Besides organising educational activities about fungal infection, clinicians and medical microbiologists of the country have set up a non-profit, scientific and educational forum for epidemiological and clinical studies. Under its educational activities, the Fungal Infection Study Forum (FISF) is organising a one-day CME (continuing medical education) on April 26 at Chirayu Medical College, Bhopal.
In this regard, chairman, FISF, Dr Arunaloke Chakravarty, and Secretary of the conference, Dr PK Bhattacharya, said that at this conference experts will deliver lectures on various topics. These topics will provide a lot of new information about fungal infection. Through these lectures all the doctor delegates who attend this conference will get help immensely to diagnose the diseases and to treat patients of fungal infections.
After concluding the conference a board meeting of the forum will also be conducted, in which details of the annual activities of the forum will be presented and next year’s programme will also be chalked out. Dr Subhash Todi and Dr AK Baronia said the aim of this conference is to make aware participating doctors of the country about the latest research, determination and way of treatment.
Dr PK Bhattacharya said that the conference will be organised in association of Bhopal city branch of ISCCM and Chirayu Medical College. The conference will be held on April 26 and the board meeting will be held on April 27.
During the conference, experts of the country would deliver their lecturers on 12 different topics. Topics of the conference include invasive fungal infection in India, country specific management guidelines for invasive candidacies, intra-abdominal fungal infections, recurrent fungal infection and vulnerable patients, Candida scare. Predictive rule, colonization - where do we stand, non-culture based diagnosis of fungal infection, resistant and multi-drug resistant fungal infection, management of invasive pulmonary mycoses, assessment of response to fungal therapy, issues with combination therapy.