Schedule and Preliminary Programme
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Wednesday, September 3

Welcome
 

  
     
17.00
19.00

Room K1/K2: Inauguration Ceremony in the Conference Center
Civic Reception at the City Hall

  
     
Thursday, September 4 - Details

Transmission and early manifestations
 

  
       
8.30 – 12.00 Room K1/K2
State of the Art Lecture
S. Czinn		  
       
 

Room K1/K2
Focus/Round Table

  
Epidemiology
H. Malaty		 Transmission and Clinic
B. Gold		 Immunology
A.M Svennerholm		 Microbial factors
T. Meyer
       
13.30 – 17.00

Workshops and Poster Discussions

  
Room K1
Microbiology, Probiotics and Genomics		 Room K2
Rescue and novel treatments		 Room K11
Pediatric issues and Diagnosis		 Room K21
Inflammation vs host response
       
17.00 - 19.00 Room K11
Symposium
Diagnostics and Molecular Genetics of Helicobacter		  
     
       
Friday, September 5 - Details Helicobacter pylori and cancer
 		  
     
8.30 – 12.00

Room K1/K2
State of the Art Lecture
D.Y. Graham

 
       
13.30 – 17.00 Room K1/K2
Focus/Round Table		  
Epidemiology
D. Forman		 Microbial factors
S. Normark 		Cell biology
P. Falk		 Host susceptibility
M. Blaser		 Pathology
R. Genta		 Clinic
K. McColl
       
 

Workshops and Poster Discussions

  
Room K1
Microbial pathogenesis		 Room K2
Clinical and Epidemiological issues		 Room K11
Extragastric Benign and Malignant Diseases		 Room K21
Preneoplastic & neoplastic diseases
       
19.00 Get-together buffet at the Vasa Museum  
       
       
Saturday, September 6 - Details Diagnosis and Treatment
 		  
       
8.30 - 10.30 Room K1/K2
Introduction
L. Agreus

The true history and the future
B. Marshall

  
       
 

Room K1/K2
Focus/Round Table

  
Diagnosis - Strategies for Testing
P. Bytzer		 Resistance - current status and consequences
L. Engstrand		 "Test and treat"
W.A. de Boer		 "Test and scope"
N. Vakil		 “Empiric treatment or scope them all - the extremes”
B. Delaney		 NSAID management
R. Jones
  State of the Art Lecture
N. Talley		  
       
11.00 – 13.00 Room K1/K2
Highlights in H. pylori - Workshop Reports		  
       
13.00 - 13.15 Room K1/K2
Presentation of EHSG 2004
Closing of the Workshop		  

Thursday, September 4, 2003 - Friday, September 5, 2003 - Saturday, September 6, 2003