APTHC Bangkok 21–24 March 2018
Plenary
- Malaria – an old disease in a brave new world
- The brave new world of malaria (Nick White, UK)
- Antimalarial Drug Resistance: A Threat to Malaria Elimination (Adrianus Dondorp, Netherlands)
- Vaccines – back to the future
- The history and future of vaccines (Andrew Pollard, UK)
- Vaccine availability (Jerome Kim, IVI Korea)
- Arboviruses and Mosquitoes
- Arboviral diseases in the Asia Pacific region (Annelies Wilder-Smith, Singapore)
- Challenges and solutions for control of mosquito-borne diseases (Greg Devine, Australia)
- Where travel and tropical medicine converge
- Travel and Tropical Medicine: 2 sides of the same coin (Eli Schwartz, Israel)
- Travellers and global health (Marc Mendelson, Sth Africa)
Symposia
- Neglected Tropical Diseases – Scabies (Andrew Steer, Australia), Melioidosis (Wirongrong Chierakul, Thailand ), Strongyloides (Priscilla Rupali, India)
- Gastrointestinal Diseases – Salmonellosis (Chusana Suankratay, Thailand), Viral gastroenteritis (Eyal Leshem, Israel), Management of diarrhoeal diseases in the Asia Pacific – trials and triumphs (Gagandeep “Cherry” Kang, India)
- Mycobacterial Infections – Tuberculosis in travellers (Marc Mendelson, South Africa), Nontuberculous Mycobacterial infections (Charoen Chuchottaworn, Thailand), Leprosy (Priya Joseph, India)
- Parasitic Diseases in the Asia Pacific region – Schistosomiasis (Don McManus, Australia), Liver Flukes (Yupaporn Wattanagoon, Thailand), Giardiasis (Michael Libman, Canada)
- The global problem of antimicrobial resistance – Patients, tourists and antimicrobial resistance (Lin Chen, USA), Humanitarian disasters and antimicrobial resistance (Tamar Lachish, Israel), Antimicrobial Resistance in the Asia Pacific region (Pattarachai Kiratisin, Siriraj Hospital, Thailand)
- Migration, Trafficking and Refugees – Migrants and Emerging Public Health Issues (Poh Lian Lim, Singapore), Migrant Health – an Asian Perspective (Masatoki Adachi, Japan), Refugee health and disease (Shidan Tosif, Australia)
Workshops
- Rabies, Bites and Envenomings – David Warrell (UK)
- Paediatrics in the Tropics –Stefan Hagmann, USA & Pornthep Chanthavanich, Thailand
- Dengue – Usa Thisyakorn, Thailand & Inbal Fuchs, Israel
- Same Destination – Different Advice – Moderator –Tony Gherardin Panel: Japan, Thailand, NZ/Aust, USA, Europe, China
- Special Populations of Travellers –Sarah McGuinness, Australia & Sarah Borwein, HK
- Marine Medicine –Thanasawat Chaiyakul, Thailand & Levina Pakasi, Indonesia)
- ABC – Vaccines – Jonathan Cohen, Australia & Santanu Chatterjee, India
- ABC – Malaria and Travellers Diarrhoea
- Travel Medicine Education and Resources – David Freedman, USA & Peter Leggat, Australia
- Destination – Pacific Islands – Raju Ram, Fiji & Didier Musso, French Polynesia
- Destination – Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam
- Quiz – Tropical Medicine – Moderator – Marc Shaw, NZ
Teams: Thailand, Aus/NZ, Nth America, Europe, Israel
Free communications
3 + late breaker
Meet The Professor
Lunch Symposium – Vaccine Preventable Enteric Infections
Moderator – Mike Starr
Hep A – Robert Steffen
Hep E – Rakesh Aggarwal
Typhoid – Eli Schwartz
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