Vaccine-preventable Encephalitis Webinar

This webinar is part of the Encephalitis International Vaccine Prevention Campaign which coincides with the World Immunization Week (24th – 30th April). The webinar aims to raise healthcare professional’s understanding of five key vaccine-preventable encephalitis types: Japanese Encephalitis (JE), Tick-borne Encephalitis (TBE), Influenza-associated Encephalitis, Varicella-zoster Virus (VZV) Encephalitis and Measles Encephalitis.

This recording of this webinar will be provided to all those who register and it can be accessed for 30 days after the event!

PROGRAMME

Chair: Assoc Professor Kiran Thakur

Herbert Irving Associate Professor of Neurology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center – New York Presbyterian Hospital, USA

Japanese encephalitis

Dr Sarah McGuinness, Consultant Physician in the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Alfred Hospital (Travel Medicine Clinic) and Senior Research Fellow in the Infectious Diseases Epidemiology Unit within the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine at Monash University

Varicella Zoster and encephalitis

Professor Benedict Michael, Reader and MRC Clinician Scientist at The NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Emerging and Zoonotic Infection and an Honorary Consultant Neurologist at The Walton Centre

Influenza associate encephalitis

Dr Rachel Kneen, Consultant Paediatric Neurologist at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer and an Associate Member of the Institute of Infection & Global Health, University of Liverpool, UK

Measles and encephalitis

Professor Ming Lim, Consultant and Professor of Paediatric Neurology, Children’s Neuroscience Centre, Evelina London Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine, King’s College London, United Kingdom

Tick-borne encephalitis

Dr Ralph Torgler, Global Medical Affairs Vaccine Lead, Bavarian Nordic AG Switzerland

Panel discussion

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Ticket Information 

The webinar is FREE for Professional Members of Encephalitis International.  Please choose the FREE ticket if you are a Professional Member (receive regular mailings from us) or if you would like to become one.

If you don’t want to become a Professional Member and join our mailing list, please choose the Non Member ticket.

Please register for your ticket here