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Friday (pm) Poster Station 1

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Track 1
Friday, July 5, 2024
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Challenger room

Speaker

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Dr Sandra Kwarteng Owusu
Senior Lecturer
Kwame Nkrumah University Of Science And Technology

Utility of Point of Care Ultrasound performed by Emergency Room Paediatricians to Diagnose Pneumonia in Hospitalised Children.

Biography

Sandra Kwarteng Owusu is a Paediatric Pulmonologist and a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Child Health, School of Medical Sciences at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi Ghana. She is also a Senior Specialist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi. Sandra established the first Paediatric Pulmonology service at the (KATH) after her training in Cape Town South Africa. She has established a multi-disciplinary paediatric respiratory team. Her research work is focused on lung health conditions in childhood such as; asthma, pneumonia, tuberculosis, HIV, and sickle cell disease. She also works on air pollution and its impact on lung health. Sandra is an ordinary executive member of the Pan African Thoracic Society and a member of the Ghana Thoracic Society.She worked closely with the society to develop the National Asthma Guideline for Ghana. She is collaborating with the Pan African Thoracic Society in the ongoing multicenter study- Chronic Respiratory Disease Observatory (CHEST AFRICA study)
Dr Tudor-Constantin Pop
"Maria Sklodowska Curie" Emergency Children's Hospital, Bucharest

Management of Pleural Effusions and Pulmonary Suppurations Which Required Surgical Intervention - a Perspective From a Romanian Pediatric Respiratory Clinic

Biography

Dr Petra Ioana Stirb-Trifon
Pediatric Pulmonology Intern
National Institute for Mother and Child's Health "Alessandrescu-Rusescu

The Role of Macrolides in Invasive Pneumococcal Disease – A Post-Pandemic Perspective

Biography

Dr Agnieszka Strzelak
Medical University of Warsaw

Novel Inflammatory Biomarkers in Differentiating Between Complicated Pneumonia and Necrotizing Pneumonia In Children.

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Dr Chirag Thakur
DM Fellow
Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER)

Comparison of Three versus more than Three Doses of Intrapleural Streptokinase in Childhood Empyema : A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Prof Des Cox
Clinical lead
Children's Health Ireland, Crumlin

THE IMPACT OF A TECHNOLOGY ENHANCED LEARNING (TEL) MODULE ON THE DIAGNOSIS OF PNEUMONIA IN CHILDREN

Biography

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