• Preventing Cardiovascular
• Myocardial infarction
• Arterial hypertension
• Diabetes
• Obesity

There is no doubt that Business Performance Management (BPM) is becoming fundamental to building, growing and managing a successful Business.This concept is based upon the principle that improvements in performance can only be delivered if performance is measured in specific Business areas and related to strategic Business objectives and targets. A full BPM implementation therefore includes:

• CPM/EMP/SPM Scorecards and Dashboards
• Enterprise budgeting and planning
• Processes and BI both integrated with Scorecards and Dashboard software (not just BI)
• In-line analytics for on-demand BI, reports and analyses available in operations
• BI Web Services to integrate BI into operational Business processes
• Business Activity Monitoring (BAM) to monitor Business process events to detect exceptions and opportunities
• On-demand and event driven data integration to integrate historic and operational data for analysis
• Data Mining services for automatic analysis,
• Reporting services for on-demand and event driven reporting
• Rules engines to make automatic decisions and take automatic actions
• Automated alerts
• Live recommendations
• Guided analytics
• Dynamically guided intelligent processes
• Activity based costing to monitor and measure the cost of operating

This new two-day seminar provides a roadmap and methodology to creating the Right-Time Intelligent Enterprise by using methodologies and new technologies to manage a Business at both strategic and operational levels.

It looks at how Operational Performance Monitoring technologies like BAM can be integrated with Operational Business Processes and linked to Strategic Performance Management technologies such as Scorecards and Dashboards as part of a top-to-bottom Enterprise Business Performance Management program.

The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology and the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL) would like to invite you to the ‘Eternal City’, Rome, to attend the 2010 conference of the European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology.

The European Academy of Occupational Health Psychology was founded in 1999 to provide pan-European representation for research, education and professional practice in the discipline. One of its major activities is its biennial conference which attracts delegates from more than thirty countries who gather to share innovations and best practice in the field.

Occupational health psychology concerns the application of principles and practices in applied psychology to occupational health and safety issues for the promotion of the quality of working life. The discipline’s researchers and practitioners aspire to foster `healthy workplaces in which people may produce, serve, grow, and be valued. Healthy workplaces are ones where people use their talents and gifts to achieve high performance, high satisfaction, and well-being`.

The 9th Conference is being jointly organised in collaboration with the Department of Occuaptional Medicine of the Italian National Institute of Occupational Safety and Prevention (ISPESL). The event will take place over three days, 29-31 March, 2010, at the Pontifical Urbaniana University . Situated in the centre of Rome, adjacent to the Vatican, this prestigious venue is sure to offer an ideal location for researchers, practitioners, educators, and postgraduate students to share developments in the exciting field of occupational health psychology.  We look forward to welcoming you in Rome.

• Practical application of CRRT
• Update of pediatric AKI
• Update of pediatric CRRT
• Treatment of Sepsis
• Biomarkers in AKI

People use software, but other people build that software. There`s the problem. Solving it means understanding the actual work of the Business users and what they need in order to do it. And then the resulting requirements need to be communicated to system builders, customers and suppliers. Requirements analysts need a process that provides a structure for organizing the requirements. However the requirements process needs to be flexible enough to suit each particular situation. This seminar teaches you that process. Since the first version of the Volere process and template was released, it has been adopted and adapted to improve the requirements of thousands of organizations all over the world.The Volere requirements specification template, links the functional, non-functional and constraint Business requirements to the requirements models and connects them to the design specification. This seminar has indispensable information for Business analysts, requirements engineers, systems mangers, project leaders, consultants, systems analysts and planners.This material applies to all stakeholders: users and customers will benefit from learning how to participate in this multi-disciplinary approach. It is for anybody who has a responsibility to deliver the right products-the ones that get used.The seminar focuses on:

• A process for gathering the correct requirements
• Methods of eliciting requirements from all the stakeholders
• Ways of knowing when your solution precisely matches what the user needs
• The ability to write a complete and unambiguous requirements specification
• Improved relationships between developers, customers and suppliers.

Easy to understand CISSP^TM prep curriculum with intense (daily) online quizzes ensure you master the 10 domains and successfully pass the CISSP^TM exam the first time”. 95% Pass the first time, The SU CISSP^TM Prep class effectively prepares information security professionals to pass the rigorous six-hour Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP^TM ) examination. This SU CISSP^TM  Prep program offers each student a zero-distraction, fully-immersed CISSP^TM CBK training and certification experience that employs accelerated learning techniques to minimize time-to-proficiency while maximizing retention.

• You are taught by CISSP Master Clement Dupuis, the father of the www.cccure.org Website
• More CISSP`s pass the first time they take the exam
• Accelerated learning techniques to focuse on long term information retention
• Multiple daily quizzes - approved www.cccure.org vendor
• Guarantees the highest quality of education and customer satisfaction

The CISSP exam covers the CBK, which is broken down into the ten domains listed next:

1. Information Security and Risk Management
2. Access Control
3. Cryptography
4. Physical (Environmental) Security
5. Security Architecture and Design
6. Application Security
7. Telecommunications and Network Security domain address
8. Legal, Regulations, Compliance, and Investigations domain addresses
9. Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery Planning
10. Operations Security

10-Night Roman Empire from Rome, Italy

Purpose: Upon completion of the course, participants should be able to: minimize NSAID gastropathy; to manage osteoarthritis patients effectively; to identify appropriate patients for joint aspiration, interpret synovial fluid analysis, and perform injections with corticosteroids/viscosupplementation; recognize the importance of early diagnosis of Rheumatoid Arthritis; identify the pros/cons of biological treatment of your patients with rheumatoid arthritis; recognize in your patients the mimics of vasculitis and the rheumatic syndromes associated with neoplasia, endocrinopathies and renal failure. Recognize your patients at risk for Osteoporotic fractures and minimize the effects of glucocorticoid induced osteoporosis; anticipate peri-operative problems in the rheumatic disease patient; and evaluate and manage effectively the patient with chronic myofascial pain/fibromyalgia applying for disability benefits.

After a brief introduction of Service Oriented Architecture the seminar discusses the guidance that typical Enterprise Architectures provide, and it compares today’s two mainstream approaches to SOA, namely conventional Web Services based architectures and RESTful architectures. It moves on to the more detailed application architecture, starting with the relationship of different types of clients to the services they consume, the separation of services into three distinct layers (orchestration, application, and infrastructure services layer), and it gives a quick overview how a variety of standards can be mapped to the elements of the application architecture.

The seminar then addresses how a typical Object Oriented application development methodology can be modified in order to derive a methodology that is suitable for implementing services. A Case Study is used for a detailed illustration of the modeling and design of a SOA-based B2B gateway. It includes the design of service interfaces, the encapsulation of a legacy system, the definition of schemas that are broken down into reusable components, the development of Business processes, and a walk-through of the complete B2B gateway architecture.

Somewhere around 90% of all Business data analysis can be done using simple graphing techniques to discern meaningful Patterns in the data.
Plenty of existing resources already teach the skills and practices involved in doing sophisticated statistical and financial analysis to support the mere 10% of Business data analysis that requires it those specialized skills, but where are the resources that teach the skills needed by the rest of us?
Even though these skills are simple and easy to learn and apply with the right help, very few people involved in analyzing Business data know them. This workshop provides a solution.
This book is intended for all those whose work requires them to make sense of quantitative Business data. This audience is much broader than financial analysts, or even analysts by any name; it provides practical skills that are useful to managers at all levels and to anyone interested in keeping a keen eye on the Business
Anyone who uses Excel or any of the many other Business productivity tools used for data access, analysis, and reporting, will learn how to use them productively, perhaps for the first time.

The delegates will also receive a copy of the book “Now you see it: Simple Graphing Techniques for Quantitative Analysis” by Stephen Few.

