Dear Members,
please mark the following date for our annual TBnet meeting:
October 07, 2021 at 4pm - 6:30pm (CET).
The meeting will be held online.
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 974 5681 9795
Passcode: 450657
Here you can see the planned program:
Session chairs: Christoph Lange & Olena Rzhepishevska
16:00 - Start!
Frank van Leth
16:02 Welcome from the TBnet Chair
Thomas Jürs
16.05 Financial report
Frank van Leth & Līga Kukša
16:25 New TBnet Chair: formal voting & Intro
Session chairs: Maja Reimann & Raquel Villar Hernandez
Folke Brinkmann
16:35 ptbnet news
Jakko van Ingen
16:45 NTM news
16:55 Break
José Dominguez & Berit Lange
17:00 Running TBnet studies
Judith Eckstein
17:10 New IMI project UNITE4TB, Work Package 11
Christoph Lange
17:20 Training & courses – plan
Interactive sessions
Ilaria Motta & Irina Kontsevaya (Organizers) Lorenzo Guglielmetti & Martin Boeree (Panel)
17:30 Clinical Studies 4 Dummies – an interactive session
Jess Potter (Organizer) Jakko van Ingen, Sue Collinson, Andrii Dudnyk, Helen Stagg (Panel)
18:00 treatment adherence & VOT in TB & NTM – an interactive session
Līga Kukša
18:30 Concluding remarks
We look forward to welcoming you online on 07/10/2021.
Affiliations of the participants
Boeree, Martin, Department of Lung Diseases, Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Brinkmann, Folke, Paediatric Pneumology Department, Catholic Hospital, Bochum, Germany
Collinson, Sue, TB specialist case worker, Homerton Hospital and Lecturer, University College London, UK
Dominguez, Jose, Group Leader, Research Center Germans Trias I Pujol, Barcelona, Spain
Dudnyk, Andrii, Associate Professor in Tuberculosis, Clinical Immunology & Allergy, National Pirogov Memorial Medical University, Ukraine
Eckstein, Judith, Senior Communications Manager, Division of Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine, LMU University Hospital Munich, Germany
van Ingen, Jakko, Professor and consultant clinical microbiologist, Head of the mycobacteriology reference laboratory, Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, the Netherlands
Guglielmetti, Lorenzo, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), France
Jürs, Thomas, TBnet Treasurer, Germany
Kontsevaya, Irina, Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Germany
Kukša, Līga, Head, MDR TB department TB and Lung disease clinic; Riga East University hospital, Latvia
Lange, Berit, Lead, Clinical Epidemiology at Department for Epidemiology, Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research, Germany
Lange, Christoph, Medical Director, Group Leader, Research Center Borstel, Leibniz Lung Center, Germany
van Leth, Frank, Faculty of Science, Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment, VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Motta, Ilaria, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)-UK
Potter, Jessica, Consultant in Respiratory Medicine & TB Service Clinical Lead, North Middlesex University Hospital, London, UK
Reimann, Maja, Division of Clinical Infectious Diseases, Research Center Borstel, Germany
Rzhepishevska, Olena, Senior Scientist, Department of Chemistry/ Department of Clinical Microbiology, Umeå University, Sweden
Stagg, Helen, Associate Professor and Head of The Population Health and Infectious Diseases group (PHID), Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
Villar Hernandez, Raquel, Postdoctoral Researcher, Research Center Germans Trias I Pujol, Barcelona, Spain