2 - 4 September 2013, Izmir, Turkey

Course Objectives

This educational course will be structured to summarise the contemporary situation in the epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of meningitis for the course participants.

Course Venue

Anemon Hotel
Ege University
Faculty of Medicine
35010 Bornova, Izmir

Phone +90 (232) 373 48 62
Fax +90 (232) 373 48 63
Website

Target Audience

Up to 50 post graduates in infectious diseases and/or clinical microbiology or 4th/5th year trainees in infectious diseases and/or clinical microbiology.

Registration Procedure

Please download the registration form (see link on the right) and return it to the course administrative secretariat by 19 July 2013.

Registration Fee

• EUR 400 for ESCMID members (or members of EKMUD/HIDER)
• EUR 450 for all others

The fee includes the scientific sessions, meals and accommodation. Travel is not included.

Attendance Grants

ESCMID provides a number of attendance grants for ESCMID “young scientist members”. The grant covers the registration fee, but not travel costs. Please submit your application before 19 July 2013 online on this website (follow the link on the right). Applicants will be informed about their acceptance by 2 August 2013.

Please note that attendance grant application does not include registration for the course. Please register separately with the form supplied on the right.

CME Accreditation

The organisers of the course will apply for European CME accreditation through EACCME.

Oguz Resat Sipahi
Dept. of Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology
Ege University
35100 Izmir
Turkey

Phone +90 232 390 33 05
Fax +90 232 390 47 70
Oguz Resat Sipahi

Monday, 2 September 2013

• 12:00 Lunch
• 13:00 Welcome & introduction
• 13:15 Epidemiology of community-acquired acute purulent meningitis in developed and underdeveloped countries. Hakan Leblebicioglu
• 13:45 Epidemiology of hospital-acquired acute purulent meningitis in developed and underdeveloped countries. Dilek Arman
• 14:15 Clinical presentation of meningitis in adults (including hospital-acquired meningitis). Serhat Unal
• 14:45 Coffee break
• 15:15 Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of meningitis (including animal models)
  
  • Bacterial-host interaction (a microbiologic perspective). Marco Oggioni
  • Pathogen- and host-derived danger molecules: key players in the pathogenesis of bacterial meningitis. Uwe Koedel
  • Experimental approaches to prevention and regeneration of brain damage. Stephen Leib
  • New therapeutic approaches in experimental meningococcal meningitis. Susanna Ricci
• 18:15 Social programme and dinner

Tuesday, 3 September 2013

• 09:00 Diagnosis of meningitis (including PCR, other novel approaches etc). Christian Østergaard
• 09:30 Radiology in central nervous system infections. Cem Calli
• 10:00 Coffee break
• 10:30 Treatment of community-acquired meningitis including difficult to treat organisms such as penicilin resistant pneumococci and guidelines (ID perspective). Stefan Zimmerli
• 11:00 Treatment of bacterial meningitis at the ICU and neurological perspective. Matthias Klein
• 11:30 Clinical presentation and modern treatment of paediatric bacterial meningitis (paediatric perspective). Nuri Bayram
• 12:15 Lunch
• 13:30 Treatment and guidelines of hospital-acquired meningitis including difficult to treat organisms such as MRSA, VRE, multidrug resistant Gram negatives. Oguz Resat Sipahi
• 14:15 Coffee break
• 14:30 Complications (including short and long term). Mathias Klein
• 15:00 Status quo of adjuvant medication in bacterial meningitis.
  Heikki Peltola
• 15:30 Coffee break
• 15:45 Meningitis management with interactive cases. Selin Bardak-Ozcem, Elif Hakko, Murat Dizbay
• 17:15 Social programme and dinner

Wednesday, 4 September 2013

• 09:00 Status quo in vaccinology in meningitis. Heikki Peltola
• 09:30 Fungal meningitis. Stefan Zimmerli
• 10:00 Leptospirosis. Vedat Turhan
• 10:30 Coffee break
• 11:00 Viral haemorrhagic fever. Mehmet Bakır
• 11:30 Diagnosis of chronic meningitis. Tanıl Kocagöz
• 12:00 Epidemiology and treatment of chronic meningitis. Hakan Erdem
• 12:45 Course evaluation
• 13:15 Lunch

• Dilek Arman, Ankara, Turkey
• Mehmet Bakır, Sivas, Turkey
• Selin Bardak-Ozcem, Lefkosia, Northern Cyprus
• Nuri Bayram, Izmir, Turkey
• Cem Calli, Izmir, Turkey
• Murat Dizbay, Ankara, Turkey
• Hakan Erdem, Ankara, Turkey
• Elif Hakko, Istanbul, Turkey
• Matthias Klein, Munich, Germany
• Tanıl Kocagöz, Istanbul, Turkey
• Uwe Koedel, Munich, Germany
• Hakan Leblebicioglu, Samsun, Turkey
• Stephen Leib, Spiez & Berne, Switzerland
• Marco Oggioni, Siena, Italy
• Christian Østergaard, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Heikki Peltola, Helsinki, Finland
• Susanna Ricci, Siena, Italy
• Oguz Resat Sipahi, Izmir, Turkey
• Vedat Turhan, Istanbul, Turkey
• Sercan Ulusoy, Izmir, Turkey
• Serhat Unal, Ankara, Turkey
• Stefan Zimmerli, Berne, Switzerland