Preliminary Programme

• Day 1. Tuesday, November 28
• 08:00-08:45

  Registration

• 08:45-09:00

  Opening. Vytautas Usonis (Artis Centrum Hotel, Vilnius, Lithuania)

• 09:00-10:30

  Session I. Paediatric infectious diseases in Europe. Chair Vytautas Usonis (Lithuania)

• 09:00-09:35

  Paediatric infectious diseases in Europe. Problems and research. Carlo Giaquinto (Italy)

• 09:35-09:45

  Questions & Answers

• 09:45-10:20

  World-wide experience with conjugate pneumococcus vaccination Ron Dagan (Israel)

• 10:20-10:30

  Questions & Answers

• 10:30-11:00

  Coffee break

• 11:00-12:30

  Session II. Interactive discussion.

  Vaccination hesitancy: we see what we believe rather than believing what we see. Angus Thomson (France), Eugenijus Laurinaitis (Lithuania)

• 12:30-14:00

  Lunch

• 14:00-15:30

  Session III. Influenza vaccination in childhood: Chair Inga Ivaškevičienė (Lithuania)

• 14:00-14:30

  Paediatric influenza vaccination in Europe – Suzanna Esposito (Italy)

• 14:30-14:45

  Questions & Answers

• 14:45-15:15

  New horizons of paediatric influenza vaccination. TBC

• 15:15-15:30

  Questions & Answers

• 15:30-16:00

  Afternoon tea

• 16:00-18:30

  Session IV. Interactive cases. Moderators – VICO-2017 Faculty speakers.

• 16:00 – 17:30

  Interactive case presentation by VICO-2017 participants.

• 17:30 - 18:00

  General discussion. Closing of the Day 1.Vytautas Usonis (Lithuania)

• 18:30 - 21:00

  Course dinner 

• Day 2. Wednesday, November 29
• 09:00-10:30

  Session V. Paediatric HIV/AIDS. Chair – Carlo Giaquinto (Italy)

• 09:00-09:35

  Paediatric HIV/AIDS in XXI century Europe – Carlo Giaquinto (Italy)

• 09:35-09:45

  Questions & Answers

• 09:45-10:30

  Paediatric HIV/AIDS (Anna Turkova, UK)

• 10:30-11:00

  Coffee break

• 11:00-12:30

  Session VI. Childhood tuberculosis in XXI century. Chair – Steven Welch (UK)

• 11:00-11:45

  Update on paediatric TB (Steven Welch, UK)

• 11:45-11:55

  Questions & Answers.

• 11:55-12:20

  Update on paediatric TB. Interactive case presentations (Moderator – to be confirmed)

• 12:20-12:30

  Questions & Answers.

• 12:30-14:00

  Lunch

• 14:00-15:30

  Session II. Prudent use of antibiotics. Chair Ron Dagan (Israel)

• 14:00-14:30

  The history of antibiotics and the new antibiotic pipeline. James Hatcher (UK)

• 14:30-14:45

  Questions & Answers

• 14:45-15:30

  Antibiotic therapy challenges in children in the era of multi-drug resistance (Stephane Paulus, Belgium)

• 15:30-16:00

  Afternoon tea

• 16:00-17:30

  Session VIII. Underused vaccination programmes Chair – U.Heininger (Switzerland)

• 16:00-16:30

  Men-B vaccination. UK experience. Shamez Ladhani (UK) TBC

• 16:30-16:45

  Questions & Answers.

• 16:45-17:15

  Pertussis: can we win the race? Ulrich Heininger (Switzerland)

• 17:15-17:30

  Questions & Answers.

• 17:30-18:00

  Summary of the course. Evaluation and closing of the Course. Vytautas Usonis (Lithuania)

• Farewell tea
  Course certificates