Abstracts and Education
Late Breaker Abstract Submissions
Submission Deadline: September 8, 2010
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Download the abstract submission guidelines.
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abstract.
Call for Abstracts
The submission deadline for the Call for Abstracts was May
4. Abstract notices will be sent in early August.
Call for Symposia
The submission deadline was March 2. Symposium notices
have been sent.
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the symposium guidelines.
Pre-Meeting Courses
Basic Science Pre-Meeting Course
November 2, 2010
Recent Advances in the Biology of Invertebrate Vectors and
Implications for the Control of Tropical Diseases
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speakers.
This one-day course targets scientists, physicians, clinicians,
graduate students and educators who wish to gain a better understanding
of the biology of invertebrate vectors and their key role in the
transmission of parasites, viruses and helminths that are responsible
for significant morbidity and mortality, most especially in
resource-constrained areas of the world. Topics will include an
overview of the major vector-borne diseases and current control
measures, as well as those in development targeting the vector.
Presentations will consider the molecular, cellular,
neurobiological and immunological advances that enhance our knowledge of
vector biology, physiology, behavior and vector – pathogen and
vector – host interactions, as well as for discovery of new
approaches to disease control.
Clinical Pre-Meeting Course
November 2-3, 2010
Case Management of the Complicated Tropical Medicine
Patient
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speakers.
This 1.5-day course will target tropical medicine
practitioners, infectious disease consultants, epidemiologists, clinical
microbiologists, graduate students, public health physicians, medical
educators and other health care professionals with an interest in
clinical tropical medicine. This course will be an
audience participation-based case-series of clinical unknowns covering
major diagnostic and therapeutic challenges that clinicians face in the
returning traveler or immigrant from overseas. A panel of expert
speakers will discuss the diagnosis and management of hemorrhagic
fevers, travelers’ diarrhea, patients with eosinophilia, the
management of liver abscess, assessment of rashes, management of
seizures and approach to patients with hepatosplenomegaly.
Global Health Pre-Meeting Course
November 3, 2010
Haiti: A Case Study for Advancing Global Health
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speakers.
New for 2010! This one-day course
will target scientists in the tropical medicine field who represent
academia, government, industry, military and private practice and have
an interest in global health. Since its inception, ASTMH has worked to
tackle health inequities through the forging of global multidisciplinary
collaborations involving clinical, basic science and public health
researchers and scholars in both the public and private sectors. In
recent years, these concepts have matured and crystallized into a more
formal cutting-edge discipline of Global Health. In 2009, ASTMH created
a global health subsection as a forum to explore and promote the many
components of Global Health, including human rights, global health
education and training, new models of global partnerships, climate and
environmental change and repercussions on health, the global health
workforce crisis, non-communicable diseases and chronic health problems,
innovative technology for low-resource settings and global health
metrics. The 2010 Global Health pre-meeting course will highlight these
important global health themes, taking the situation in Haiti
post-earthquake as a case study. The earthquake that struck Haiti
on January 12, 2010 killed more than 200,000 people, injured hundreds of
thousands and left more than one million homeless. As devastating as
this event was, a true understanding of the Haitian struggle requires
exploration on a deeper level. Rampant poverty, disease, and human
suffering existed in Haiti before the earthquake. A crumbling
infrastructure, crowded conditions, and years of socio-political
instability all contributed to the magnitude of the devastation and
death toll when the earthquake hit. These conditions also prevented aid
from reaching the most affected and needy populations as quickly as
possible, despite an immediate and massive response from the global
community. Foreign aid workers were unprepared to deal with such a level
of turmoil and lack of preexisting infrastructure. As a consequence, an
already distressed Haitian population is at higher risk of illness and
death from preventable diseases, social violence, shattered
infrastructure and malnutrition. Many questions remain on how to rebuild
when most infrastructure and physical buildings have collapsed and where
social, economic and political sectors have been so dramatically
damaged. The course is designed to apply global health constructs and
themes to our case study of Haiti, examining it in light of its past
history and current issues and, in doing so, creating a dialogue about
issues associated to short/long-term development, the role of
partnerships in this process and an understanding of how the various
approaches taken by foreign and local agencies contribute (or not) to
development.
Plenary Sessions
Opening Plenary Session
Thomas R. Frieden, MD, MPH
Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia USA
Charles Franklin Craig Lecture
Robert H. Gilman, MD, DTM&H
Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland USA
Commemorative Fund Lecture
Alejandro Cravioto
Executive Director
International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
(ICDDR,B)
Dhaka, Bangladesh
President's Address
Edward T. Ryan, MD, DTM&H
Associate Professor, Department of Immunology and Infectious
Diseases
Director, Tropical and Geographic Medicine Center
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts USA
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