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Scientific Programme
- 20th February 2025
Pre Conference Workshop - Day 1 : 21th February 2025 Friday
- Day 2 : 22th February 2025 Saturday
- Day 3 : 23th February 2025 Sunday
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20th February 2025
Time Programs 05.30 pm - 06.30 pm Inauguration 06.30 pm - 07.00 pm Presidential Oration Jayanthi Savio 07.00 pm Welcome Reception & Dinner
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21st February 2025
Time Programs 08.00 am- 09.00 am Registration
SCIENTIFIC SESSION I: PLENARY SESSION (HALL A) Time Topics Speakers 09.00 am - 09.30 am Updates in medical mycology in India Arunaloke Chakrabarti 09.30 am - 10.00 am Updates in global guidelines for management of fungal infections Oliver Cornely 10.00 am - 10.30 am Diagnosis of fungal infections from months to days Ariya Chindamporn 10.30 am - 10.45 am Tea Break 10.45 am - 11.15 am Collaborative research: How Young Indians can engage in international collaborative research in Medical Mycology? Jean Pierre 11.15 am - 11.45 am Impact of Covid and Climate Change in fungal infections Martin Hoenigl
SCIENTIFIC SESSION II: ANTIFUNGAL RESISTANCE (HALL A) 11.45 am - 12.45 noon Debate: Antifungal susceptibility testing does not help in patient management Moderator: Randeep Guleria
Pro: Ram Gopalakishan & Vinay Hallur
Con: Pradip Bhattacharya & Pratibha12.45 pm - 02.00 pm Lunch Break & Poster - Viewing
Scientific session III: ANTIFUNGAL MANAGMENT
(HALL A)SCIENTIFIC SESSION IV: NEGLECTED FUNGAL DISEASE
(HALL B)Time Topics Speakers Topics Speakers 02.00 pm - 02.30 pm Optimization of prophylactic antifungal therapy Rajeev Soman Chromoblastomycosis: The neglected disease Immaculata Xess 02.30 pm - 03.00 pm Empiric antifungal therapy: When? Which drug? and How long? O C Abraham Mycetoma control: How far we are successful? Vijaylata Rastogi 03.00 pm - 03.30 pm TDM: need of the hour Atul Patel Cerebral Pheohyphomycosis: An Indian scenario Arghadip Samaddar 03.30 pm - 04.00 pm Antifungal stewardship in resource limiting environment Arunaloke Chakrabarti Pneumocystis jirovecii: Updates in diagnosis and treatment Harsimran Kaur 04.00 pm - 04.15 pm Tea Break 04.15 pm - 06.00 pm Free Paper Session (Venue will be announced later)
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22nd February 2025
Time Programs Quiz Facilitator 08.00 am – 09.00 am Quiz competition for students Arghadip Samaddar and Vinay Hallur SCIENTIFIC SESSION V: Invasive Candidiasis
(HALL A)SCIENTIFIC SESSION VI: Fungal Diagnostics & Paediatrics (HALL B) Time Topics Speakers Topics Speakers 09.00 am - 09.30 am Candida tropicalis: Fungal-host interaction and resistance mechanisms Anup Ghosh Fungal biomarker: How useful in fungal diagnosis? Cornelia Lass-Florel 09.30 am - 10.00 am Choices and challenges in management of invasive candidiasis in critically ill patients Subhash Todi Use of genomics in fungal diagnosis Shukla Das 10.00 am - 10.30 am Candida auris: Antifungal resistance and role of newer antifungals Jacques Meis Antifungal resistance: Molecular Mechanisms Anuradha Chowdhary 10.30 pm - 11.00 pm Intra - Abdominal candidiasis Prakash Shastri Children are not adult while managing fungal infections Tanu Singhal 11.00 am - 11.30 am Tea Break 11.30 am - 12.30 pm Award Sessions for Paper Presentation 12.30 pm - 01.30 pm General Body Meeting 01.30 pm - 02.30 pm Lunch & Poster Viewing
SCIENTIFIC SESSION VII: Aspergillosis (HALL A) SCIENTIFIC SESSION VIII: Endemic Mycoses (HALL B) Time Topics Speakers Topics Speakers 02.30 - 03.00 pm ABPA: Updates in diagnostic and treatment strategies Ritesh Agarwal Histoplasmosis: epidemiology in India & update in diagnosis Joy Michael 03.00 pm – 3.30 pm Chronic pulmonary aspergillosis Inderpaul Singh Sehgal Novel diagnostic and treatment strategies for Talaromycosis Ranjana Khuraijam 03.30 pm – 04.00 pm Cryptic species of fungi: Its clinical significance Cornelia Lass-Florel Emergomycosis: Misdiagnosis or missed diagnosis? Malini Capoor 04.00 pm - 04.30 pm Aspergillosis – Diagnosis and management updates Nandini Sethuraman Sporotrichosis – an update Reema Nath 04.30 am - 04.45 am Tea Break Panel Discussion 04.45 pm - 05.45 pm Management of fungal disease in immunosuppressed patients: Pitfalls Moderator: Subhash Varma
Panellists: Oliver Cornely, Martin Hoenigl,Subramanian Swaminathan, Pradip Bhattacharyya, Sachin Jadhav07.00 pm - 09.30 pm BANQUET/ CULTURAL PROGRAMME
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23rd February 2025
Time Program Modertor 08.00am – 09.00am Student symposium Moderator: Savitri Sharma Time Topics Speakers Topics Speakers SCIENTIFIC SESSION IX:Emerging fungal infections
(HALL A)SCIENTIFIC SESSION X: Antifungals
(HALL B)09.00 am - 09.30 am Emergence of rare fungal diseases Martin Hoenigl Antifungal susceptibility testing: CLSI Vs EUCAST Bansidhar Tarai 09.30 am - 10.00 am Cryptococcosis in India: an update Nagarathna S Trichophyton indotineae: An emerging menace M R Shivaprakash 10.00am - 10.30 am Antifungals in pipeline Oliver Cornely Azole resistance in Aspergillus: an update Jacques Meis 10.30 am- 10.45 am Tea Break SCIENTIFIC SESSION XI: Invasive Fungal infections
(HALL A)SCIENTIFIC SESSION XII: Miscellaneous infections
(HALL B)10.45 am - 11.15 am Mucormycosis: updates Valliappan Muthu Malassezia infections: an update Gagandeep Singh 11.15 am - 11.45 pm IFIs in HSCT: Indian Scenario Suneetha Narready Interesting cases Anjali Shetti
Lalitha Prajna
Prashant Gupta
Rungmei SK Marak11.45 am - 12.15 pm IFIs in solid organ transplant recipients: Indian scenario Subramanian Swaminathan 12.15 pm- 01.00 pm Award announcement, Valedictory & Lunch
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