48th Annual Meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2010

The 48th Annual Meeting of IDSA will be held October 21 24, 2010 at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibition Centre, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The meeting brings together physicians, scientists, and other health care professionals involved in research, patient care, public health, disease prevention, and education in the field of infectious diseases. There are no prerequisites for attendance. This meeting provides three and a half days of broad continuing educational courses and comprehensive educational experiences in the major facets of infectious diseases: pathophysiology, diagnosis, treatment, and prevention. The courses combine expert reviews of the traditional field of infectious diseases with emphasis on the most contemporary trends, including emerging infections, new diagnostics, vaccines, and therapeutics.

Conference Objectives

• To update infectious diseases clinicians and investigators with state-of-the-art developments in the field, including timely reviews of recent advances in clinical care and research and original reports of clinical, translational, and basic research
• To bridge the widening gaps among the fields of infectious diseases clinical practice, clinical research, epidemiological and health services research, translational research, and basic research
• To promote multi-disciplinary dialogue and collaboration among clinicians and investigators, thus facilitating advances in the
  prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases