Workshop Venue:
Makedonia Palace Hotel (in the Amfitrion II Room)
2 Ave Alexander The Great, Thessaloniki
Website: http://www.makedoniapalacehotel.com/

Workshop Programme - Wednesday, May 9, 2012  

	By Invitation Only - Walter Marget Educational Workshop Main Theme: Hard-to-Treat Pediatric Infections Chairperson:    Shai Ashkenazi, Chair, ESPID Education Committee
10:00-10:15	Introduction and presentation of tutors and participants Shai Ashkenazi, Israel
10:15-11:00	Bacterial CNS infections in the Post-vaccine Era Urs Schaad, Switzerland
11:00-11:45	Tuberculosis in children Maria Tsolia, Greece
11:45-13:00	Discussion of case presented by the tutors and participants Shai Ashkenazi, Israel David Pace, Malta
13:00 – 14:00	Lunch Break
14:00 – 14:45	The therapeutic approach to paediatric HIV infection Hermione Lyall, UK
14:45 – 15:45	Discussion of case presented by the tutors and participants Vytautas Usonis, Lithuania David Greenberg, Israel
15:45 - 16:00	Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00	Discussion of case presented by the tutors and participants Emmanuel Grimprel, France Hermione Lyall, UK

Each year ESPID sponsors an educational workshop for 35 trainees at the annual meeting. The workshop is clinically oriented and interaction between trainees and faculty is strongly encouraged.

The goals and objectives of the workshop are:

• To discuss, in depth, management of common infectious diseases in children
• To provide tools to cope with common problems in paediatric infectious diseases
• To present updated knowledge on common paediatric infectious disease problems
• To conduct discussions among participants on the management of common problems
• To provide guidelines for dealing with the problems under discussion

The Walter Marget Educational Workshop leaders are selected by the ESPID Committee for Education. All of the workshop leaders are outstanding clinicians with extensive experience in the field of paediatric infectious diseases.

The application deadline for acceptance to the Walter Marget Educational Workshop is: February 15, 2012

Registration for the workshop is open to trainees in paediatric infectious diseases who will be expected to register for the 2012 ESPID annual meeting in Thessaloniki, Greece, and who must be ESPID members. Registration for the educational workshop is free of charge and will be open to a maximum of 35 persons who will be selected by the ESPID Education Committee. All applicants will be notified whether they were admitted or not by February 29, 2012.

Registration for the annual meeting will be EUR 85 and travel arrangements are to be made on your own. Accepted trainees will be reimbursed for travel expenses (flight and accommodation) up to a maximum amount of EUR 1,000 after the annual meeting.

Do not send any payment with your application. You will be contacted by the meeting organizers regarding payment if your application is successful.

How to Apply

Application Deadline: February 15, 2012

Applicants without access to email may send applications by fax to:+ 41 22 732 2607 or
by mail to: ESPID, c/o Kenes International 1-3 Rue Chantepoulet, CH 1211, Geneva, Switzerland.
For further information please contact: ESPID Secretariat (espid@kenes.ch)

The deadline has passed. Submissions are now closed and applicants have been notified.