8th Advances Against Aspergillosis

Lisboa Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

1 – 3 February 2018

8th Advances Against Aspergillosis

Lisboa Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

1 – 3 February 2018

8th Advances Against Aspergillosis

Lisboa Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal

1 – 3 February 2018

Patients Meeting at the 8th AAA, Lisbon 2018

The Science and Medical Communications Team at the National Aspergillosis Centre (NAC) in Manchester, UK run a large support program for patients and carers including monthly meetings at NAC, Skype meetings, Facebook groups as well as supporting NHS Choices on fungal disease.

As part of that program we ran a very successful support meeting for patients and carers at the 7th AAA in Manchester and we want to do the same at the 8th AAA in Lisbon starting at 1pm (1pm GMT) on Thursday 1st February.

Proposed Program

Time
1300 Meet & Greet
1330 Welcome Graham Atherton (NAC team lead)
1335 The making of the National Aspergillosis Centre, Manchester, UK  Chris Harris (NAC Manager)
1350 Patient Support resources   Graham Atherton 
1405 Online information about aspergillosis: a double-edged sword  Beth Bradshaw
1420 Launch of International Aspergillosis Day (Feb 1st)  Rachel Orritt
1435 Break (Light lunch)
1500 Genetics of Aspergillosis Paul Bowyer & Agostinho Carvalho
1530 End/Informal chatting/networking

IBooking for the Patients Meeting is now closed but if you missed your chance to attend in person we can now confirm that we will be streaming the meeting LIVE at  http://www.ustream.tv/channel/aspergillosis-patients-meeting

The link will be active for the start of the talks at 13:30 GMT and you will be able to text us during the meeting using the comment service accompanying the streaming video NB you may need to sign up to Ustream (no charge) and login to activate commenting.