Dashboards have become a popular means to present critical Business information at a glance, but few do so effectively. Huge investments are made in Information Technology to produce actionable information, only to have it robbed of meaning at the very last stage of the process: the presentation of insights to those responsible for making decisions.
When designed well, Dashboards engage the power of visual perception to communicate a dense collection of information in an instant with exceptional clarity. This can only be achieved, however, by applying visual design skills that address the unique design challenges of Dashboards.
These skills are not intuitive; they must be learned.

The delegates will also receive a copy of the new book "Information Dashboard Design" by Stephen Few.

In a recent advertisement for Microsoft Project, a Project Manager is shown alone in a high-tech room looking at 20 computer screens on a wall with project plans, tracking reports and other project information produced by Microsoft Project.The caption reads "Excellent". The project is going to plan. In the client-driven, internet-speed world of contemporary world of new Business, nothing could be further from reality than the Microsoft advertisement. With the evolution of XP (Extreme Programming and Lite or Agile Methodologies), the need for appropriate Project Management techniques to support the radical development approaches involved in Extreme projects has become critical.Traditional Project Management focused "downwards" to the technical content of the project. In other words, the Project Manager focused on issues such as schedule, deliverables, costs and so on (the Microsoft advertisement). Extreme Project Management balances the internal focus on the content with an external focus on the context of the project.Simply, what used to done with the project team is now shared fully with the project stakeholders. In addition, the broader context issues such as Business impact, Change Management, Business drivers, benefits realisation, organizational politics, communication, relationship and expectation Management are the main focus of the new Project Manager.In a recent US survey, Robert Charette reported that Project Managers were struggling to cope with the changing Business environment. Challenges facing Project Managers include:

• Lack of budget or time to establish stable processes in highly compressed schedules
• The need for innovative new solutions to Business initiatives
• Insufficient planning
• Redundant work caused by sudden changes in priorities
• Too many dependencies with other projects
• Competition for resources with other projects
• Slow decision making

In this highly-provocative and challenging Master Class, Extreme Project Management will be explored. The workshop will provide a forum for experienced Project Managers to come to grips with the new world of Project Management. Each student will receive a copy of Thomsett`s book "Radical Project Management".

Technology Transfer’s International SOA Conference 2010 will answer key questions on how to navigate the road ahead of your current SOA. A lineup of experienced practitioners will present on topics that are crucial for any organization that wants to move beyond small scale projects and apply SOA across projects, across the Enterprise, extend it to the cloud and to Business partners. Join us when we discuss:

• Is SOA the Holy Grail that will finally allow us to align Business and IT? We will look at the transition from a Business Architecture to a SOA and how they can be linked together
• While the numbers of failed SOA projects are still high it is important to arm yourself with hard facts before you meet your Business sponsors. ROI calculations can convince even the most skeptical CFO
• Moving from a grass roots approach for building services to an Enterprise strategy requires understanding the SOA maturity level of your organization, defining a Roadmap for the evolution of SOA to the next level, and employing the right Governance to the implementation of your Roadmap
• REST-based architectures seem to compete with the traditional approaches to building a SOA – but do they really, or is it just another flavor, and how do you decide when to use what?
• Web 2.0 continues to be one of the hottest topics in IT. It is more than a pretty face for services; and we must understand its implications on how we architect services
• Services have started to proliferate throughout your organization – how do you put a structured integration approach in place before your SOA spins out of control like we have witnessed with point-to-point integration “quick fixes”?
• Enterprise Service Buses can be an essential tool to integrate and virtualize your services, but they should not be confused with an architecture blueprint
• Most companies are using server virtualization to consolidate hardware and save cost; however, this is typically driven by data center operations and not in line with the SOA that Enterprise architects are concerned with – but it should be, and cloud computing is the next step that has to fit under the SOA umbrella
• Security – while often an afterthought, it becomes more critical in a SOA environment
• Business Process Management (BPM) has a synergy with SOA that can provide the needed flexibility to make alignment of Business and IT a reality

