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ASTMH Newsletter: Volume 56 Number 4
October 2007
Kent Campbell, MD, MPH and Claire Panosian, MD, DTM&H
Forgive us if we sound immodest, but ASTMH’s annual meeting has become The Global Meeting for our profession. This year is no exception. Already, it looks like the upcoming conference in Philadelphia will set new standards for size, breadth and quality of science. Early registrations project the largest attendance ever, potentially in excess of 2,600.
Review the agenda and you may notice another significant feature of the ASTMH annual gathering: many foundations, major global programs, and government and academic agencies now routinely convene satellite and planning sessions around our meeting. Why? Because most of their constituencies are already in attendance.
Finally, in case you haven’t yet perused the online program, next month we will also enjoy a great line-up of invited speakers, each of whom is a true global leader. We have asked these special guests to share perspectives on rapidly evolving themes central to the Society's mission, namely global health and malaria control.
As part of another noteworthy trend at this year’s meeting, you will see evidence of the Council's decision to strengthen our emphasis on mentoring trainees and young professionals. For example, the Program Committee and our re-energized Education Committee (more on this from Claire in an upcoming Newsletter) have organized a range of sessions, from a panel entitled “Career Pathways in Global Health,” to an ASTMH trainee/focus group lunch, to a symposium featuring recent or current ASTMH/Burroughs Wellcome Fund and Fogarty International Center IRDSA Fellows. Other sessions will stress fundamental scientific knowledge, resources and career-building tools for launching a career in tropical medicine and/or global health.
The Council has also set aside several years of funding to expand overseas training opportunities for our major fellowship programs (Kean, Centennial, and Shope). More details on this will be shared soon.
With the recent grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the Society will greatly expand its travel fellowship program, enabling scientists outside the United States to attend the annual meeting for several years to come. We strongly encourage you to attend the inaugural Gates-funded Special Symposium on Tropical Medicine on Tuesday, November 6. This exciting session will feature presentations by four young investigators who were selected from the 2007 pool of Gates travel awardees. Please join us in celebrating their excellent work.
Lastly, we hope you will attend Kent’s presidential address on Thursday, November 7, as he shares his perspectives on the "Golden Age of Malaria."
Your president, president-elect, and Council welcome you to the annual meeting. We have a binding promise from our host city that Philadelphia will be beautiful. All of your colleagues will be there, and the program will be great. Safe travels, and see you in November.
ASTMH Newsletter: Volume 56 Number 4
October 2007
2007 Pre-Meeting Courses
ASTMH will hold two pre-meeting courses immediately prior to the annual meeting in November.
Clinical Pre-Meeting Course
Chagas Disease (American Trypanosomiasis): No Longer an Exotic Disease
November 3-4, 2007
Recent implementation of donor screening for Trypanosoma cruzi infection by the American Red Cross and other blood banks across the United States highlights the urgent need for clinicians, laboratorians and public health professionals to understand Chagas disease, its diagnosis and treatment. In the United States, it is estimated that more than 100,000 immigrants have Chagas disease and most are unaware of their infection.
This intensive course will provide a comprehensive review of the disease for tropical disease experts, cardiologists, obstetricians, blood bankers and others. It will cover the epidemiology of infection in Latin America, where 10-12 million persons are infected, and the situation outside of Latin America, such as in the United States, where in addition to infected immigrants, cases of Chagas disease have been transmitted by local vectors, by blood transfusion, by organ transplantation, congenitally and by laboratory accident.
The course will focus on the diagnosis and management of acute, chronic, and congenital infections, cardiac and gastrointestinal complications, and considerations for special populations such as immunocompromised persons or pregnant mothers. In addition, there will be updates on the status of control programs in endemic countries, implementation of blood donor screening in the Unites States, scientific developments in diagnosis and treatment, and the experience of the CDC Drug Service, which is the sole source of anti-parasitic drug for Chagas disease in the United States. A series of case histories will illustrate the approach to the person with subclinical infection and other syndromes.
The course agenda with topics, speakers and registration information is available at http://www.astmh.org/meetings/clinical_reg_brochure.pdf.
Parasitology Pre-Meeting Course
Systems Biology: Approaches to Understanding Infectious Disease
November 3, 2007
This course will target scientists, physicians, clinicians, graduate students and educators with interests in the rapidly evolving field of systems biology and its use in understanding the complex interactions and pathways involved in infectious diseases.
Topics will include an overview of systems biology, database development and visualization tools, uncovering complex protein interactions, identifying large scale networks of interactions and how these efforts are being used to understand complex human biology and response to pathogens.
Download the full agenda with topics and speakers at http://www.astmh.org/meetings/parasitology_reg_brochure.pdf.
Register Onsite for the Annual Meeting
It's not too late to register for the 56th Annual Meeting in Philadelphia. Simply register onsite. When you arrive at the Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, please proceed to the ASTMH Onsite Registration Desk. Remember to bring some form of payment including either cash, travelers cheques, credit card (Visa, MasterCard or American Express) or check. Visit the annual meeting registration page for registration hours, pricing and more information.
Online Program Planner Now Available
The ASTMH Online Program Planner allows you to plan your schedule for the meeting in advance. Search for a specific presentation or presenter, browse through lists of sessions, or create your own personal itinerary of sessions and meeting events.
ASTMH Newsletter: Volume 56 Number 4
October 2007
William E. Collins, PhD, and Geoffrey M. Jeffery, ScD
We are fast approaching our 56th Annual Meeting, Nov. 4-8 in Philadelphia, when older members of our society will have an opportunity to meet again with old colleagues, and young investigators will have an opportunity to meet and talk with the leaders in our profession. It is indeed a great time for the beginning investigators to meet the leaders in the field of tropical medicine.
