2014 ALLSA Congress

Scientific Programme (subject to change)

 

WEDNESDAY 6

AUGUST 2014

PRE-CONGRESS

WORKSHOP

11:00 – 17:00 5th African School for Primary

Immunodeficiencies Diagnosis, laboratory investigation

and management – case oriented step by step approach

Workshop

Venue: Umgeni & Congella (Maharani Tower)
THURSDAY 7 AUGUST

2014

PRE-CONGRESS

WORKSHOP

08:00 – 17:00 5th African School for Primary

Immunodeficiencies Diagnosis, laboratory investigation

and management – case oriented step by step approach

Workshop

Venue: Umgeni & Congella (Maharani Tower)
FRIDAY 8 AUGUST

2014

PRE-CONGRESS

WORKSHOP

08:00 – 13:00 5th African School for Primary

Immunodeficiencies Diagnosis, laboratory investigation

and management – case oriented step by step approach

Workshop

Venue: Umgeni & Congella (Maharani Tower)
13:00 – 14:00 REGISTRATION OPENS FOR CONGRESS Venue: Exhibition Hall
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH Venue: Exhibition Hall
14:00 – 15:00 SESSION 1 Venue: Great Ilanga

Chairperson: AI Manjra

14:00 – 14:10 Welcome Address
14:10 – 14:20 Presidential Address
14:20 – 15:00 Key note Address: Frontiers in Allergy Prof Rudolph Valenta
Cas Motala Memorial Lecture
Advances in Immunotherapy and IgE Reduction

Strategies

15:00 – 15:30 TEA / COFFEE Venue: Exhibition Hall
15:30 SESSION 2

Immunomodulation in Allergy

Venue: Great Ilanga

Chairperson: M Levin

15:30 – 16:00 Immunomodulation for Food Allergy Prof Wayne Shreffler
16:00 – 16:30 Immunomodulation in Severe atopic eczema Prof Dianne Campbell
16:30 – 17:00 Immunomoduation for asthma Prof Umesh Lalloo
17:00 COCKTAIL FUNCTION Venue: Exhibition Hall
19:00 SPEAKERS’ DINNER (by invitation only)

SATURDAY 9 AUGUST

2014

07:30 – 08:30 Xixia Pharmaceuticals sponsored

breakfast symposium

Venue: Great Ilanga
07:30 – 08:30 AstraZeneca sponsored breakfast

symposium

Venue: Great Ilanga
08:30 – 10:30 SESSION 3

Allergy and PID: Defining commonality and difference

Venue: Great Ilanga

Chairperson: A Van Niekerk

08:30 – 09:00 Allergy related Immunology for

Dummies

Prof Rudolph Valenta
09:00 – 09:30 The PID mimics of allergy Prof Teresa Espanol
09:30 – 10:00 Immunodysregulation; paradigm from Primary immunodeficiency Dr Jonny Peter
10:00 – 10:30 IgA deficiency : when is it

clinically relevent

Dr Monica Esser
10:30 – 11:00 TEA / COFFEE Venue: Exhibition Hall
11:00 – 13:00 SESSION 4 Venue: Great Ilanga

Chairperson: C Gray

11:00 – 11:30 Role of vitamin D in allergy Prof Dianne Campbell
11:30 – 12:00 Probiotics in allergy treatment

and prevention

Prof Robin Green
12:00 – 12:30 Mast Cell Activation disorders Prof Lawrence Afrin
12:30 – 13:00 Biologicals and adverse

reactions to biologicals

Dr Tamara Kelberker
13:00 – 14:00 LUNCH Venue: Exhibition Hall
14:00 – 15:30 SESSION 5 Venue: Great Ilanga

Chairperson: R Green / M Levin

14:00 – 15:30 Free presentations / case

presentations

15:30 – 16:00 TEA / COFFEE Venue: Exhibition Hall
14:00 SESSION 6 Venue: Great Ilanga

Chairperson: M Haus

16:00 – 16:30 Anaphylaxis in South Africa Prof Mike Levin
16:30 – 17:00 Anaphylaxis management Prof Sam Risenga
17:00 ALLSA AGM Venue: North Ilanga
19:00 ALLSA CONGRESS DINNER Great Ilanga
SUNDAY 10 AUGUST

2014

08:30 – 10:30 SESSION 7

Eugene Weinberg Lecture

Chairperson: S Risenga
08:30 – 09:00 Immunogenicity of allergens Prof Wayne Shreffler
09:00 – 09:30 Clinical presentations and

laboratory findings of some novel or unusual African

allergies

Prof Paul Potter
09:30 – 10:00 Inddor

Allegens.What New?

Prof Sharon Kling
10:30 – 11:00 TEA / COFFEE Venue: Exhibition Hall
10:30 – 12:30 SESSION 8

Workshop on Mast Cell Disorders

Chairperson: S Kling
Workshop based on case

presentations on Mast Cell Disorders with Prof Afrin

Case presentations by

Dr Di Hawarden

Dr Ahmed Manjra

12:30 CONGRESS CLOSE