Annual Meeting Program
Thursday, April 26
| 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Welcome from CIS President Roshini Abraham, PhD Mayo Clinic |
| Plenary Session: CIS Fellowship Grantee Presentations 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speaker: Caroline Kuo, MD UCLA Medical Center |
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| 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm | Plenary Session: Patient Management Controversies in PIDS 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Moderators: Steve Holland, MD National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH Troy Torgerson, MD, PhD University of Washington & Seattle Children's Research Institute Panelists: Jack Routes, MD Medical College of Wisconsin Maite de la Morena, MD University of Texas Southwestern Alexandra Freeman, MD National Institute of Health Donald Vinh, MD McGill University Health Centre Klaus Warnatz, MD Medical Center, University of Freiburg Elie Haddad, MD, PhD CHU Ste-Justine, University of Montreal Lisa Forbes, MD Baylor College of Medicine |
| 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm | Robert A. Good Lecture 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speaker: Akiko Shimamura, MD, PhD Dana Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center |
Friday, April 27
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Breakfast | |
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Genomics 101 *Registration Required* | |
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Genomics 101 *Registration Required* | |
| 8:00 am - 9:30 am | Plenary Session: Cross-Talk: PIDs From the Perspective of Other Specialties 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speakers: Aleixo Muise, MD, PhD Sick Kids Toronto Tumor Predisposition in PID and Vice Versa Markus Seidel, MD Medical University Graz Susanne Benseler, MD Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary Markus Boos, MD, PhD Seattle Children’s Hospital |
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| 9:30 am - 9:45 am | Morning Break | |
| 9:45 am - 11:30 am | Plenary Session: The Thymus: Understanding the Biology, Diseases, and Treatment 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speakers: Juan Carlos Zúñiga-Pflücker, PhD Sunnybrook Research Institute, Canada Graham Anderson, PhD University of Birmingham, UK Mary Louise Markert, MD, PhD Duke University School of Medicine |
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| 11:30 am - 1:00 pm | Lunch/Exhibit Hall Open | |
| 12:00 pm - 12:20 pm | Lightning Poster Presentations | |
| 12:20 pm - 1:00 pm | Poster Viewing | |
| 1:00 pm - 1:30 pm | CIS Business Meeting | |
| 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm | Plenary Session: Immune Complications Caused by Therapeutic Intervention 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speakers: Immune Dysregulation Following the Use of Checkpoint Inhibitors for Malignancies Maria Suarez-Almazor, MD, PhD MD Anderson Cancer Center Immune Defects and Complications Following CAR-T Cell Therapies Kevin Curran, MD Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center Fontan and T Cell Lymphopenia Jen Heimall, MD Children's Hospital of Philadelphia |
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| 3:00 pm - 3:15 pm | Afternoon Break | |
| 3:15 pm - 4:15pm | Plenary Session: Registries
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| 4:15 pm - 4:30 pm | Break | |
| 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm | Plenary: CIS Rose/Fahey Founders Lecture 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speaker: Megan Sykes, MD, PhD Columbia Center for Translational Immunology |
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| 5:30 pm - 6:00 pm | Plenary: PID Year in Review .5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ |
Saturday, April 28
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Flow 101 *Registration Required* |
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Flow 101 *Registration Required* |
| 8:00 am - 9:50 am | Plenary Session: Novel Insights and Approaches to Regulating Immunity 2 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speakers: New Treatments for Interferonopathies Yanick Crow, BMedSci, MBBS, MRCP, PhD University of Manchester, UK Tregs Isolated From Thymus as a Potential Cell Therapy Megan Levings, PhD BC Children's Hospital Research Institute, Canada New Insights in Treg Biology That Impact Human Disease Ciriaco A. Piccirillo, PhD McGill University, Canada Eculizumab for Early-Onset IBD in CD55 deficiency Kaan Boztug, MD University of Vienna Ustekinumab in Treating Complications of LAD Steve Holland, MD National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH |
| 9:50 am - 10:00 am | Morning Break |
| 10:00 am - 11:30 am | Plenary Session: Transplantation: From Bone Marrow to Solid Organ 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ PIDTC Year in Review Speakers: Elie Haddad, MD, PhD CHU Ste-Justine, University of Montreal Elizabeth Kang, MD National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, NIH Morton Cowan, MD UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital SOT/HCT Combined Transplantation Paul Szabolcs, MD Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh |
| 11:40 am -12:00 pm | Plenary: Patient Advocacy Groups Update .5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ |
| 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm | Lunch/Exhibit Hall Open |
| 1:00 pm - 1:20 pm | Lightning Poster Presentations |
| 1:20 pm - 2:00 pm | Poster Viewing |
| 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm | Plenary Tales from the Listserv 1.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Moderators: Eric Allenspach, MD, PhD University of Washington & Seattle Children's Hospital Elie Haddad, MD, PhD CHU Ste-Justine, University of Montreal Mikko Seppänen, MD, PhD Helsinki University Central Hospital |
| 3:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Afternoon Break |
| 4:00 pm - 5:00 pm | Plenary: Richard Schiff Lecture 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ Speaker: Bruce Blazar, MD University of Minnesota |
| 5:00 pm - 5:30pm | Presidential Award Lecture .5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ |
| 5:30 pm - 7:00 pm | Closing Reception in Exhibit Hall |
| 7:00 pm - 9:00pm | Dinner Symposium Topic: HAE: Clinical Aspects, Molecular Mechanisms and Treatment Sponsored by CSL Behring |
Sunday, April 29
| 7:00 am - 8:00 am | Breakfast |
| 8:00 am - 10:30 am |
Plenary Session: Hot New Defects in Primary Immunodeficiencies |
Important Dates
September 2017
Abstract Submission Opens
October 2, 2017
Housing Opens
October 11, 2017
Registration Opens
January 5, 2017
Abstract Submission Closes
*Deadline Extended*
February 9, 2018
Early Bird Registration Closes
March 23, 2018
Housing Closes
March 30, 2018
Online Registration Closes
*On-site registration will be available*