Lamda - Invitation - Booklet -Final - LAMDA

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Lamda - Invitation - Booklet -Final - LAMDA
Lebanese Association
For Medical Diagnosis
& Autoimmune Diseases
Lebanese Order of Physicians
M u l t i d i s c i p l i n a r y
C o n g r e s s 2 0 1 5
2
nd
Announcement
May 7,8,9, 2015
Hilton Habtoor Hotel
In Cooperation with
JOIN US!
LAMDA 2015 is the Lebanese Association for Medical Diagnosis & Autoimmune
Diseases showcase congress. It’s the perfect forum where colleagues and International experts can get together to present their investigations and translate them
into tangible, take home knowledge.
LAMDA Congress 2015 scientific program is organized in collaboration with the
Lebanese Pulmonary Society, the Lebanese Society of Nuclear Medicine & the
Lebanese & Turkish Societies of Radiology. A special session on food safety is
jointly prepared with the Ministry of Public Health.
The scientific committee planned a very comprehensive program catering for
many specialties in medicine that will deliver state of the art lectures, workshops,
panel discussions, interactive sessions, and clinical cases.
Moreover, LAMDA supports its young community; the initiative “LAMDA Physicians
of Tomorrow” will be launched during the congress for the young Doctors from
different Lebanese medical schools who are willing to shape their future in their
medical specialty.
Undoubtedly, it will be a great opportunity to share the science with colleagues
and friends and to benefit from the wide spectrum of medical topics to be
discussed in this congress.
We look forward to seeing you in this congress,
mark your calendar and plan to join us.
With my best regards,
Georges Khalil, MD, PhD
LAMDA President
President of the congress
President
President Elect
Georges KHALIL, MD, PhD Elie FARAH, MD
Members
Pierre ABI HANNA, MD
Georges NAWFAL, MD
Treasurer
Georges AZZI, MD
General Secretary
Nada AYOUB, MD
France
Prof. Loïc Guillevin
Turkey
Germany
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut Moritz Fischer, MD
Mona SABA, MD
Prof. Alfred Mahr
Karim Bitar, MD
Marc Abboud, MD
Georges Azzi, MD
Georges Nawfal, MD
Marwan Haddad, MD
Mona Saba, MD
(LRS President)
Charlotte Abou Elias, MD
Mohamad Haidar, MD
Mabel Aoun, MD
Gilbert Helou, MD
(LNMS President)
Georges Saliba, MD
(LOP-CME President, FMS-LU)
Salma Sfeir, MD
Mirna Waked, MD
(LPS President)
Pierre Abi Hanna, MD
Chady Kallasy, MD
Nadine Bassil, MD
Hala Awar, MD
Assaad Makdessi, MD
Karmen Kassab, MD
Nada Sfeir, MD
Tony Abi El Hessen, MD Charles Haddad, MD
Nada Ayoub, MD
Hisham Ghrayzi, MD
Jhonny Barakat, MD
15:00 – 17:00
Food Safety in Lebanon; a national perspective session
• Practical issues to the public for food safety: “what you don't know can hurt you"
Elie Farah, MD
• Inspection and sampling procedures: employee certificate, results of laboratory
sampling and major gaps in food establishments
Atika Berri, MD (MOPH)
• Food related diseases outbreak in Lebanon
Nada Ghosn, MD & Ghassan Matar, PhD
• Implementing HACCP at MGH Kitchen
Mrs. Noura Tayara
17:30
Opening Ceremony
• Lebanese National Anthem
• Master of ceremony
Nada Ayoub, MD LAMDA General Secretary
• Welcome address
Georges Khalil, MD, PhD
LAMDA President & Congress Chairman
• “We all have our own Mountain to climb" Inspirational Talk
Mr. Michael Haddad
• Launching of LAMDA “Physicians for Tomorrow” Initiative
& Award Ceremony for young Lebanese Physicians from different medical schools
09:00
Registration desk open
09:30 - 11:00
“ Diagnose early...Treat early ” session
• Rare non Infectious febrile diseases: Schnitzler syndrome, TRAPs,...?
Georges Khalil, MD, PhD
• Myocarditis: etiologies & diagnosis
Marc Abboud, MD
• Myelodysplasia: risk stratification
Colette Hanna, MD
• PET/CT in pulmonary nodules
Maroun Karam, MD
• Cellular regeneration: true or false??
Nada Ayoub, MD
• Clostridium difficilae infection:
the patient journey from suspicion to sustained cure
Mona Saba, MD
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
I’m prescribing L-Thyroxin for my hypothyroid
patient: is it fine?
