IPOKRaTES
Foundation
Clinical Seminar
Infectious diseases and immunologic disorders
in neonates and children
Bangalore, India, The Chancery Pavillion, 135, Residency Road
March 5-7, 2015
Objectives
IPOKRaTES seminars provide high quality postgraduate education, which enable professionals to keep abreast of the
most recent developments and offer participants the opportunity to discuss clinical problems or scientific issues personally with international experts. This seminar is designed to familiarize the practicing neonatologist and pediatrician to
understand and manage infectious diseases of the newborn and infant. It will also provide an insight into the development of the immune system. In particular, lecturers will focus on modern aspects of perinatal and neonatal inflammation
and infection, on issues of bacterial and viral infections as well as on practical topics like microbiological diagnostics, the
febrile child or use of antibiotics. There will be ample chance to directly discuss problems with the experts.
Lecturers
Stanberry L.
Wynn J. Holländer G.
Polin R.
Columbia University, New York, USA
Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA
University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Columbia University, New York, USA
Limited Number of Participants: 70
Please Note: Only registered participants, NO on site registration!
Please register via internet: http://www.ipokrates.info
For Further Details Please See: www.ipokrates.info
Program Design R. Polin, Columbia University, NY
Target Groups
Doctors, nurses and affiliates of university and non-university hospitals, in the field of neonatology
and pediatrics, infectiology, immunology and related specialities.
Major Sponsors
Dräger, Elsevier, Nestlé Nutrition Institute, Heinen + Löwenstein, Ped Air Ambulance
Local Sponsors
Sagar Hospitals, Schiller Health Care, Abbott, UTIVAC, Pfizer, GSK, Fisher Paykel
Local Organizer
Dr. Hariram Maralakunte, MD
Div. of Neonatology, Sagar Hospitals 44/54, 30thCross, Tilaknagar, Jayanagar Extn. Bangalore, India – 560041
Phone +91 080 26536700-710, Fax +91 080 26536714, e-mail: [email protected]
Sagar Hospitals, Phone +91 080 42888888
MAILINGADRESS/ Dr. M.R. Hari Ram 372, 8thCross, I Block, Jayanagar • Bangalore, India - 560011
Information/
Registration
IPOKRaTES Head Office c/o m:con – mannheim:congress GmbH
Rosengartenplatz 2, 68161 Mannheim / Germany
Phone +49 (0)621 4106-134, Fax +49 (0)621 4106-80134
e-mail: [email protected], internet: http://www.ipokrates.info
Travel
VISA required, each participant is responsible for his/her VISA, and IPOKRaTES assumes NO liability.
Participation Fees
before November 30, 2014 after Decemer 1, 2014
Indian doctors Rs. 15.000.-
Rs. 20.000.
Doctors from outside India € 250.-
€ 300,
Payment Indian Delegates Contact nos.: Mob. 080 98450 22676, NICU Direct no. 080 65981505
Indian delegates payment by cheque or DD in favor of ‚IPOKRaTES Bangalore‘.
Infectious diseases and
immunologic disorders
Bangalore, India, The Chancery Pavillion, 135, Residency Road
March 5-7, 2015
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
07:00Breakfast
07:45
Welcome and Introductions
08:00
Diagnosis and Prevention of Early-onset Neonatal Sepsis 09:00
Molecular Diagnosis of Neonatal Sepsis 10:00Break
10:30
Perinatal Infections and brain injury 11:30
Neonatal host response to sepsis 12:30Lunch
13:30
Healthcare-associated infections in the NICU
14:30
Refreshment break
15:00
Perinatal viral infections
16:00End
Richard A. Polin
James Wynn
Richard A. Polin
James Wynn
Richard A. Polin
Lawrence Stanberry
Friday, March 6th, 2015
07:00Breakfast
08:00
Influenza in the perinatal setting
09:00
Necrotizing enterocolitis: Pathogenesis and prevention
10:00Break
10:30
Cellular and Molecular Basis of the Immune Response in Child Health and Disease (I)
11:30
Cellular and Molecular Basis of the Immune Response in Child Health and Disease (II)
12:30Lunch
13:30
Neonatal and genital Herpes virus infections
14:30
Refreshment break
15:00
Immunotherapy of neonatal sepsis 16:00End
Lawrence Stanberry
Richard A. Polin
Georg Holländer
Georg Holländer
Lawrence Stanberry
James Wynn
Saturday, March 7th, 2015
07:00Breakfast
08:00
The microbiome and systems medicine – An emerging science of clinical relevance
09:00
Neonatal Meningitis 10:00Break
10:30
Fungal infections 11:30
Vaccines: Clinical Immunological Aspects 12:30Lunch
13:30
Cytomegalovirus
14:30
Refreshment break
15:00
Fungal infections
16:00
Cases and Questions
17:00End
Subject to change.
Georg Holländer
Richard A. Polin
James Wynn
Georg Holländer
Lawrence Stanberry