ICHS Co Sponsored and Endorsed Programs

Upcoming ICHS meetings:

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

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

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 

Previous Meetings

The 13^th Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host

The 14th Symposium on Infections in the Immunocompromised Host