Preliminary Program

SATURDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2017

08:30 – 09:30
Plenary Session – Less is More
Main Room
Chairs: Stefano Bassetti (Italy), Nicola Montano (Italy)
Speaker: Rita Redberg (USA)

09:30 – 10:30
Parallel Session 1 – Update in hematology
Aula Magna
Chair: Mark HH Kramer (The Netherlands)
Speaker: Ali Taher (Lebanon)

09:30 – 10:30
Parallel Session 2 – Internal Medicine in a world of limited resources: American and European perspective
Aula 208
Chair: Christian Baicus (Romania), Silvia Fargion (Italy)
Speakers: Jack Ende (USA), Runolfur Palsson (Iceland)

10:00 – 10:30
FDIME Research Grant Ceremony
Aula 102
Chairs: Jan Willem Elte (Holland), Caterina Delcea (Romania), Daniel Sereni (France)

Unraveling the Genetic Bases of Autoinflammation in Adult-Onset Still’s Disease
Speaker: Giulio Cavalli (Italy)

HuMosc for cellular therapy in Giant Cell Arteritis
Speaker: Maxime Samson (France)

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00
Plenary Session – Assessment of value in medicine
Main Room
Chairs: Xavier Corbella (Spain), Risto Kaaja (Finland)

The structural disequation: the need for allocative efficiency
Speaker: Patrizio Armeni (Italy)

Improving Quality of Care against the Backdrop of the Grey Tsunami and Limited Resources – How?
Speaker: Axel Hofmann (Switzerland)

12:00 – 13:00
Parallel Session 1 – Update in cardiovascular medicine
Aula Magna
Chair: Valentin Kokorin (Russia)
Speaker: Josep Comin-Colet (Spain)

12:00 – 13:00
Parallel Session 2 – Personalized medicine and ethical issues
Aula 208
Chairs: Antonio M. Baptista (Portugal), Margus Lember (Estonia)

Personomics and precision medicine
Speaker: Roy C. Ziegelstein (USA)

Personnalized Medicine: practical and ethical challenges
Speaker: Daniel Sereni (France)

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch

14:00 – 15:00
Plenary Session – Health care and migrants
Main Room
Chair: Giorgio Costantino (Italy), TBA

Medicine and humanitarian emergency
Speaker: Cristina Cattaneo (Italy)

Migration and health: insights for a changing Europe
Speaker: Pietro Modesti (Italy)

15:00 – 16:00
Parallel Session 1 – Update in respiratory medicine
Aula Magna
Chair: Dario Manfellotto (Italy)
Speaker: Klaus Rabe (Germany)

15:00 – 16:00
Parallel Session 2 – Internists outside the box (Young Internists)
Aula 102
Chair: Matthias Raspe (Germany)
Speakers: Evelina Biskup (Switzerland), Roger Duckitt (UK), Alberto Marra (Italy)

16:00 – 16:30
Coffee Break

16:30 – 17:30
Parallel Session 1 – Update in diabetology/endocrinology
Aula Magna
Chair: Pedro Conthe (Spain)
Speaker: Dror Dicker (Israel)

16:30 – 17:30
Parallel Session 2 – Successful ageing
Aula 208
Chairs: Irene Kaoulla Gasa (Cyprus), Francesco Perticone (Italy)
Speaker: Sofia Duque (Portugal)

SUNDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2017

08:30 – 09:30
Plenary Session – Sepsis
Main Room
Chair: Frank Bosch (The Netherlands), Richard Ceska (Czech Republic)
Speaker: Manu Shankar-Hari (UK)

09:30 – 10:30
Parallel Session 1 – Update in nephrology
Aula Magna
Chair: Petra Schumm-Drager (Germany)
Speaker: Mustafa Arici (Turkey)

09:30 – 10:30
Parallel Session 2 – Epigenetics (Young Internists)
Aula 102
Chair: Caterina Delcea (Romania)
Speaker: Christina Eichstaedt (Germany)

10:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:00
Plenary Session – Antimicrobial resistance: no action today, no cure tomorrow
Main Room
Chairs: Antonio Luca Brucato (Italy), Manuel Klein (Argentina)
Speaker: Jaap Van Dissel (The Netherlands)

12:00 – 13:00
Parallel Session 1 – Update in emergency medicine
Aula Magna
Chair: Alistair Douglas (UK)
Speaker: Giancarlo Agnelli (Italy)

12:00 – 13:00
Parallel Session 2 – Education and quality of care
Aula 208
Chairs: Ramon Pujol (Spain), John Kellett (Ireland)

What challenges to improve the quality of care in Internal Medicine?
Speaker: Luis Campos (Portugal)

Professionalism in Medical Education
Speakeer: Reinold Gans (The Netherlands)

13:00 – 14:00
Lunch

14:00 – 14:30

MEET THE EXPERT

Neurological examination in IM
Aula Magna
Speaker: Alessio Di Fonzo (Italy)

Orthopedic examination in IM
Aula 208
Speaker: Luigi Piero Solimeno (Italy)

Dermatological examination
Aula 102
Speaker: Angelo Valerio Marzano (Italy)

Palliative care IM
Aula 111
Speaker: Roberto Moroni Grandini (Italy)

14:30 – 15:30
Parallel Session 1 – Update in hepatology/gastroenterology
Aula Magna
Chair: George Dalekos (Greece)
Speaker: Massimo Colombo (Italy)

14:30 – 15:30
Parallel Session 2 – Gender medicine
Aula 208
Chair: Shirley Rigby (UK)
Speaker: Vera Regitz-Zagrosek (Germany)

15:30 – 15:45
FDIME Best Poster Award Ceremony
Aula Magna
Chair: Jan Willem Elte (Holland)

15:45 – 16:00
EJCRIM and YI Best Case Report Award Ceremony
Aula Magna
Chair: John Kellett (USA), Silvia Malosio (Italy)

16:00 – 17:00
Plenary Session – Internal Medicine – High tech or high touch? (Young Internists)
Aula Magna
Chair: Frauke Weidanz (UK)
Speakers: Alexis Mueller-Marbach (Germany), Ieva Ruza (Latvia)

17:00 – 17:15
Closing Remarks
Aula Magna
Speakers: Maria Domenica Cappellini (Italy), Runolfur Palsson (Iceland)