Microbiology

IAMM-VIII Maharashtra Chapter Conference,2002

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE
28th September, 2002
8.30 - 9.00 a.m	Registration
9.00 - 9.30 a.m	Inauguration
9.30 - 10.15 a.m	Presidential address by Dr. R. M. Powar
10.15 - 10.45 a.m	Tea break
10.45-1.00 p.m	Symposium on " Bio-terrorism - preparedness and response" Mr. T. Selvam, Col. Nagendra, Dr. F. E. Udwadia, Mr. S. J. Kunte, Dr. S. M. Sapatnekar
1.00 - 2.00 p.m	Lunch
2.00 - 2.45 p.m	Dr. Hardas Pathak oration by Dr. Pratibha Narang
2.45 - 4.15 p.m	Free papers and Posters
4.15 - 5.15 p.m	Quiz - preliminaries
	Only for post graduate students on individual basis.
	Convenor- Dr. Gita Nataraj
5.15 - 6.15 p.m	General Body Meeting
7.30 p.m onwards	Cultural eve and Banquet
29th September, 2002
9.00 - 10.00 a.m	Free papers and Posters
10.00 - 10.45 a.m	Guest Lecture on 'Antibiotic resistance monitoring' by Dr. Rajesh Bhatia
10.45 - 11.15 a.m	Tea break
11.15 - 1.30 p.m	Symposium - " Update on malaria" Dr. Daksha Pandit, Dr. K. Ramamoorthy, Dr. Nandita Shinkre, Dr. N. A. Kshirsagar and Dr. Shobhana Sharma
1.30 - 2.30 p.m	Lunch
2.30 - 3.15 p.m	Guest Lecture on 'Biotechnology and Health' by Dr. H. V. Batra
3.15 - 4.15 p.m	Quiz- Final round
4.15 - 5.00 p.m	Valedictory function

CME PROGRAMME

CME PROGRAMME ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING : Quality Control And Its Future With Networking
Timings	Programme	Speaker
9.00 - 9.30 a.m	Registration
9.30 - 10.00 a.m	Introduction and Overview	Dr. Preeti Mehta
10.00 - 10.30 a.m	Rational use of antibiotics	Col. Nagendra
10.30 - 11.00 a.m	Tea break
11.00 - 11.30 a.m	AMS testing methods-specific reference to recent advances	Dr. R. N. Iyer
11.30 - 12.00 p.m	Kirby Bauer Disk Diffusion and NCCLS guidelines	Dr. Sujata Baveja
12.00 - 12.30 p.m	Quality Control in AMST	Dr. Jyoti Bajaj
12.30 - 1.00 p.m	Detection of b lactamase and ESBL	Dr. K Saraswathi
1.00 - 2.00 p.m	Lunch
2.00 - 3.00 p.m	WHONET programme and Future with networking	Dr. Rajesh Bhatia
3.00 - 3.30 p.m	KEM experience	Dr. Gita Nataraj
3.30 - 4.30 p.m	Panel discussion - 'Antimicrobial drug resistance'