2nd Arctic Meeting on Clinical Tuberculosis, Umeå 22 March 2019

Welcome to a joint meeting for clinical TB researchers and staff working hands-on with TB on a daily basis! There will be lectures, discussions, mingle and team-building activities.
The topics for this year's meeting are:

• Tuberculosis in Migrants
• Pediatric Tuberculosis – A Holistic Approach to TB in the Family
• Treatment Strategies and Outcome Measures for MDR TB

Programme: See the programme on the conference website on www.mims.umu.se

Speakers:

• Anna Maria Mandalakas, Professor of Pediatrice and Tropical Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, US
• Christoph Lange, Professor, Medical Director, Clinical Tuberculosis Center, German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), Borstel Hospital and University of Lübeck, Germany; affiliated professor, Umeå University
• Judy T Orikiiriza, MD, PhD, Infectious Diseases Institute, College of Health Sciences Makerere University in Uganda
• Kayvan Bozorgmehr (MD, MSc), Head of Research Group, Dept. of General Practice & Health Services Research, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
• Lina Davies Forsman, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Stockholm, Sweden (MD, PhD)
• Folke Brinkmann, MD, PhD, University Children's Hospital Bochum, Department of Pulmonology, Bochum, Germany

There is no fee for participation, but registration is needed.
Please register in the registration form (deadline 15 February)

Organising committee:

• Johan Normark
• Olena Rzhepishevska
• Andreas Winroth
• Deborah Frithiof
• Maria Björmsjö
• Anna Kauppi

Organisations supporting the meeting:

• The Tuberculosis Center Arctic
• Dep of Infectious Diseases at Norrlands University Hospital
• Dept of Pedatrics at Norrlands University Hospital
• Department of Clinical Microbiology and Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå University
• TBnet

Picture: Mycobacterium tuberculosis Bacteria, (Scanning electron micrograph), Credit: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health