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World TB Day 2016 - UCL & LSHTM 23rd March
23 March 2016, 9:00 am–5:00 pm
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John Snow Lecture Theatre, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Keppel St London WC1E 7HT
The UCL-TB and London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine's TB Centre annual tuberculosis symposium will take place at the John Snow lecture theatre at the LSHTM on Wednesday 23rd March, 2016. Places are still available.
Please reserve your free ticket at the Eventbrite ticket page HERE
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The symposium will be the launch of a TB journal series in BioMed Central that will be guest edited by UCL-TB directors Prof. brahim Abubakar, Prof. Tim McHugh and Dr Marc Lipman together with the director of the LSHTM TB Centre Dr Helen Fletcher. The journal series will cover four broad themes that will be reflected in the agenda for the day:
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| 9.30am |
David Price (UCL VP Research) |
Welcome | |
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Anne Mills (Deputy Director and Professor of Health Economics and Policy) |
Welcome | ||
| 9.40am |
Session 1 Transmission |
Ibrahim Abubakar (Chair) | Introduction |
| Douglas Young | Talk | ||
| Derrick Crook | Talk | ||
| Nicky McCreesh | Talk | ||
| Richard Turner | |||
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Transmission Q&A (followed by coffee at 10.45am) |
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| 11.15am |
Session 2 Diagnostics/Treatment |
Marc Lipman (Chair) |
Introduction |
| Sabine Hermans | Talk | ||
| Charlotte Jackson | Talk | ||
| Patrick Phillips | Talk | ||
| Ankur Gupta-Wright | Talk | ||
| Diagnostics/Treatment Q&A (followed by lunch at 12.25) | |||
| 1.25pm |
Session 3 "This house believes the 9-month Bangladesh regimen should be the new standard of care for MDR-TB treatment" |
Dave Moore (Chair) | Introduction |
| Philipp du Cros | Proposing motion | ||
| Graham Bothamley | Opposing motion | ||
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Debate and vote (followed by coffee break at 2.55pm) |
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| 3.25pm |
Session 4 Immune correlates |
Jackie Shea (Chair) | Introduction |
| Maddy Noursadeghi | Talk | ||
| Adam Penn-Nicholson | Talk | ||
| Hazel Dockrell | Talk | ||
| Helen Fletcher | Talk | ||
| Immune correlates Q&A | |||
| 4.30pm | Sabina Alam | Concluding remarks | |
| 4.45pm | Tim McHugh | Thanks & goodbye | |
This will be part of a series of events to commemorate World TB Day:
- Thursday 17th March. Dr Helen Donoghue Lunchtime Lecture
- Tuesday, 22nd March. Professor Stephen Lawn's inaugural Lecture
- Wednesday 23rd March UCL & LSHTM TB Symposium
- Thursday 24th March The Crick TB Symposium
Kindly sponsored by Oxford Immunotec
