratory diagnosis of Chlamydia Dr. Aruna Mittal trachomatis in India-An update Newer technologies in Gonorrhoea Dr. Seema Sood Diagnostics Mycoplasma genitalium; Are clinicians Dr. Sunil Sethi aware about it? Genital papulonecrotic tuberculid: Is it a Dr. Bhushan Kumar sexually transmitted disease? Q & A session Tea Break Sponsored Session (Applied Biosciences) Dr. Govindan Nair Memorial Award competition session 05.00 - 06.00 pm Dr. H.C.Mohanty – PG QUIZ PRELIMS 11.30 - 11.45 am 11.45 - 12.00 pm 12.00 - 12.15 pm 12.15 - 12.30 pm 12.30 - 12.45 pm 12.45 - 01.00 pm 01.00 - 02.00 pm 02.00 - 02.15 pm 02.15 - 02.30 pm 02.30 - 02.45 pm 02.45 - 03.00 pm 03.00 - 03.15 pm Dr.Sarla Malhotra Dr.Somesh Gupta Dr.A.Chakrabarti Dr. Magnus Unemo Dr.Mahadevan Dr.Venkateswaran TIME 08.00 - 09.00 am 09.00 - 09.30 am 09.30 - 09.50 am 09.50 – 10.10 am 10.10 -10.30 am 10.30 -11.00 am 11.00 – 11.15 am 11.15 – 11.45 am 11.45 – 12.00 am 12.00 – 12.15 pm 12.15 – 12.30 pm 12.30 – 12.45pm 12.45 – 01.00 pm 01.00 – 01.15 pm 01.15 – 02.15 pm 02.15 – 02.30 pm 02.30 – 02.45 pm 02.45 – 03.00 pm 03.00 – 03.15pm 03.15 – 03.30 pm 03.30– 03.45pm 03.45 – 04.45 pm 06.00 – 07.00 pm Saturday, 1st November 2014 Day 2 TOPIC SPEAKER Dr.H.C.Mohanty Quiz Competition Quiz masters R.V . Rajam Endowment Oration March of Venereal Diseases-STD-STI in India since Independence SESSION 3 Managing anogenital warts in 2014: Are we better off? HIV-HSV Co-infection: Challenges in Management The challenges of managing HIV infected patients PLENARY: Antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae in the 21st century - past, evolution, and future Dr. Sanjeev Vaishampayan Dr.Somesh Gupta Dr. Priya Sen Dr. Sunil Khaparde Dr.S.D.Mehta Dr. Veerakathy Harindra Dr.Magnus Unemo Tea Break IUSTI –IASSTD & AIDS Scholarship awardees lectures SESSION 4 Elimination of congenital syphilis in India Challenges in diagnosing, treating and reporting of syphilis in pregnancy and congenital syphilis Elimination of congenital syphilis its feasibility and relevance Q & A session SESSION 5 HIV and MSM in Asia Legalisation of prostitution in India ? CHAIRPERSONS Dr.Deepak Dr.Lakshmi Sree Dr.R.N.Dutta Dr.Sunil Sethi Dr. Roy Chen Dr. Usman Dr. Sunil Khaparde Dr. Manju Bala Dr. T.L.N. Prasad Dr. Roy Chan Dr. P. Elangovan Lunch SESSION 6 Condoms (his and her) role in STI prevention Dr.Yogesh Marfatia Management of STIs in the post antibiotic Dr. Purnima Madhivanan era:Are phages the new frontier in the fight against antibiotic resistance Managing recurrent genital Herpes infections: Dr. Kaushal Verma Are there better ways? Vaccines for STIs : Where are we? Dr. Jandhyala Sridhar Q & A session Tea Break Dr. P.S. Ranganathan Memorial Award Dr.Jagdish Chander Dr.R.Selvi Brig. (Retd.) A.K.Jaiswal Dr.Veerakathy Harindra Dr.V.K.Jain Dr. Priya Sen Dr.P.Elangovan Dr.Gunasekaran EC/General Body Meeting of IASSTD & AIDS - At Dinner venue : New Conference Hall, Hotel Mount View, Sector 10, Chandigarh Note: Time limit to be followed strictly for this meeting. Sunday, 2nd November, 2014 Day 3 TIME 08.00 – 09.00 am TOPIC Free paper session -2 09.00 – 09.30 am PLENARY: What’s new in STI Dr. Angelika Stary SESSION 7 Balanitis and Balanoposthitis Dr. Arun Kumar Epididymo-orchitis – an overview Dr. Murugan Non venereal genital dermatoses Dr. D.M.Thappa Red scrotum syndrome Dr.Nitin. S.Walia Trichomoniasis- Present scenario Dr. Rashmi Bagga Q & A session Sponsor session (Thermofisher) Tea Break Dr. Sivaranjani Dr. Sardarilal Memorial Award Trichomoniasis:How do we diagnose in a resource poor setting SESSION 8 STI and HIV lethal synergy Dr. Usman Challenges of highly ART experienced Dr. D.G.Saple patients STI and HIV lethal synergy Association of host and pathogenic Dr. A.H.Bandivdekar variation with transmission and pathogenesis of HIV Functional Implications of the genetic Dr. Akhil C.Banerjea variations in the HIV-1 genes from North India Q & A session Sponsor session (Cavidi) Valedictory Session followed by lunch 09.30 – 09.45 am 09.45 - 10.00 am 10.00 – 10.15 am 10.15 – 10.30 am 10.30 – 10.45 am 10.45 – 11.00 am 11.00 – 11.10 am 11.10 – 11.30 am 11.30 – 12.00 pm 12.00 – 12.15 pm 12.15 – 12.30 pm 12.30 – 12.45 pm 12.45 – 01.00 pm 01.00– 01.15 pm 01.15 – 01.30pm 01.30 pm SPEAKER CHAIRPERSONS Dr. Chandrasekara Rao Dr. Mohanlal Gupta Dr. Bhushan Kumar Dr. Sanjeev Handa Dr. G. P. Thammi Dr. Rakesh Sehgal Dr.SunilArora Dr.Vanita Gupta