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CONGRESS PROGRAM

TIME

WEDNESDAY 25 APRIL 2001

4.30pm - 6.00pm

Registration

6.15pm - 7.30pm

Drinks and nibbles (hot finger food) courtesy of SHS International

7.30pm - 9.00pm

 

Cow’s Milk Allergy Symposium – Sponsored by SHS International

Spectrum and Management of Cow’s Milk Protein Intolerance - John Walker-Smith, London

Cow’s Milk Protein Allergy as a Factor in Irritable Infants - Ralf Heine, Melbourne

Risks and Benefits of Feeding Cow’s Milk to Children - Richard Hamilton, Montreal

9.15pm - 9.30pm

Tea/Coffee and dessert courtesy of SHS International

 

 

TIME

THURSDAY 26 APRIL 2001

8.30am - 9.00am

Registration

9.00am - 10.00am

OPENING CEREMONY

David Brewster, Congress Convener

John Walker-Smith, CAPGAN Chairman

Peter Sullivan, CAPGAN Chairman Elect

Michael Gracey, International Pediatric Association President

Professor Lowitja O’Donoghue AC, CBE, Guest Speaker

10.00am - 10.30am

COFFEE BREAK

Accompanying persons welcome to attend 9.00-10.30am

10.30am - 12.00pm

Breakout Session A

 

 

 

 

 

 

Session 1

Zinc Deficiency

Chair: Rosemary Warden

Global Prevalence – Kenneth Brown

Growth – Barbara Golden

LBW – George Fuchs

Interactions with Vitamin A – Swapan Roy

Session 2

Diarrhoeal Disease in Top End Aboriginal Children

Chair: David Brewster

Environmental Background – Michael Gracey

Enteropathy – Renata Kukuruzovic

Growth – Susan Sayers

Discussion

12.00pm - 1.00pm

Keynote Speaker

Infectious Diarrhoea: a plan for the future

Chair: Richard Hamilton

Speaker: Dr Geoffrey Davidson

Sponsored by Nutricia Australia Pty Ltd

1.00pm - 2.00pm

LUNCH

CAPGAN Council Meeting (Territory Room)

2.00pm - 3.30pm

 

 

 

 

Symposium

Rotavirus Vaccine and Intussusception: Is vaccine development doomed?

Chair: Richard Hamilton CM

Is a vaccine needed: the events of 1999 – Graeme Barnes

Global epidemiology of intussusception - Julie Bines

Is intussusception Rhesus specific? What are the options? – Ruth Bishop

Discussion

Sponsored by SmithKline Beecham

3.30pm - 4.00pm

AFTERNOON TEA

4.00pm – 5.30pm

 

 

SYMPOSIUM

Oral Rehydration Therapy: Current Issues

Chair: Elizabeth Elliott

Setting the scene – E. Elliott

Reduced osmolarity ORS in acute diarrhoea- AM Khan

Reduced osmolarity ORS in persistent diarrhoea- SA Sarker

Modified ORS in malnourished children - NH Alam

Cereal-based ORS - AM Molla

Discussion

Sponsored by Aventis

5.30pm - 7.00pm

WELCOME RECEPTION

Parliament House

Evening

MINDIL BEACH MARKETS

(Buses will depart for the markets from outside Parliament House after the Welcome Reception)

 

TIME

FRIDAY 27 APRIL 2001

8.15am – 8.30am

Registration

8.30am - 10.00am

 

 

 

Symposium

Persistent Diarrhoea

Chair: George Fuchs

Persistent diarrhoea and intestinal morphology - Alan Phillips

Dietary management - Peter Sullivan

Micronutrients – Zulfiqar Bhutta

10.00am - 10.30am

COFFEE BREAK

10.30am - 12.00pm

Breakout Session B

 

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

 

Bacterial Diarrhoea

Recent Advances in Diarrhoea and Malnutrition (ICDDR,B)

Sponsorship Policy for CAPGAN

 

Chair: Dankwart Wittenberg

Chair: George Fuchs

Chair: Tony Nelson

       
 

