Immunodeficiency Canada Satellite Symposium

October 23, 2014 - Delta Ottawa Centre


12:00-12:30 - LUNCH (sponsored by Baxter)


12:30 - Welcome: CSACI President

12:35 - Presentation on Immunodeficiency Canada Awards - Richard Thompson, CEO

Recipients: Bruce Mazer, Elie Haddad, Nicola Wright

Moderators: Chaim Roifman, Francoise Le Deist

12:50-1:15 - Bruce Mazer - IVIg in immune tolerance: Novel mechanism of action

1:20-1:45 - Elie Haddad - Advances in stem cell transplantation

1:50-2:15 - Nicola Wright - Should we pop 'the bubble'? Isolation protocols for SCID


2:20-2:40 - COFFEE BREAK


Lightning Talks: Moderators: Eyal Grunebaum, Stuart Turvey

2:40-2:50 - Catharina Schuetz: Bare lymphocyte - clinical variability of a single-centre MHC class II deficient cohort

2:55-3:05 - Marylin Desjardins - Common Variable Immunodeficiency studying the role of interleukin-21 related pathways

3:10-3:20 - Alex Lyttle: X-linked chronic granulomatous disease: diagnostic and prognostic value of the dihydrorhodamine 123 assay

3:25-3:35 - Alison Haynes: BMT for STAT1 deficiency

3:40-3:50 - Bahar Torabi: A family with recurrent infections and polymorphic MBL mutations

3:55-4:05 - Andrew O'Keefe: Novel mutations in CARD11 in father and son with B-cell lymphocytosis

4:10-4:20 - Rae Brager: BMT for ZAP70 deficiency

4:25-4:35 - Kathryn Samaan: IVIg vs SCIg - let's give patients the choice!

4:55-5:00 - Immunodeficiency Canada Satellite Symposium Closure