NTDs around the world - Spotlight on Colombia

The next session of the “NTDs Around the World” series highlights neglected tropical diseases in Colombia and will discuss dermatological conditions in the Pacific region, remote surveillance of leishmaniasis, and new therapeutic approaches for Chagas disease.

Register at: FESTMIH / DTG  - NTD around the world webinar - Spotlight on Colombia

Topics:

• Dermatological conditions in the tropical Pacific region of Colombia (Andrea Vanegas Ramirez, Senior Specialist in Dermatology and Tropical Medicine,
• Bundeswehr Hospital Hamburg (BwK) / Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine (BNITM), Hamburg, Germany)
• mHealth solutions for cutaneous leishmaniasis in Colombia (Jonny Alejandro Garcia Luna, MD, MS; Dermatologist, Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Médicas (CIDEIM), Cali, Colombia)
• New therapeutic approaches for T. cruzi  infection: Lessons learned from DNDi studies with NCE (María Jesús Pinazo, MD, PhD; Senior Specialist in Internal Medicine and Head of Chagas Program, Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative (DNDi), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)

Moderator:

• Barbora Jara-Režnáková, MD, University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
• Hendrik Sy, MD, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA and CIDEIM, Cali, Colombia

Date: June 25

Time: 10:30 AM Colombia Time (COT), 12:30 PM Rio de Janeiro Time (BRT), and 5:30 PM Central European Time (CEST)

This webinar is a joint initiative by the German Society for Tropical Medicine (DTG) and the Federation of European Societies for Tropical Medicine and International Health (FESTMIH).