Walter Marget Educational Workshop
Monday – Tuesday, May 6 – 7, 2019
By Invitation Only
Each year ESPID sponsors an educational workshop for 50 selected trainees at the annual Meeting. This workshop is clinically oriented with a lot of interaction between trainees and faculty.
The Walter Marget Educational Workshop leader faculty have been selected by the ESPID Committee for Education. Each workshop leader is an outstanding clinician with extensive experience in the field of paediatric infectious diseases.
Our aim is to promote more shared learning between participants and faculty in the workshop. Please see agenda via the interactive programme here.
Workshop Leaders & their Clinical Themes:
Olaf Neth – Recurrent fevers
Vana Spoulou – Nosocomial infections
Adilia Warris – Fungal infections
Luregn Schlapbach – Sepsis
- Faculty: Chrissie Jones, Vana Spoulou, Raluca Lixandru, Nico Hartwig, Christina Karastathi, Asgeir Haraldson, Nigel Curtis, Elisa Fernandez-Cooke, Simon Drysdale, Emmanouil Galanakis, Emmanouil Galanakis, and Ana Brett
- 4 breakout sessions for case presentations, with a maximum of 25 participants per session, including a Young ESPID co-chair – an increased chance for in depth discussions
- Space for 50 participants– see below for guidelines regarding your eligibility to join the workshop.
- New for 2019 – a small number of trainees will be invited to present an overview of a recent international guideline. When applying to attend the workshop, please indicate whether you would be prepared to present a guideline and suggest a relevant international guideline to present.
- Competitive submission of cases for presentation – participants are invited to submit an abstract (max 200 words) of the case they wish to present (according to the 4 clinical themes above) by January 17th, 2019. You will be informed in good time whether your case has been selected for presentation. Applicants submitting a case will be prioritised should there be more applicants than places.
- Case presentations– please follow this format (to give everyone time to present) – a strict maximum 10 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion ; as a guide 10 text power point slides should be prepared (can have some additional for clinical photos) – e.g. 2 history; 2 examination / investigation; 1 differential diagnosis – presenter to test the audience and then give their differential diagnosis; 2/3 management & clinical progress; 2 sum up / literature review / outcome ; take home message.
- Prizes for the best oral presentations – the 32 best submitted case abstracts will be selected by the education committee for presentation, 4 in each themed break out session.
- Networking dinner– There is a funded dinner on the 6th May, which trainees are expected to attend to facilitate interactions between trainees and faculty.
ESPID 2019 – WALTER MARGET WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
Day 1: Monday, 6th May 2019
Registration 13:30 – 14:00
Welcome – Grp A & B 14:00 – 14:10
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Speaker: Chrissie Jones
Session 1
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Chair: Chrissie Jones
Faculty Lecture – Grp A & B 14:15 – 14:55
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Title: SEPSIS
Speaker: Luregn Schlapbach
Breakout session 1 – Grp A: 15:00 – 15:45
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Chairs: Luregn Schlapbach & Ana Brett
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Jonathan Sturgeon: Fever with red and tender feet
- Selected case presentation from Jonathan Broad: Vision impairment, rash and respiratory deterioration in a girl with mediastinal B cell lymphoma
- Selected case presentation from Theresa Madigan: A17 year old boy with sepsis and neck pain
Breakout session 1- Grp B: 15:00 – 15:45
Location: Povodni Moz 2
Chairs: Asgeir Haraldsson & Christina Karastathi
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Ioana Arbanas: Sepsis: Who’s to blame?
- Selected case presentation from Mary Boullier: The septic child – how far should we search for a host abnormality?
- Selected case presentation from Veronika Osterman: 12 year old boy with fever and multiorgan failure – sepsis or maybe not?
