香港六合彩

Here is the programme of the symposium-that-was-to-be:

Programme

Please note that all times and talk titles are subject to change

08:30听听 听Registration and coffee

09:10听听 听Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Professor Michael Arthur, President & Provost, 香港六合彩
Professor Anne Mills, Deputy Director and Provost, LSHTM

09:30听听 听Session 1: Voices from the Front Line: Patient, Healthcare Provider, and Policy Maker Perspectives
Chair: Dr Toyin Togun (LSHTM)
Dr Virginia Bond (LSHTM) How do social and economic factors, and stigma, affect the timeliness of diagnosis and treatment adherence in Zambia?
Dr Mishal Khan (LSHTM) How can we motivate community health workers and private healthcare providers to engage more actively in managing TB?
Ms Jacqui White (香港六合彩) TB into the 21st Century 鈥� more than just medicine
Dr Sedona Sweeney (LSHTM) Value TB 鈥� costs of rolling out TB services in 5 high burden countries
Professor Marc Lipman (香港六合彩) IMPACT: patient experience across the UK
Panel discussion and Q&A

10:50听听 听Coffee break (with Voices from the Front Line videos and posters)

11:20听听 听Session 2: How to Find the Missing Millions?
Chair: Dr Katharina Kranzer (LSHTM)
Dr听Kwame Shanaube (ZAMBART) Four years of active case finding as part of delivering the PoPART trial in Zambia and SA
Dr听Palwasha Khan (LSHTM) TB diagnosis using Xpert Ultra and culture in the 鈥淶ero-TB Karachi (Pakistan)鈥� project 鈥� successes, challenges, and lessons learned
Dr Katherine Fielding (LSHTM) Closing the gap between diagnosed and incident TB with a system for 1-day diagnosis in Uganda
Dr Lara Gosc猫 (香港六合彩) E-DETECT TB in Romania
Panel discussion and Q&A

12:40听听 听Lunch break (with Voices from the Front Line videos and posters)

13:40听听 听Session 3: Redefining Latency
Chair: Professor Mahdad Noursadeghi (香港六合彩) Introduction
Dr Hanif Esmail (香港六合彩) Not active Not latent: Challenges and possibilities of identifying bacteriologically negative disease
Dr Pranab Haldar (University of Leicester) Diagnosing early TB in a low burden setting
Professor Anne O鈥橤arra (The Crick Institute) The host transcriptome in TB
Professor Helen Fletcher (LSHTM) The future of TB vaccines
Panel discussion and Q&A

15:00听听 听Coffee break (with Voices from the Front Line videos and posters)

15:30听听 听Link up with University of California, San Francisco ()

15:50听听 听Session 4: Accelerating Drug Discovery & Development
Chair: Dr Dimitrios Evangelopoulos (香港六合彩)
Dr Nick Furnham (LSHTM) Understanding the molecular consequences of mutations associated with drug resistance in TB for future drug development
Dr Luiz Carvalho (The Crick Institute) M. tuberculosis metabolism and novel antibiotic strategies
Professor Sanjib Bhakta (Birkbeck, University of London) Repurposing pain-killers: new approaches to an ancient disease
Dr Anil Koul (LSHTM) Discovery and development of Bedaquiline for treatment of drug resistant tuberculosis - role of innovation in global public health
Dr Angela Crook (香港六合彩) A new regimen for XDR-TB - Results of the Nix-TB trial
Panel discussion and Q&A

17:10听 Special guest: Zolelwa Sifumba (South Africa) - clinician, MDR-TB patient, activist

17:20 Summary and close (Professor Beate Kampmann, LSHTM)

17:30-19:00听听 听Drinks reception (with piano music from composers and singers affected by TB)

We are delighted that this event is sponsored by the following companies and organisations actively contributing to the control of TB, and working in partnership with researchers and control teams: Cepheid, FIND, Insmed and Oxford Immunotec.

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