Download Infectious Diseases Challenges in Pakistan

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
Workshops
Workshop Supervisor/s
Venue: Aga Khan
University Hospital
9:00a.m -1:00pm
Workshop 1
Quality Management in
Laboratories
Dr. Afia Zafar
Dr. Altaf Ahmed
Workshop 2
Surveillance of
Nosocomial Infections
Mosquito Borne Diseases
in Pediatrics: Malaria and
Dengue
Dr. Faisal Mahmood
Workshop 3
Thursday,
1st March, 2012
9:00 a.m to 5:00pm
Dr. Anita Zaidi
Dr. Ejaz Khan
Dr. Fatima Mir
TB Symposium
Dr. Altaf Ahmed
Venue: Liaquat National
Hospital
Workshops between 2:304:30pm
1. Rapid Methods of TB
Diagnostics
Dr. Rumina Hasan
2. Infection Control in TB
Dr. Afia Zafar
3. Pediatric TB
Thursday March 2012 Infection Control
9:00 a.m to 5:00pm
Symposium
1st
Venue: Liaquat National
Hospital
1. Nosocomial infections
2. CSSD
Dr. Anita Zaidi
Conference on 2nd-3rd March 2012
Liaquat National Hospital Karachi.
Friday;
2nd March 2012.
Day 1
Talk/Session
8:00-9:00:
Breakfast with the Experts
Room 1
Inaugural
Session I, 9:00-10:50
Infectious Diseases Training Dr. Naseem Salahuddin
in Pakistan: Opportunities
Dr. Anita Zaidi
and Scope
Dr. Faisal Mahmood
Dr. Shehla Baqi
Dealing with an HIV
Dr. Farheen Ali
Infected Patient
Respiratory Tract Infections Dr. Ejaz Khan
in Children
Interpreting Culture Reports Dr. Afia Zafa
Dr. Mohammed Zeeshan
Infectious Diseases and
Healthcare Policies
9:00-9:10
9:10-9:20
9:20-9:30
9:30-10:00
Assemble
Address by President IDSP
Address by CEO of LNH
Keynote Address
10:00-10:25
What is Stopping Pakistan
from Having a Safe Water
Supply
Lessons Learnt in the
Floods of Pakistan
Tea and Posters
Room 2
Room 3
Room 4
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
Bad Infections: Good
Vaccines
Influenza
Pneumonia
Diarrhoea
4 Free Papers
Lunch and Posters
Difficult to Treat Gram
Negative Infections
Speaker
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
End of Day 1
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
3rd March, 2012
Topic
Speaker
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
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
Dr. Fatima Mir
Dr. Faisal Mahmood
Dr. Faisal Sultan
Dr. Naseem Salahuddin
Dr. Huma Qureishi
9:40-10:05
State of the Art in HCV
Dr. Saeed Hameed
10:05-10:30
Taking on the Challenge of
Hepatitis in Pakistan
Dr. Saeed Allawalla
10:30-11:00
11:00-11:20
Session VI, 11:20-1:30pm
11:20-11:45
11:45-12:10
3 Free Papers
Tea and Posters
Microbes we fear the most
Rabies
Meningococcus
12:10-12:35
HIV: The Pakistani
Experience
Dengue from an
entymologist’s perspective
3 Free papers
Lunch and Posters
12:35-1:00
1:00-1:30
1:30-2:30
Session VII, 2:30-4:10pm
2:30-2:55
Dr. Naseem Salahuddin
Speaker to be decided
Dr. Azra Ghayas
Dr. Muhammad Mukhtar
Infectious Disease
Challenges in the Pediatric
Population
Polio Eradication: The way Dr. Elias Durry
forward
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
4:10-4:30
Session VIII, 4:30-5:30
Tea and Posters
ID Quiz, Gifts and Closing
Remarks
The End
Dr. DS Akram
Dr. Anita Zaida
Dr. Farheen Qadri
Faisal Mahmood
Farheen Ali