Coffee Break 15:45 – 15:55
Photo 15:55 – 16:00
Session 2
Chair: Chrissie Jones
Faculty Lecture – Grp A & B 16:00 – 16.40
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Title: NOSOCOMIAL INFECTIONS
Speaker: Vana Spoulou
Breakout session 2 – Gr A: 16:45 – 17.30
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Chairs: Nico Hartwig & Elisa Fernandez Cooke
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Paul Torpiano: Watch that shunt!
- Selected case presentation from Arantxa Berzosa: 15 year old boy with prosthetic joint infection
- Selected case presentation from Kaoutar Moutaouakkil: Nosocomial infection case occurred after genu varum operated
Breakout session 2 – Gr B: 16:45 – 17:30
Location: Povodni Moz 2
Chairs: Vana Spoulou & Raluca Lixandru
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Nele Alders: Cochlear implants – a risk factor for meningitis
- Selected case presentation from Elisavet Chorafa: Treatment of Extensively-Drug Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae bloodstream and Central Nervous System(CNS) infection
- Selected case presentation from Evangelia Dardamani: A rare cause of urinary tract infections in neonates
Guideline Review of Day 1 – Grp A&B 17:30 – 17:55
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Speaker: Guideline review
Close& feedback from Day1 – Grp A & B 17:55 – 18:10
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Speaker: Chrissie Jones
Networking Dinner with Quiz & Awards: 19:00 – 22:00
Location: Allegria Restaurant, Nazorjeva Ulica 8
Day 2: Tuesday, 7th May 2019
Session 3
Chair: Chrissie Jones
Faculty Lecture – Gr A & B 09:00 – 09:40
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Title: RECURRENT FEVER
Speaker: Olaf Neth
Breakout session 3 – Group A: 09:45 – 10:30
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Chairs: Olaf Neth & Simon Drysdale
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Karen McCarthy: Double trouble: Recurrent fevers in two sisters
- Selected case presentation from Helen Groves: Beware the quiet teenage boy!
- Selected case presentation from Paula Rodriguez Molino: Infection, autoinflammation or none
Breakout session 3 – Group B: 09:45 – 10:30
Location: Povodni Moz 2
Chairs: Manolis Galanakis & Christina Karastathi
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Valentina Burzio: Persistent fever of unknown origin after a travel to India
- Selected case presentation from Shari Sapuan: A not-so-straightforward febrile illness
- Selected case presentation from Yaniv Faingelernt: Fever and low back pain after a wedding
Coffee Break 10:30 – 10:50
Session 4
Chair: Chrissie Jones
Faculty Lecture – Grp A & B 10:50 – 11:30
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Title: FUNGAL INFECTIONS
Speaker: Adilia Warris
Breakout session 4 – Grp A: 11:30 – 12:15
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Chairs: Nico Hartwig & Raluca Lixandru
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Natalia Mendoza-Palomar: A special fungal infection in a chronic granulomatous disease patient
- Selected case presentation from Rita Cardona: Subacute presentation: if you don´t suspect it, you delay the diagnosis
- Selected case presentation from Anna Stanzelova: When a Bruise is not a Bruise – fungal infection in the severely immunocompromised
Breakout session 4 – Grp B: 11:30 – 12:15
Location: Povodni Moz 2
Chairs: Adilia Warris & Ana Brett
Cases:
- Selected case presentation from Raquel Simakawa: Epidemiological investigation: essential for suspicion of an uncommon infection presentation
- Selected case presentation from Manisha Gupta: Invasive trichosporonosis due to Trichosporon asteroides masquerading as a soft tissue sarcoma in an infant
- Selected case presentation from Carlos Grasa: Infective endocarditis due to Trichosporon inkin in a patient with congenital heart disease
Guideline Review of Day 2 – Grp A & B 12:15 – 12:40
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Speaker: Guideline review
Feedback from Day 2 – Grp A & B 12:40 – 12:55
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Chair: Chrissie Jones
Prizes – Grp A & B 12:55 – 13:00
Location: Povodni Moz 1
Chair: Nico Hartwig
