3rd International Day for Fighting Infection
Hospitals and Infectious Patients throughout the Centuries
23 April 2010, Florence, Italy
Introduction
In 2010 ESCMID will celebrate once again the International Day for Fighting Infection by organizing a one-day symposium on milestones in the history of infections. This 3rd edition will be held once again on St. George's Day and will trace the evolution over the centuries of infection control in hospitals and of ad-hoc hospitals for infectious patients.
This event is organized in cooperation with the International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) and the International Society of Infectious Diseases (ISID), and supported by The Lancet Infectious Diseases.
Conference Venue
Palazzo Vecchio
Piazza della Signoria
50122 Firenze
Italy
Scientific Programme
Hospitals and monks, Vivian Nutton, UK
Hospitaller services during the crusader period, Charles Savona-Ventura, Malta
The hospital in the medieval Islamic world, Ilber Ortaylı, Turkey
The republic of Venice and its lazarettos as bastions of public health along Mediterranean sea routes, Thalia Sardi, Greece
Semmelweiss and the childbed fever, Didier Pittet, Switzerland
Florence Nightingale’s impact on infection control and hospital epidemiology, Gilian Gill, USA
Lister and antisepsis, speaker to be confirmed
From pest-houses to smallpox and fever Hospitals: the development of the London hospital system, David Wright, UK
TB, sanatoria and ‘Zauberberg’, Dario Olivieri, Italy
Poliomyelitis and the origins of ICUs, Jean Carlet, France
Point-of-care diagnostic and patient management in hospitals, Didier Raoult, France
Flu and hospital, Albert Osterhaus, The Netherlands
High-level isolation units today, Giuseppe Ippolito, Italy
Registration Procedure
Please download the registration form, fill it out and send it as indicated via fax or post.
Registration Fee
EUR 130
The registration fee includes the scientific sessions, printed conference material, lunch and coffee breaks, but not travel and accommodation costs.
Scientific Secretariat
Giuseppe Cornaglia
Department of Pathology
University of Verona
37134 Verona, Italy
Phone +39 045 802 71 96
Fax +39 045 802 71 01
Giuseppe Cornaglia
Administrative Secretariat
Loredana Rohrbach
ESCMID Executive Office
c/o Congrex Switzerland Ltd
Association House
P.O. Box
4002 Basel, Switzerland
Phone +41 61 686 7791
Fax +41 61 686 7798
Loredana Rohrbach
