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An International Workshop is to be held from 9th – 11th February, 2008
at PGIMER, Chandigarh- India.

 
 
     
 

Workshop on Fungal Sinusitis
9th– 11th February 2008
Working Group on Fungal Sinusitis - Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh-160012.  India

Venue: Hotel Mountview, Chandigarh

Program

Saturday, February 9, 2008

5:00 pm     Registration
7:00 pm    Welcome reception

Sunday, February 10, 2008

 Symposium 1: “Magnitude of the problem”

Moderators     Heinz Stammberger, Rupa Vedantam
     
8:30am - 8:50am   Prevalence of Fungal sinusitis a global perspective
    David Denning, UK.
     
8:50am – 9:10am   Prevalence of fungal sinusitis – Indian perspective
    Arunaloke Chakrabarti, India
     
9:10am - 9:30am   Fungal sinusitis - Experience in pediatric patients
    Ashok Gupta, India
     
9:30am – 9:50am   Spectrum of agents causing fungal sinusitis                                    
    Annette Fothergill, USA
     
9:50am – 10:00am   Discussion
     
Rapporteur   Manisha Biswas
     
10:00am – 10:30am   Tea Break

 

 Symposium 2:  “Categorization of fungal Sinusitis”

Moderators   David Denning, Walter Buzina
     
10:30am – 11:15am   Controversies surrounding Terminology and Categorization
    Heinz Stammberger, Austria
     
11:15am – 11:35am   Histopathologists can categorize fungal sinusitis better
    Ashim Das, India
     
11:35am– 11:55am   Role of CT and MRI in Diagnosis
    Paramjeet Singh, India
     
11:55am– 12:15pm   Definition of AFRS
    Bradley Marple, USA.
     
12:15pm – 12:35pm   Concept of EFRS
    BJ Ferguson, USA.
     
12:35pm – 1:00pm   Chronic Rhinosinusitis : Immune Reponse to Fungi
    Jens Ponikau, USA
     
1:00pm – 1:20pm   Mechanisms of Anti-fungal Immune response in mouse models of Airway Inflammation
    Hirohito Kita, USA
     
1:20pm – 1:30pm   Discussion
     
Rapporteur   Ramandeep Virk, Amanjit Bal
     
1:30pm – 2:30pm   Lunch

 

 Symposium 3: “Allergic Fungal Sinusitis”

Moderators   BJ Ferguson, Kusum Joshi
     
2:30pm – 2:50pm   Fungi - allergen or a bystander in AFRS? 
    Walter Buzina, Austria
     
2:50pm – 3:10pm   Relative Frequency of Eosinophil Fungal Rhinosinusitis (EFRS) in Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) with or without Polyposis
    Stephan Vlaminck, Belgium
     
3:10pm – 3:30pm  

Novel biomarkers and newer diagnostic techniques for fungal sinusitis
    Hirohito Kita, USA
     
3:30pm – 3:50pm   Increasing diagnostic yield in allergic fungal sinusitis – a Surgeon’s Perspective
    Rupa Vedantam, India
     
3:50pm – 4:20pm   Tea Break
     
4:20pm – 4:40pm   Surgical Management of EFRS
    Heinz Stammberger, Austria.
     
4:40pm – 5:00pm   Treatment of CRS in light of Classification as EMRS
    Bradley Marple, USA
     
5:00pm – 5:20pm   The role of antifungals in the treatment of CRS
    Jens Ponikau, USA
     
5:20pm – 5:30pm   Discussion
     
Rapporteur   Jaimanti Bakshi

 

Monday, February 11, 2008

 Symposium 4: “Colonizing Fungal Ball”

Moderators   Bradley Marple, Hirohito Kita
     
8:30am – 8:50am   Epidemiology - Do Fungi discriminate patients or do patient discriminate fungi?
    Catherine Kauffmann-Lacroix, France.
     
8:50am – 9:10am   Diagnosis and Management
    K.K. Handa, India
     
9:10am– 9:30am   Genetic risk factor analysis / Microarrays - is it the way to the future?
    Thungapatra, India.
     
9:30am– 9:40am   Discussion
     
Rapporteur   Rijuneeta
     
9:40am– 10:00am   Liposomal drug delivery system of amphotericin B
    Lily Verma, India.
     
Moderator   Hemashettar
     

 

 Symposium 5: “The Invasive Disease”

Moderators   HS Randhawa, Jens Ponikau
     
10:30am – 10:50am   Agents responsible for Invasive disease
    Taj Aldeen, Qatar.
     
10:50am – 11:10am   Diagnosis of Invasive disease
    Serda Kantarcioglu, Turkey.
     
11:10am – 11:30am   Management of Invasive Disease
    Naresh Panda, India
     
Rapporteur   Satyawati Mahindra
     
11:30am – 1:30pm   Panel Discussions: “To resolve the controversies and define each category of Fungal Sinusitis”
    Heinz Stammberger, David Denning, Walter Buzina, Jens Ponikau, Bradley Marple, Ferguson and Arunaloke Chakrabarti
     
1:30pm – 2:30pm   Lunch
     
2:30pm – 4:00pm   Rapporteur's Report
     
4:00pm – 4:30pm   Valedictory function
     
     
 
       
       
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