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IACFS/ME
Dedicated to research, education,
treatment and finding a cure for ME/CFS
Conference 2011
IACFS/ME Biennial Conference
Translating Evidence into Practice
September 22-25, 2011
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
23 AMA PRA Category 1 credits=99
The International Association for Chronic Fatigue
Syndrome/ME (IACFS/ME) invites you to our next
biennial conference to be held in Ottawa, Ontario,
Canada, September 22-25, 2011.
Hosted by the National ME/FM Action
Network (Canada).
Integrative conference themes will focus on fatigue,
pain, sleep, pediatrics, cognition, and brain function
in CFS/ME, Fibromyalgia, and Related Illnesses
(e.g., cancer fatigue).
In addition, different sessions will address advances
in assessment and treatment (from biological to
behavioral), as well as new developments in virology,
immunology, and neuroendocrinology.
Attendees to IACFS/ME conferences are primarily
biomedical and behavioral professionals, including
clinicians, researchers, and educators. It is
anticipated that this event will be accredited for
continuing medical education for Category 1 CME
(physicians), CNE for nurses, and CPE for
pharmacists.
The whole agenda of the conference can be found at:
http://bit.ly/ozABYz
It is unfeasible to reproduce this here.
The four-days conference is filled with interesting
subjects.
For instance:
*) Workshops for Physicians and Healthcare
Professionals. (Thursday)
*) Session: Case Definitions for Research and
Practice - with among others Bruce M.
Carruthers, M.D.: The New International
Consensus Criteria for ME. Leonard Jason,
Ph.D.: Contrasting Case Definitions and Data
Mining (Saturday)
*) Session: Identifying Abnormalities in CFS/ME:
The Importance of Exercise Challenge -
(Saturday)
*) Session: The Latest Research in Immunology -
(Saturday)
*) Session: Research Developments in Genomics
and Genetics - (Sunday)
I want to highlight here the agenda of the most
debated subject in the medical journals as well as in
the press: the gamma retrovirus: xenotropic murine
leukemia virus-related virus (XMRV).
General Session Agenda-Friday, September 23rd
8:30 am - 8:45 am
Welcome and Introduction
Fred Friedberg, Ph.D.
President, IACFS/ME
8:45 am - 9:15 am
Plenary Session: Gammaretroviruses of
Mice and Their Links to Prostate Cancer
and CFS/ME
Christine Kozak, Ph.D.
Paper Sessions following all the papers, the panel
members will field questions written on cards by the
audience and given to the chair as time permits.
9:15 am =96 10:30 am
Session: Virology Research
Session Chair: Jose Montoya, M.D.
Blood XMRV Scientific Research Working
Group:Latest Findings
Graham Simmons, Ph.D.
Detection Of Anti-XMRV Antibodies In
Serum of CFS Patients and Healthy Blood
Donors in Belgium
Kenny De Meirleir, M.D.
Detection of MLV-like Gag Sequences in
Blood and Cell Lines Incubated With
Plasma From CFS Patients and Controls
Maureen Hanson, Ph.D.
10:30 am =96 10:45 am
Break / Visit Exhibits
10:45 am - 11:45 am
Session: Virology Research and Review
Session Chair: Jose Montoya, M.D.
Role of the Immune Response in CFS
Jose Montoya, M.D.
The Case FOR Human Gamma
Retroviruses (HGRV) in CFS/ME
Judy Mikovits, Ph.D.
The Case AGAINST Human Gamma
Retroviruses (HGRV) in CFS/ME
John Coffin, Ph.D.
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