4th CCAS HIV Workshop

4th CCAS Caribbean
International HIV Workshop
 Closing the gap between laboratory monitoring and antiretroviral therapy in HIV/AIDS
August 26th-31st, 2007
Accra Beach Hotel, Barbados, West Indies

 

 PROGRAMME OUTLINE

 

Sunday 26th August: Opening Ceremony
Master of Ceremonies: TBA

  • 7:30 pm Prayer
  • 7:35 pm Welcome: Dr. Clive Landis
  • 7:45 pm Ministry of Health speaker: TBA
  • 8:00 pm Entertainment
  • 8:30 pm CCAS DISTINGUISHED LECTURE: Sir George Alleyne, UN Special Envoy to the Caribbean for HIV/AIDS
  • 9:00 pm Vote of Thanks: TBA

Cocktails

 

 

Monday 27th August:
SPECIAL MINI-SYMPOSIUM: "HIV Immunopathology and the principles of disease monitoring by flow cytometry"

  • 8:30 am Cells and molecules of the immune system: innate and adaptive immunity – Peter Lydyard, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
  • 9:10 am The normal immune response and cell interactions – Peter Lydyard
  • 9:50 am Immune breakdown in HIV /AIDS – Peter Lydyard

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00 am The natural history of HIV infection – George Janossy, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
  • 11:45 am The principles of flow cytometry – Frank Mandy, National HIV Immunology Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada.

Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 pm

  • 2:00 pm Immunology Q & A - Peter Lydyard and George Janossy

Tea break 3:00 - 3:30 pm

  • 3:30 pm Affordable technologies for CD4 T cell enumeration – Frank Mandy
  • 4:15 pm Measuring CD4+ T cells in HIV infected infants and children – Maurice O'Gorman, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA

Cocktails 5:00 pm

 

 

Tuesday 28th August:
Laboratory best practice for HIV diagnostics

  • 8:30 am Designing a VCT testing program – Lynette Hardy, FXB/UMDNJ Guyana
  • 9:10 am Implementation of same day HIV testing – David Musa, Ministry of Health, Trinidad
  • 9:50 am The critical role of social care in HIV/AIDS treatment – Basil Hunte, Ministry of Health, Barbados

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00 am Quality Control/Quality Assurance in clinical flow cytometry – Teri Oldaker, Genzyme genetics, Los Angeles, USA
  • 11:45 am Pipetting techniques – Julia Lizondo, BD Biosciences, Latin America & the Caribbean

Lunch 12:30 - 2 pm

  • 2:00 pm VERIQAS – the truth behind CD4 counting – David Burnett, Sheffield, UK
  • 2:30 pm QASI external quality assurance – Frank Mandy, Canada

Tea break 3:00 - 3:30 pm

  • 3:30 pm The FACScount – Janet Horta, Product Manager, BD Biosciences
  • 4:15 pm CAP/CLIA regulations and assay validation – Teri Oldaker

  • 4:45 pm PLG and primary gating strategies – George Janossy

     

 

Wednesday 29th August: The Caribbean Experience

 

  • 8:30 -10:30 am Caribbean country reports (Chair: CAREC TBA)

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00-12:30 pm Caribbean country reports

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 pm (Posters)

  • 1:30-3:00 pm CUTTING EDGE RESEARCH: An update on HIV immunopathology – Maria Arroz, Hospital Egas Moniz, Lisbon, Portugal

  • 3:00-4:30 pm CCAS EGM. Main agenda item: Selecting host country for the 5th CCAS Workshop, 2008

Social evening 6 pm: dinner & entertainment

 

 

Thursday 30th August: Viral load, resistance, and new models in CD4 enumeration

  • 8:30 am Viral load testing – Rick Galli, BioLytical Laboratories Inc, Richmond, Canada.
  • 9:10 am Why does resistance occur? – Richard Harrigan, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV, Vancouver, Canada
  • 9:50 am Guidelines for resistance testing in the Caribbean – CAREC speaker TBA

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00 am HIV resistance testing in the French speaking Caribbean – Georges Dos Santos, Centre Hospitalier et Universitaire de Fort-de-France, Martinique
  • 11:30 am Significance of Home-Brew Laboratory Protocols in ART Management – Professor Yasuhiro Yamamura, Director AIDS Research Program, Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico

Lunch 12:30 - 2 pm (Posters)

  • 2:00 pm FISHing for hidden viral reservoirs – Bruce Patterson, Stanford University, USA
  • 2:30 pm Cytometric CD4 counting – a minimalist approach – Howard M. Shapiro, The Center for Microbial Cytometry, Massachusetts, USA

Tea break 3 - 3:30 pm

  • 3:30 pm The Caribbean HIV AIDS Regional Training Network (CHART) – TBA
  • 4:15 pm Corporate leadership is needed to tackle the global HIV/AIDS crisis – David Singh, Destiny Group of Companies, Toronto, Canada

 

 

Friday 31th August: Seamless patient monitoring and antiretroviral therapy

  • 8:30 am Decentralized testing – TBA
  • 9:10 am Self-sufficient HIV/AIDS care centers in rural Haiti – David Doherty, Haiti Program Coordinator, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland, USA
  • 9:50 am Fully automated CD4 testing for remote or private HIV patient monitoring – Peter Hansen, PointCare Technologies Inc., Boston, USA

Coffee break 10:30 - 11 am

  • 11:00 am Why bother to monitor during ARV therapy? – Dr. Nicholas Adomakoh, Ministry of Health, Barbados.
  • 11:45 am Principles of antiretroviral therapy in the Bahamas – Ismae Whyms, Ministry of Health, Nassau, Bahamas

Lunch 12:30 - 2 pm

  • 2:00 pm Centre of clinical excellence in the Caribbean 2 – TBA
  • 2:45 pm Managing the side effects of ART therapy – Dr. Réjean Thomas, Clinique Médicale L'Actuel, Montreal, Canada

Tea break 3:30 - 4 pm

  • 4:00 pm Beckman Coulter global talk – TBA
  • 4:45 pm Where did HIV come from and where is it going? - Akin Abayomi, Barbados

Farewell & Cocktails 5:30