The Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network Presents
Back to the Future: 16 years of Group A Strep Research in Ontario
A Symposium in Honour of Cathy Mulvale and Strategies for Life
Thursday, November 20th, 2008
8:30 AM - 2:00 PM
Central Public Health Lab
81 Resources Road
Etobicoke, ON
8:45-9:00Welcome/Introduction
Donald Low, MD, FRCPC Microbiologist-in-Chief, Mount SinaiHospital, Toronto
9:00-9:45The Emergence of M59 in Canada
Gregory J. Tyrrell, PhD, FCCM D(ABMM), Associate Professor, Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, University of Alberta, Director of The National Centre for Streptococcus, Edmonton, Alberta
9:45-10:30Treatment and Outcomes of Severe GAS Infections
Louis Valiquette, MD, FRCPC, MSc, Associate Professor, Department of
Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University of Sherbrook
10:30-10:45BREAK – Poster viewing and discussion time
10:50-11:35Hospital acquired GAS infections – what have we learned?
Nicholas Daneman, MD, FRCPC, MSc, Clinician Scientist, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto
11:35-12:20TIBDN Update
Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC, Mount SinaiHospital, Toronto
12:25 -14:00LUNCH & DISCUSSION
Support for TIBDN Education Days is generously provided by:
Abbott Laboratories • EcoLab • Oxoid, part of Thermofisher Scientific • Starplex Scientific, Inc • Theramed• Bayer Healthcare • Pfizer Canada• Roche Pharmaceuticals • Virox • Arjo • Rubbermaid
The Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network Presents:
TIBDN Education Days 2008
A morning of talks and TIBDN Updates
Thursday, November 27, 2008
8:30 AM – 2:00 PM
Mount SinaiHospital
600 University Ave., 18th Floor Auditorium
Toronto, ON
8:45-9:00Welcome/Introduction
Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC,Mount SinaiHospital, Toronto
9:00-9:45TIBDN Update
Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC, Mount SinaiHospital, Toronto
9:45-10:15Drink it In: Source Waters, Environment, and Disease Risk in North American Cities
Amy L. Greer, PhD, Research Fellow, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children
10:15-10:45Bright Ideas? Ultraviolet Radiation, Weather, and the Seasonality of Invasive Bacterial Disease in North America
David Fisman, MD, MPH, FRCP(C), Scientist, Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children, Medical Epidemiologist, Ontario Provincial Public Health Laboratory
10:45-11:00BREAK – Poster viewing and discussion time
11:05-11:50Norovirus: Nature's Perfect Puke'o'genic Pathogen
Todd F. Hatchette,MD FRCPC, Director of Virology and Immunology, Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Center, Halifax, NS
11:50-12:35The role of drinking water in the transmission of antimicrobial resistant E. coli
Brenda Coleman, PhD, Research Scientist, Infectious Disease Research, Mount SinaiHospital
12:35 – 14:00LUNCH & DISCUSSION
Support for TIBDN Education Days is generously provided by:
Abbott Laboratories • EcoLab • Oxoid, part of Thermofisher Scientific • Starplex Scientific, Inc. • Theramed • Bayer Healthcare • Pfizer Canada • Roche Pharmaceuticals • Virox • Arjo • Rubbermaid