This two-day seminar is intended for Compliance Managers, Data Architects, Database Administrators, Data Integration Developers and Master Data Management Professionals, who are responsible for Management of Enterprise Data. The seminar takes an in-depth look at the Business problems caused by poorly managed data, and defines the requirements that need to be met for a company to confidently define, manage and share master, transactional, analytic and unstructured data across operational and analytic applications and processes.
In order to achieving Enterprise Data Management a company needs to invest in a suite of technologies that support end-to-end Data Management activities. These include:

• Enterprise Metadata Management
• Data Modelling
• Data Profiling
• Data Cleaning
• Data Integration (Batch, on-demand and Event-Driven)
• Data Synchronisation
• Master Data Management
• Enterprise Content Management

During the two days we take an in-depth look at the technologies needed in each of these areas as well as Best Practice approaches and methodologies to Data Integration and Master Data Management.

A new wave of computing tools and applications – illustrated by examples ranging from Wikipedia to MySpace to blogs – has grown in popularity during the past five years, and is now reaching “mainstream” status in some parts of society. More important, it is now being investigated and adopted by CIO’s and senior executive in large, pragmatic Business organizations as a way of reaching new markets, increasing revenues and profits, increasing productivity and effectiveness of its employees, and many other benefits.
“Enterprise 2.0” is the term now used to describe Business-Oriented adoption and implementation of technologies, Business strategies and cultural practices that were originally focused on informal networking activities among consumers, students, and teenagers.
But most organizations believe that the technologies of Enterprise 2.0 are less important than the Business strategies that need to be reexamined and updated.

• How can Enterprise 2.0 help us find new markets and customers?
• How can it help us find new products and services to offer existing customers?
• How can we find ways to increase collaboration between our employees, customers, suppliers, and other citizens – using, for example, strategies like “crowd-sourcing” - rather than operating entirely within a fortified firewall barrier?
• And how can we improve the effectiveness of communications with our customers, so we can spend more time listening to them, and less time preaching at them?

Enterprise 2.0 is a “strategic” issue: it requires senior corporate executives – including the CIO and senior IT Managers – to rethink basic assumptions about their Business, their customers, their suppliers, their work-force, their revenue models, and the day-to-day processes by which they carry out their Business.
This seminar is designed to help attendees understand the importance and impact of Enterprise 2.0 from both a Business and technology viewpoint.

Almost every organization around the globe is now moving beyond processes as solely a way of synchronizing change and is attempting to transform the way their enterprise plans, manages, monitors and aligns capabilities and motivation using a process-managed baseline. The bad news is that most organizations have little ability to make it happen in a consistent or reliable way and most managers do not really understand what it will take to succeed. This seminar provides a comprehensive examination of the state of the art in Enterprise-level Business Process Management (BPM). It addresses innovations in ways of managing processes as assets of the enterprise. It focuses on maintaining the critical role that processes play in the alignment of the strategic objectives of the organization with what people do every day. It is geared to those with or without process experience seeking to learn a set of pragmatic practices packaged into a reusable BPM way of working strategically and tactically. The facilitated workshop sessions are highly interactive and ensure experience-sharing with other delegates.   Built on lessons learnt, both good and bad, from real companies, this seminar provides you practices to deal with the real and tough challenges you will face.

Delegates will benefit from the experience and wisdom of the world leader on the topic. Roger Burlton’s book "Business Process Management: Profiting from Process" will also be provided to all who attend.

10-Night Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Conference on MEDICAL ETHICS AND LEGAL MEDICINE

Seminar Outline: AMERICAN LAW & JUDICIAL PROCESS

MEDICAL ETHICS & BIOETHICS
1. Bioethics, Professionalism, and Communication
2. Fetal Interests, Abortion and Stem Cell Research
3. End of Life Decisions, Aid in Dying & Assisted Suicide

REGULATION OF MEDICAL PRACTICE
1. HIPAA, EMTALA, and Other Federal Mandates
2. Licensing, Credentialing, Privileging and Impairment Issues
3. Fraud and Abuse AND Criminal Negligence

LAW OF HOSPITALS, NURSES AND MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS
1. Hospital and Nursing Liability
2. Liability of MCOs

MEDICAL LIABILITY & MALPRACTICE MOCK TRIAL
1. Medical Negligence: Causes, Prevention and Defenses
2. Medical Records and Spoliation of Evidence
3. Capacity, Competency, Informed Consent and Informed Refusal
4. Expert Medical Testimony
5. MOCK TRIAL: Liability in Selected Specialties

14 CLE Credits have been applied for with the Florida Bar

7-Night Western Mediterranean Cruise Conference from Rome, Italy

Following attendance at this educational activity, participants should be able to:

• Review stepwise approach to evaluating patients with common skin conditions and diseases
• Identify superficial fungus infections based on physical diagnostic criteria
• Asses the clinical features and treatment of scabies and lice infections
• Review the clinical features of herpes simplex, and herpes zoster infections
• Discuss clues to the diagnosis of eczema
• Review available drugs to treat psoriasis
• Review the clinical features of Papillomavirus infection
• Develop an understanding of the pathogenesis of acne
• Recognize the clinical features of normal “moles” based on the natural history of these lesions
• Review the indications for common surgical procedures
• Review selected techniques in dermatologic surgery
• Identify clinical features of common blistering diseases

This course teaches the students how to develop secure web applications in today’s complex internetworked environment. Students will receive a deep and thorough understanding of the most prevalent and dangerous security defects in today’s applications. Additionally, they will learn practical and actionable guidelines on how to remediate against these common defects in Java/J2EE and how to test for them in their own applications.

This class starts with a description of the security problems faced by today`s software developer, as well as a detailed description of the Open Web Application Security Project’s (OWASP) “Top 10” security defects. These defects are studied in instructor-lead sessions as well as in hands-on lab exercises in which each student learns how to actually exploit the defects to “break into” a real Web application. (The labs are performed in safe test environments.)

Remediation techniques and strategies are then studied for each defect. Practical guidelines on how to integrate secure development practices into the software development process are then presented and discussed.

The convergence of Windows and the Web is upon us. Google Maps, Gmail, Flickr and a variety of new AJAX and Rich Internet applications have begun to legitimize moving beyond HTML to deliver interactive applications that deliver the best of the Web and the best of the desktop application experience.

We will show how these techniques are changing the way designers think about their application designs. You will learn how Web 2.0 applications are using new interaction techniques to replace existing Client Server and windows applications without sacrificing user productivity. Plus, you`ll see the usability challenges introduced when these new interaction techniques are implemented.

The aim is to provide a forum of the highest standard for scientific (both clinical and basic), educational and social exchange between professionals involved in rheumatology, liaising with patient organisations, in order to achieve progress in the clinical care of patients with rheumatic diseases.

The EULAR Congress 2010 in Rome will cover a wide range of topics including clinical innovations, clinical, translational and basic science. In addition there will be meetings organised by people with arthritis, by health professionals and by the health care industry. The heart of the Congress will be the poster presentations with their intense interactions between participants. With respect to the presentation of clinical research, the EULAR Congress has gained a reputation of being highly innovative and informative for the practising physician.

What you will learn

• Key process and product metrics and benchmarks
• Primary root causes and costs of failures (cancellations), cost and schedule overruns, and features not delivered
• Sizing and estimating best practices
• Project planning and tracking best practices
• Defect Containment strategies and best practices
• How to predict and measure defect containment
• How to model (forecast) the productivity and quality impact of alternative defect containment and prevention strategies
• How to build a business case for software process improvement
• How to formulate an improvement strategy
• How to monitor “Cost of Quality” (value-added vs. non-value-added effort)
• Deployment recommendations and pitfalls – Focus on Performance, not Compliance

Main Topics

• Software Metrics and Benchmarks
• Software Risk Management
• Software Sizing and Estimating
• “Industrial Strength” Project Planning and Tracking
• Defect Containment methods
• Predicting and Measuring Defect Containment - Methods and Models
• Monitoring Efficiency and Productivity – the Cost of Quality Framework

Economic pressures are forcing companies to become more innovative while also trying to reduce costs and leverage their BI and Data Warehousing investments. In this tough climate, the information-driven Business is key to success and organizations are looking to extend the application scope and user reach of analytics for Business Decision Making. However, information is growing at a phenomenal rate with many companies now talking about supporting and managing petabyte data systems. In parallel with these issues, the rate of change in information-related technologies and products continues unabated.

