These plenary talks were presented at the 2013 AMMI Canada/CACMID Annual Conference in Quebec City during April 4-6, 2013: Dr. Caroline Quach (Montreal, QC) – What’s Hot in Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Download PDF here. Dr. Gerald Evans (Kingston, ON) – What’s Hot in Adult Infectious Diseases. Download PDF here. Dr. Susan Poutanen (Toronto, ON) – What’s Hot in Diagnostic […]
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State-of-the-Art Clinical Lecture: MERS-CoV Close-up
Dr. Allison McGeer, Professor in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, and Director of Infection Control, Mount Sinai Hospital, discussed the epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management as well as hospital outbreaks and infection control issues of this important topic at the recent AMMI-Canada /CACMID Annual Conference […]
AMMI Canada – CACMID Special Lecture: The Impact of Climate and Environmental Changes on Infectious Diseases
Dr. David Fisman (Toronto, ON) summarized the implications of changing weather patterns and extreme environmental events for infectious disease epidemiology globally and in Canada. He provided evidence linking transmission of vector-borne diseases (including Lyme disease and West Nile virus infection) as well as certain enteric diseases to extreme weather and climatic changes in the Canadian […]
2014 CFID Awards Presentation
The 2014 CFID Awards ceremony took place on April 3, 2014 during the AMMI Canada /CACMID Annual Conference in Victoria, BC. Winners included: Dr. Juan A. Embil Trainee Award – Dr. Jerome A. Leis, University of Toronto Dr. John M. Embil Mentorship Award – Dr. Curtis Cooper, University of Ottawa Safe Drinking Water Pilot Project […]
2014 Embil Mentorship Award: Dr. Curtis L. Cooper
Dr. Curtis L. Cooper, MD, FRCPC, Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Director- Viral Hepatitis Program, University of Ottawa and The Ottawa Hospital-General Campus.