• Thyroid disorders during pregnancy
Hala Awar, MD
• Update on the management of hypothyroidism
(Supported by Merck Serono)
Akram Eshtay, MD
12:30 - 13:00
• New multivitamins
(Supported by Sanofi)
Camile Aizarani, MD
13:00 – 14:00
Sessions in parallel
ROOM “A”
JOINT SESSION WITH THE LEBANESE
ROOM “B”
WORKSHOPS
PULMONARY SOCIETY (COPD-ASTHMA) • Polysomnograhy/Sleep Apnea
Jocelyne Sassine, MD
• COPD: a new score for diagnosis?
(Supported by Novartis)
Mirna Waked, MD
• Asthma: I read the newest guidelines
but how to apply it in my daily practice?
Diana Sassine, MD
14:00 – 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 –16:00
Sessions in parallel
ROOM “A”
CARDIOMETABOLIC INTERACTIVE
SESSION
• SGLT2 Inhibitors on the move but
how, when and for whom?
(Supported by Astrazeneca)
Elie Farah, MD
• A single pill for better blood pressure
control
(Supported by Novartis)
Mabel Aoun, MD
16:00 – 16:30
• The initiation of insulin therapy in type
II diabetic patient
(Supported by Novartis)
Charlotte Abou Elias, MD
ROOM “B”
CLINICAL CASES
• Clinical Cases on the initiation of
insulin therapy in type II diabetic patient
Charlotte Abou Elias, MD
• A case report of refractory Thrombotic
Thrombocytopenic Purpura - TTP
Nadine Bassil, MD & Antony Saroufim, MD
• Viral polyarthritis
Georges Azzi, MD
Sessions in parallel
ROOM “A”
INFLAMMATORY SESSION
• New emerging therapies in
rheumatoid arthritis evidence and
future expectations
Georges Saliba, MD
• Management of Horton disease:
not only steroids
Tony Abi El Hessen, MD
ROOM “B”
CLINICAL CASES
• An atypical case-scenario of
ulcerative colitis in a young patient
Rana Haddad, MD
• T lymphoma smoldering as
hemophagocytic syndrome
Karim Bitar, MD
16:30 - 17:00
• Treating autoimmune diseases with medical devices
Moritz Fischer, MD
(Supported by Fresenius)
17:00 – 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 – 19:00
Meet the Experts session - Crack Vasculitis
• Vasculitis: classification and diagnosis
Prof. Alfred Mahr
• Vasculitis: update on the management
Prof. Loïc Guillevin
• Giant cell Arteritis (Horton’s disease): unusual presentations and management
Prof. Alfred Mahr
08:30
Registration desk open
09:00 – 10:00
Sessions in parallel
ROOM “A”
ROOM “B”
PARACLINICAL TOOLS SESSION:
LABORATORY & RADIOLOGY
WORKSHOP
• Immunofluorescence in autoimmune
diseases
Mireille Zouain Dib-Nehme, MD
• Puzzle the unpuzzled: PET scan in
systemic diseases patients
Mohamad Haidar, MD
• DWIBS: oop’s, I missed it
Georges Nawfal, MD
• Vidéocapillaroscopie: mesure de
l'index de pression systolique – IPS
Chady Kallassy, MD
• Reading an abdominal CT Scan
Iskandar Daou, MD
10:00 – 10:30
“ Difficult but Easy ”
• Systemic Sclerosis
Prof. Loïc Guillevain
10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15
Infectious diseases session
• Infectious diseases: are you ready for updates?
Pierre Abi Hanna, MD
• Stop saying bacterial or viral, think fungal
Gilbert Helou, MD
Hepatitis: it is time for brainstorm
• Treatment of Hepatitis B&C in immuno suppressed patients
Paul Rassam, MD
• Updates on the Hepatitis C treatment
Antoine Abou Rached, MD
12:15 – 13:15
Interactive Session
• Environmental toxins and chronic kidney disease
Mabel Aoun, MD
• Treatment of recurrent pericarditis: an update
Salma Sfeir, MD
13:15 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 –15:00
“ State of the Science ” Lecture
• Behçet’s disease: from epidemiology to clinical practice
Prof. Alfred Mahr
15:00 –16:30
Interactive workshop
• My patient has diabetes and hypertension: Mmm let’s do something
Marie Merheb, MD & Elie Farah, MD
Feed Life with evidence based vitamins
• Is there a role for vitamins in my everyday practice?
Elie Farah, MD
(Session supported by Boehringer Ingelheim)
14:00 –18:15
Joint Session with the Lebanese
& Turkish Societies of Radiology
Room “C”
“RADIOLOGY IN LUNG DISEASES”
14:00 – 16:00
• How to write a manuscript
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
• Imaging of cystic lung diseases
Samer Abi-Khalil, MD
• Imaging of pleural diseases
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
16:15 – 18:15
• Interstitial Lung Pneumonias: Overview
Noel Aoun, MD
• Predominant distribution of diffuse lung diseases: Physiologic correlates
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
• Signs in Chest Imaging
Prof. Aghiad Kutoubi
• Interactive case discussion
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
CLOSING REMARKS
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