Vendor consolidation and failures, and the emergence of lower-cost solutions and new deployments models such as Open Source and Cloud Computing make developing a flexible IT strategy for Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing a daunting task. This Conference examines the latest state of the art in Business Intelligence, Data Warehousing and Data Management, and takes a detailed look at the key technologies that will be driving next generation systems that support the Information-Driven Business.

Topics that will be covered include:

• BI and Data Warehousing Status Report
• Comparison of the Main BI Vendor Product Stacks
• Business Analytics: Beyond the Traditional DBMS
• Open Source Solutions: Ready for Prime Time?
• Business Analytics and Unstructured Data
• The Data Delivery Platform – An Update
• Next Generation BI/DW Solutions: Choosing the Right Options
• Using Collaboration to Extend the Reach of BI
• Data Mining and Predictive Analytics: Tools, Techniques and Case Studies
• Operational BI and Data Integration: Ten Mistakes to Avoid
• Capturing, Integrating and Analyzing Web Data

The 60% of Faculty is composed of foreign speakers, everybody playing an active part in clinical research in  horacic Oncology and KOL in their respective countries. We expect a significant foreign delegation. The Conference is glad at ESMO label and for this reason the official language of the Conference will be English.

Setted immediately after ASCO, the Conference will give an update on the data coming from Clinical Research in Thoracic Oncology directly from the voice of its Authors more representative in an appointment that by alternation with the World Congress of IASLC, we would like to be lasting inside of the international ongressional track.

10-Night Eastern Mediterranean Cruise Conference

The purpose of this CME activity is to review the diagnosis and management of medical conditions encountered by Family Physicians

Preliminary Objectives for Activity

• Accurately assess and differentiate patient’s pain complaints
• List methods of diabetes management for women
• Identify primary prevention of colorectal cancers
• Evaluate differential treatment approaches of COPD vs. Asthma
• Discuss the controversies in preventive cardiology, CVD in women
• Recognize the importance of a clinician’s unique role in preventing domestic violence
• Characterize the clinical syndromes and symptoms associated with MS
• Outline the impacts of thyroid disease on women
• Update HIV/AIDs

The scientific committee will organise once more a very interesting programme covering all areas of human reproduction research and medicine in order to meet the needs of all participants. Pre-congress Courses will offer a wide range of reviews and new topics, and the scientific and industrial exhibits will present the latest information on the ongoing changes in laboratory and clinical products and instruments.

Topics:

• Andrology (male fertility, spermatogenesis)
• Cross-border reproductive care
• Demography, epidemiology, registries, and health economy
• Early pregnancy
• Embryology (embryo selection)
• Endometriosis, endometrium and implantation
• Ethics and law
• Safety, Quality, Risks and Complications (guidelines, accreditation and certification, multiple pregnancy, treatment outcome and follow-up)
• Fertility preservation
• Paramedical (Nursing, Laboratory)
• Psychology and counselling
• Reproductive endocrinology (including PCOS, infancy, puberty, adolescence, menopause )
• Reproductive genetics (PGD/PGS)
• Reproductive surgery (female & male)
• Stem cells

Dear Colleagues,

we are proud to invite you to the European Symposium on Suicide and Suicidal Behaviour which in its 13th edition (ESSSB13) will be hosted in Rome, Italy, a city where Past Ages seem to revive, overlap and melt into Modern Living and Transcultural Exchange, thus constituting the Ideal Ground for the theme of the Symposium which is “Integration of Knowledge for an Interdisciplinary Approach to Suicidology and Suicide Prevention”. By keeping the legacy and sharing the common spirit of the previous and successful ESSSB symposia, ESSSB13 is in fact looking forward to novel perspective into the study of Suicidal Behaviour.

