New Horizons-konferentie 2008

 

ME Research UK / Irish ME Trust

 

 

 

 


 

Op 6 mei vindt in Cambridge de New Horizons-konferentie plaats.

De konferentie wordt georganiseerd door ME Research UK én the Irish ME Trust.

 

 

 

 

 

Het voorlopige programma ziet er als volgt uit:

 

9.10

Welcome and Overview of ME/CFS:

The Research Challenge.

Dr Vance Spence

(Chairman, ME Research UK, and Senior Research Fellow, University of Dundee)

   

9.30

Overview of intracellular immunity in ME/CFS:

State of the art and therapeutic implications.

Dr Jo Nijs

(Department of Human Physiology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

   

9.50

Review of Clinical Aspects of ME/CFS

Prof Nancy Klimas

(University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida, USA)

   

10.20

Clinical Networks:

Their role in assessment, diagnosis and research.

Dr Gregor Purdie

(GP Advisor, NHS Dumfries and Galloway)

   

11.00

Patient-centred research in Myalgic Encephalomyelitis:

Results from a longitudinal database.

Dr Byron Hyde

(Nightingale Research Foundation, Ottawa, Canada)

   

11.20

New effective methods in the treatment of CFS/ME

based on immune dysfunction and the methylation cycle.

Dr. Derek Enlander

(Mount Sinai Medical School, New York and New York ME/CFS Center)

   

11.40

The CFS/ME Clinic in the UK:

Clinical Assessment and Service Delivery.

Dr. Gavin Spickett

(Consultant Clinical Immunologist and Clinical Champion

for Northern CFS/ME CNCC, Newcastle, UK)

   

12.00

Clinical Studies: Autonomic, brain and muscle.

Dr Julia Newton

(Senior Lecturer, Institute of Cellular Medicine, Newcastle University)

   

1.30

Biomedical research in Nevada.

Dr Dan Peterson

(Whittemore Peterson Institute for Neuro-Immune Disease, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Nevada School of Medicine, USA)

   

2.00

Vascular and Inflammatory Aspects of ME/CFS.

Dr Faisel Khan

(Vascular Diseases Research Unit, University of Dundee).

   

2.30

Molecular studies of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.

Dr Jonathan Kerr

(Department of Cellular & Molecular Medicine, St George's University London)

   

3.20

The Swedish Twin Registry:

Searching for a biomarker.

Prof Birgitta Evengard

(Dept of Infectious Diseases Umeå University, Sweden)

   

3.50

Q fever, Rickettsia honei and CFS.

Dr Stephen Graves

(Director Australian Rickettsial Reference Laboratory, NSW, Australia)

   

4.20

Discussion

Chair: Dr Vance Spence

   

5.00

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