presentations
2020
Meetings cancelled due to COVID-19.
2019
Partnering for Enhanced Digital Surveillance of Influenza Disease and the Effect of Antivirals & Vaccines (PEDSIDEA)
2nd ISIRV Epidemiology Group Conference, ‘Incidence, Severity, and Impact of Influenza', ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-18 January 2019
More effective vaccines against influenza: what and when?
29th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13-16 April 2019
Disease Severity in Influenza and Acute Respiratory Viral Infections
Options for The Control of Influenza X Conference, Singapore, 28 August – 1 September 2019
Viral respiratory infections in vulnerable populations - Toward individualized diagnosis and therapy of infections.
ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course- Second Course on Precision Medicine, Rome, Italy, 26-28 September
Vaccine confidence: how is it measured and what can we do about it? - Vaccines: do they work and can we trust them?
European Respiratory Society 2019 International Congress; Madrid, Spain, 28 September- 2 October 2019
Understanding the burden of RSV and influenza infections in real-time: Partnering for Enhanced Digital Surveillance of Influenza-Like Disease and the Effectiveness of Antivirals and Vaccines (PEDSIDEA).
5th Workshop on Paediatric Virology, Sparta, Greece, 12 October 2019
Partnering for Enhanced Digital Surveillance of Influenza-like Disease and the Effect of Antivirals and Vaccines (PEDSIDEA) - First Results in the United States
AAP 2019 National Conference & Exhibition, New Orleans, LA USA, October 25-29, 2019
Education and Behavioral Changes of HCPs - What Can We Do? - Life-Course Vaccination Panel
11th Excellence in Pediatrics Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5-6 December 2019
Strengthening Education and Knowledge on Immunisation (SEKI) - a team project for the EU Coalition on Vaccination
2019 European Academy of Pediatrics Winter Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, 6-7 December 2019
2nd ISIRV Epidemiology Group Conference, ‘Incidence, Severity, and Impact of Influenza', ECDC, Stockholm, Sweden, 16-18 January 2019
More effective vaccines against influenza: what and when?
29th European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 13-16 April 2019
Disease Severity in Influenza and Acute Respiratory Viral Infections
Options for The Control of Influenza X Conference, Singapore, 28 August – 1 September 2019
Viral respiratory infections in vulnerable populations - Toward individualized diagnosis and therapy of infections.
ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course- Second Course on Precision Medicine, Rome, Italy, 26-28 September
Vaccine confidence: how is it measured and what can we do about it? - Vaccines: do they work and can we trust them?
European Respiratory Society 2019 International Congress; Madrid, Spain, 28 September- 2 October 2019
Understanding the burden of RSV and influenza infections in real-time: Partnering for Enhanced Digital Surveillance of Influenza-Like Disease and the Effectiveness of Antivirals and Vaccines (PEDSIDEA).
5th Workshop on Paediatric Virology, Sparta, Greece, 12 October 2019
Partnering for Enhanced Digital Surveillance of Influenza-like Disease and the Effect of Antivirals and Vaccines (PEDSIDEA) - First Results in the United States
AAP 2019 National Conference & Exhibition, New Orleans, LA USA, October 25-29, 2019
Education and Behavioral Changes of HCPs - What Can We Do? - Life-Course Vaccination Panel
11th Excellence in Pediatrics Conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5-6 December 2019
Strengthening Education and Knowledge on Immunisation (SEKI) - a team project for the EU Coalition on Vaccination
2019 European Academy of Pediatrics Winter Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, 6-7 December 2019
2018
The ViVI Disease Severity Score
Critical Path Innovation Meeting (CPIM) at the US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Springs, MD, USA; 26 January 2018
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) linked to rotavirus infection - Novel insight from a prospective surveillance program.
European Clinical Case Reports Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-22 April 2018
Innovating the management and surveillance of respiratory viral infections in children.
World Health Summit, Berlin, Germany, 14-16 October 2018
Human-centered Infectious Disease and Vaccine Communication – Bridging the Gap
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
The Role of Story Telling, Film, and User-centered Design in Infectious Disease Communication
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Building Trust in Polio Surveillance and Eradication Policy in Nigeria.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Introducing Novel Vaccines into a 'Post-truth' World - Making the Case for
Leishmania Prevention.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Infectious Disease Communication in Times of Crisis: Experiences During the HIV and
Ebola Outbreaks in African Settings.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Conspiracy Theories and Online Scares – Implications on Human Rights.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Infectious Disease and Vaccination Management Among Internally Displaced People
Living in Camp-like Settings in Nigeria: A Mixed Method Study.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Measles Vaccination and Vaccine Hesitancy in Austria – anthropological Perspectives.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy for Immunisation in Pregnancy.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Don’t wait – Innovate! Building Trust in Vaccines and Immunization
‘Shots for Tots’ Immunization Program Conference – Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 6-7 December 2018
Critical Path Innovation Meeting (CPIM) at the US Food and Drug Administration, Silver Springs, MD, USA; 26 January 2018
Acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM) linked to rotavirus infection - Novel insight from a prospective surveillance program.
