CHART-CCAS-CDC Joint Meeting & 6th CCAS HIV/AIDS Workshop

 

Sunday 23rd August:
Opening Ceremony under the Patronage of the Govenor General, Dr. Sir Cuthbert Sebastian
 Master of Ceremonies: Dr. Patrick Martin, Chief Medical Officer, St. Kitts & Nevis

  • 6:30 pm National Anthem
  • 6:35 pm Prayer
  • 6:40 pm Welcome - Clive Landis, President CCAS; Edmund Cohen Laboratory for Vascular Research, The University of the West Indies
  • 6:55 pm Welcome - Prime Minister of St. Kitts & Nevis, Hon. Dr. Denzil Douglas
  • 7:15 pm CCAS distinguished lecture - Jean William Pape; Director, GHESKIO Centres, Port-au-Prince, Haiti; Chair, Board of Directors, Trans-Caribbean HIV/AIDS Research Initiative (TCHARI)
  • 7:45 pm Vote of Thanks - Brendan Bain, Director CHART Regional Coordinating Unit; Director, Caribbean Health Leadership Institute, The University of the West Indies, Board Member, TCHARI

Entertainment with snacks and drinks - 8:00 pm

 

 

Monday 24th August:
Special Mini-Symposium:
"The Impact of HIV on the Immune System, Patients' Lives and Society"
Chair: Shirley Lecher

  • 8:00 am Cells and Molecules of the Immune System: Innate and Adaptive Immunity - Peter Lydyard, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK
  • 9:15 am The Normal Immune Response and Cell Interactions - Peter Lydyard

Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 am

Chair: Philip Goulder

  • 11:00 am Pre-test "Jeopardy 1" - Chris Behrens, University of Washington School of Medicine, USA
    11:30 am Immune Breakdown in HIV/AIDS - Peter Lydyard
    12:15 pm The Natural History of HIV Infection - George Janossy, Royal Free and University College Medical School, London, UK

Lunch 1:00 - 2:00 pm

Chair: Kevin Ferrara

  • 2:00 pm Audience response system used for Immunology Q&A - Peter Lydyard and George Janossy
  • 2:45 pm Are there prospects for an HIV vaccine? – Philip Goulder, Peter Medawar Centre for Pathogen Research, Oxford University, UK

Tea break 3:30 - 4:00 pm

Chair: John Waters

  • 4:00 pm Plenary Panel Discussion - Living with HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean - Kevin Ferrara, Caribbean HIV/AIDS Alliance, St. Kitts; Christopher Dorsett, Caribbean Regional Network of People Living with HIV/AIDS (CRN+), Dominica
  • 4:45 pm Revising the legal framework in the Caribbean in response to HIV/AIDS - Veronica Cenac, Constitutional Reform Commission, St. Lucia

Get-to-know-each-other reception 5:30 - 6:30 pm

 

 

Tuesday 25th August:
Diagnosis in Adults and Children
Chair: Akin Abayomi

  • 8:30 am The principles of flow cytometry – Frank Mandy, National HIV Immunology Laboratory, Ottawa, Canada
  • 9:10 am Measuring CD4+ T cells in HIV Infected Infants and Children – Maurice O'Gorman, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago, USA
  • 9:50 am PMTCT of HIV infection – Ann St. John, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Barbados

Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 am

Chair: Helen Lee

  • 11:00 am Making progress in treating children living with HIV – Celia Christie, University Hospital of the West Indies, Jamaica
  • 11:30 am Planned conception in HIV discordant couples – Carmen Zorrilla, Member of TCHARI Speakers’ Panel, University of Puerto Rico
  • 12:00 pm Clinical importance of viral DNA and RNA determinations – Akin Abayomi, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Chair: George Janossy

  • 1.30 pm Clinton Foundation dried blood spots initiative – Colleen Connell, William J. Clinton Foundation, USA
  • 2:15 pm A Point of Care Nucleic Acid Platform for HIV Testing in Resource-Limited Settings – Helen Lee, Diagnostic Hematology Unit, Cambridge University, UK

Tea break 3:00 - 3:30 pm

Chair: Amalia Del Riego

  • 3:30 pm Expert Panel Discussion: “What are the realities of laboratory services in the Caribbean?” – A panel of experts will answer written questions submitted from attendees – Akin Abayomi, Giselle Guevara (CROSQ Barbados), Jasmin Hanley, Valerie Wilson, Helen Lee, Frank Mandy, Mo O’Gorman

  • 4:30 pm A small island voice – Kathleen Allen-Lee, Ministry of Health, St. Kitts

 

 

Tuesday 25th August:
Break-out Session 1 (not CME accredited):
Emerging Technologies Workshop
Chair: Maria Arroz

  • 9:00 am Industry talk - BD Biosciences, USA
  • 9:30 am Industry talk - Beckman Coulter, USA
  • 10:00 am Industry talk - Partec, Germany

Coffee break 10:30 – 11:00 am

Chair: John Codrington

  • 11:00 am Industry talk - Pointcare Technologies, USA
    11:30 am Industry talk - LabNow, USA
    12:00 pm Affordable Technologies for CD4 T Cell Enumeration – Frank Mandy

Lunch 12:45 - 1:45 pm

Chair: Wendy Piggott

  • 1:45 pm Industry talk - Roche Diagnostics Caribbean
  • 2:15 pm Industry talk - Laboratory Information Management Systems, Common Cents Solutions, USA

