The 37th Annual Scientific Meeting

Verona, Italy, 2-5 April 2003

Wednesday 2 April 2003

15.00-19.00 Registration
(ESCI Council Meeting)
19.00-21.00 Welcome reception

Thursday 3 April 2003

8.15-8.45 Opening ceremony
8.45-9.30 Plenary Lecture I (John Harlan: Leukocyte Adhesion Antagonists; Pre Clinical and Clinical Studies)
9.40-13.00 Workshops
(coffee break 11.00-11.15)
13.00-14.00 Lunch / Poster viewing / Discussion Subspeciality A, B ,C ,D / Exhibition
14.00-14.45 Plenary lecture (Alessandro Moretta: Role of NK Cells in Innate Immunity)
15.00-18.00 Workshops and Joint Symposium
(Coffee break 16.15 – 16.30)
18.00-18.30 General plenary Meeting of ESCI Members

Friday 4 April 2003

8.15 Plenary session
8.30-9.30 Plenary lecture (Franco Dammacco: New Insights in the Multiple Myeloma)
9.40-13.00 Workshops and Joint Symposium
(coffee break 11.00-11.15)
13.00-14.00 Lunch / Poster viewing / Discussion Subspeciality E, F, G, H / Exhibition
13.00-13.30 ESCI Annual Business Meeting
14.00-14.45 Plenary lecture
ESCI Award Winner 2003 (winner to be announced)
14.45-15.30 Charity subspeciality poster viewing and discussion
15.00-18.00 Subspeciality oral session and Joint Symposia
(coffee break 16.15-16.30)
15.30-17.30 General Oral session of selected Posters
17.00-18.00 Poster Awards 2003
20.30-23.30 Gala Dinner at palazzo Giusti del Giardino

Saturday 5 April 2003

8.15 Plenary session
8.30-9.30 Plenary lecture (Yehuda Shoenfeld: Atherosclerosis as an Autoimmune Disease)
9.40-13.00 Workshops and Joint Symposium
(coffee break 11.15-11.15)
13.0-14.00 Lunch / Poster viewing / Discussion
Subspeciality I, J, K / Exhibition
12.30-14.00 Lunch / Poster viewing / Exhibitions
14.00-18.00 Workshops and Joint Symposia
(coffee break 16.00-16.15)
18.00 Final Ceremony and conclusions
END OF MEETING

Workshops schedule

Thursday 3 April

9.40-13.00

02. Antithrombotic therapy – selective Xainhibitors
03. Rare diseases
04. Phagocytes
06. Iron toxicity
07. Insulin resistance
11. Light microscopy
13. Dendritic cells

15.00-18.00

02. Atherosclerosis, inflammation and oxidized lipoproteins
03. Rare diseases
04. Phagocytes
06. Iron toxicity
11. Light microscopy
13. Dendritic cells
15. Venous thrombosis

Friday 4 April

09.40-13.00

03. Rare diseases
04. Phagocytes
06. Iron toxicity
08. Italian Group for the Study of Apoptosis in Clinical Medicine – ESCI WORKSHOP: Apoptosis
12. Hyperhomocysteinemia
15. Venous thrombosis
18. NAFLD

15.00-18.00

Charity subspeciality poster viewing and discussion
General Oral session of selected Posters

Saturday 5 April

9.40-13.00

03. Rare diseases
04. Phagocytes
05. Immunopharmacology
09. Apoptosis Oxygen-ozone therapy
14. Thermal medicine: suggestions and advances
17. Wound healing
20. Immunity, autoimmunity and APS

14.00-18.00

03. Rare diseases
04. Phagocytes
09. Oxygen-ozone therapy
10. Guidelines and Primary Care: from EMB to daily practice around Europe
14. Thermal medicine: suggestions and advances
16. Hypertension and the brain
20. Immunity, autoimmunity and APS