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Past Meetings 2008
29 February – 1 March 2008
Update on Fungal Infections, Madrid, Spain
This meeting was organised by the Spanish Society of Chemotherapy, under the auspices of both the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) and the Federation of European Societies of Chemotherapy and Infection (FESCI). The chairperson is Professor Juan J. Picazo and the meeting will be held at the Hospital Clinico San Carlos (Madrid).
To see the programme please click here.
For further information contact
info@fungal2008.com
13 – 14 March 2008 Samara, Russia
IACMAC Volga Region Conference on Antimicrobial Therapy

This meeting wasorganised by the Inter-Regional Association for Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Chemotherapy in collaboration with the ISC.

To see the preliminary programme, please click here
For further information contacts
Professor Dmitry Galkin
27 – 30 March 2008
2nd International Congress of Central Asia Infectious DiseasesAlmaty, Kazakhstan.

The congress was organised by the Black Sea Society of Clinic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (BSCMID and the Kazakh National Medical University (KNMU) in collaboration with ISC.
After the collapse of former Soviet Union, incidence of infectious diseases has dramatically increased in the Central Asian States. Economic and political problems and ineffectivness of new healthcare systems or programs in these countries contributed such endemic diseases.

The Scientific Secretary
Salih Hosoglu, MD,
Phone: +90 412 2488473
Mobile: +90 532 5401248
E-mail : hosoglu@hotmail.com

The Organisation Secretary
Mine Akturk
ACP Congress & Organization
Phone : +90 212 219 99 39
Fax : +90 212 232 09 76
E-mail : mine@acporganizasyon.com
Website:www.iccaid.org

1 - 4 April 2008
Viral Phylogenetics & Bioinformatics Workshop
Prince of Wales Hospital, Hong Kong

This workshop was co-organised by the The Chinese University of Hong Kong, the Asia Pacific Society for Medical Virology (APSMV) an the Virology Section of the ISC.

Two 2-day workshops ran consecutively over 4 days, taught at basic and advanced levels. Each workshop consisted of lectures for the first day followed by a hands-on practical for the second day.

Website:  www.cuhk.edu.hk/med/mic/workshop/index.htm.
Further information may be obtained from either
Prof Julian Tang (julian.tang@cuhk.edu.hk) or
Prof Paul Chan (paulchan@cuhk.edu.hk)
10 April 2008
DMS on Meningitis Disease Management
Manila, Philippines

This one day meeting took place immediately before the 8th International Congress of Tropical Pediatrics (ICTP). It will be organized by the International Society of Tropical Pediatrics (ISTP) in collaboration with the Philippine Ambulatory Pediatrics Association (PAPA) and other local pediatrics organizations.
The purpose of this meeting was to develop Asian guidelines on meningitis, initiated by PSMID in collaboration with ISC.

Chairperson: Dr. May B. Montellano.
E-mail:
psmidqc@smartbro.net

17 – 18 April, 2008 Sitges, Spain
2nd ISC European Conference on Bloodstream Infections

To see the final programme for this meeting, please click here.
The following presentations are available for download as pdfs:

11 – 18 May, 2008, Varna, Bulgaria
8th Annual Assembly of IMAB and 3rd National Congress of Immunology

The above meeting is being co-organised by the ISC, International Medical Association of Bulgaria (IMAB), the Bulgarian Society of Immunology (BSI) and the Medical University of Varna. All aspects of infections and cancer will be addressed.
To see the programme please click here.
For further information go to www.imab-bg.org

Contact person:
Prof. Dr. Krassimir T. Metodiev, President of IMAB
Medical University, IMAB Headquarters
BG-9002 Varna, Bulgaria
Tel/Fax +359-52-634.107 (office)
E-mail: kr.metod@mail.vega.bg

24 – 28 May 2008, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
3rd International meeting of the GCC – Centre for Infection Control and 1st Annual Meeting of the Saudi Society for Public Health

Topic covered will include emerging infectious diseases, patient safety & infection control, food safety & water quality, sterilization & disinfection and occupational health & environmental control.

For further information contact: accaff_conf@ngha.med.sa

19 – 22 June 2008 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
13th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID)
Organized by the International Society for Infectious Diseases (ISID)
The meeting in Kuala Lumpur was hosted by the Ministry of Health, Malaysia. The program included plenary talks by world renowned experts in the science of infectious diseases.
E-mail: info@isid.org
Web site: www.isid.org/13th_icid
26-27 September 2008,
Renaissance Hotel, Leipzig, Germany
The ISC International Conference on New Views on Clostridium difficile Infections
Conference President: Prof. Arne Rodloff, Leipzig, Germany

This one and a half day meeting will embrace all aspects of this increasingly important disease including epidemiology, pathogenesis, diagnosis and management.  The conference is designed to offer the active participation of all attendees via poster or selected oral presentations and time is being allocated to allow intensive discussions.

We are grateful that leading experts in the field have agreed to participate in the program and we like to invite all interested colleges to discuss with them the pressing issues in C. difficile infection.

To see the final programme and list of speakers, please click here.
To download the registration form, please click here.
To read the Welcome Letter, please click here.

For all enquiries, please contact:
Janine Scheffler - Project Manager
KelCon GmbH
Ludwigstraße 24-26
D-63110 Rodgau - Jügesheim, Germany
Tel: +49 (0)6106 84 44 17
Fax: +49 (0)6106 84 44 44
E-mail: j.scheffler@kelcon.de
E-mail: info@kelcon.de
17-20 October 2008, Rabat | Morocco
The 6th Arab Symposium for Antimicrobial Agents

The conference is organized by the Arab Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antimicrobials (ArAPUA), together with Mohamed V. University (Souissi), Moroccon Society for Medical Microbiology (MSMM), Moroccan Society for Clinical Microbiology (MSCM) and in coordination with the International Society for Chemotherapy (ISC)

Contact person is Prof. Amina Benouda benjilali@mena.ma

For registration, abstract submission and more information: www.arapuaarapua.org

29th November – 3rd December 2008
11th Western Pacific Congress on Chemotherapy and Infectious Diseases (WPCCID), Taipei, Taiwan

In conjunction with the 5th Asian UTI / STD Forum

2nd Announcement
Programme
Call for abstracts

The host organisations are The Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan, the Taiwan Society of Microbiology and the Nosocomial Infection Control Society of Taiwan. Collaborating organisations are the ISC, Western Pacific Society of Chemotherapy (WPSC) and the Asian Association of UTI and STD (AAUS). Please note, abstract submission is now open.

Congress Secretariat:
Ms. Emily Shih
10F-2, No 51 Sungjiung Road
104, Taipei, Taiwan
Tel. +886-2-2504-4338 ext. 18
Fax +886-2-2504-4362
E-mail:   wpccid2008@elitepco.com.tw
Website: www.wpccid2008.tw

 
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