Society for the Study of Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Ireland

Autumn Scientific Meeting 2011

26th Autumn Meeting 2011

18th-19th November 2011

Our Autumn Meeting this year will again take place in the Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

The meeting will start with the BMS Symposium on the Friday evening, which will be followed by the Society dinner in the Royal Irish Yacht Club.

The SSSTDI meeting will take place all day on Saturday. Registration includes subsidised accommodation on the friday night in the Royal Marine Hotel.

Enquiries to: janet@ssstdi.ie

Program   .   Registration   .   Call for Abstracts

SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM SPONSORED BY BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB
MARTELLO SUITE, Royal Marine Hotel

18.00

Registration

18.30

Opening Remarks

Chairperson: Dr Fiona Lyons
Consultant in Genito-Urinary Medicine
GUIDE Clinic, St. James’s Hospital, Dublin
18.45
Prof. Joseph Keane
Consultant Respiratory Physician, St James's Hospital, Dublin

“TB: dealing with a Public Heath Menace”

19.30

Questions & Answers

19.45
Dr Teresa Branco
Consultant in Internal Medicine, Hospital Fernando Fonseca, Lisbon

“HIV & Women – from fertility and pregnancy planning, to the long-term consequences of living with HIV”

20.30

Questions & Answers

20.45

Closing Remarks

Meeting Close

Followed by Reception and SSSTDI Annual Dinner in the Royal Irish Yacht Club, which is located close to the Hotel

AUTUMN SCIENTIFIC MEETING
ROYAL MARINE HOTEL, DUN LAOGHAIRE, CO. DUBLIN

Saturday 19th November 2011

9.15

SSSTDI Annual General Meeting

9.45
Dr. Peter Coyle
Consultant Virologist, Regional Virus Laboratory, Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast

“Utility of Molecular Diagnostics in Sexually Transmitted Infections”

10.30
Antiretroviral treatment and viral load responses in HIV infected patients accessing specialist care in Ireland
H Tuite* M Horgan, PWG Mallon, S McConkey, B Mooka, F Mulcahy, C Walsh, A O'Hora, D O'Flanagan, C Bergin, C Fleming
* GUIDE Clinic, St. James's Hospital, Dublin
10.45
HIV testing in Northern Ireland, 2000-2010: timeliness of diagnosis and trends in activity by healthcare setting
G Kuyumdzhieva, N Irvine* C McCaughey, S Quah
* Public Health Agency, Northern Ireland
11:00

COFFEE (kindly sponsored by Janssen)
11:30
Prof. Cornelis A. Rietmeijer
Professor, Community and Behavioural Health. Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Denver

“Innovations in STI Clinical Practice”

12.15
Audit of the use of Post exposure Prophylaxis following sexual exposure (PEPSE) in a community sexual health clinic for MSMs
D Rowley* R O’Bara, M Quinlan, S Clarke
* GUIDE Clinic, St. James's Hospital, Dublin
12.30
Bring me the head of Saint Vitalis of Assisi - Patron Saint of Genital Disease
C. O'Mahony
Dept of GUM and HIV, 
Countess of Chester Foundation Trust Hospital, Chester
12.45
Southern Health and Social Care Trust - Community Sexual Health Advice Service (CSHAS)
L. McCann
St. Luke’s Hospital, Armagh
13:00

LUNCH (kindly sponsored by Gilead Science and BMS)
14:00
Dr. John White
Consultant in Genitourinary Medicine, Guy’s and St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, St. Thomas’ Hospital, London

“Lymphogranuloma venereum infection – the re-emergence of an old foe”

14.45
Audit of emergency triage system at GUM Clinic
M-L Kane*, EJ McCarty, SP Quah, CR Emerson, WW Dinsmore
* Dept. GU Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
15.00
Delivery and completion of Hepatitis B vaccination programme in patients attending a clinic for Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD) in St. James's Hospital (SJH) Dublin
C. Sadlier*, C. Dowling, S. Kelly, J. Flynn, C. Bergin
* GUIDE Clinic, St. James's Hospital, Dublin
15:15

COFFEE (kindly sponsored by Janssen)
15.30
Testing for sexually transmitted infection in patients with HIV infection: what are we missing?
EJ McCarty*, CM Donnelly, CR Emerson
* Dept. GU Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
15.45
Dr. Lucinda Dockeray

“Report on the 19th Biennial Conference of the ISSTDR QUÉBEC, July 2011”

16:00
Dr. Eoghan de Barra
Infectious Disease – SpR, Clinical Tutor and Researcher, Dept. of International Health and Tropical Medicine, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
AND
Dr. Ciaran Bannan
SpR in Infectious Diseases, Galway Hospital

“Southern Exposure, a year of infectious diseases on the Cape”

16.30
Prof. Fiona Mulcahy
GUIDE Clinic, St. James's Hospital, Dublin

“A word of thanks to SSSTDI”

16.35
Development of a Sexual Assault referral Centre
Dr. Wallace Dinsmore
Dept. GU Medicine, Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast
16.40
Prof. Fiona Mulcahy

Closing Remarks

Presentation of Catherine O'Connor Prize

Meeting close
Society for the Study of Sexually Transitted Diseases in Ireland