The SSAC Meeting Scientific Programme 2008

The SSAC (Scandinavian Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy) 25th Annual Meeting 

18 - 21 September 2008.

Copenhagen Denmark

 

Thursday, September 18

15.30 - 18.30 Endocarditis Minicourse, Kurt Fuursted, DK and Henrik Nielsen, DK

 

Friday, September 19

9.00 - 11.30 Satellite Symposium, Sanofi-Pasteur-MSD

1.    Children and rotavirus – is it a serious problem? Birthe Hoegh, DK
2.    HPV - Related diseases – what to do? Lone Kjeld, DK
3.    Herpes zoster – can it be prevented? Bent Faber Vestergaard, DK
4.    Tuberculosis. State of the art vaccines of the future. Nils Strandberg Pedersen, DK

11.30 - 12.30, Lunch

Welcome and opening of the SSAC meeting

12.30 - 14.00 Evidence in infection control, Dennis Maki, USA and Andreas Voss, NL

14.00 - 14.30 Coffee break, exhibition, and posters

14.30 - 15.15  Honorary lecture. Treatment of HIV: a challenging concept, Jens Lundgren, DK

15.15 - 16.00  Treatment of fungal infections in critically ill patients, Jens Schierbech, DK

16.00 - 16.30  Water, fruit, exhibition, and posters

16.30 - 18.00  Various topics

1.    Lyme borreliosis - any news?, Anne-Mette Lebech, DK
2.    Tick-borne encephalopathies, Göran Günther, S
3.    Climate and tickborne diseases, Gunnar Hasle, N

19.00 - 24.00 Welcome reception, Carlsberg Breweries

Saturday, September 20

8.30 - 10.00 New antimicrobial agents

1.    For Gram positives, Jukka Lumio, FI
2.    For Gram negatives
3.    For hepatitis

10.00 - 10.45 Coffee break, exhibition, and posters

10.45 - 12.00  Invited young scientists

12.00 - 13.00  Lunch

13.00 - 14.30  Sepsis. Interactive session, Ulrich Stab Jensen, DK, Jens-Ulrik Stæhr Jensen, DK and Jenny Dahl Knudsen, DK

14.30 - 15.00 Coffee break, exhibition, and posters

15.00 - 16.30  Free oral presentations

16.30- 17.00 Water, fruit, exhibition, and posters

17.00 - 18.00  Update on MRSA in Scandinavia

Hjørdis Hardadottir, I, Barbro Olsson-Liljequists, S, Jaana Voupio-Varkila, F, Trond Jakobsen, N and Robert Skov, DK.

18.00 - 18.15 Poster awards

19.30 - 01.00  Congress dinner
Entertainment. Dance to Beatles music by the Rubber-band

Sunday, September 21

9.00 - 9.30 Annual general meeting

9.30 - 9.45  Short break, exhibition, and posters

9.45 - 11.15  Epidemiology of infectious diseases

1.    Epidemiology of infectious diseases, Reimar Thomsen, DK
2.    Infections related to the liver, Peter Jepsen, DK
3.    Cancer and infections, Mette Nørgaard, DK
4.    Bacteremia research, a joint venture, Henrik C. Schønheyder, DK
5.    HIV-research, Nicolaj Lohse, Schwitzerland
6.    Finnish surveillance systems: Ongoing research, Outi Lyytikäinen, FI

11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break, exhibition, and posters

11.45 -12.45  Best papers 2007-2008

1.    Best papers in bacteriology, Karl Kristinsson, I
2.    Best papers in infectious diseases, To be announced
3.    Best papers in infection control, Stig Harthug, N
4.    Best papers in virology, Olli Ruuskanen, FI

Closing remarks of the 25th SSAC meeting

Welcome to the 26th annual meeting in Norway in 2009

13.00 - 13.30  Lunch