Fourth International Congress. The state of the art on prevention and treatment of bacterial, viral and fungal infections
May 8th – 10th, 2013 – Stresa, Italy
Regina Palace Hotel
Duerre Congressi è Segreteria Organizzativa
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President of the Congress
Paolo Antonio Grossi MD, PhD
Professor of Infectious Diseases, University of Insubria
Director Infectious and Tropical Diseases Unit
Director Department of Transplantation
University Hospital “Ospedale di Circolo – Fondazione Macchi”
Viale Borri, 57 – 21100 Varese
paolo.grossi@uninsubria.it
Infectious diseases advisor and “second opinion” for the Italian National
Centre for Transplantation (CNT), Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy
SCIENTIFIC SECRETARIAT
Professor Paolo Antonio Grossi
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria
paolo.grossi@uninsubria.it
AUSPICES
Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Fegato – AISF;
Azienda Ospedaliera Universitaria Ospedale di Circolo e Fondazione Macchi;
Centro Nazionale Trapianti – CNT;
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases- ESCMID;
Federazione Italiana Micopatologia Umana e Animale – FIMUA;
Società Italiana di Malattie Infettive e Tropicali – SIMIT;
Società Italiana di Nefrologia – SIN;
Società Italiana trapianti d’Organo – SITO;
Universitas Studiorum Insubriae
CHAIRMEN AND SPEAKERS
Jose Maria Aguado, Madrid, Spain
Murat Akova, Ankara, Turkey
Alfredo Alberti, Padua, Italy
Tullio Bertani, Palermo, Italy
Emilio Bouza, Madrid, Spain
Patrizia Burra, Padua, Italy
Franco Citterio, Rome, Italy
Ercole Concia, Verona, Italy
Donato Donati, Varese, Italy
Stefano Fagiuoli, Bergamo, Italy
Jay A. Fishman, Boston, Usa
Lynda Frassetto, San Francisco, Usa
Giovanni Battista Gaeta, Naples, Italy
Massimo Galli, Milan, Italy
Josep M. Grinyó, Barcelona, Spain
Alessandra A. Grossi, Lugano, Switzerland
Paolo Antonio Grossi, Varese, Italy
Hans Hirsch, Basel, Switzerland
Giuseppe Ippolito, Rome, Italy
Mike G. Ison, Chicago, Usa
Matthew Kuehnert, Atlanta, Usa
Adriano Lazzarin, Milan, Italy
Jose M. Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Patrick Moore, Pittsburgh, Usa
Alessandro Nanni Costa, Rome, Italy
Andrea Novelli, Florence, Italy
Antoni Rimola, Barcelona, Spain
Giuliano Rizzardini, Milan, Italy
Gian Maria Rossolini, Siena, Italy
Peter Stock, San Francisco, Usa
Norah Terrault, San Francisco, Usa
Claudio Viscoli, Genoa, Italy
Riccardo Volpes, Palermo, Italy
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE
The official language of the congress will be English
INTRODUCTION
The fourth Varese Conference on Infections in Organ Transplantation will, once again, provide the state of the art on the prevention and management of infections in patients undergoing solid organ transplantation in 2011.
Outstanding international experts will be presenting reviews of the most up-to-date information as well as their opinion on their clinical applications.
MAIN TOPICS
Solid Organ Transplantation:
The International Context (Networking, Vigilance and Surveillance, Developing Countries, Communication)
Donor Derived Infections
HIV patients
Present and future of immunosuppressive therapy
Diagnosis and Treatment of infections (viruses, fungi, bacteria, parasites)
CME – (CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION)
A formal application for training credits for:
Physicians, Pharmacists, Biologists and Nurses will be submitted.