We recently ran across this photograph of the attendees of the International Medical Congress that was held in London in 1913. Here are pictured leading members of the tropical medicine community of that time, including Sir Patrick Manson, Alphonse Laveran, Sir William Leishman, Raphaël Blanchard, James Cantlie, Samuel Darling, Giuseppe Franchini, Robert Leiper, George Low, Philip Manson-Bahr, George Nuttall, Fleming Sandwich, Sir David Simple, Sir Percy Bassett Smith, and Malcom Watson.
Our meeting is another opportunity for the young investigators to meet and talk with those who are either now, or will be, the leaders or “giants” in the field of tropical medicine, as were those who attended the meeting in London so many years ago.
ASTMH Newsletter: Volume 56 Number 4
October 2007
Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Archive Coming Soon
Watch this space and the ASTMH Web site in the coming months for news about the online availability of historic issues of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene News. Issues will be available to ASTMH members on the Web site beginning with Volume 1 in 1944. Beginning soon, you'll be able to access valued information from the early days of the Society, and a different era in tropical medicine.
Post a Resume at the ASTMH Career Center
The ASTMH Career Center isn't only a forum for employers to place ads for open positions. Job seekers can post resumes, free of charge and anonymously, to be viewed by the leading organizations in the tropical medicine and hygiene field. Employers view the resumes for free, only paying for access to those job seekers they wish to contact. Create an account on the Career Center today, and begin exploring the many exciting features available to employers, recruiters and job seekers.
ASTMH Public Policy Web Page Outlines Advocacy Priorities
Take a moment to look over the Public Policy page on the ASTMH Web site. The page lists and describes the ASTMH Policy and Advocacy Leadership Group's 2007 priorities for advocating implementation and funding of federal policies and programs. Read about the measures the Society is urging the U.S. federal government to take regarding preventing, treating and eradicating malaria and other tropical diseases.
ASTMH Newsletter: Volume 56 Number 4
October 2007
Herman Zaiman 1917-2007
Herman Zaiman, MD, died Sept. 10, 2007, in Valley City, N.D., at the age of 89.
Dr. Zaiman, a longtime ASTMH member, spent his career as a radiologist and educator until retiring in 2000. He taught at Einstein College in New York. He also co-authored several medical texts, including "Photographic Case Studies in Gastroenterology: Diagnostic Tests for the Practitioner" in 1992. Additionally, his writing has appeared in journals such as the Journal of Histochemistry & Cytochemistry and the American Journal of Pathology.
His "A Pictorial Presentation of Parasites" is a seminal image collection that will remain a valued resource for those in the tropical medicine and hygiene field for decades to come.
Born in Peekskill, N.Y., in 1917, Dr. Zaiman earned a bachelor's and masters degrees from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa, and later received an MD from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn. He served in the U.S. Navy as a naval aviator during World War II.
Dr. Zaiman is survived by children: Leslie Eldib-Zaiman, Kit Grider-Zaiman, Karin Mirtsoupolis-Zaiman, Richard Zaiman, Stevan Zaiman, and Stuart Zaiman; brother Joseph Zaiman; 13 grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
ASTMH Newsletter: Volume 56 Number 4
October 2007
2007
CXXXV American Public Health Association (APHA) Annual Meeting
November 4-8, 2007
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: Coordinator, APHA Annual Meeting
Phone: 202-777-2477
Fax: 202-777-2530
donna.wright@apha.org
www.apha.org
ASTMH 56th Annual Meeting
November 4-8, 2007
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Contact: info@astmh.org
Phone: 847-480-9592
Fax: 847-480-9282
More information
VIII Central American and Caribbean Congress of Parasitology and Tropical Medicine, the VII Cuban Congress of Microbiology and Parasitology, the IV National Congress of Tropical Medicine, and the IPK's 70th Anniversary Congress
December 4-7, 2007
Havana, Cuba
Contact: Dr. Lazara Rojas
Phone: (537) 202-0650
Fax: (537) 204-6051
E-mail: LRojas@ipk.sld.cu
http://www.ipk.sld.cu/eventosipk/cong2007/index.htm
2008
16th Tropical Medicine Expedition to Kenya
January 20 - February 1, 2008
Contact: Kay Schaefer, MD, PhD
Cologne, Germany
Phone/Fax: +49-(0)221-340 49 05
contact@tropmedex.com
www.tropmedex.com
14th Tropical Medicine Expedition to Uganda
February 10-22, 2008
Contact: Kay Schaefer, MD, PhD
Cologne, Germany
Phone/Fax: +49-(0)221-340 49 05
contact@tropmedex.com
www.tropmedex.com
Annual Academy/Health Health Services Research Meeting
June 8-10, 2008
Washington, DC, USA
Contact: AcademyHealth
Fax: 202-292-6838
www.academyhealth.org/arm/register
ICE 2008
July 6-12, 2008
Celebrating Entomology: Contributions to Modern Science
Durban, South Africa
info@ice2008.org.za
www.ice2008.org.za
XVII Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria
South Korea
ASTMH 57th Annual Meeting
December 7 – 11, 2008
New Orleans, Louisiana USA
Contact: info@astmh.org
www.astmh.org
2009
17th Tropical Medicine Expedition to Kenya
February 1-13, 2009
Contact: Kay Schaefer, MD, PhD
Cologne, Germany
Phone/Fax: +49-(0)221-340 49 05
contact@tropmedex.com
www.tropmedex.com
15th Tropical Medicine Expedition to Uganda
February 22 - March 6, 2009
Contact: Kay Schaefer, MD, PhD
Cologne, Germany
Phone/Fax: +49-(0)221-340 49 05
contact@tropmedex.com
www.tropmedex.com
ASTMH 58th Annual Meeting
November 18 – 22, 2009
Washington, D.C., USA
Contact: info@astmh.org
www.astmh.org
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