ProgramaEn hora local del evento
Monday 4th June 2018
08:30 – 09:00 REGISTRATION
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome
Dean's Office representative (Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. UCM, Spain)
Director's Office representative (VISAVET Centre. UCM, Spain)
Dr. Joaquín Goyache (Organising Committee, VISAVET. UCM, Spain)
09:15 – 09:30 Hepatitis E Workshop: a brief introduction
Dr. Nerea García (VISAVET. UCM, Spain)
09:30 – 10:00 Public health risks associated with hepatitis E virus (HEV) as a food-borne pathogen
Dr. Ernesto Liébana (EFSA, Italy)
HEPATITIS E EPIDEMIOLOGY
10:00 – 10:20 Hepatitis E in humans
Dr. Alfredo Pérez (Hospital 12 de Octubre, Spain)
10:20 – 11:10 COFFEE (& PHOTO)
11:10 – 11:35 Hepatitis E virus in animals, food and where else?
Dr. Nicole Pavio (ANSES, France)
11:35 – 11:50 Increasing trends of hepatitis E observed in hospital registries data, Spain 1997-2015
Dr. Carmen Varela (ISCIII, Spain) *Selected oral presentation
11:50 – 12:10 Transmission of hepatitis E virus at the wildlife-livestock- human interface
Dr. Jose Francisco Ruiz-Fons (IREC, Spain)
12:10 – 12:35 Monitoring studies of food of animal origin in Poland - recent findings on HEV occurrence
Dr. Artur Rzezutka (National Veterinary Institute, Poland)
12:35 – 14:00 LUNCH (13:30 – 14:00 Optional visit to the VISAVET Centre)
HEPATITIS E DIAGNOSIS
14:00 – 14:15 New proposed HEV-3 sub-genotype related to acute hepatitis in Spain
Dr. Ana Avellón (ISCIII, Spain) *Selected oral presentation
14:15 – 14:40 Detection and typing of the zoonotic Hepatitis E viruses
Dr. Ilaria di Bartolo (Istituto Superiore di Sanità di Roma, Italy)
14:40 – 15:05 Methods for analysis of HEV infectivity and inactivation
Dr. Reimar Johne (Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, BfR, Germany)
15:05 – 16:00 COFFEE and POSTERS
16:00 – 16:05 Hepatitis E sponsor presentation
Biomérieux S.A.
16:05 – 16:25 Method comparison for the detection of Hepatitis E virus in lettuce and water samples
Dr. Gloria Sánchez (IATA-CSIC, Spain)
16:25 – 16:55 The communication challenge of infection diseases
Dr. José Manuel Sánchez-Vizcaíno (VISAVET. UCM, Spain)
16:55 – 17:25 Hepatitis E diagnosis and epidemiology table discussion
20:00 DINNER
Tuesday 5th June 2018
HEPATITIS E CONTROL AND PREVENTION
09:00 – 09:20 Inactivation methods
Dr. David Rodríguez-Lázaro (Universidad de Burgos, Spain)
09:20 – 09:45 The role of the environment in transmission of Hepatitis E virus
Dr. Willemijn Lodder (National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, RIVM, Netherlands)
09:45 – 10:00 Investigating the transmission of Hepatitis E virus within a UK pig farm: Does early mixing affect risk of infection in slaughter age pigs?
Dr. Susan Withenshaw (APHA, UK) *Selected oral presentation
10:00 – 10:25 Hepatitis E virus control in the pig reservoir
Dr. Wim van der Poel (Wageningen BioVeterinary Research, WUR, Netherlands)
10:25 – 11:00 COFFEE and POSTERS
11:00 – 11:15 Understanding hepatitis E virus (HEV) spread and persistence in pig farms using longitudinal field data
Dr. Morgane Salines (ANSES, France) *Selected oral presentation
11:15 – 11:45 Hepatitis-E in emergency context: the experience of Médecins Sans Frontières
Dr. Francisco Luquero (MSF, Switzerland)
11:45 – 12:15 Hepatitis E control and prevention table discussion
12:15 – 12:30 Closing of the meeting & Conclusions
Ministry's representative (Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Environment, Spain)
Dr. Joaquín Goyache (Organising Committee, VISAVET. UCM, Spain)
