15th MBC Meeting
15-17 May 2008
Athens, Greece

Topics:

• Prevention
• Intensive therapy in burns
• Metabolism and nutrition
• Infection control
• Special burns
• Wound management
• Burn-and biotechnology
• Post burn problems
• Catastrophes
• Future of burn care
• Nursing and physiotherapy

Round tables:

• Prevention - Catastrophes
• Nursing and physiotherapy
• Prehospital care - Intensive burn care
• Infection control - Wound management
• Post burn contractures - Future of burn care

Lectures:

• Metabolism - nutrition
• Special burns - special problems
• Hand burns
• Burns and associated injuries
• New technologies for burn wound healing
• Artificial skin
• Skin substitutes
• Vulnereology

Contact:
Congress Organizers & Secretariat
Aktina - City Congress S.A.
Member of IAPCO
Fitellinon 26, Syntagma
105 58 Athens, Greece
Tel.: +30 210 3232433
Fax: +30 210 3232338
E-mail: mbc2008@aktinacitycongress.com

Third Congress of the
World Union of Wound Healing Societies
4-8 June 2008
Toronto, Canada

Topics:

• The evidence base criteria and research
• Provider education and outcomes
• Patient quality of life and pain
• Government and health care systems
• Local wound bed preparation and infection
• Specific wound types and their diagnosis and treatment (e.g. pressure, leg, and foot ulcers)

Contact:
Conference Secretariat
Office of Continuing Education & Professional Development
Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
500 University Avenue, Ste. 650
Toronto, Ontario M5G 1V7
Tel.: 416 978 2179
Fax: 416 946 7028
Toll-free (N. America only): 1 888 512 8173
E-Mail: ce.med@utoronto.ca

Grandi ustionati: il futuro comincia a 40 anni
Fondazione Piemontese per gli studi e le ricerche
sulle ustioni - Onlus
5-7 June 2008
Turin, Italy

For further information:

Segreteria organizzativa:
SGI srl
Simona Arpellino
Via Pomaro, 3 - 10136 Turin, Italy
Tel.: 011 359908
Fax: 011 3290679
E-mail: torinoustioni@sgi.to.it

Segreteria scientifica:
Roberta Verrua
Fondazione Piemontese per gli Studi e le Ricerche sulle Ustioni
Tel./Fax: 011 6967998
E-mail: info@fondazionepiemonteseustioini.it
Website: www.fondazionepiemonteseustioni.it

28ème Congrès de la Société
Française d’Étude et de Traitement des Brûlures
11-13 June 2008
Palais des Congrès d’Arcachon, France

Thèmes:

• Substituts cutanés
• Brûlures et troubles psychiques
• Pansements et cicatrisation
• Nutrition entérale du brûlé

Informations:

Website: http://www.sfetb.org/congres.html
5th World Congress of European Club
for Paediatric Burns
8-11 October 2008
Gda´nsk, Poland

For further information:

Congress Secretariat
E-mail: pedsurg@amg.gda.pl
Websites: www.pedsurg.pl - www.5ecpb.org

16th World Congress on Disaster
and Emergency Medicine
12-15 May 2009
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Topics:

• Pandemics, Epidemics, and Infectious Diseases
• Mass Gatherings: Large Scale Sporting Events
• Safe Hospitals
• Terrorism - Biological and others
• Natural Disasters: Water, Wind, Wild Fires, & Earthquakes
• Refugees and Disasters
• Psychosocial Issues related to Disasters
• Paediatrics and Disasters
• The role of EMS in Disasters
• Civilian Military Collaboration

For more information not found on web site, contact:
WCDEM 2009 Congress Organizer
Nova Clinical Services Inc.
650 Brookleigh Rd.
Victoria, British Columbia
Canada V8Z 3J9
Tel.: 250-658-6056
Fax: 250-658-6109
E-mail: info@wcdem2009.org
Web site: http://www.wcdem2009.org