The Advanced Course in Basic & Clinical Immunology
Mondrian Hotel, Scottsdale, Arizona
February 24-28, 2010
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Registration Information
| Trainees/Fellows: | $1,195 | | Academic/Faculty: | $1,295 | | Industry: | $1,950 |
Registration includes four nights hotel lodging, Wednesday through Saturday (Sunday check-out), and meals at the Mondrian. Reservations will be made by FOCIS at the time of registration.
Course Description
Students in this course include clinical fellows, trainees in the pharmaceutical industry, and practicing academic physicians who find the need to enhance their understanding of immunology. Invited speakers lecture on the major topics in cellular and molecular immunology, including innate immunity, B cells, T cells and cytokines. Special sessions cover new advances in interventional clinical immunology and the molecular and genetic basis of immunologically-mediated diseases. There will be ample opportunity for students to interact with the faculty outside the lecture room. The course provides a syllabus, course book and access to online lecture materials.
Target Audience
The target audience includes clinical fellows in disciplines related to immunology (such as allegy, dermatology, infectious disease, gastroenterology, oncology, rheumatology and transplantation), fellows doing basic research with an emphasis on human disease and scientists from biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies who are involved in developing new therapies for immunological disease.
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this course, attendees should have improved their ability to:
- Understand the fundamental mechanisms underlying immunologic diseases and the principles for therapeutic modulation of the immune system.
- Appreciate the basic immunological principles underlying current therapeutic approaches including biotherapeutics, understand the common principles underlying therapies among diverse organ specific disease states, discuss the unique principles related to certain specific tissues including the mucosal immune system, and describe the mechanisms of therapeutic effect.
- Analyze the medical literature reporting immunologic advances pertinent to their patients, cite the rationale for use of new immunodiagnostic and immunotherapeutic modalities in their patients, and to serve as thought leaders within their medical community.
- Interpret data on genomics and proteomics, and apply these areas to patient diagnosis and prognostication.
Faculty & Preliminary Program
| Wednesday, February 24 | | 7:00-9:00 | Welcome Reception and Registration | | | | Thursday, February 25 | | 7:30-8:10 | Continental Breakfast | | 8:10-8:15 | Introduction - Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Abul K. Abbas, MD, University of California, San Francisco | | 8:15-8:30 | Clinical Immunology & FOCIS - Jonathan Braun, MD, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles | | 8:30-10:00 | Innate Immunity - Douglas Golenbock, MD, University of Massachusetts Medical School | | 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | | 10:30-12:00 | Antigen Presentation and Dendritic Cells - Shannon Turley, PhD, Dana Farber Cancer Institute | | 12:00-1:00 | Lunch with Faculty - Lower Foyer | | 1:00-2:30 | Leukocyte Migration - Ulrich von Andrian, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School | | 2:30-2:45 | Break | | 2:45-4:15 | T Cell Activation and Costimulation - Abul K. Abbas, MD, University of California, San Francisco | | 4:15-4:30 | Break | | 4:30-5:30 | New Analytical Methods for Human Immune Responses - P.J. Utz, MD, Stanford University | | 5:30-7:00 | Leisure Time | | 7:00-8:00 | Dinner | | | | Friday, February 26 | | 7:30-8:30 | Continental Breakfast - Career Development Panel Discussion | | 8:30-10:00 | Cytokines and T Cell Subsets - Andrew Lichtman, MD, PhD, Brigham & Women's Hospital | | 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | | 10:30-12:00 | B Cell Activation and Regulation - Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital | | 12:00-1:00 | Lunch with Faculty - Lower Foyer | | 1:00-2:30 | NK and NKT Cells - Lewis Lanier, PhD, University of California, San Francisco | | 2:30-2:45 | Break | | 2:45-4:15 | Allergic Disease - Stephen Galli, MD, Stanford University | | 4:30 | Leisure Time/Dinner on your own | | | | Saturday, February 27 | | 8:00-8:30 | Continental Breakfast | | 8:30-10:00 | Autoantibodies in Disease - Shiv Pillai, MD, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital | | 10:00-10:30 | Coffee Break | | 10:30-12:00 | T Cell Tolerance and Autoimmunity - Abul K. Abbas, MD, University of California, San Francisco | | 12:00-1:00 | Lunch with Faculty - Lower Foyer | | 1:00-2:30 | Transplantation - Jonathan Maltzman, MD, PhD, University of Pennsylvania | | 2:30-2:45 | Break | | 2:45-4:15 | Mucosal Immunity - Richard Blumberg, MD, Brigham & Women's Hospital | | 4:15-4:30 | Break | | 4:30-6:00 | New and Emerging Immune Therapies - Scott Plevy, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | | 6:00-7:30 | Leisure Time | | 7:30-9:00 | Dinner with faculty and attendees |
CME Accreditation & Designation Statements
The Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education credits for physicians.
The Federation of Clinical Immunology Societies designates this educational activity for a maximum of 20.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Questions
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