Allergy Essentials and Beyond Symposia 2024
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Symposia Overview
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 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.
Provisional Programme
Basic immunology & Inborn Errors of Immunity (IEI): A step-by-step Clinical Immunology Workshop as we follow the journey of the T cell. T cell misbehaviour will be illustrated through case discussion & question time. The workshop is aimed at clinicians & scientists eager to connect the dots between patient, laboratory & treatment. Topics include:
- Meet the most intelligent cells in the human body: An introduction & overview of the role of lymphocytes in adaptive immunity.
- Lymphocyte subsets – understanding the lab results: What are they? How do we count them? What does the stuff about CD45 and CD3 and CD19 mean? How do we interpret them?
- 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!
- 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?
- The T-cell & the thymus: A biology lesson on the T-cell bootcamp. The thymus is not Las Vegas: what happens in the thymus does not stay in the thymus!
- 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.
- T-cell activation: On your marks ready, steady, go! A biology lesson on T-cell activation, differentiation, proliferation and clonal expansion.
- The lab can help with T-cell functions: How do we measure and interpret T-cell proliferation & memory. Are the T-cells working?
- T-cell homeostasis: A biology lesson on how T-cells manage to be both diverse & self-tolerant.
- 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?
- 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!
- PIDDSA business meeting: Join PIDDSA and stay!
Please note this event programme is subject to change. Last updated 21 August 2024.
A grandfathers reflection on allergy
Workshop: Allergy diagnosis
- General immunology and history-taking in allergy
- Examination of the allergic patient
- Interactive: History guided allergy testing
Workshop: Asthma
- Acute severe asthma management in children
- Acute severe asthma management in adults
- Chronic asthma in children
- Chronic asthma in adults
- Interactive: Devices for the management of asthma in South Africa
Workshop: Urticaria and Angioedema
- Urticaria and angiodema overview
- Paediatric acute urticaria and the differential diagnosis
- Adult acute urticaria and the differential diagnosis
- Chronic urticaria: investigations
- Chronic urticaria: management
Workshop: Rhinitis
- Allergic rhinitis and treatment in adults
- Allergic rhinitis and treatment in children
- Panel discussion: rhinitis in adults versus children
Please note this event programme is provisional and subject to change. Last updated 24 July 2024.
Type 2 inflammation
- Corticosteroids & Type 2 inflammation – the basics
- Unusual Type 2 players – reasons why Type 2 targeted therapies fail in Type 2 driven diseases
- The neglected, the grand, & the expensive alternatives to corticosteroid treatment in Type 2 inflammation
Food allergy: Advanced session
- Prevention of food allergy
- Oral immunotherapy
- Immunonutrition
- Update on EoE and FPIES
Workshop: Adverse reactions to food
- Overview of adverse reactions to food
- IgE-mediated food allergy
- Non-IgE/ mixed food allergy overview
- Interactive: Completing a food allergy action plan and counselling points for a family with food allergy including food label reading
Workshop: Atopic dermatitis
- What is AD and skin barrier restoration?
- Interactive: wet wraps.
- Options to control inflammation and infection
Ethics lectures
Please note this event programme is provisional and subject to change. Last updated 24 July 2024.
| Time | Topic | 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 bootcamp. 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 |
| 15:30 – 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 |
| 16:20 – 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 |
Registration Information
Day 1 – Special Workshop on basic immunology & Inborn Errors of Immunity (limited to 50 seats): All attendees R750 (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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