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1 SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM MMIDSP 2018 (15 th Annual Conference on Infectious Diseases) Pre-conference interactive workshops (THURSDAY, March 15 th, 2018) 9:00-16:00 PC, Rawalpindi CCHF Dr Abdul Hamid Chagla Dr Uzma Bashir 10:30-11:00 TEA AFIP Rawalpindi Mycology Dr Luqman Satti Dr Adeel Gardezi Dr Wajid Hussain Dr Abeera Ahmed Dr Nargis Sabir 13:00- Lunch and Prayers Break 14:00 16:30 TEA Preconference Workshop on Mycology 1 Medically Important Fungi Maj Luqman Satti 2 Dealing of specimens in Mycology Maj Adeel Gardezi 3 How to use safety cabinet for dealing of mycology specimens Maj Wajid Hussain 4 Slide culture technique Dr Amna 5 Identification of common groups of fungi Maj Luqman Satti

2 PRE-CONFERENCE INTERACTIVE WORKSHOPS AFIP Rawalpindi (Friday, March 16 th, 2018) Micro Dept AFIP Conference Room AFIP Faruki Auditorium Faruki Auditorium Dept Conf room AFIP Details Parasitology workshop :00 Infection Control workshop Tuberculosis symposium Pediatric Infectious Diseases Illustrative Cases HIV/AIDS workshop Dr. M Asim Beg 2.Dr. Seema Irfan 3. Dr Natasha Ali 4. Dr Najia Ghanchi 5. FerozZaheeruddin 1.Dr. Naveed Rashid 2.Dr Tahir Naeem 3.Ruth Samuel 4. Nadeem Paul 5. Dr Sana Anwar 6. Dr Azizullah 7.Dr Azra Parveen 8. Dr. Summiya Nizamuddin 1. Dr Sabira Tehseen 2. Dr Syed Hussain Hadi 3. Dr Abdul Ghafoor 4. Dr Naseem Salahuddin 5. Prof Zahra Hasan 6. Dr Nosheen Nasir 7.Dr Sadia Shakoor 1.Dr. Ejaz A. Khan 2. Dr. Ali Faisal 3.Dr M Idrees Mazhar 4. Dr Faheem Afzal 1.Dr. Sunil Dodani 2.Dr. Faisal Mahmood 3.Dr. Nasim Aktar 10:30- TEA 11: Lunch/ NAMAZ-E-JUMA 15:30-17:30 General Body Meetings (Conference Room AFIP) PAP - 15:30 16:30 MMIDSP - 16:30 17:30 16:00 TEA Preconference Symposium on Tuberculosis 1 Epidemiology and DR-TB diagnosis Dr Sabira Tahseen- Advisor National Reference Laboratory 2 Short course & New drugs in management of DRTB Dr Abdul Ghafoor, National Advisor DR-TB 3 Challenges and Gaps & way forward in DRTB Management Dr Syed Hussain Hadi Advisor TB (Policy and strategy) 4 Latent TB, screening and treatment Dr Naseem Salahuddin 5 Immune mechanisms in TB and diabetes Professor Zahra Hasan 6 What s on the horizon (newer regimens, newer drugs, new diagnostics) and research opportunities 7 Panel discussion Nosheen Nasir, Dr Sadia Shakoor

3 Preconference Symposium on Pediatric Infectious Diseases 1 Approach to common URTIs Dr Faheem Afzal 2 Approach to child with suspected TB Dr. Idris Mazhar 3 Managing Resistant infections in children Prof. Ejaz A. Khan 4 Nosocomial Neonatal Infections Dr. Ali Saleem

4 Registration SCIENTIFIC SESSION (Saturday, March 17 th, 2018) Inauguration Tilawat Address Conference Chairman Dr Ejaz Khan Note from President MMIDSP Prof Brig Aamer Ikram, SI (M) Address by Commandant AFIP Maj Gen Muhammad Tahir Khadim Address by Chief Guest Lt Gen Zahid Hamid, Surg Gen DGMS(IS) Group Photograph AFIP Lawn Tea Break SESSION 1: Chair: Lt Gen Dr Karamat Ahmed Karamat Co-chair: 1. Brig (R) Dr Tariq Butt 2. Dr Sajid Maqbool 3. Dr Afia Zafar KEY NOTE ADDRESS Dr Naseem Salahuddin The Trajectory of IDs from Dawn to Dusk PLENARY LECTURE: 1 Brig Gohar Zaman Current problems and challenges in Susceptibility Testing of last resort antibiotics Launch of new publications Dr. Ejaz A. Khan 1. Guidelines for Diagnosis and Management of Common Infectious Diseases in Children in Pakistan - 2nd Edition 2. Situation Analysis Report on Antimicrobial Resistance in Pakistan - Findings and Recommendations for Antibiotic Use and Resistance GARP