European Clinical Case Reports Congress, Vienna, Austria, 21-22 April 2018
Innovating the management and surveillance of respiratory viral infections in children.
World Health Summit, Berlin, Germany, 14-16 October 2018
Human-centered Infectious Disease and Vaccine Communication – Bridging the Gap
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
The Role of Story Telling, Film, and User-centered Design in Infectious Disease Communication
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Building Trust in Polio Surveillance and Eradication Policy in Nigeria.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Introducing Novel Vaccines into a 'Post-truth' World - Making the Case for
Leishmania Prevention.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Infectious Disease Communication in Times of Crisis: Experiences During the HIV and
Ebola Outbreaks in African Settings.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Conspiracy Theories and Online Scares – Implications on Human Rights.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Infectious Disease and Vaccination Management Among Internally Displaced People
Living in Camp-like Settings in Nigeria: A Mixed Method Study.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Measles Vaccination and Vaccine Hesitancy in Austria – anthropological Perspectives.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Addressing Vaccine Hesitancy for Immunisation in Pregnancy.
Society for Risk Analysis 2018 Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2-6 December 2018
Don’t wait – Innovate! Building Trust in Vaccines and Immunization
‘Shots for Tots’ Immunization Program Conference – Louisiana Office of Public Health, New Orleans, LA, 6-7 December 2018
2017
Let’s talk about Vaccines – The Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative
New Orleans Rotary Club, New Orleans, LA, USA, 31 May 2017
Can we Distinguish Respiratory Viral Infections based on Clinical Symptoms? Lessons from a Pediatric Inception Cohort
ASM2017 Microbe –American Society for Microbiology Conference, New Orleans, LA, USA, 1-5 June 2017
Human Adenovirus Type 80: A Novel Adenovirus Causing ARDS and Disseminated Infection with Fatal Outcome
5th ISIRV-AVG Conference, ‘Prevention and Treatment of RVIs: Antivirals, Traditional Therapies and Host-Directed Interventions’, Shanghai, China, 14-16 June 2017
The ViVI Disease Severity Score: Enabling Real-time Surveillance of Influenza Disease Severity for Multi-dimensional Mapping
Biodefense World Summit, Alexandria, VA, USA, 26-29 June 2017
The PEDSIDEA Program in Louisiana
Louisiana Primary Care Association Annual Meeting, Lake Charles, LA, 20 October 2017
The ViVI Disease Severity Score
Innovation Task Force (ITF) at the European Medicines Agency, London, UK, 24 October 2017
Individual symptoms do not predict specific respiratory viral infections, but clinical patterns may be useful – insight from an inception cohort
10th World Congress of the World Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (WSPID), Shenzhen, China, 2-5 December 2017
Monitoring Disease Severity in Patients with Acute Respiratory Infections - The PEDSIDEA Network
2nd Asia Pacific international Emergency Forum, Boao, Hainan, China; 2 December 2017
Evacuation following a natural disaster versus migration to escape armed conflict - what may be the impact on children and young adults?
Society for Risk Analysis 2017 Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA, USA, 10-14 December 2017
2016
Are we missing influenza and other respiratory viral infections in infants and children? – Comparison of hospital-based quality management with standard of care
1st ISIRV Epidemiology Group Conference, ‘Incidence, Severity, and Impact of Influenza 2016', Institute Pasteur Paris, France, 21-22 January 2016
Assessing Migrant Health - the ViVI Health Survey
United Nations University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 28 April 2016
The ViVI Disease Severity Score - Identifying Appropriate Endpoints for RSV Bronchiolitis Treatment Trials
Duke Margolis Center/ FDA Workshop: ‘Advancing Drug Development for Respiratory Syncytial Virus‘; Washington DC, USA, 2 May 2016
Symposium presentation, European Parliamentary Meeting: ‘Life-course vaccination: from babyhood to healthy ageing - what are the priorities?’
