These plenary talks were presented at the 2016 AMMI Canada/CACMID Annual Conference in Vancouver, BC, during Mar 30-Apr 2, 2016:
What’s Hot in 2016
- What’s Hot in Adult Infectious Disease? (Dr. Victor Leung, University of British Columbia)
- What’s Hot in Paediatric Infectious Disease? (Dr. Soren Gantt, University of British Columbia)
- What’s Hot in Diagnostic Microbiology? (Dr. Deirdre Church, University of Calgary)
AMMI Canada – CACMID Special Lecture
- Next Generation Sequencing for the Diagnosis of Infections (Dr. Charles Chiu, University of California at San Francisco)
2016 CFID State of the Art Clinical Lecture
- Tuberculosis in Canada: from Sea to Sea to Sea … (Dr. Marcel Behr, McGill University)
Non-HIV Immunodeficiency
- Primary Immune Deficiencies from an Infectious Diseases Perspective (Dr. Sarah Forgie, University of Alberta)
- Infections in the Setting of Immunosuppressive Therapy (Dr. Alissa Wright, University of British Columbia)
- Laboratory Diagnosis of Immune Defects: Tailoring Immunological Tests to Infectious Disease Syndromes (Dr. Donald Vinh, McGill University)
Global Health
- A World of Microbes at our Doorstep (Dr. Matthew Gilmour, National Microbiology Laboratory)
- Keeping Microbes at our Doorstep (Dr. Mark Loeb, McMaster University)
- Diagnostic Arsenal for Emerging Infectious Diseases (Dr. Niaz Banaei, Stanford University)
Integrated Symposium – Clostridium Difficile Infections
- Challenging Cases of C. difficile Infections: Is FMT the Answer? (Dr. Ted Steiner, University of British Columbia)