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Welcome to Antibiotic Resistance 2007! |
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Antibiotic
Resistance
2007 -
November 21st to 24th, 2007
Kololi, The Gambia
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Co-organizers -
International Society
of Chemotherapy (ISC)
www.ischemo.org
Co-sponsor -
Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antibiotics - APUA-Gambia
www.apua.org
Mangosteen is extremely pleased to announce that
Antibiotic Resistance 2007 is being organized in
conjunction with the full support of our partner The
International Society of Chemotherapy (ISC) for
Infection and Cancer.
ISC will be represented at the meeting by Ian Gould
of the Department of Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen
Royal Infirmary, UK.
Jean-Claude Pechère of the ISC and Emeritus Professor of the Department of
Genetics and Microbiology, University of Geneva,
Switzerland was also due to participate, but has
recently had to withdraw due to illness. Get well
soon Jean-Claude!
Taking up the first few oral presentation slots in
the programme to be allocated,
Dr. Gould will give presentations entitled:
"MRSA in the Hospital",
"MRSA in the Community",
and "Improving Antibiotic Prescribing"
All other oral presentation slots
will be allocated in the coming months on the basis of
submissions from participants in the arenas of both
scientific and clinical research. These will cover
a wide variety of topics encompassed by the general
theme of microbial resistance to antibiotics, so
satisfying one of the meeting's primary objectives in
the creation of a truly interdisciplinary forum in the
field. Please see below and linked pages for
details. |
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Scientific Committee
Patrick Addy, University of The Gambia Medical School &
Royal Victoria Teaching Hospital, Banjul, The Gambia
Alasdair Geddes, School of
Medicine, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK
Ian Gould, Department of
Medical Microbiology, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary,
Aberdeen, UK &
Public Health and Epidemiology at the University
of Trnava, Slovakia
David Hooper, Division of
Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital,
Boston MA, USA
Helen Giamarellou, 4th
Department of Internal Medicine, 'ATTIKON" General
Hospital, Athens, Greece
Po-Ren Hsueh, Departments of Laboratory
Medicine and Internal Medicine, National Taiwan
University College of Medicine, Taiwan Victor K. E. Lim, Faculty of Medicine, Pharmacy and
Health Sciences, International Medical University, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Kalifa Manneh, Royal Victoria Hospital, Banjul, The
Gambia
Tetsuro Matsumoto, School of
Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental
Health, Kitakyushu, Japan
Kurt G. Naber, Department of
Urology, Hospital St. Elisabeth, Straubing, Germany
Jean-Claude Pechère,
Department of Genetics and Microbiology, University of
Geneva, Switzerland
Raphaël Saginur, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa,
Canda
Pramod Shah, Klinikum der J.W. Goethe
Universität, Zentrum der Inneren Medizin, Schwerpunkt
Infektiologie, Frankfurt, Germany
Morimasa Yagisawa, Japanese
Society of Chemotherapy, Tokyo, Japan
More members of the Scientific
Committee to be confirmed in May/June 2007 |
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Current List of Registered Participants |
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Meeting Structure, Duration
and Venues |
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Wednesday, November 21st to Saturday,
November 24th, 2007
Venue
– Paradise Suites Hotel, Kololi, Atlantic Coast,
The Gambia
Four days of oral and
poster presentations, with a lot of time
built into the programme for small group and one to one
discussions.
Additional Days in The Gambia -
The meeting organizer is happy to assist you in planning any
days you may choose to spend in The Gambia either before or
after the meeting. All arrangements are easily made once
you have finalized your flights plans. If a suitable group
can be identified, with similar arrrival/departure dates and
wishes, we will happily arrange an excursion 'up country' to
take in some of The Gambia's natural highlights - it's all very
easily arranged even at short notice.
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Meeting Format |
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The structure of the meeting and
programme layout is illustrated in full in the Meeting
Format PDF file:
The Meeting Format in Full is Here ** |
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Some of the details may change. The
organizer reserves the right to make essential changes without
notice
between now and the starting date of the conference to better suit
the final programme and the interests of confirmed participants. |
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The Scientific Programme of a Meeting with a Difference |
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From the point of inception -
starting with the choice of location, venue and dates -
the meeting will be organized somewhat differently than
many conferences you may have participated in during
your career. We start
not with a
list of invited speakers, but with a blank,
flexible programme, containing a number of as yet
unclaimed oral presentation slots that will be filled in
the coming months by dedicated researchers in the field
of antibiotic resistance research who sign up to participate and who
also demonstrate an interest in
presenting
work during the meeting.
This approach may seem to be
a little unorthodox - and perhaps it is - but it works!
It works extremely effectively in
creating an excellent atmosphere for constructive
scientific discussion and debate, and it serves to
provide the perfect breeding ground for the initiation
of a wide range of new relationships and collaborative
efforts.
If Mangosteen's approach has one
failing, it is only that more interested researchers
don't trust and believe that such a differently
organized meeting can be as effective, and of equal or
greater value, as a traditional conference. This only
serves to reduce the willingness of some excellent
individual scientists to commit their time towards
participating and making valuable contributions. This
is a failure not of the approach itself, but in the
communication of the approach - it's something that we
as a new initiative are currently working hard to
rectify - but yet it's a problem that quickly disappears
once word of mouth spreads and more prospective
participants begin to find and hold the belief that
Mangosteen's approach can work for them too. If you
intend to participate, please do spread the word amongst
your colleagues in the field, your assistance here is
invaluable.
If you are interested in
participating in Antibiotic Resistance 2007, but have your doubts
about the manner of organization and ultimate strength
of the programme, please don't believe the words of the
organizer or waste any time reading further on -
instead, please simply
take a look at
the list of past participant testimonials from recent
meetings or contact one or more of the
past
participants from conferences in related scientific
fields in order to ask for their opinions on the
meeting that they attended - as well as on Mangosteen's
overall approach to communicating research between
colleagues in both the developed and developing worlds
and on their experience in West Africa in general.
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Who is This Meeting Targeted Towards? |
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Scientists, clinical researchers, students and others
actively engaged in, or with a strong interest in research on
antibiotic resistance and related fields. |
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Meeting Objectives |
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Other meeting organizers may offer a lengthy list of
specific objectives that they want to see their
conferences accomplish. Mangosteen’s objectives for
this meeting are broader, non-specific and intentionally
much more direct and uncomplicated:
To create a true forum for open interdisciplinary
discussion in the field of antibiotic resistance and
related research.
To help encourage members of the research community,
from both the developed and developing worlds, to get
talking, thinking and ultimately collaborating.
The results and successes of this meeting are not in
the hands of the organizer, but are very much in the
minds and the future work and
projects of the participants.
Another of Mangosteen’s objectives is not to require
participants to spend more of their valuable research
resources on attending this meeting than they absolutely
need to - talk is cheap,
and this will be a cost-effective meeting.
Past Participant Testimonials & Quotes
are Here
Recent
Conference Photos are Here |
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at any time, about any aspect
of the Meeting. The primary method of communication for
this meeting is by email . Please email the
meeting organizer Dr. Anthony England directly at
england@mangosee.com
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