The sixth PIGS training course focuses on reviewing essential and up-to-date Paediatric Infectious Disease knowledge mainly for paediatric residents. Teachers are experienced Paediatricians and PID specialists. Detailed handouts of each presentation will be available online for participants.
Exact location of the course : Webex webinar from the CHUV
All details to connect to the webinar will be sent by email to all participants one week before the webinar
6 th
Paediatric Infectious Disease Training Course
WEBEX Webinar
March 25 – 26 , 202 1
OBJECTIVES
The sixth PIGS training course
focuses on reviewing essential and
up – to – date Paediatric Infectious
Disease knowledge mainly for
paediatric residents . Teachers are
experienced Paediatricians and PID
specialists. Detailed handouts of
each presentation will be available
online for participants .
This course does not receive funding
from the pharmaceutical industry.
The course language is English AUDIENCE
Paediatric residents with
interest in PID .
Paediatricians with interest in
PID
Hospital based clinicians with
interest in PID
Board certified PID specialists
PROGRAMME
09 .45 Welcome address – Webex features, chat function
10. 00 Hot and burning topics in PID and vaccine s U. Heini nger
10: 45 Meeting the challenge of multi -drug resistant
micro -organisms by infection control and antibiotic
stewardship + introduction to SwissASP
W. Zingg , J. Bielicki
11 .30 Break
11.45 COVID -19 Virology and physiopathology P. Zimmerman
12 .05 COVID -19 Diagnostics S. Asner
12. 25 Lunch break
13 .30 COVID -19 Pediatric presentation A. L’Huiller
13 .50 COVID -19 MIS -C L. Schlapbach
14.10 COVID -19 Newborn infections L. Kottanattu
14.30 Break
14 .45
Vector -borne diseases (Borrelia, TBE, Tularemia,
West -Nile virus and Chikungunya)
N.Ritz
15.30 Antibiotic treatment duration. How long is long
enough? (UTI, Pneumonia, SSI, bone)
P. Agyeman
16.15 Break
16 .30 Congenital infections: CMV, Toxoplasmosis,
Syphilis, HBV, HCV and HIV. All you need to know
N. Wagner/K. Posfay –
Barbe/C. Kahlert
17 .15 Closure of day 1
09.00 Warning signs for a Primary Immunodeficiency. All
you need to know
J.Tr ück
09 .45 Use of PCR in stool specimens: pro ’s & con ’s P-A Crisinel/M. Büttcher
10.30 Break
11.00 COVID -19 Vaccines C. Berger
11.45 Debate : GAS tonsillitis – to treat or not to treat; pro ’s
and con ’s
A. Niederer/M.Rohr
12.30 Evaluation and farewell
Thursda
y, March 25th
Friday, March 26th
TEACHERS
PD Dr. med. Philipp Agyeman
Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Universit ätsklinik f ür
Kinderheilkunde, Bern
PD Dr. med. Sandra Asner
Paediatric Infectious Di seases and Vaccinology,
Centre Hospitalier U niversitaire vaudois (CHUV ),
Lausanne
Prof. Dr. med. Christoph Berger
Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Hospital
Epidemiology, Universit äts- Kinderspital, Z ürich
Dr. med. Julia Bielicki
Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology,
Universit äts-Kinderspital, Basel
KD Dr. med. Michael Büttcher
Paediatric Infectious Diseases
Kinderspital, Luzen
Dr. med. Pierre -Alex Crisinel
Paediatric Infectious Di seases and Vaccinology,
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire V audois (CHUV ),
Lausanne
Prof. Dr. med. Ulrich Heininger
Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology,
Universit äts-Kinderspital, Basel
Dr. med. Christian Kahlert
Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Hospital
epidemiology,
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland
Dr. med. Lisa Kottanattu
Infectious Diseases, Child and Adolescent Medicine,
Ospedale Regionale di Bellinzona e Valli
Dr.med Arnaud L’Huillier
Paediatric Infectious Diseases,
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève , Genève
Dr. med. Anita Niederer
Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Hospital
epidemiology,
Children’s Hospital of Eastern Switzerland
Prof. Dr. med. Klara Posfay -Barbe
Paediatric Infectious Diseases,
Hôpita ux Universitaires de Genève , Genève
PD Dr. med. Nicole Ritz
Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Vaccinology,
Universit äts-Kinderspital, Basel
Dr. med. Marie Rohr
Paediatric Infectious Diseases,
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Genève
Prof. Dr. Med. Luregn Schlapbach Tribolet
Pediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, and
Children`s Research Center, Universit äts-
Kinderspital , Zurich
PD Dr.med. Johannes Tr ück, DPhil
Division of Immunology and the Children’s Research
Center, University Children’s Hospital Zurich,
University of Zurich, Switzerland b
Dr. med. No émie Wagner
Paediatric Infectious Diseases,
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève , Genève
Dr. phil. Dr. med. Petra Zimmermann
Pediatrie
HFR Fribourg -Hôpital cantonal
PD Dr. med. Walter Zingg
Infection Control Programme
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève , Genève
ORGANISATION
Program me committee
Sandra Asner | Pierre -Alex Crisinel
Christoph Berger | Ulrich Heininger
Andrea Duppenthaler |Klara Posfay -Barbe
Exact location of the course : Webex webinar from the CHUV
All details to connect to the webinar will be sent by email to all participants one week before
the webinar
Registration
Deadline for registration: 25 .02.2021
Registration fee CHF 150
ESPID members: CHF 120
Please resister by contacting Mrs Patricia Mangili by
email: Patricia.Mangili @chuv.ch
Payment
Payment should be m ade to :
Hospices cantonaux (CHUV) | Bugnon 21 | 1011 Lausanne
Bank : Banque Cantonale Vaudoise | Case postale 300 |
1001 Lausanne
IBAN: CH65 0076 7000 E032 8707 0
SWIFT: BCVLCH2LXXX
Account number: 328.70.70
Clearing: 767
Mention/Communication (mandatory) : PIGS 2020 – 31227
Receipt of the registration fee confirms your registration. As
the number of participant s is limited to 80, early
registration and payment are recommended.
CME Credit
Swiss Paediatric Society (SSP/SGP) : 10 credits
Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases : 5 credits
Financial support
European Society for Paediatric Infectious Disease
(ESPID)
Contact
Patricia Mangili
CHUV | Chemin du Bugnon 46 | 1011 Lausanne
Phone: +41 21 314 14 28
Fax: +41 21 314 36 45
Email: Patricia.Mangili @chuv.ch