EHEC – AD Phillips

Protozoa & HIV – Alan Curry

EPEC – Elizabeth Hartland

GI Colonisation – RA Strugnell

Vitamin A & Shigellosis

- S Hossain

Vitamin A & Iron – ASG Faruque

Home Management – SK Roy

Home-based Nutritional Rehabilitation – Munirul Islam

Speakers:

Tony Nelson

Karen Simmer

Bob Gibson

Peter Sullivan

Zulfiqar Bhutta

12.00pm - 1.00pm

Keynote Speaker

Frequent diarrhoea or inadequate diet: their relative contributions to malnutrition in the tropics

Chair: Barbara Golden

Speaker: Dr André Briend

1.00pm - 2.00pm

LUNCH

2.00pm - 3.30pm

Breakout Session C

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Helicobacter Pylori

Tropical Enteropathy

HIV/AIDS: CAPGAN Policy

Chair: Julian Thomas

Chair: Ted O’Loughlin

Chair: Dankwart Wittenberg

Epidemiology – Peter Sullivan

Iron Status & Anaemia –

George Fuchs

Therapy – Geoff Davidson

Tropical/Environmental Enteropathy – David Brewster

Epidemiology of Coeliac Disease – Decker Butzner

Tropical Sprue – Santosh Mittal

Introduction & Paragraph 55

- John Walker-Smith

Breast Milk Transmission

– Dankwart Wittenberg

Advocacy & Vaccines

- Tony Nelson

Research Ethics- David Brewster

3.30pm - 4.00pm

AFTERNOON TEA

4.00pm - 5.00pm

Keynote Speaker

Food & Nutrition in the Treatment & Prevention of Acute Childhood Diarrhoea

Chair: Zulfiqar Bhutta

Speaker: Professor Kenneth Brown

5.00pm – 6.00pm

Capgan General Meeting

All delegates welcome

7.00pm - 11.30pm

CONGRESS DINNER

Darwin Wharf Precinct

(Buses for the dinner will leave from in front of the Carlton Hotel)

 

TIME

SATURDAY 28 APRIL 2001

8.15am - 8.30am

Registration

8.30am - 10.00am

 

 

 

 

Symposium

Novel Therapies

Chair: Graeme Barnes

Probiotics – Sherwood Gorbach

Diarrhoeal Prevention – Geoffrey Davidson

Sponsored by Wyeth Nutritionals

10.00am - 10.30am

COFFEE BREAK

Accompanying persons invited to attend.

Craft Council of NT will be displaying and selling local arts and crafts

10.30am - 12.00pm

Breakout Session D

Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

Treatment protocols for severe malnutrition

Liver disease in the developing world

Infant feeding issues

Chair: David Brewster

Chair: Graeme Barnes

Chair: David Forbes

André Briend

Barbara Golden

Mark Manary

Tahmeed Ahmed

Tom Heikens

NR Bhandari

Discussion

Overview – Santosh Mittal

Hepatitis – Iqbal Memon

Neonatal Cholestasis

– Anupam Sibal

Promotion of breastfeeding & barriers in a developed country

- Karen Simmer

Immunocompetence of breastfed vs formula-fed infants

– Robert Gibson

Lack of quality control of formula

Update on nutrient requirments during infancy: nucleotides, selenium, iron, LCPUFA

  • K Simmer / R Gibson
12.00pm - 1.00pm

Keynote Speaker

Aboriginal Health: Early origins of adult disease

Chair: John Walker-Smith

Speaker: Professor Kerin O’Dea

1.00pm - 2.00pm

LUNCH

2.00pm - 3.30pm

Breakout Sessions E

 

Session 1

Session 2

 

Gut Inflammation

Nutritional Diseases of Transition

 

Chair: Swapan Roy

Chair: Anupam Sibal

     
 

Overview – Richard Hamilton

Intestinal Repair – Decker Butzner

Disease in Transition: Obesity & Insulin Resistance

- Louise Baur

 

Nitric Oxide – Nick Anstey

Transitional Diseases in an Aboriginal Birth Cohort - Susan Sayers

   

Discussion

3.30pm - 4.00pm

AFTERNOON TEA

4.00pm - 5.30pm

Consensus Statement

Chair: John Walker-Smith

Reports from Policy Sessions – HIV, Sponsorship

Closing Summary – John Walker-Smith

 

 

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