5 PARALLEL SESSIONS Antimicrobials Resistance Co- Chair: 1. Brig DrShahid Ahmed Abbasi 2. Dr Shehla Baqi 1. Pattern of Blood Stream Infections and their Antibiotic Susceptibility Trends in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit; a Current Perspective.Dr Fatima Sana 2. MRSA over reporting in borderline cefoxitin resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Is there a need to redefine cefoxitin breakpoints? Dr Ayesha Khalid. 3. In-vitro Antimicrobial Activity of Nitrofurantoin Against Urinary Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase Producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumonia Dr Mumtaz Ahmed Khan 4. Susceptibility pattern of tracheal tube isolates from intensive care unit of Fauji foundation hospital Rawalpindi Dr Asim Ali Shah 5. A Retrospective Study of Laboratory-based Enteric Fever Surveillance, Pakistan, Dr Farah Naz Qamar 6. Antimicrobial resistance pattern of Escherichia coli isolated from samples at holy family hospital, Rawalpindi- Abdullah Nasir 7. Frequency of urinary tract infections, causative agents and their current antimicrobial resistance pattern Zuhair Ali Rizvi 8. Resistant pattern of extended (Conference Room AFIP) One Health Session: Role of Veterinary Sector towards Containment of AMR Chair: Dr Yousaf Zafar Co-Chair: 1. Prof Dr. Johar Ali Member-Animal Sciences, PARC 2. Dr. Abdul Rehman, Director, Poultry Research Institute (PRI) Moderator: Dr. M. Athar Abbas, NRLPD, NARC Emergence of AMR in Vet Pathogens: An Overview Dr. K. Naeem Khawaja National Strategic Plan on AMR Containment (Veterinary Perspective) Dr. M. Javed Arshad Drug Resistance pattern in avian originated E. Coli Dr. M. Athar Abbas Current resistance pattern to quinolones and other antimicrobials by multidrug resistant E. coli from retail chicken meat Dr. Ali Ahmed Sheikh AMR Situation in Campylobacters Dr. Syed Habib Bukhari Antimicrobial Resistance pattern in Salmonellae in Punjab Region Dr. Farhan Afzal

6 spectrum β-lactamase producing Enterobacteriaceae isolates from clinical specimen; an experience at a tertiary care hospital in Alkharj, Saudi Arabia Dr Shafqat Qamar 9. Validity of Nugent scoring in women with vaginal discharge Dr Madiha Naqvi 10. Amphotericin B associated nephrotoxicity and its comparison between children and adults single center retrospective study Muhammad Ammar Shafqat 11. Incidence and predictors of antibiotic prescription errors in Pediatrics, a clinical Study of Hyderabad, Pakistan Dr Mudassar Iqbal Arain Panel Discussion Q & A Lunch / Prayer Break SESSION 2 Co- Chair: Brig Dr Irfan Ali Mirza Dr Faisal Mehmood PLENARY LECTURE 2 Brig Dr Tariq Butt Myths and Facts about Quantiferon TB Gold PLENARY LECTURE 3 Dr Afia Zafar Role of infection control in containment of antimicrobial resistance PLENARY LECTURE 4 Dr Altaf Ahmed Impact of Helminthiasis; a neglected disease of Pakistan and how to eradicate it

7 PARALLEL SESSION Conf Room AFIP Virology Co- Chair: 1. Brig Ejaz Ghani 2. Col Dr Kamran Human West Nile Virus Disease Outbreak in Pakistan, Dr Erum Khan 2. Sero-prevalence and epidemiological profile of ChikungunyaIgM positive patients at AFIP Dr Humaira Sawal 3. A Multiplex PCR based Study on Influenza Virus Subtyping during winter Dr Misbah Noor 4. Chikungunya fever in patients presenting with acute onset fever to District headquarters hospital Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Dr Meraj 5. Intussusception among children less than 2 years of age: Findings from pre-vaccine introduction surveillance in Pakistan Dr Rozina 6. Elucidating the polymorphisms in TNF-α,HLA-DRB1 and HLA-DQB1 and HCV infection: a novel polymorphism in the promoter region of HLA-DQB1 is a significant predictor of response to anti-hcv therapy. Dr Muhammad Arshad 7. Surveillance and molecular epidemiology of Rotavirus in Pakistan During Massab Umair Q & A Faruki Auditorium Emerging Infections Co-Chair: 1. Dr Asim Beg 2. Dr Bob Taylor 1. Blood culture positive and seropositive cases of human brucellosis reported at Aga Khan Hospital Karachi, Pakistan Dr Mohammad Zeeshan 2. Detection of High Endemicity of Leishmaniasis in Hazara Town Brewery Quetta Dr G. S Pirkani 3. Cytokines, endothelial activation and microvascular dysfunction in acute respiratory syndrome due to Plasmodium vivax Dr Najia Karim Ghanchi 4. Fungal infections in HSCT patients Experience from AKU Dr Natasha Ali 5. Enigmatic sanctuaries of Carbapenem Resistant Enterobacteriaceae; an outbreak in Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)-Dr Anam Imtiaz 6. Laboratory correlation with clinically diagnosed superficial Tuberculous lymph adenitis Dr Samreen Sarfraz 7. Comparison of Phenotypic Drug Susceptibility Testing and GeneXpert for the Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis against Rifampicin Susceptibility Assay in the South Punjab Dr Asghar Javaid Tea Break

8 SESSION 3 Co- Chair: Dr Amjad Mehboob Dr Asghar Javaid PLENARY LECTURE 5 Dr Bob Taylor Overcoming the safety obstacles of primaquine for malaria elimination PLENARY LECTURE 6 Brig Dr Salman Saleem "An outbreak of Falciparum Malaria- A management experience" International Collaboration ASM Dr Erum Khan Molecular and Newer Diagnostics 1. Fosfomycin susceptibility in ESBL producing urinary Escherichia coli. Dr Uzma Zahid 2. Evaluation of galactomannan assay for the diagnosis of invasive aspergillosis in clinically suspected cases Dr Marium Sarwar 3. Paradoxical upgrading reactions during anti-tuberculous treatment in Tuberculous adenitis - Dr Samreen Sarfraz 4. Investigating the impact of drug resistant mutations on proteins structure and function in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Asma Munir 5. Evaluation of Slide Culure TechniqueFor yeast speciation and comparing the results with API 20 C Aux Dr Hina Munawar VOTE OF THANKS

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