ICHS Co Sponsored and Endorsed Programs

Upcoming ICHS meetings:

15th Symposium on Infections in the critically Ill Patient

Barcelona, Spain, February 5-6, 2010.

The ICHS has endorsed this Symposium.

Focus on Fungal Infections 20

New Orleans, USA, March 3-5, 2010

With a spotlight on both clinical and laboratory aspects of antifungal therapy and a variety of educational tools to instruct its diverse audience, Focus on Fungal Infections has become a leading international forum for world leaders in mycology and infectious disease management to share and increase their knowledge of fungal infections and how to optimize patient care.

For more information: www.imedex.com/appweb/announcements/a133-01.asp

The ICHS has participated in the following joint sessions:

1. At the 45th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, September 21-14 2005: An interactive  symposium on 'Difficult mycology questions for the infectious disease consultant" co-sponsored by ICAAC & ICHS

Draft program:
Conveners: Bart-Jan Kullberg & Thierry Calandra

• Approaching difficult issues in candidemia- Louis Ostrosky-Zeichner
• Treatment options in special populations- Helen Boucher
• Role of molecular diagnostics- Kieran Marr
• Salvage strategies for invasive asergillosis- Raoul Herbrecht
• Therapy for weird moulds- William Steinbach
   

ICAAC Website: www.icaac.org

2. At the 43rd Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America, October 6-9 2005, The following was offered:

Symposium: The Burden of Viral Infections In Transplantation

Symposium: Impact of Novel Immunosuppression Regimens on Infections in Transplant Recipients.

       Co-moderators: Carol Kauffman & Barb Alexander

Meet-the Professor Congenital CMV: co-organized by ICHS and the Pediatric Infectious Disease Society.

IDSA Website:  www.idsociety.org

3. ICHS co-sponsored a symposium on Fungal infections at Trends In Mycology Meeting (TIMM) in the severely ill patient. Berlin, Germany

Chairs: T. Calandra (Lausanne, Switzerland) / C. Kauffmann (Ann Arbor, USA)

• What is the optimal catheter management in patients with fungemia? M. Nucci (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

• What does a positive Candida culture in tracheal secretions mean? TBA

• What is the value of non-culture fungal diagnosis in intensive care patients? L. Klingspor (Stockholm, Sweden)

• When to start prophylaxis and when empiric therapy? T. Calandra (Lausanne, Switzerland)

4.  ICHS held a joint Symposium titled Infections in the Immunocompromised Host at the April 2006 ESCMID congress (ECCMID)  chaired by P Ljungman and C Cordonnier.

The Program:

Post-transplantation lymphoproliferative disease-more surprises from EBV- D Nadal Slides available from this presentation

Infection complications associated with novel immunosuppressive therapies-G Maschmeyer Slides available from this presentation

Infections in non-myeloablative stem-cell recipients- C Cordonnier

Vaccination strategies in transplant recipients-P Ljungman  Slides available from this presentation

5.  First Argentinean Symposium on Supportive Care in Cancer.  Buenos Aires, Argentina.  30 November-1 December 2006. 

6. First International Symposium on Infections in Immunocompromised Children and Adults. Santiago, Chile, April, 2007 

7. Joint Symposium at 47th ICAAC "Vaccines Against Invasive Fungal Infection" Chicago, IL, September 17-20 2007.

8.  13th International Symposium on Infections in the Critically Ill Patient - Athens, Greece, February 22-23 2008.

Previous Meetings

The 13^th Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

The 14th Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

The 15th Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host