9th Annual Conference of the Infectious Diseases Society of Pakistan.

Feb 29th 2nd March 2012

Theme: Infectious Disease Challenges in Pakistan

Wednesday, 29th February 2012
9:00a.m -1:00pm Workshop 1 Workshop 2 Workshop 3

Workshops
Venue: Aga Khan University Hospital Quality Management in Laboratories Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections Mosquito Borne Diseases in Pediatrics: Malaria and Dengue

Workshop Supervisor/s

Dr. Afia Zafar Dr. Altaf Ahmed Dr. Faisal Mahmood Dr. Anita Zaidi Dr. Ejaz Khan Dr. Fatima Mir Dr. Altaf Ahmed

Thursday, 1st March, 2012 9:00 a.m to 5:00pm

TB Symposium
Venue: Liaquat National Hospital Workshops between 2:304:30pm 1. Rapid Methods of TB Diagnostics 2. Infection Control in TB

Dr. Rumina Hasan Dr. Afia Zafar Dr. Anita Zaidi

Thursday March 1 2012 9:00 a.m to 5:00pm

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3. Pediatric TB Infection Control Symposium Venue: Liaquat National Hospital 1. Nosocomial infections 2. CSSD

Conference on 2nd-3rd March 2012 Liaquat National Hospital Karachi.

Friday; 2nd March 2012. Day 1
8:00-9:00: Room 1

Talk/Session
Breakfast with the Experts Infectious Diseases Training in Pakistan: Opportunities and Scope Dealing with an HIV Infected Patient Respiratory Tract Infections in Children Interpreting Culture Reports Infectious Diseases and Healthcare Policies Assemble Address by President IDSP Address by CEO of LNH Keynote Address What is Stopping Pakistan from Having a Safe Water Supply Lessons Learnt in the Floods of Pakistan Tea and Posters Bad Infections: Good Vaccines Influenza Pneumonia Diarrhoea 4 Free Papers Lunch and Posters Difficult to Treat Gram Negative Infections

Speaker

Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Inaugural Session I, 9:00-10:50 9:00-9:10 9:10-9:20 9:20-9:30 9:30-10:00 10:00-10:25 10:25-10:50 10:50-11:10 Session II, 11:10-12:50 11:10-12:10 12:10-12:50 12:50-2:10pm Session III, 2:10-pm-3:50pm

Dr. Naseem Salahuddin Dr. Anita Zaidi Dr. Faisal Mahmood Dr. Shehla Baqi Dr. Farheen Ali Dr. Ejaz Khan Dr. Afia Zafa Dr. Mohammed Zeeshan

Dr. Ejaz Khan Dr. Salman Faridi Dr. Sania Nishtar (Founder of Hearfile) Anjum Altaf (Dean of LUMS) Dr. Samrina Hashmi (PMA)

Dr. Asad Ali Dr. Ejaz Khan Dr. Fatima Mir

2:10-2:35 2:35-3:00 3:00-3:25 3:25-3:50

3:50-4:10pm Session IV, 4:10-5:45pm

More than One Option for Recurrent Urinary Tract Infection The Rising Tide of Gram Negative Resistance: Data from Pakistan Treatment of MDR gram negatives: What to do when all else fails Superbug NDM-1: The Situation in Pakistan and Implications for Clinical Practice Tea and Posters Challenging Cases in Infectious Disease

Dr. Kurt Naber Dr. Rumina Hassan Dr. Faisal Mahmood Dr. Seema Irfan

Dr. Aisha Ilyas Dr. Ali Faisal Saleem Dr. Asma Nasim Dr. Faiza Jehan Dr. Fivzia Herekar Dr. Kiren Habib Dr. Kiren Kalam Dr. Sajjad Ali Dr. Shobha Luxmi

End of Day 1

3rd March, 2012 Day 2

8:00-9:00am Room 1 Room 2 Room 3 Room 4 Session V, 9:00-11:00 9:00-9:15 9:15-9:40 9:40-10:05 10:05-10:30 10:30-11:00 11:00-11:20 Session VI, 11:20-1:30pm 11:20-11:45 11:45-12:10 12:10-12:35 12:35-1:00 1:00-1:30 1:30-2:30 Session VII, 2:30-4:10pm 2:30-2:55

Topic

Speaker

Breakfast with the Experts Resolving Common Problems in Pediatric Vaccination Acute Febrile Illness in an Outpatient: Test or Treat? Dealing with Fever and Neutropenia Practical solutions to Difficult TB cases Hepatitis: The silent epidemic Assemble Epidemiology of Hepatitis in Pakistan State of the Art in HCV Taking on the Challenge of Hepatitis in Pakistan 3 Free Papers Tea and Posters Microbes we fear the most Rabies Meningococcus HIV: The Pakistani Experience Dengue from an entymologists perspective 3 Free papers Lunch and Posters Infectious Disease Challenges in the Pediatric Population Polio Eradication: The way forward

Dr. Fatima Mir Dr. Faisal Mahmood Dr. Faisal Sultan Dr. Naseem Salahuddin

Dr. Huma Qureishi Dr. Saeed Hameed Dr. Saeed Allawalla

Dr. Naseem Salahuddin Speaker to be decided Dr. Azra Ghayas Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar

Dr. Elias Durry

2:55-3:20 3:20-3:45 3:45-4:10

Malnutrition and Infection Neonatal Sepsis Insights from the GEMS diarrhea and malnutrition studies in Karachi Tea and Posters ID Quiz, Gifts and Closing Remarks The End

Dr. DS Akram Dr. Anita Zaida Dr. Farheen Qadri

4:10-4:30 Session VIII, 4:30-5:30

Faisal Mahmood Farheen Ali