IIC 2025 - Hot Topics In Infection And Immunity In Children – The ESPID Oxford Course

Venue: Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, UK

Hot Topics In Infection And Immunity In Children (IIC) – The ESPID-Oxford Course is a residential training course which aims to provide basic information and updates in key areas of paediatric infection.

The course is targeted at paediatric infectious disease trainees and trainers, and all those who manage children with infections.

Delegates come from all over the world there is usually a 50/50 mix of trainees/consultants. All are encouraged to participate in the interactive sessions to provide their knowledge and comments about the topics under review.

All sessions are plenary and include a mix of lectures and case rounds. 

Please click here for  programme.

Link to register: https://www.oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/short-courses/infection-and-immunity-in-children/infection-and-immunity-in-children  

• ESPID/BPAIIG/PIDS member trainee earlybird - £700.00
• Non-member trainee earlybird - £790.00
• ESPID/BPAIIG/PIDS member consultant earlybird - £825.00
• Non-member consultant earlybird - £950.00

 Bursaries

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Speakers:

• Professor Mark Abzug, Professor, Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases, University of Colorado
• Professor Nigel Curtis, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne
• Professor Jonathan Carapetis, Executive Director, The Kids Research Institute Australia
• Professor Martha Clokie, Professor of Microbiology & Director of The Becky Mayer Centre for Phage Research
• Professor Aubrey Cunnington, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Disease, Imperial College London
• Dr Simon Drysdale, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, University of Oxford
• Professor Joe Jarvis, Professor of Tropical Medicine and Intern Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
• Dr Claas Kirchelle, Associate Research Professor French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)
• Professor Mike Levin, Chair in Paediatrics & International Child Health, Imperial College London
• Professor Michael Marks, Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine & Hospital for Tropical Diseases
• Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director, Oxford Vaccine Group
• Dr Octavio Ramillo, Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Memphis
• Professor Nicole Ritz, Attending Physician Pediatrics & Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University Children’s Hospital Basel
• Professor Marco Safadi, Professor of Pediatrics, Santa Casa de São Paulo School of Medicine, Brazil  
• Dr Vanessa Sancho Shimizu, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow and Reader in Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, Imperial College London
• Professor Maria Elena Santolaya, Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Universidad de Chile
• Professor Pierre Smeesters, Medical director, Academic Children’s Hospital Queen Fabiola, Free University of Brussels (ULB)
• Professor Anne Marie van Rossum, Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Sophia Children's Hospital of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam
• Assistant Professor Eleni Vergadi, Assistant Professor, Paediatrics, University of Crete
• Professor Adilia Warris, Professor Paediatric Infectious Disease, University of Exeter
• Professor Liz Whittaker, Professor of Practice, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Imperial College London