1st Working Group and Management Committee meeting 2015

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Program

 

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Istituto Superiore di Sanità,
Viale Regina Elena, 299, 00161 Rome, Italy
Building 1, ground floor, Room Bovet

12 May Working Group Meeting

09:00 – 10:15 Plenary session:

  • 09:00 Reception of participants
  • 09:30 Welcome (E. Pozio)
  • 09:40 Presentation of the COST action TD1302 CYSTINET and general progress (S. Gabriël)- STSM presentation
  • 10:00 CYSTINET administration: reimbursement rules: e-signing (Tom Koyen)

10:15 – 10:45 Coffee break

10:45 – 12:00 Short separate Working Group session

(briefing of activities since last meeting)

12:00 – 13:00 Lunch

13:00 – 17:00 Plenary session of all working groups (with coffee break)

  • WG1. Brecht Devleesschauwer & Alberto Allepuz
    • Abstract presentation STSM: Investigation of Taenia saginata and T. solium presence in Romania: R. Blaga
  • WG2. Andrea Winkler & Teresa Garate & Pierre Dorny
    • Abstract presentation: Serological diagnosis of human cysticercosis in Italy from 2001 to 2014: M.A. Gomez-Morales
  • WG3. Maria Vang Johansen & Elias Papadopoulos
    • Abstract presentation: Evaluation and impact assessment of post mortem detection techniques for bovine cysticercosis: F. Jansen

17:00 -18:00 Separate Working Group sessions: wrap up

  • Room Bovet (the larger Working Group on diagnosis?)
  • Room Ferro di Cavallo (Building 1, floor D, room 57)
  • Room Biblioteca Farmacologia (Building 1, floor G, room 4)

CYSTINET Dinner

Cuccurucù Restaurant, via Capoprati 10, Rome, Tel. 06 3751 8558 www.cuccurucu.info/at

How to reach the restaurant from ISS: ISS-RestaurantBelle Arti-Restaurant

  • For walkers (about 1.21 h)
    • By walking for 6.4 km (see the attached map ISS-Restaurant)
  • By tram and walking (about 45 min)
    • Tram 19 (direction Risorgimento/S. Pietro) stop at Belle Arti (14 stops), cross the bridge (Ponte Risorgimento) on the Tiber river, turn right on Lungotevere G. Oberdan, continue on Lungotevere della Vittoria, then turn right on via Capoprati for a total of 1.5 km (by walking 19 min) (see the attached map Belle Arti-Restaurant)
  • By Taxi (about 20 min)
    • Expected cost about 28 Euro

13 May Working Group Meeting

8:30 – 13:00 Plenary session

  • 08:30 Invited speakers:
    • Polya Rosin, European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC): Human parasitic diseases surveillance in the EU & stakeholder views on priorities for future surveillance activities
    • Lucy Robertson, Norwegian University of Life Sciences: Introduction of the new COST Action on foodborne parasites
    • Samson Mukaratirwa, University of Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa: The Cysticercosis Working Group in Eastern and Southern Africa (CWGESA), an update
    • Disease registration:
      • EPIRARE, European platform for Rare Disease Registries. Luciano Vittozzi, EPIRARE project, National Centre for Rare Diseases, National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy
      • Coffee break 10h30-11h00
      • Patrizia Rossi, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Italy, European Register of Cystic Echinococcosis
    • Giovanni Rezza, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy: Migrants and infectious diseases
  • 12:00 Presentations of discussions and decisions of the separate Working Group meetings
    • Brecht Devleesschauwer & Alberto Allepuz
    • Andrea Winkler & Teresa Garate & Pierre Dorny
    • Maria Vang Johansen & Elias Papadopoulos
  • 13:00 Closure of Working Group meeting and Lunch

Management Committee Meeting

14h00-16h00: Restricted to MC members and observers

14-15 May: NRL meeting

Practical information

Potential hotels

How to get there

HOW TO REACH THE ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITA AND THE GLOBUS HOTEL

From Fiumicino airport:
A – take the train to “Termini” railway station, the train makes no intermediate stops, it takes about 30 minutes and the ticket cost is around 14 €. From “Termini” station take the underground B line direction “Rebibbia” and go down to “Policlinico” stop, from “Policlinico” stop walk along Viale Regina Elena and turn right to Viale Ippocrate. The hotel is on your right after the first cross.

B – take the train to “Tiburtina” railway station, the train makes some intermediate stops, it takes about 45 minutes and the ticket cost 8 €. From “Tiburtina” station then take the underground B line direction “Laurentina”, go down to “Policlinico” stop, from “Policlinico” stop walk along Viale Regina Elena and turn right to Viale Ippocrate. The hotel is on your right after the first cross.

From Termini railway station: take the underground B line direction “Rebibbia” up to “Policlinico” stop, from “Policlinico” stop walk along Viale Regina Elena and turn right to Viale Ippocrate. The hotel is on your right after
the first cross.

 

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