Montreal Tuberculosis Course

One-day course on tuberculosis held in Montreal (2009 and 2010)

Workshop Description In 2009 and 2010, a one-day workshop on tuberculosis was held in Montreal.

The 2nd Montreal TB Course – 26 November 2010
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Lecture 1: Epidemiology of Tuberculosis and Tuberculosis in Canada (Instructor: Kevin Schwartzman) [Slides] Lecture 2: Etiology of Tuberculosis: M. Tuberculosis (Instructor: Marcel Behr) [Slides] Lecture 3: Genetics of Tuberculosis (Instructor: Erwin Schurr) [Slides] Lecture 4: Immunology of Tuberculosis (Instructor: Maziar Divangahi) Lecture 5: Diagnosis of Tuberculosis (LTBI, Disease, MDR-TB) (Instructor: Madhukar Pai) Lecture 6: Treatment of Tuberculosis (LTBI, Disease, MDR-TB) (Instructor: Dick Menzies) Lecture 7: Radiology of Tuberculosis (Instructor: Barry Rabinovitch) Lecture 8: Clinical and public health case studies

• A case of disseminated tuberculosis (Instructor: Amr Albanna)
• Fluoroquinolones for acute respiratory infections (Instructor: Lancelot Pinto)
• Primum non nocere: a case of latent tuberculosis (Instructor: Benjamin Smith)
• MDR-TB in resource-limited settings (Instructor: Anurag Bhargava)
• Pediatric tuberculosis – a diagnostic challenge (Instructor: David Zielinski)

The 1st Montreal TB Course – 2009
Lecture 1: Global epidemiology of TB and TB in Canada (Instructor: Kevin Schwartzman) Lecture 2: M. tuberculosis: organism, transmission, pathogenesis (Instructor: Marcel Behr) Lecture 3: Diagnosis of latent TB infection (Instructor: Madhukar Pai) Lecture 4: Diagnosis of active TB and drug-resistant TB (Instructor: Jessica Minion) Lecture 5: Radiology of TB (Instructor: Barry Rabinovitch) Lecture 6: Treatment of latent TB infection (Instructor: Dick Menzies) Lecture 7: Treatment of active TB and MDR-TB (Instructor: Dick Menzies) Lecture 8: Public health aspects of TB (Instructor: Chris Greenaway) Lecture 9: International Standards for TB Care (Instructor: Madhukar Pai)