To present the status of current vaccine development with special focus on the HPV vaccine and its implementation. The forum will be targeted to physicians, health professionals, research scientists and public health officials.

You may register in advance at nora@gairdner.org

TORONTO - UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO CAMPUS - HART HOUSE THEATRE PROGRAM

8:30 a.m.
Welcome: Dr. John Dirks, President, The Gairdner Foundation
                   Dr. John Spika, Centre for Immunization and Respiratory Infectious Diseases
                   Public Health Agency of Canada

Chair: Dr. John McLaughlin, Cancer Care Ontario

8:45 a.m.
Introduction: Dr. Jennifer Blake, Professor and Associate Chair, Faculty of Medicine, Obstetrician and Gynaecologist In-Chief, University of Toronto 

Speaker: Dr. Harald zur Hausen, Gairdner Laureate 2008, Professor Emeritus, Chairman and Scientific Director, German Cancer Research Centre, Heidelberg, Germany

Lecture: "The linkage between HPV and cervical cancer"

9:15 a.m.
Introduction: Dr. George Pasut, Vice-President, Prevention and Screening, Cancer Care Ontario

Speaker: Dr. Ian Frazer, Professor and Director, Diamantina Institute for Cancer Immunology and Metabolic Medicine, Brisbane, Australia

Lecture: " HPV vaccines"

9:45 a.m.
Introduction: Dr. John McLaughlin, VP Population Studies & Surveillance, Cancer Care Ontario 

Speaker: Dr.Eduardo Franco, Director, Division of Cancer Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, CA

Lecture: "Integrating HPV vaccination into cervical cancer control: Need for synergy between prevention strategies"

10:15 a.m. Questions and Discussion

10:45 a.m. Break

11:05 a.m.
Chair/Introduction: Dr. Allison McGeer, Microbiologist, Infectious Disease Consultant, Department of Microbiology, Mount Sinai Hospital

Speaker: Dr. Peter Palese, Horace W. Goldsmith Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, Professor, Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NY

Lecture: "Seasonal and pandemic influenza: Vaccines"

11:35 a.m
Introduction: Dr. C. Peter Watson, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON

Speaker: Dr. Michael N. Oxman, Professor of Medicine and Pathology, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA

Lecture: "The herpes zoster vaccine"

12:05 p.m. Discussion

12:15p.m. Lunch

1:00p.m.
Chair:   Dr. Lorne Tyrrell, Professor & CIHR/GSK Chair Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,

1:15 p.m.
Introduction:  Dr. Jack Mandel, Founding director of the Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

Speaker: Dr. Alan Bernstein, Gairdner Wightman Laureate 2008, Executive Director, Global HIV Vaccine Enterprise, NY

Lecture: "HIV vaccine research: Where are we and where are we going"

2:00 p.m.
Introduction: Dr. Lorne Tyrell, Professor & CIHR/GSK Chair Virology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB,

Speaker: Dr. Gregory Poland, Director, Mayo Clinic Vaccine Research Group, Rochester, MN, USA

Lecture: "Overview of vaccine development: Broad societal and scientific issues"

2:40 p.m.
Discussion

3:00pm Break

3:15p.m.
Chair/ Introduction: Dr. Donald Low, Microbiologist-in-Chief, Mount Sinai Hospital

Speaker: Dr. Keith Klugman, William H. Foege Professor of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

Lecture: "Pneumococcal vaccination for children: Successes to date and challenges for the future"

3:45 p.m.
Introduction:   Dr. Conrad Liles, Professor of Medicine Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, UHN/University of Toronto

Speaker: Dr. Nirbhay Kumar, Professor, Malaria Research Institute, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD

Lecture: "Malaria vaccine(s) - Are we there?"    

4:15 p.m.
Introduction:  Dr. Michael Gardam, Director, Infectious Diseases Prevention and Control, Ontario Agency for Health Protection and Promotion

Speaker: Dr. Marcel A. Behr, Associate Professor, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec

Lecture: "Status of TB vaccine"  

4:45 pm. Questions and Discussion

5:00 p.m. Dr. John Dirks

Program Committee

John Dirks, President & Scientific Director, The Gairdner Foundation
Lorne Tyrrell, University of Alberta
Allan Ronald, University of Manitoba

Advisory Committee

John Dirks, President & Scientific Director, The Gairdner Foundation
Lorne Tyrrell, University of Alberta
Allan Ronald, University of Manitoba
Alan Bernstein, Global HIV Enterprise, New York
Vivek Goel, President, Ontario Agency for Health Protection & Promotion
James Mansi, Merck Frosst
Neil Maresky, Wyeth
John McLaughlin, Cancer Care Ontario

Location Name Hart House Theatre
Address Hart HouseUniversity of Toronto
City Toronto
Province/State Ontario
Country Canada