10.00-10.30

Registration and coffee

10.30-10.50

Welcome

IIC Steering Committee
Andrew Pollard, Nigel Curtis, Octavio Ramilo, Adilia Warris, Simon Drysdale, Annemarie van Rossum, Elizabeth Whittaker and Eleni Vergadi

10.50-11.20

Immunisation Under Threat: Climate Change in an Era of Polycrises

Dr Kate O’Brien
Director, Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals, World Health Organization (WHO)

11.25-11.55

AI and microbiology

Professor Adrian Egli
Director, Institute for Medical Microbiology, University of Zurich

12.05-12.35

Headwinds

Professor Paul Offit
Director, Vaccine Education Center & Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

12.35-12.45

Scoring of sessions

12.45-13.30

Lunch

13.30-14.30

ID Case rounds 1

Professor Nigel Curtis
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne and Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia

14.35-15.05

Host microbiome interaction in the respiratory tract in early life

Professor Debby Bogaert
Scottish Senior Clinical Fellow and Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Centre for Inflammation Research, University of Edinburgh

15.10-15:40

Classification, recognition and treatment of primary immunodeficiencies

Professor Isabelle Meyts
Head, Immunogenetics Research Group & Inborn Errors of Immunity, KU Leuven

15.40-15.45

Scoring of sessions

15.45-16.15

Tea break

Graduates Robing & Families to ingress to LT

16.15-16.45

Award Ceremony for PGCertificate & PGDiploma in Paediatric Infectious Diseases graduates.

Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director, Oxford Vaccine Group

Dr Stéphane Paulus, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

Associate Professor Simon Drysdale, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford

Dr Dominic Kelly, BRC Consultant in Paediatrics and Vaccinology

16.50-17.20

Good and bad bugs at the beginning of life

Professor Annemarie van Rossum
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Sophia Children's Hospital of the Erasmus University Medical Center in Rotterdam

17.25-17.55

Vaccines in Latin America: Challenges, Achievements and Perspectives for the future

Professor Xavier Sáez-Llorens
Chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of Clinical Research, Dr. José Renán Esquivel Children’s Hospital, Panama

17.55 – 18.00

Scoring of Sessions

18.00-18.15

Introduction to the PGCertificate, PGDiploma and MSc in Paediatric Infectious Diseases courses

Riverside Lecture Theatre

18.00-18.45

Drink’s reception for the Paediatric Infectious Diseases programme, Prospective, current students and Alumni

JCR Lounge, St Catherine’s College

19.00-20:30

Free Evening

08.00-09.00

Breakfast at accommodation

08.30–09.00

Arrival drinks

09.00-09.45

IIC Debate

09.45-10.15

The McCracken Lecture

Meningitis, a history

Professor Xavier Sáez-Llorens
Chief of Infectious Diseases and Director of Clinical Research, Dr. José Renán Esquivel Children’s Hospital, Panama

10.20-10.50

The Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Treatment of NTM Disease in Children

Professor Liz Whittaker Professor of Practice, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Imperial College London

10.50-10.55

Scoring of sessions

10.55-11.25

Coffee break

11.25-11.55

Infection as a determinant of future health

Dr James Gilchrist
Wellcome Career Development Fellow, Oxford Vaccine Group & Honorary Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology

12.00-12.30

RSV sequencing and genomics 

Dr Thomas Christie Williams
Senior Clinical Research Fellow, Child Life and Health, University of Edinburgh

12.35-13.05

Susceptibility to infection

Dr Anne Puel
Human Genetics of Infectious Diseases, French National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM)

13.05-13.10

Scoring of sessions

13.10-14.10

Lunch

14.10-15.10

ID Case rounds 2

Professor Adilia Warris
Professor Paediatric Infectious Disease, University of Exeter

Associate Professor Simon Drysdale, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford

15.15-15.45

Sustainable antibiotic prescribing

Dr Emma Lim
Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Paediatric Sepsis Lead, Great North Children’s Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne

15.50-16.20

Neonatal sepsis and you

Professor Julia Bielicki
Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Infection Prevention and Control, University of Basel Children’s Hospital

16.20-16.25

Scoring of Session

16.25-16.55

Coffee break

16.55-17.25

Long term impact of early life respiratory infection

Dr James Allinson
Respiratory Consultant, Royal Brompton Hospital & Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London

17:25-17.55

Pathophysiology and management of HLH

Dr Anupama Rao
Consultant Haematologist, Great Ormond Street Hospital

17:55-18.25

IIC Quiz

Associate Professor Eleni Vergadi
Associate Professor, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece

Professor Liz Whittaker
Professor of Practice, Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, Imperial College London

18:25-18:30

Scoring of sessions

18:30-19.30

Free time before Course dinner

19.30

Course Dinner & drinks reception

Dining Hall, St Catherine’s College

07.30-08.00

Breakfast at accommodation

08.00–08.30

Arrival drinks

08.30-09.30

ID case Rounds 3

Associate Professor Eleni Vergadi
Associate Professor, Medical School, University of Crete, Greece.

Professor Octavio Ramilo
Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital & Professor of Pediatrics, University of Tennessee Healthy Sciences Center

09.35-10.05

Prevention and Management of Surgical Site Infection in Chidren

Dr Stéphane Paulus
Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust

10.10-10.40

Pneumococcal disease – risks and prevention

Dr Nick Croucher
Associate Professor in Bacterial Genomics, School of Public Health, Imperial College London

10.40-10.50

Scoring of Sessions

10.50-11.20

Coffee break

11.20-11.50

Adolescent health and HIV infection

Professor Rashida Ferrand Professor of International Health, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

11.55-12.25

Perinatal hepatitis B and C – hot topics for 2026

Dr Caroline Foster
Consultant in Adolescent Infectious Diseases, Children’s Infectious Diseases, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

12.25-12.55

HIV and CMV in LMICs 2026

Professor Pablo Rojo
Professor of Pediatrics, Complutense University of Madrid

12.55-13.25

TBC or not TBC

Professor Nigel Curtis
Professor of Paediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Melbourne and Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne, Australia

13.25-13.30

Scoring of sessions

13.30-14.00

Sandwich lunch and depart