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
About this event
- Date and time Wed 11 Mar 2020 from 8:45am to 5:30pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Respiratory Medicine
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:
- The challenges that stop us preventing transmission of TB
- How we can predict TB transmission
- How to manage TB transmission in under-served populations
- The immunological susceptibility to TB infection
- The clinical and public health relevance of non-tuberculous mycobacterial infection
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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.
Key speakers
Professor Kevin Fennelly
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)
Dr Sarah 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
Agenda
View the programme
Registration tea and coffee
Introduction to the day
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.
Public health and clinical challenges, under-served populations
Beyond 2020, a new five year TB Action plan for England
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
Find and treat model: The homeless and other high-risk groups
Dr Al Story, Associate Professor, Find and Treat Clinical Lead, University College London Hospitals
A clinical perspective on delayed diagnosis and consequences for transmission
Dr John Watson, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Tea and coffee break
How can we improve outbreak investigations to curtail transmission?
Dr Anita Roche, Consultant in Communicable Disease Control and Public Health England London TB Lead
Quantifying exhaled Mycobacterium tuberculosis by face-mask-sampling; implications for transmission and diagnosis
Professor Michael Barer, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, University of Leicester and University of Leicester Hospitals NHS Trust
Panel discussion
Lunch
Tribute to Dr Kenneth Citron (1925-2019), global tuberculosis expert and chest physician, Royal Brompton Hospital
Professor Sir Anthony Newman-Taylor, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London
What are the clinical, epidemiological, environmental and microbiological factors affecting transmission?
What are the factors affecting transmission
Professor Kevin Fennelly, Senior Research Clinician, National Institutes of Health, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Division of Intramural Research
Development of a costing tool for contact investigations
Dr Nathan Green, Research Fellow, Imperial College London
Questions and answers with expert panel
Tea and coffee break
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM): clinical and public health relevance
The burden of NTM infection
Professor Michael Loebinger, Consultant Physician, Professor of Practice, Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Imperial College
Clinical NTM cases in the UK
Professor Marc Lipman, Consultant Physician and Professor of Medicine, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust and University College London
Questions and answers with expert panel
Drinks reception
Open to all the delegates
Sponsors
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
