Day/time             Topic     Professor

Monday 2nd March

09:30am-10:00am            Cuban Health System and Tropical Medicine Institute “Pedro Kourí”. An overview            Prof. Manuel Romero (Cuba)

Prof. Jorge Fraga (Cuba)

10:00am-10:30am            Cuban AIDS program. HIV diagnosis and therapy.              Prof. Jorge Pérez (Cuba)

10:30am-11:00am            Dengue, Zika, Chikungunya. Current and future challenges          Prof. Eric Martínez (Cuba)

Prof. Maria G. Guzmán (Cuba)

11:00am-11:30am            Hemorrhagic viral diseases: Yellow fever, Marburg.         Prof. Nereyda Cantelar (Cuba)

11:30am-12:00m               Hemorrhagic viral diseases: Ebola, Hanta virus.   Prof. Lilia M. Ortega (Cuba)

Prof Martin Grobusch (NL)

12:00m-12:30pm              Sequelae of Travellers’ Diarrhoea: presentation and discussion  Dr Brad Connor (USA)

12:30pm-01:00pm            Polio erradicación            Prof. Sonia Resik (Cuba)

01:30pm-02:00pm            Hepatitis              Prof. Licel Rodríguez (Cuba)

02:00pm-02:30pm            Visit to IPK Hospital. Bedside teaching    Prof. Juan C. Millán (Cuba)

02:30pm-03:00pm            Discussion and questions

 

Tuesday 3rd March

09:00am-11:30am            Visit & teaching in Family Physician Clinic “T Tomay“ (or similar)  Prof. María T. Illnait (Cuba)

Prof. Beatriz Cantelar (Cuba)

Prof. Regla M. Fernández (Cuba)

11:30am-12:00m               Tropical Dermatology     Prof. Eric Caumes (Fra)

12:00m-12:30pm              Update travel medicine                Prof. Martin Grobusch (NL)

12:30pm-01:00pm            Travel Medicine and Global Health issues             Prof. Peter de Beer (NL)

01:00pm-01:30pm            Tropical diseases              Prof. Eric Caumes (NL)

01:30pm-02:00pm            Fungus world wide          Prof. Jacques Meis (NL)

02:00pm-02:30pm            Cryptococcosis and travels. Potential risks            Prof. María T. Illnait

02:30pm-03:00pm            Discussion and questions

 

Wednesday 4th March

09:30am-10:00am            Amebiasis, giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis and other Intestinal protozoan infections.             Prof. Luis E Jerez (Cuba)

10:00am-10:30am            Chagas and Leishmania                 Prof. Jorge Fraga (Cuba)

10:30am-11:00am            Diagnostic and Therapeutic news about Malaria                Prof Martin Grobusch (NL)

11:00am-11:30am            Update on global malaria epidemiology and control         Prof Martin Grobusch (NL)

11:30pm-12:00m              Tb eradication program. Cuban experience          Prof. Edilberto González (Cuba)

12:00m-01:00pm              Meningitis           Prof. Félix Dickinson (Cuba)

01:00pm-01:30pm            Respiratory acute infections and prevention       Prof. Maria E. Toledo (Cuba)

Prof. Gilda Toraño (Cuba)

01:30pm-02:30pm            Endemic treponematosis             Prof. Angel Noda (Cuba)

Prof. Islay Rodríguez (Cuba)

02:30pm-02:45pm            Discussion and questions

02:45pm-03:30pm            Evaluation and closure   Prof. Marta Castro (Cuba)

Prof. Beatriz Cantelar (Cuba)

Prof. Peter de Beer (NL)