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Allergy Essentials and Beyond Symposia 2024
Earn up to 16 General CEUs & 2 Ethic CEUs
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Join us in Cape Town at the exquisite GSB conference centre at the Waterfront for three days (14, 15 and 16 November 2024) of allergy symposia. This bespoke CPD accredited offering will commence with an introductory session on the approach to a patient with possible allergy – a journey through the clinical history, examination and history-guided allergy testing.
Other symposia will include clinical immunology, atopic dermatitis, acute and chronic urticaria, asthma, food allergy and rhinitis. These important symposia have been specially curated to ensure that delegates feel empowered to assess and manage common allergic disorders at all levels of care. Information sharing will be delivered in practical classroom sessions allowing for delegate participation and hands-on relevant experience.
You can earn up to 16 General CEUs and 2 Ethic CEUs for attending.
Provisional Programme
| TIME | TOPIC / VENUE: FIRST FLOOR ROOM 4 & 5 | SPEAKER |
| 10:00 – 10:45 | PIDDSA PID Workshop Registration | |
| 10:45 – 11:00 | Welcome & meet your faculty by Prof André van Niekerk | |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Meet the most intelligent cells in the human body: An introduction & overview of the role of lymphocytes in adaptive immunity. | Prof Patrick Bouic |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Lymphocyte subsets – understanding the lab results: What are they? How do we count them? What does the stuff about CD45, CD3 and CD19 mean? How do we interpret them? | Prof Theresa Rossouw |
| 12:00 – 12:45 | Clinical cases: Meet 4 patients & receive copies of their lab results. They each suffer from a T-cell-associated disease. What went wrong? The penny will drop as we go along! | Prof Monika Esser / Prof Jonny Peter / Prof André van Niekerk |
| 12:45 – 13:00 | The T-cell in the bone marrow: A biology lesson on the birth of T-cells & the time they spend in the bone marrow. Why do they leave home so early? | Prof Patrick Bouic |
| 13:00 – 13:30: Light lunch | ||
| 13:30 – 14:00 | The T-cell & the thymus: A biology lesson on the T-cell boot camp. The thymus is not Las Vegas: what happens in the thymus does not stay in the thymus! | Prof Patrick Bouic |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Naïve T-cell panels: You ask the lab to measure T-cell development for you. We explain the ‘Greek’ of those αβ-γδ cells & the recent thymic emigrants. | Dr Sylvia van den Berg |
| 14:15 – 14:45 | T-cell activation: On your marks ready, steady, go! A biology lesson on T-cell activation, differentiation, proliferation and clonal expansion. | Prof Patrick Bouic |
| 14:45 – 15:00 | The lab can help with T-cell functions: How do we measure and interpret T-cell proliferation & memory? Are the T-cells working? | Dr Sylvia van den Berg |
| 15:00 – 15:30: Tea | ||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | T-cell homeostasis: A biology lesson on how T-cells manage to be both diverse & self-tolerant. | Prof Patrick Bouic |
| 16:00 – 16:20 | Measuring T-cell regulation in the lab: It becomes messy when T-cell regulation fails. How can the lab help to understand failed tolerance and regulation? | Prof Theresa Rossouw |
| 16:20 – 16:40 | Bone marrow transplant to fix serious T-cell defects: When? How do we keep patients in best health to optimise transplants? | Dr Thandeka Nkabi |
| 16:40 – 17:30 | A lot of time for panel discussion & questions: Get the answer to the 4 cases. Did you figure them out? Our panellists will share wisdom & equip you to leave with the best T-cell memory that you ever had! | Prof Monika Esser / Prof Jonny Peter / Prof Theresa Rossouw / Dr Sylvia van den Berg / Dr Thandeka Nkabi |
| 17:30 – 18:00 | PIDDSA business meeting: Join PIDDSA and stay! But you may go if you are very moeg now. | Prof Monika Esser |
| TIME | TOPIC / VENUE: AUDITORIUM | SPEAKER |
| 7:00 – 8:45 | Registration opens | |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening & Welcoming | |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Address by the ALLSA chair (welcome) | Sarah Karabus |
| 9:00 – 10:30 | Workshop: Allergy diagnosis (all delegates) | Chair: Di Hawarden, Tamara Kerbelker and Jonny Peter |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | General immunology and history-taking in allergy | Shaunagh Emanuel |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Examination of the allergic patient | Shaunagh Emanuel |
| 9:45 – 10:15 | Interactive: History-guided allergy testing | Tamara Kerbelker / Di Hawarden / Shaunagh Emmanuel |
| 10: 15 – 10:30: Tea | ||
| 10:30 – 12:30 | Workshop: Asthma (all delegates) | Chair: Sarah Karabus and Andre van Niekerk |
| 10:30 – 10:50 | Acute severe asthma management in children | Tamara Kerbelker |
| 10:50 – 11:10 | Acute severe asthma management in adults | Jason Thoresen |
| 11:10 – 11:30 | Chronic asthma in children | Candice Royal |
| 11:30 – 11:50 | Chronic asthma in adults | Jason Thoresen |