Tea break 3:00 - 3:30 pm

Chair: Colleen Connell

  • 3:30 pm Validation of "dip-stick" technology for HIV nucleic acid testing in the Caribbean – Helen Lee, Cambridge University, UK
  • 4:00 pm Beiomedical equipment management in resource-poor settings - Christoph Larsen, synaLinQ, Vietnam
  • 4:30 pm Beyond CD4: other important white cell markers in HIV – Maria Arroz, National Institute of Health, Lisbon, Portugal

 

 

Wednesday 26th August:
The Caribbean Experience
Chair: Valerie Wilson

  • 8:30 -10:30 am Caribbean Country Reports

Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 am

  • 11:00-12:30 pm Caribbean Country Reports

Lunch 12:30 - 2:00 pm: Poster Session

  • 2:00-4:30 pm CCAS EGM (Caribbean delegates only)
  • Agenda item 1: Selecting host country for the 8th CCAS Workshop, 2010
  • Agenda item 2: Collaboration with regional partners

Social evening 7:00 pm: Dinner and entertainment

 

 

Thursday 27th August:
Principles of Antiretroviral Therapy
Chair: Brendan Bain

  • 8:30 am Overview/principles of treatment – Chris Behrens
  • 9:10 am Global Molecular Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS – Jean Carr, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
  • 9:50 am Molecular Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in the Caribbean – Yasuhiro Yamamura, Ponce School of Medicine, Puerto Rico

Coffee break 10:30 – 11:00 am

Chair: Percival McNeil

  • 11:00 am A holistic mental health approach enhances adherence to ART and personal care: the Tobago experience – Raymond Noel, Tobago Health Promotion Clinic, Tobago
  • 11:30 am Research agenda in support of universal access to HIV prevention among the Caribbean high risk groups – Karen Sealy, UNAIDS Caribbean regional Support Team, Trinidad
  • 12.00 pm Monitoring and evaluating ART programs – Sharlene Jarrett, Ministry of Health, Jamaica

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Chair: James St. Catherine

  • 1:30 pm HIV/TB Co-infection: a case for special attention – Patrice Joseph, GHESKIO Centres, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
  • 2.15 pm Nutrition in the holistic approach to HIV care – Stephen Robinson, Ministry of Health, Jamaica

Tea break 3:00 - 3:30 pm

Chair: Kevin Harvey

  • 3:30 pm HIV, ART and the risk of diabetes and dyslipidaemias – Tanya Clarke, University of the West Indies, Jamaica
    4:00 pm Additional long-term consequences of ART therapy – Réjean Thomas, Clinique Médicale L’Actuel, Montreal, Canada

 

 

Thursday 27th August:
Break-out Session 2:
Quality Control and External Quality Assurance in HIV Laboratory Diagnostics
Chair: Bharat Parekh

  • 9:00 am The need for QC and EQA for HIV rapid testing in the Caribbean – Wendy Kitson-Piggott, Caribbean Medlabs Foundation, Trinidad
  • 9:45 am Guidelines on HIV rapid test kits evaluation – George Alemnji, CDC, Barbados
  • 10:15 am Guyana’s Voluntary Counseling Testing Program – Lynette Hardy, Francois Xavier Bagnoud Centre, Guyana

Coffee break 10:45 – 11:15 am

Chair: Giselle Guevara
11:15 am Proficiency testing and EQA for HIV rapid tests and viral load – George Alemnji, Pete Keep Parries
11:45 am Effect of procurement and supply chain management on the quality of laboratory results – Cecil Jacques, Supply Chain Management System, Guyana

Lunch 12:45 - 1:45 pm

Chair: Denise Lawrie
1:45 pm Role of CARICOM Regional Organisation for Standards and Quality (CROSQ) in laboratory accreditation – Giselle Guevara, CROSQ, Barbados
2:15 pm Caribbean Med Labs Foundation: developing partnerships and supporting laboratory quality: an update – Valerie Wilson, Caribbean Medlabs Foundation, Trinidad

Tea break 3:00 - 3:30 pm

Chair: George Alemnji

  • 3:30 pm Emerging EQA paradigms using synthetic standards and wireless reporting of results – Frank Mandy

  • 4:15 pm Continuous internal QA in flow cytometry – Denise Lawrie, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa

 

 

Friday 286th August:
Break-out Session 2:
Multidisciplinary Team Approaches to Decision Making: Clinical Case Reports
Chair: Chris Behrens

  • 8:30 am Post-test "Jeopardy 2" – Chris Behrens
  • 9:15 am A holistic approach to treating persons living with HIV: Case studies from Jamaica – Brendan Bain
  • Audience response system for Q&A followed by open discussion

Coffee break 10:30 - 11:00 am

Chair: Celia Christie

  • 11:00 am A holistic approach to treating persons living with HIV: Case studies from rural Haiti – Maxi Raymonville, Thomas J White Center, Haiti
  • Audience response system for Q&A followed by open discussion

Lunch 12:30 - 1:30 pm

Chair: Perry Gomez

  • 1:30 pm Case studies from St Lucia and Suriname – Ingrid Cox, John Codrington
  • Audience response system for Q&A followed by open discussion
  • 2.45 pm The Samaritan Ministries in the Bahamas – Sister Cleare Rolle, Samaritans, Bahamas

Tea break 3:30 - 4:00 pm

Chair: Jasmin Hanley

  • 4:00 pm Stigma & Discrimination role play/sketch – TBA
  • 4:45 pm Closing remarks – Perry Gomez, CHART Chairman, Bahamas

Farewell 5:30 pm