European Parliament, Brussels, Belgium, 25 May 2016
Risk Communication Needs for Immunization of Immigrant Populations: Process and Challenges in Developing an International Strategy
Society for Risk Analysis Europe Conference 2016, Bath, UK, 20-22 June 2016
New frontiers in managing respiratory viral infections in children – letting the evidence speak
7th Annual Meeting on the Progress in the Clinical and Laboratory Diagnosis of Pediatric Viral Infectious Diseases, Capital Institute of Pediatrics, Beijing, China, 5-7 August 2016
Harmonizing Disease Severity Assessments in Infants and Children: The PEDSIDEA Consortium
Options for The Control of Influenza IX Conference, Chicago IL, USA, 24-28 August 2016
The value of different screening mechanisms for the hospital-based surveillance of influenza and other respiratory viruses in children
Options for the Control of Influenza IX Conference, Chicago IL, USA, 24-28 August 2016
Health needs assessment of children and young adults seeking asylum in Berlin, Germany
The Monarch Collaboration Workshop ‘Improving the health of migrant and refugee populations through immunization’, Auckland, New Zealand, 10-11 October 2016
Standardizing Disease Severity Assessments in Infants and Children with Influenza and RSV Infection
21st Annual Meeting of the Chinese Pediatric Society, Chinese Medical Association, Zhuhai, China, 20-23 October 2016
Health Needs Assessment of Children and Young Adults Seeking Asylum in Europe
ID Week 2016, New Orleans, LA, USA, 26-30 October 2016
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Refugee health and the risk of cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Europe
International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance (IMED 2016), Vienna Austria, 4-7 November 2016
Life-long immunization coverage in refugee populations – lessons learnt from recent experience in Berlin, Germany
Excellence in Pediatrics (EIP) Conference, 8th Edition, London, UK, 8-10 December 2016
Friend or Foe? Challenges in Influenza Treatment and Prevention
Society for Risk Analysis 2016 Annual Meeting, San Diego CA, USA, 11-15 December 2016
Refugee Health - Research and Communication
Society for Risk Analysis 2016 Annual Meeting, San Diego CA, USA, 11-15 December 2016
Risk Communication Needs for Immunization of Immigrant Populations: Process and Challenges in Developing an International Strategy
Society for Risk Analysis 2016 Annual Meeting, San Diego CA, USA, 11-15 December 2016
2015
Point-of-Care Testing for Influenza and RSV
International Workshop on Point of Care (POC) Tests for Diagnosis of HIV and TB,
Biomedical Research and Training Institute (BRTI) and African Institute of Biomedical Science and Technology (AiBST) and the University of Zimbabwe, Harare, Zimbabwe, 16-19 March 2015
RSV- ‘Nothing to Sneeze At’.
31st Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona, FL, USA, 26-29 April 2015
Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) Following Human Parechovirus Infection – Syndromic Surveillance of Pediatric CNS Infections
31st Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona, FL, USA, 26-29 April 2015
Improving Vaccine Preventable Disease Surveillance with Evidence-based Digital Vaccination Records
31st Annual Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona, FL, USA, 26-29 April 2015
Partnering for Enhanced Digital Surveillance of Influenza-like Disease and the Effect of Antivirals: the PEDSIDEA Consortium.
The 4th ISIRV-AVG Conference - Novel Antiviral Therapies for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses: ‘From Bench to Bedside’, Austin, TX, USA, 2-4 June 2015
Lessons Learnt from the Health Survey for Children and Adolescents after Katrina (HSCAAK) - ‘Long-term Disaster Epidemiology: Problems and Resilience 10 Years after Katrina’
48th Annual Meeting, Society for Epidemiological Research (SER), Denver, CO, USA, 16-19 June 2015
Challenges in Communicating Risk - ‘Risk Communication to Health Professionals and Citizens’
12th Congress of the European Association for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (EACPT), Madrid, Spain, 27-30 June 2015,
Do parents know the vaccination status in their children? – proposing a digital solution
5th German Influenza Conference, Erfurt, Germany, 17-19 September 2015
Pneumococcus and Influenza – How Common are Coinfections in Children with ILI?
5th German Influenza Conference, Erfurt, Germany, 17-19 September 2015
Compassionate Use IV Zanamivir in a 14 year-old with Severe Influenza A (H3N2) Infection Requiring Organ Replacement Therapy
9th Clinical Virology Workshop of the German Society for Virology, Würzburg, Germany, 6-7 November 2015
2014
Promoting Vaccine Compliance in the Berlin Metropolitan Area
Annual Vaccination Day [Tyroler Impftag], Innsbruck, Austria, 8 February 2014
Meningitis, Encephalitis, Myelitis and ADEM in Children: Automated Case Ascertainment in Real-Time
13th International Child Neurology Congress, Iguazu Falls, Brazil, 4-8 May 2014
Case Report of HPeV-associated Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) and Syndromic Surveillance in 284 Children with CNS Infections
32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Dublin, Ireland, 6-10 May 2014
State of the Art on Burden of Disease: Influenza Evidence Updated.
