
Professor Ajit Lalvani
Chair of Infectious Diseases, Director, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Director, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Join the Royal Society of Medicine as we commemorate World TB Day with an exciting annual meeting to provide an update on tuberculosis science. This year the meeting will look at recent progress and the path towards elimination, with a detailed look at transmission and the challenges we face in preventing it. Attendees will also have the opportunity to take part in a panel discussion.
Topics include:
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We would like to thank our exhibitors:
Insmed Ltd, Oxford Immunotec, TB Alert and Qiagen Ltd
Please note that none of the companies listed have had any influence or involvement over the agenda, content or organisation of this meeting.
Chair of Infectious Diseases, Director, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Director, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Senior Research Clinician, Laboratory of Chronic Airway Infection, Pulmonary Branch, Division of Intramural Research, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health (NIH)
National Lead for TB Strategy, Tuberculosis, Acute Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, Emerging /Zoonotic Infections, and Travel (T.A.R.G.E.T) Division , National Infection Service, Public Health England
Professor Ajit Lalvani, Chair of Infectious Diseases, Director, Tuberculosis Research Centre, Director, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London.
Dr Sarah R Anderson, National Lead for TB Strategy, Tuberculosis, Acute Respiratory, Gastrointestinal, Emerging /Zoonotic Infections, and Travel (T.A.R.G.E.T) Division , National Infection Service, Public Health England
Dr Al Story, Associate Professor, Find and Treat Clinical Lead, University College London Hospitals
Dr John Watson, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Dr Anita Roche, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control and Public Health England London TB Lead
Professor Michael Barer, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester and University of Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust
Professor Sir Anthony Newman-Taylor, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Professor Kevin Fennelly, Senior Research Clinician, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Intramural Research
Dr Nathan Green, Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Professor Michael Loebinger, Consultant Physician, Professor of Practice, Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College
Professor Marc Lipman, Consultant Physician and Professor of Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London
Open to all the delegates
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