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Activities | Aims and General Organization | Organizers and Contacts

Activities of the Chair (by inverse chronological order)

5th (and next) session of the Chair: 25-28 Feberuary 2008

Chair holder: Professor Jerome J. Schentag

School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences
State University of New Yorak at Buffalo, NY, USA

Topic: Clinical Pharmacy and Optimization of Antibiotic Treatments

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4th session of the Chair: 27-29 March 2007

Chair holder: Professor D.C. Hooper

                           Division of Infectious Diseases and Medical Services
                           Massachusetts General Hospital,
                           Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts

Topic: Fluoroquinolones: when and how ?

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3d session of the Chair: 16-18 February 2005

Chair holder: Professor J.P. Mira

Service des Soins Intensifs et Institut Cochin de Génétique Moléculaire

Hôpital Cochin,
Faculté de Médecine Cochin-Port Royal &Université René Descartes, Paris, France

Topic: Genetic factors and Infection

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2d session of the Chair: 13-15 october 2004

Chair holder: Prof. Andreas Peschel

Professor of Cellular and Molecular Microbiology

Medical Microbiology and Hygiene Department

Tübingen, Germany

andreas.peschel@uni-tuebingen.de

http://www.medizin.uni-tuebingen.de/mikrobiologie/staphylokokken.html

Topic: Virulence factors and Infection

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1st session of the Chair: 20-22 october 2003

Chair holder: Prof. Harmut Lode

        Professor of pneumology and infectiology,
        Department of Chest and Infectious Diseases, Hospital Heckeshorn
        Free University Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Topic: Respiratory Tract Infections

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Aims and General Organization

The GSK-Chair of Infectious Diseases aims at providing

"state of the art" information to students in Medicine and Pharmacy of both Universities
post-graduate training to physicians, pharmacists, and in general all professionals of the organizing universities interested in Infectious Diseases and Anti-infective chemotherapy.

The activities of the Chair consist in

lectures to students by internationally-recognised experts;
seminars, ward rounds and other training activities by and/or with these experts for members of both universities and their affiliated hospitals and research institutes;<>
<>helping to organise short scientific stays for the members of both universities to the universities and clinical centres of the experts.

The Chair is established in close co-operation and with the active participation of

the Faculties of Medicine of both universities;
the Faculty of Pharmacy at the KU-Leuven and the School of Pharmacy at the UCL;
the University Hospitals (U.Z. Gashuisberg for the KU-Leuven; Cliniques universitaires St-Luc et Cliniques universitaires de l'UCL à Mont-Godinne for the UCL);
specialised Research Institutes in both Universities.<>

For more details, view the "Founding Document of the GSK-Chair of Infectious Diseases" (PDF)