Preceptors: Jayne Raper and Guillermo Perez Perez

Description:

This is a scientific foray into infectious disease that you will encounter during your career. We will read a maximum two scientific papers that will be assigned by the speaker. Five questions relevant to the topic of the day will be randomly assigned to five students on the day of the presentation, with the purpose of bringing the whole group to the same level of knowledge. Each selected student will present one of the questions and we encourage participation of the rest of the group. We will have the expert in the room with us to facilitate discussion and answer questions. In the last hour there will be a lecture, in which you will be encouraged to ask questions.

Classes run from 10am-12 noon. Department of Medical and Molecular Parasitology, Old Public Health at 341, East 25th Street and 1st avenue. Press the buzzer and you will be let in, turn right to the First floor conference room.

June 21-July2 2004. Maximum 25 students.

Timetable:

What is a pathogen? Arturo Casadevall, June 21
What is an epidemic? Why should you report ID to the Department of health? Sharon Balter (NYCDOH), June 22
What is malaria? What are we trying to control? Karen Day June 23
What does the pathogen do to persist (Malaria/HIV)? Moriya Tsuji June 24
How does a successful pathogen evade control? By the immune system? By public health measures? Joel Ernst June 25
Acute infectious disease, pathogen models. Yvette Weinrauch June 28
Why was the 1918 flu so bad? Adolfo Garcia-Sastre June 29
What does the pathogen (Malaria) do to resist drugs? How long does it take to be drug resistant? Is this a new epidemic? David Fiddock, June 30
How does HIV invade cells? Design of new drugs to block, bench to bedside. Eric Furfine, July 1
New York City water borne Giardia, Crypto-how do we stop cysts (e.g. Amoeba), is it an epidemic? Dan Eichinger July 2