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2009 Preliminary Scientific Program | last updated 30 Oct 08
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Thursday 7 May 2009 10.30am - 5.00pm |
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Principles of Clinical Virology |
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9.00am - 10.30am Registration |
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Conference Registration Desk - The Carrington Hotel Collect name badge, conference materials and delegate satchel |
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Sessions Start |
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10.30am - 10.45am Conference Opening |
Emeritus Professor Yvonne Cossart Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine University of Sydney |
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10.45am - 11.30am Principles of Virology |
Professor William Rawlinson Department of Virology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW |
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11.30am - 12.15pm Molecular Diagnosis |
Mr Philip Cunningham Department of Molecular Diagnosis, NSW State Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney NSW |
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12.15pm - 12.30pm Clinical Case Discussion |
Mr Philip Cunningham Department of Molecular Diagnosis, NSW State Reference Laboratory for HIV/AIDS, St Vincent's Hospital, Sydney NSW Professor William Rawlinson Department of Virology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW |
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12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch |
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1.30pm - 2.00pm Serology - New Tests for Recent Infection |
Dr Peter Robertson Department of Microbiology, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW |
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2.00pm - 2.30pm Predictive Values, Sensitivity & Specificity in Clinical Virology |
Associate Professor Alison Kesson Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, The Children's Hospital, Westmead NSW |
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2.30pm - 3.00pm Viral Culture |
Associate Professor David Smith Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Pathwest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands WA |
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3.00pm - 3.30pm Future Therapeutics: RNA Interference |
Dr Nham Tram Centenary Institute of Cancer, Medicine and Cell Biology University of Sydney, NSW |
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3.30pm - 4.00pm Afternoon Tea |
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4.00pm - 5.00pm History of Viral Hepatitis and what comes after E? |
Associate Professor Stephen Riordan Gastrointestinal & Liver Unit, Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick NSW |
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6.00pm Welcome Reception - All Welcome (incl with registration) |
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8.30pm Dinner - Own Arrangements |
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Friday 8 May 2009 9.00am - 5.00pm |
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Congenital Infection, Paediatric Infection & Vaccination |
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9.00am - 9.30am Pathogenesis of Intrauterine & Perinatal Infection |
Dr Monica Lahra Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine University of Sydney |
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9.30am - 10.00am Virus in the Pancreas, Sugar in the Blood? |
Associate Professor Maria Craig Department of Paediatrics, St George Hospital, Kogarah NSW |
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10.00am - 10.30am Morning Tea |
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10.30am - 11.15am Diagnosis and Treatment of Neurological Disease from Herpesvirus in Neonates and Children |
Associate Professor Cheryl Jones Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital, Westmead NSW |
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11.15am - 11.45am Adenoviruses - The Unsuspected Menace |
Dr Tony Walls Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Sydney Children's Hospital, Randwick |
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11.45am - 12.30pm Principles of Vaccine Design |
Professor Richard Strugnell Department of Microbiology & Immunology, University of Melbourne, Parkville VIC |
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12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch |
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1.30pm - 2.00pm Paediatric Gastroenteritis |
Dr Carl Kirkwood Department of Paediatric Gastroenteritis, Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Parkville VIC |
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2.00pm - 2.30pm Vaccination for Viral Paediatric Diseases |
Professor David Isaacs Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, The Children's Hospital, Westmead NSW |
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2.30pm - 3.00pm Influenza Vaccine in Childhood |
Professor Robert Booy National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance, The Children's Hospital, Westmead |
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3.00pm - 3.30pm Adolescent Vaccination / HPV |
Speaker to be confirmed |
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3.30pm - 4.00pm Afternoon Tea |
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4.00pm - 5.00pm The Grumpy Old Virologists' Quiz |
Dr David Smith Department of Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, Pathwest Laboratory Medicine, Nedlands WA Dr Mike Catton Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne VIC |
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6.00pm Conference Dinner & Movie |
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Saturday 9 May 2009 9.00am - 12.30pm |
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Blood Borne Viruses & Hepatitis |
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9.00am - 9.30am Emerging and Exotic Viruses in the Blood Supply - WNV, CMV, HFLU-1 and Arboviruses |
Dr Mike Catton Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory, North Melbourne VIC |
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9.30am - 10.00am Blood Product Screening 2009 - Current Tests & Risks |
Dr Patrick Coghlan Transplantation Services Manager, Australian Red Cross Blood Service, VIC |
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10.00am - 10.30am Morning Tea |
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10.30am - 11.15am Hepatitis B and C - Clinical Disease and Diagnosis in 2009 |
Dr Jeffrey Post Infectious Diseases Physician, The Prince of Wales Hospital, Sydney NSW |
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11.15am - 11.45am Viral Hepatitis in Pregnancy |
Emeritus Professor Yvonne Cossart Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine University of Sydney |
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11.45am - 12.30pm Travellers' Tales - Prevention of Hepatitis A and E |
Professor Andrew Lloyd
Centre for Infection and
Inflammation Research, University of New South Wales,
Sydney |
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12.30pm - 1.30pm Farewell Lunch |
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End of Meeting |
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