Updates in Infectious Diseases

Join the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh for the next in our series of online International Medical Updates (IMU) which brings together expert speakers from Bangladesh to discuss emerging and re-emerging viral infections, fungal infections, antimicrobial resistance and the COVID-19 experience in Bangladesh.

 

20:00 BST 15:00 UK	Introduction & Welcome by Professor Andrew Elder, President, Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
20:10 BST 15:10 UK	Chair: Professor Rubina Yasmin, Professor of Medicine, Mugda Medical Medical College, Dhaka Emerging and re-emerging viral infections Professor Md. Titu Miah, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka
20:30 BST 15:30 UK	Fungal Infections : an upcoming threat Professor H.A.M Nazmul Ahasan, Popular Medical College, Dhaka
20:50 BST 15:50 UK	Antimicrobial Resistance – A new threat to the Globe Professor Md. Robed Amin, Dhaka Medical College, Dhaka
21:10 BST 16:10 UK	Covid-19 infection, immunity and vaccination: updates for our experience from BangladeshProfessor Firdausi Qadri, Director, Centre for Vaccine Sciences at the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh
21:30 BST 16:30 UK	Q & A
21.50 BST 16:50 UK	Concluding Remarks & Close Professor Quazi Tarikul Islam, Overseas Regional Adviser, Bangladesh, RCPE