The International Scientific Committee has planned a diverse and interesting program for you. As part of the program, we will have a scale of different educational and scientific sessions addressing your needs as a professional in pediatric infectious diseases that will provide you with take-home value.

To learn more about what to expect in Manila, have a look at the Scientific Program. For a better view of the program at a glance use the zoom option in the pdf.

Detailed guidelines for presenters can be found here.

For the Research Workshop’s program, please click here.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

NAPOLEON GONZALEZ WORLD LECTURE

• LESSONS LEARNED FROM AFRICA – Elizabeth Molyneux (Malawi/UK)

SPECIAL LECTURE

• ELIMINATION OF MOTHER-TO-CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIV: LESSONS LEARNED FROM SUCCESS IN THAILAND – Usa Thisyakorn (Thailand)

WSPID SYMPOSIA

• Innovation in Infectious Diseases
• Dengue: A Global Threat
• Pertussis Symposium
• Emerging ID Challenges in the Five Continents
• Controversies in HIV
• Pneumococcal Symposium
• Antimicrobial Stewardship into the 2020s
• Malaria in Pregnant Women and Children
• ID in the Immunocompromised
• Neonatal Sepsis
• Pediatric Fungal Infections: Something New?
• Controversies in Pneumonia
• Debates in Diarrheal Disease
• Tropical Diseases
• Tuberculosis
• Emerging Issues and Controversies on Group A Streptococcus and S Aureus Infections in Children
• Vaccines and Immunization: What Pediatricians Need to Know
• ‘Hot’ papers in the field of Pediatric Infectiouse Diseases 2017-2019

WSPID INTERACTIVE SYMPOSIA

• Interactive Symposium on Challenging Cases
• Infection Prevention and Control in Low-Resource Settings

MEET THE PROFESSOR SESSIONS

• CNS Infections
• Bone Infections
• Otitis Media
• Clinical Research and Life Balance
• Kawasaki Disease
• Meningitis
• Haemophilus influenzae
• Maternal immunization
• Ebola

WORKSHOPS

WSPID Research Workshop (by invitation only)

• INTRODUCTION, OVERVIEW AND GOALS – Andi L. Shane (USA) and Salvacion R. Gatchalian, (Philippines)
• INTRODUCTION FROM THE LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE – Salvacion R. Gatchalian (Philippines)
• FROM CLINICAL QUESTION TO RESEARCH QUESTION – Maria Liza Antoinette M. Gonzales (Philippines)
• INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH COLLABORATIONS – David Burgner (Australia)
• PUBLISHING YOUR RESEARCH – Nigel Curtis (Australia)
• ETHICS IN RESEARCH – Jacinto Blas V. Mantaring III (Philippines)
• FINDING FUNDING AND KEY PARTS OF A RESEARCH BUDGET – Anna Lena Lopez (Philippines)
• WRITING A SUCCESSFUL GRANT APPLICATION – Rosemarie Arciaga (Philippines)

WSPID Workshop 1 – Laboratory Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases: Improving Clinical Indications, avoiding Pitfalls

Chairs – Juan Pablo Torres (Chile) and Daniel Jarovsky (Brazil)

Moderator – Jaime Santos (Philippines)

• IMMUNOLOGIC TESTS FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASES – Daniel Jarovsky (Brazil)
• NUCLEIC ACID-BASED IDENTIFICATION METHODS – Juan Pablo Torres (Chile)
• RAPID NON-NUCLEIC ACID-BASED IDENTIFICATION METHODS – Fátima Gimenez (Philippines)

WSPID Workshop 2 – Migration and Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Chairs – Lilly Verhagen (The Netherlands) and Rosemary Olivero (USA)

• INTRODUCTION
• THE INFECTIOUS DISEASE IMPLICATIONS OF VENEZUELA’S MIGRATION CRISIS – Jacobus de Waard (Venezuela)
• INFECTIOUS DISEASE IMPLICATIONS IN REFUGEE AND MIGRANT CHILDREN
• WORLD CAFE