32nd Annual Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Infectious Diseases (ESPID), Dublin, Ireland, 6-10 May 2014
A Standardized Clinical Outcome Parameter for Infants and Children with Influenza-like Illness (ILI)
3rd ISIRV Antiviral Group Conference, ‘Influenza and Other Respiratory Virus Infections: Advances in Clinical Management', Tokyo, Japan, 4-6 June 2014
A Confirmed Case of Acute Disseminated Encephalomyelitis (ADEM) in a 5-year-old Patient with Human Parechovirus Infection
8th Clinical Virology Workshop of the German Society for Virology, Würzburg, Germany, 7-8 November 2014
Are Parents Adequately Informed about the Vaccination Status of their Children?
8th Clinical Virology Workshop of the German Society for Virology, Würzburg, Germany, 7-8 November 2014
Evaluation of a Novel Second-Generation Rapid RSV Test at the Point-of-Care
9th International Respiratory Syncytial Virus Symposium, Stellenbosch, South Africa, 9-13 November 2014
2013
Unusual Presentations of Influenza A/A and A/B Dual Infections
The XV International Symposium on Respiratory Viral Infections, Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 14-17 March 2013
Taking CDISC Standards to the Point of Care
CDISC European Interchange, Bad Nauheim/Frankfurt, Germany, 24-25 May 2013
Rapid Follow-up Testing for the Monitoring of Influenza Infections in Infants and Children
29th Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona, FL, USA, 27 April –2 May 2013
Simultaneous Influenza and RSV Point-of-care Diagnostics Using Innovative Fluorescence-based Rapid Testing
29th Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona, FL, USA, 27 April –2 May 2013
Prevalence and Clinical Characteristics of Pediatric Parechovirus Infections
29th Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona, FL, USA, 27 April –2 May 2013
Health Appification
Stanford Peace Innovation Lab, Launch Labs Berlin, 18 July 2013
Quantitative Influenza Diagnostic Testing (QIDT) as a Novel Biomarker for the Monitoring of Disease Activity at the Point-of-care
Options for the Control of Influenza VIII Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-10 September 2013
Impact of Pneumococcal Co-infection on Disease Severity and Antibiotic Prescriptions in Infants and Children with Influenza: an Inception Cohort Study
Options for the Control of Influenza VIII Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-10 September 2013
Pharmacokinetics of IV and PO Oseltamivir in Two Cases of Severe Influenza B Infection Requiring Hemofiltration and Cardiac Assist Device/ Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation
Options for the Control of Influenza VIII Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 5-10 September 2013
Longitudinal Follow-up of Influenza Infections using Rapid Diagnostic Testing
7th Clinical Virology Workshop of the German Society for Virology, Würzburg, Germany, 7-8 November 2013
A Novel Disease Severity Grading System for Infants and Children with Acute Respiratory Infections
8th World Congress of the World Society for Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Cape Town, South Africa, 19-22 November 2013
2012
Safety Reporting in Developing Country Vaccine Clinical Trials – A Systematic Review
XVI Congress of Pediatricians of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation: 24-27 February 2012
Assessing Vaccine Safety Perceptions among Members of Pediatric Professional Associations:
A Collaborative Study with the Union of Pediatricians of Russia and the German Professional Association of Pediatric and Adolescent Medicine Providers (BVKJ)
XVI Congress of Pediatricians of Russia, Moscow, Russian Federation: 24-17 February 2012
Timely Detection of Influenza A&B Infection in Infants and Children using Conventional and Fluorescence-based Rapid Testing
28th Clinical Virology Symposium, Daytona, FL, USA, 22-25 April 2012
Early Diagnosis and Clinical Management of Influenza in Infants and Small Children
National Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference, Beijing Children’s Hospital, Beijing, China, 11-14 October 2012
2011
Simultaneous Influenza- and RSV Rapid Testing in Infants and Children with Influenza-Like Illness
4th ESWI Influenza Conference, Valetta, Malta: 11-14 September 2011
2009
Generating Trust in Vaccines – in Europe and Elsewhere.
4th Europaediatrics, Moscow, Russian Federation: 3-6 July 2009
2008
The Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative– an International Scientific Forum aiming to Promote Evidence-based Vaccine Safety Research and Communication
2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award to Paul Ehrlich; Nuremberg, Germany: 3-5 October 2008
The Vienna Vaccine Safety Initiative– an International Scientific Forum aiming to Promote Evidence-based Vaccine Safety Research and Communication
2nd World Conference on Magic Bullets Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award to Paul Ehrlich; Nuremberg, Germany: 3-5 October 2008
Safety Issues at the Individual and Population Level - Toward Public Acceptance
1st Annual World Vaccine Congress, Foshan, China: 1-5 December 2008