| 11:50 – 12:30 | Interactive: Devices for the management of asthma in South Africa (peak flow, spacers, pMDIs and breath accuated) | Shaunagh Emanuel / Heidi Facey-Thomas / Jason Thoresen / Candice Royal |
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12:30 – 14:00: Lunch or you are welcome to join the Viatris trade symposium! 12:30 – 13h30: Seasonal Sniffles or Year-Round Struggle: Personalizing Allergic Rhinitis Care by Dr Thulja Trikamjee. | ||
| 14:00 – 15:30 | Workshop: Urticaria and Angioedema (all delegates) | Chair: Cascia Day / Mimi Deetlefs |
| 14:00 – 14:15 | Urticaria and angioedema overview | Tamara Kerbelker |
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Paediatric acute urticaria and the differential diagnosis | Tamara Kerbelker |
| 14:30 – 14:45 | Adult acute urticaria and the differential diagnosis | Mimi Deetlefs |
| 14:45 – 15:05 | Chronic urticaria: investigations | Mimi Deetlefs |
| 15:05 – 15:30 | Chronic urticaria: management | Cascia Day |
| 15:30 – 15:45: Tea | ||
| 15:45 – 17:00 | Workshop: Rhinitis (all delegates) | Chair: Janet van der Walt / Candice Royal |
| 15:45 – 16:05 | Allergic rhinitis and treatment in adults | Janet van der Walt |
| 16:05 – 16:25 | Allergic rhinitis and treatment in children | Pieter de Waal |
| 16:25 – 17:00 | Panel discussion: rhinitis in adults versus children | Janet van der Walt / Pieter de Waal |
| TIME | TOPIC / VENUE: AUDITORIUM | SPEAKER |
| 8:00 – 9:45 | Workshop: Adverse reactions to food | Chair: Miranda McDonald and Lindsay Archibauld- Durham |
| 8:00 – 8:15 | Overview of adverse reactions to food | Candice Royal |
| 8:15 – 8:30 | IgE-mediated food allergy | Candice Royal 8:30 |
| 8:30 – 8:45 | Non-IgE/ mixed food allergy overview | Lindsey Archibald- Durham |
| 8:45 – 9:45 | Interactive: Completing a food allergy action plan and counselling points for a family with food allergy including food label reading | Candice Royal / Lindsay Archibald- Durham |
| 9:45 – 10:00 Tea | ||
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Workshop: Atopic dermatitis | Chair: Sharon Kling / Jason Thoresen |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | What is AD and skin barrier restoration | Suretha Kannenberg |
| 10:30 – 11:30 | Interactive: wet wraps | Shaunagh Emanuel / Heidi Facey-Thomas |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Options to control inflammation and infection | Suretha Kannenberg |
| 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch | ||
| TIME | TOPIC / VENUE: FIRST FLOOR ROOM 4 AND 5 | SPEAKER |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Ethics lecture (All delegates) | Chair: Tamara Kerbelker |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Ethics lecture: Interactive case discussion | Sharon Kling |
| 15:00 – 16:00: Tea and meet the speakers and trade (all delegates) | ||
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Symposia wrap up | |
| TIME | TOPIC / VENUE: FIRST FLOOR ROOM 4 AND 5 | SPEAKER |
| 8:00 – 9:45 | The Type 2 Inflammation Buzz: Type 2 inflammation in allergic rhinitis, asthma, atopic dermatitis & eosinophylic | Panel: André van Niekerk / Jonny Peter / Pieter de Waal |
| 8:00 – 8:30 | Corticosteroids & Type 2 inflammation – the basics | Andre van Niekerk |
| 8:30 – 9:00 | Unusual Type 2 players – reasons why Type 2 targeted therapies fail in Type 2 driven diseases | Jonny Peter |
| 9:00 – 9:30 | The neglected, the grand, & the expensive alternatives to corticosteroid treatment in Type 2 inflammation | Pieter de Waal |
| 9:30 – 9:45 | Discussion | |
| 9:45 – 10:00: Tea | ||
| 10:00 – 12:00 | Food allergy: Advanced session | Chair: Sarah Karabus and Mike Levin |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Prevention of food allergy | Carina Venter |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Oral immunotherapy | David Fleischer |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Immunonutrition | Carina Venter |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Update on EoE and FPIES | David Fleischer |
| 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch | ||
| TIME | TOPIC / VENUE: FIRST FLOOR ROOM 4 AND 5 | SPEAKER |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Ethics lecture (all delegates) | Chair: Tamara Kerbelker |
| 13:00 – 15:00 | Ethics lecture: Interactive case discussion | Sharon Kling |
| 15:00 – 16:00: Tea and meet the speakers and trade (all delegates) | ||
| 16:00 – 16:15 | Symposia wrap up | |
You can earn up to 16 General CEUs and 2 Ethic CEUs for attending.
Registration Information
Day 1 – Special Workshop on basic immunology & Inborn Errors of Immunity (limited to 100 seats): R 750 (Payment to be made via Payfast)
Day 2/3 – Allergy Essentials and Beyond Symposium: ALLSA paid up members R 2490 (Payment to be made via Payfast)
Day 2/3 – Allergy Essentials and Beyond Symposium: Non-paid up ALLSA members R 3490 (Payment to be made via Payfast)
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CPD Accreditation
This event is fully CPD accredited, and you can earn up to 16 General CEUs and 2 Ethic CEUs for attending. for attending the pre-conference workshop and the two-day symposia.
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