Plenary Symposia

OPENING SYMPOSIUM

• Viruses and immunology, what remains important in current infectious diseases challenges – Rolf Zinkernagel, Switzerland (Nobel laureate)
• Infodemics and how this influences our work as paediatric infectious diseases specialists – Saad Omer, USA

HEALTHY HOUSING

• How to design houses that will reduce infectious diseases in Africa – Jakob Brandtberg Knudsen, Denmark
• Healthy homes in tropical zones – Lorenz von Seidlein, Thailand

EVIDENCE AND RESILIENCE IN THE COVID-19 PANDEMICS

• Current hot topics in COVID-19 – Isabella Eckerlé, Switzerland
• How to thrive in a public health emergency – Soumya Swaminathan, India/WHO

FORGOTTEN WISDOM

• The most influential studies you need to have heard of – James Cherry, USA, Hermione Lyall, UK, Adam Finn, UK, Maria Tsolia, Greece, Ronald de Groot, Netherlands, & Ron Dagan, Israel

VACCINES IN THE SPOTLIGHT OF PANDEMICS

• COVID 19 Vaccines in Children: Do we need them? – Kathryn Edwards, USA
• Maintaining routine vaccinations during a pandemic – Ulrich Heininger, Switzerland

Parallel Symposia

• Infections in transplant medicine
• Digital tools for paediatric infectious disease
• Multidrug-resistant bacteria and biofilms
• SARS-CoV-2 prevention of spread
• The spread of antimicrobial resistance
• Digitalisation and machine learning in clinical microbiology
• Neonatal sepsis
• Controlling arthropod tropical infections
• COVID-19 clinical and treatment
• Antibiotic treatment revisited

Joint Symposia

• With FIND: Modern approaches to diagnosing tuberculosis and other lung infections
• With ANZPID: Antibiotic Treatment Revisited
• With MSF: Paediatric infectious diseases challenges in humanitarian settings
• With PIDS: New fronts for prevention and treatment of CMV

Live Interactive Case Session

This session will cover clinical aspects of diagnosis and therapy of paediatric infectious diseases. Internationally recognised experts will prepare, present and discuss case reports of children with common or unusual infectious diseases.

• Nigel Curtis (Australia)
• Adilia Warris (UK)

Meet the Expert Sessions

Vote your way through cases and have an open dialogue with the experts!

ESPID 2021’s Meet the Expert Sessions will consist of interactive case-based discussions with one or two expert discussants and a coordinator who will select and present cases on a topic of interest. The experts may frequently use case reports with questions regarding diagnosis and management, usually chosen from ESPID 2021 abstract submission.

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Young ESPID

• Young ESPID Debate – Prevention of adhesion and invasion of Staphylococcus aureus
• Parallel Symposium – Managing “trivial” infections