Date:  Thursday 27 May 2010
Venue:  RCPI, No 6 Kildare Street, Dublin 2

Registration for this meeting is free to RCPI Trainees, Fellows and Members of the College, Faculties and Institute. In order to cater for expected numbers, registration in advance is required. You can register for this meeting by email to:

Edel Hynes, Faculty of Paediatrics, RCPI,
The Royal College of Physicians of Ireland
Frederick House, 19 South Frederick Street, Dublin 2
Phone:  +353 1 863 9729
Fax: +353 1 672 4707
Email: paediatrics@rcpi.ie

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Programme:

15:00 - 15:25 - Registration

Chairs:

Prof Karina Butler, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin
Dr Patrick Gavin, Children's University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin

15:25 - 15:30 - Dr Martin J White, Dean, Faculty of Paediatrics, RCPI
Introduction

15:30 - 16:00 - Prof Eleanor Molloy, National Maternity Hospital, Dublin
TORCH in the 21st Century

16:00 - 16:30 - Dr Jintanat Ananworanich, Thai Red Cross AIDS Research Centre, Bangkok, Thailand
Paediatric HIV: Decade of Change

16:30 0- 17:00 - Dr Catherine Mary Healy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, USA
Immunisation: Practice, pitfalls and promise

17:00 - 17:30 - Dr Bill Casey, Our Lady's Children's Hospital, Dublin
Meningococcal Sepsis: Can we do better?

17:30 - 17:45 - Panel Discussion

17:45 - 18:00 - Tea/Coffee

18:00 - 18:30 - Dr Tom Connell, Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia
Improving the diagnosis of childhood tuberculosis

18:30 - 19:00 - Dr Darina O Flanagan, Director, Health Protection Surveillance Centre, Dublin
The H1N1 Pandemic - lessons learned

19:00 - 19:30 - Prof Karen Kaul, North Shore University Health System, Evanston, Illinois, USA
Advances in diagnostic techniques for infectious diseases

19:30 - 20:30 - Panel Discussion
Instructive case presentations from the ID archives

20:30 - Close of Meeting

Continuing Medical Education (CME)
This meeting was approved for 5 CME credits