Basic components of studies on suicide (research, prevention, treatment) have undergone consistent progress, but given the peculiar nature of each one, their mutual dialogue and definitive exchange has proved to be scarce.

Inspiration of the 13th ESSSB is then to investigate possible modalities and paths of communication of these instances, favoring aggregation and interplay not only of single minds, but also at a more complex level of structurization of suicidology, with the ultimate scope of harmonizing its articulate development.

International Conference on Electrical Machines (http://www.icem.cc/ ), now in its 19th edition, has established itself as an influential and recognised international event and is the only major conference entirely devoted to electrical machines where the community of specialists discusses the progress achieved and the future developments in technologies, analysis, design, testing, operations, practical applications, maintenance and teaching in the field of electrical machines.

THE ROLE OF ALLIED PROFESSIONALS IN ARRHYTHMOLOGY AND ARRHYTHMIC PATIENT ASSOCIATIONS

• Sick Sinus Syndrome
• Atrial Fibrillation
• AV and Intraventricular Conduction Disturbances
• Sudden Death
• Non Invasive Sudden Death Risk Stratification
• Heart Failure
• Genetic Arrhythmias
• Hypertrophic Cardiomiopathy
• Arrhythmias in Diabetic Patients
• Sleep Apnea
• Cardiac Syncope
• Echocardiography in Arrhythmology
• Catheter Ablation Technique
• Implantable Pacing Devices and Leads
• New Automatic Algorithms for Detection and Pacing Optimization
• Cardiac Resynchronization Therapy
• Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators
  
  
  
  

We are excited to once again have assembled many of the leading clinicians and scientists from around the world to drive forward the scientific and medical research agenda in Aspergillus and aspergillosis for the 4^th Advances Against Aspergillosis conference. There was an overwhelming feeling of success from the first Advances Against Aspergillosis meeting in 2004, in San Francisco where we had 364 attendees from 28 countries, the second meeting in 2006 in Athens with 464 attendees from 44 countries, and the third meeting in 2008, in Miami, with 351 attendees from 48 countries. The meetings were very productive for exchanging clinical and research ideas and forging new collaborations. This conference has now clearly established itself as the premier forum for detailed and dedicated discussion of all aspects of Aspergillus infection and research, and previously published proceedings from the three prior conferences have been very well-received.

The Aspergillus field is in a state of rapid advancement, including the publication of numerous post-genomic papers and substantial advances in translational and diagnostic research. Additionally, the launch of several newer antifungals in the last few years and anticipated clinical trials of others is an important therapeutic step forward, without precedent in mycology. Itraconazole resistance has emerged, and combination therapy is now in clinical trials. Despite the incidence of invasive aspergillosis increasing and disease being the leading fungal cause of patient mortality, prior to the 2004 Advances Against Aspergillosis meeting, there had been limited communication among experts in the area. This is another chance to gather the world`s aspergillosis experts in one venue. A fundamental tenet of this research colloquium continues to be to engender collaborative relationships amongst clinicians, scientists, and industry to further advance the field.

Target Audience

Specialists or physicians in training in the following disciplines: infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, mycology, other disciplines dealing with immunocompromised patients (e.g. haematology, oncology, chest medicine).

SMi’s Border Security 2010 returns next year to offer you an insight into land, air and maritime border security issues. Following on from sell out events in Istanbul in 2008, and Warsaw in 2009, Border security 2010 will once again bring together leading international experts from the security sector.

Next year we are placing a special focus on the use of border management technologies. Attend and hear special insights into how different surveillance technologies are being used to aid decision making and improve security at all levels. Discuss how far the human factor is being replaced and what your role will be in the 21st century environment