Hot Topics in Infection and Immunity in Children (IIC) – The ESPID-Oxford Course (June 23-25) is a residential training course which aims to provide updates in key areas of paediatric infection. In-person and virtual attendance options are available.
The course is targeted at paediatric infectious disease (PID) trainees and trainers, including SAS, LED & Consultant doctors and all those who manage children with infections, covering a variety of topics in Paediatric infection. Delegates come from all over the world and there is usually a 50/50 mix of trainees/consultants.
The program is now available.
Program Highlights
- The McCracken lecture: Meningitis, a history with Professor Xavier Sáez-Llorens
Chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of Clinical Research, Dr José Renán Esquivel Children’s Hospital, Panama
- Climate change and immunisation with Dr Kate O’Brien
Director, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, World Health Organization (WHO)
- Infection as a determinant of future health with Dr James Gilchrist
Wellcome Career Development Fellow, Oxford Vaccine Group & Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology
- Sustainable antibiotic prescribing by Dr Emma Lim
Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Paediatric Sepsis Lead, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne
- AI and microbiology with Professor Adrian Egli
Director, Institute for Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich
