Upcoming Medical Conferences in France

17th Congress of the European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) is organized by European Society for Biomedical Research on Alcoholism (ESBRA) and will be held from Sep 21 - 24, 2019 at Lille Grand Palais, Lille, Hauts-de-France, France. Target Audience: Congress aspires to be an ideal place for researchers, clinicians, and students to interact and share ideas. The Organizing Committee of the ESBRA 2019 Congress expects to offer a platform for building European and worldwide collaborations and networks in the field of Alcohology. In the spirit of the above principles, we hope to organize a scientific program that encourages the ignition of innovative ideas in a thoughtful and friendly environment. Description: Alcohol research is undergoing rapid development in all fields from basic research to clinical practice and treatments. This congress will bring insights about recent advances in basic research and innovations in the research field of alcohol use disorder and its comorbidities with all the alcohol-related pathologies. The meeting will provide the opportunity to share an idea between researchers from different fields and countries. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

International Congress of Parkinson’s Disease and Movement Disorders® 2019 is organized by International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) and will be held from Sep 22 - 26, 2019 at Palace of Congresses and Exhibitions Nice Acropolis, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote, France. Target Audience: The target audience includes clinicians, researchers, healthcare professionals, post-doctoral fellows, medical residents and medical students with an interest in the current research and approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of movement disorders. Accreditation Statement: The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society designates this live activity for a maximum of 33.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Congress Description: The theme for the 2019 International Congress is: "Translating the Science of Movement Disorders into Clinical Practice" The International Parkinson and Movement Disorder Society (MDS) gathers thousands of the field's clinicians, researchers, trainees and industry supporters on an annual basis at its International Congress of Parkinson's Disease and Movement Disorders®. Purpose: The purpose of the MDS International Congress is to share ideas, encourage interest among all those involved in the care and research of movement disorders, to participate in the activities of MDS, and to advance the related clinical and scientific discipline. Congress Objectives: • Evaluate the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management options available for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders • Discuss the diagnostic approaches and tools available for Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders • Describe the pathogenesis and neurobiology of Parkinson’s disease and other movement disorders

Laparoscopic General Surgery Intensive Course is organized by Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer / Institut de Recherche contre les Cancers de l'Appareil Digestif (IRCAD) and will be held from Sep 23 - 27, 2019 at Hotel Les Haras, Strasbourg, Grand Est, France. The target audience for this medical event is Laparoscopic digestive surgeons. This CME Course has been approved for a maximum of 38 CME Credits. Course Objectives: • to provide the basic knowledge required for safe use of laparoscopic surgery • to describe all technical (instruments, trocars, energy sources...) and physiology principles of laparoscopic surgery • to critically review the most common laparoscopic surgical procedures • to learn or improve laparoscopic skills by repeatedly practicing suturing, knots tying and surgical procedures during hands-on sessions. Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.  

Fifth CRI-CIMT-EATI-AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference is organized by Cancer Research Institute (CRI), European Academy of Tumor Immunology (EATI), Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT), American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and will be held from Sep 25 - 28, 2019 at Great Arch Space, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. Description: The program will focus on "Translating Science into Survival," and feature talks from more than 50 leaders in the field covering all areas of inquiry in cancer immunology and immunotherapy, including: regulating T cells and their response to cancer, tumor microenvironment, genetically engineered T cells, maintenance of immune balance, novel vaccine platforms and combinations, mutational analysis and predicting response to immunotherapy, convergence of technology and cancer immunotherapy, microbiome, and metabolism. The reference meeting for scientists, clinicians, regulators, drug developers, and patient advocates. Topics: • Cancer prevention and life style factors in oncoimmunology • Combination therapies with immune checkpoint blockers • T cell exhaustion – mechanisms of resistance • Immunotherapies, non-cell-based • Immunotherapies, cell based • New targets and concepts • Tumor antigens • Vaccination strategies • New trends in technology & informatics • TME analysis • Onco- and immunometabolism • Microbiota in oncoimmunology Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

3rd Liver Transplantation School is organized by European Society for Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) and will be held from Sep 25 - 28, 2019 at Paris, Ile-de-France, France. Target Audience: PGHN trainees/MDs having interest in PGHAN. Senior allied health professionals willing to commit to all modules of school. Course Description: Around 500 pediatric liver transplants are carried out in Europe each year. No standardized training or exchange of clinical standards exists. In 2015 the ESPGHAN launched a School of Pediatric Liver Transplantation (PLT) consisting in a residential course, not intended to replace the clinical training but aiming at supplementing it, focusing at the most important topics in the field and supporting the exchange of clinical experience. The 2nd ESPGHAN Liver Transplantation School took place in 2017, in the italian city of Bergamo and is now being run in a biannual rhythm. This School is organized by the ESPGHAN Paediatric Hepatology Committee and is designed to provide cutting-edge information on this critical aspect of modern hepatology. The Faculty members will provide interactive sessions on the selection process, operations, complications and the long-term care of these patients, and feedback on the delegates’ cases. The School will represent an initial step in the formal educational module for young hepatologists towards ESPGHAN Diploma in Paediatric Liver Transplantation (EDiPaeLT). This meeting should attract younger gastroenterologists and hepatologists who have an ambition to develop transplantation programs locally, but also more senior established clinicians who would like to get a state-of-the-art update in an informal setting.

680th International Conference on Medical and Biosciences (ICMBS) is organized by Research World (RW) and will be held from Sep 25 - 26, 2019 at Kyriad Paris Sud Hotel - Porte D'Ivry, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. Description: This is a prestigious event organized with a motivation to provide an excellent international platform for the academicians, researchers, engineers, industrial participants and budding students around the world to SHARE their research findings with the global experts. Topics of interest for submission include, but not limited to:  • Nanotechnology for medicine and the biosciences • Nanofabrication and microengineering techniques • Biomolecules, precision machining of biomaterials with lasers • Life processes in human beings • Biochemistry and biophysics • Molecular biology • Medical Science • Biochemical genetics • Structural biology • Mechanism of transcription and translation • Chromatin structure • Mechanism of antibiotic resistance • Molecular chaperones • Cell membrane recognition • Ecology, evolution and population biology Additional details will be posted as soon as information is available.

XXII Days Of Interactive Senology is organized by Eska Publishing and will be held from Sep 26 - 27, 2019 at Espace Saint Martin, Paris, Ile-de-France, France. Thursday, September 26, 2019 • Introduction - Follow the breast • Address by the Honorary President of the Days • Interactive clinical cases • Artificial intelligence and breast cancer • Genomic signatures for whom? • Will circulating tumor DNA replace CA15 / 3 • Symposium: NOVARTIS • Round Table: Inflammatory Breast Cancer • Prophylactic Masectomy: Why? for who ? how? • Cognitive functions and breast cancer • Symposium: MSD • Workshops / Clinical Cases • Senology imaging • Breasts and psyche • Immunotherapy for (almost) zero • Managing the side effects of hormone therapy Friday, September 27, 2019 • Breast surgery and hypnosis • Acupuncture in support of breast cancer treatments • The congress of the year in Senology • The cutaneous toxicities of the treatments (chemotherapy, immunotherapy ...) of the breast cancers, and their assumption of responsibility • A daily headache: radiological follow-up after conservative treatment, post-therapeutic sequelae or recurrence? • Phyllodes tumors diagnostic modalities and management • Symposium: MYRIAD • Symposium • 30 years of evolution in medical adjuvant treatments for breast cancer • What loco-regional surgery in a metastatic situation • Mastectomy Indications with MAP Preservation • Communication from psychologists • Lobular cancers: what's new? • Should not we look for genetic mutations in all patients? • Poster discussion and poster prices • Conclusion and award of the game prize "Follow The Sein" Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

2nd European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) Sleep Science School “Sleep & Aging” is organized by European Sleep Research Society (ESRS) and will be held from Sep 29 - Oct 04, 2019 at Holiday village "La Villa Clythia", Frejus, Provence-Alpes-Cote d Azur, France. After the success of the 1st ESRS Sleep Science School “Neural Networks in Sleep” organized in October 2017, the ESRS board has decided to continue supporting the organization of thematic schools aimed at gathering early career sleep scientists around different fundamental topics, allowing them to gain knowledge, share their work and experience, meet experienced researchers, develop opportunities and create novel networks of excellence. The program will be highly proactive and aimed at a maximal involvement of participants. It will include in-depth lectures by international sleep experts on Sleep and Aging topics (both human and animal work), together with presentation and discussion of the participants’ own research, workshop interactive sessions aimed at writing research grants and proposals, and in-depth exchanges between early career and experienced researchers. Importantly, faculty members will be present during the entire week, participate in the group activities, and be available for theoretical and practical discussions with early career researchers. Confirmed faculty members are international sleep experts Julie Carrier (CA), Debra Skene (UK), Tarja Stenberg (FI), Silke Ryan (IR), Lino Nobili (IT), Tom de Boer (NL), Pierre-Hervé Luppi (FR) and Philippe Peigneux (BE). Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

SLICE 2019 - Stroke Live Course is organized by Europa Group and will be held from Sep 30 - Oct 02, 2019 at Nice, Provence Alpes Cote, France. What is the SLICE? The SLICE is the only multidisciplinary meeting dedicated to stroke treatment. Beyond a congress, this 3-day educational course is built upon a highly innovative format: enjoy both practical workshops, recorded cases in live condition from stroke units and lively talks. Who is the SLICE for? All specialties involved in the stroke treatment chain will be meeting up at the SLICE! Neurologists, Anesthesiologists, Neuroradiologists, Emergency physicians and Paramedics Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Advanced Laparoscopic Liver Surgery Course is organized by Mutualiste Institute Montsouris / Institut Mutualiste Montsouris (IMM) and will be held from Sep 30 - Oct 01, 2019 at Institute Mutualiste Montsouris (IMM), Paris, Ile-de-France, France. Context: Since the first report of a successful laparoscopic liver resection, the diffusion of the laparoscopic approach in liver surgery has been delayed because of initial concerns regarding life-threatening operative risks, oncologic issues and early technical difficulties. A rapid, recent evolution of the liver laparoscopic approach has been observed mostly due to major technological improvements in laparoscopic instruments and increased hemostatic performance of different vessel-sealing devices whose use is mandatory during liver surgery. Nevertheless, laparoscopy has now been shown to provide several advantages over laparotomy including decreased rates of blood loss, clamping duration, postoperative complications and ascites as well as shorter hospital stays. These benefits are thought to be related to both existence of a pneumoperitoneum, which limits blood loss and thus decrease the need for inflow occlusion but are also the consequence of the absence of large-sized incision, the latter allowing for preservation of the collateral abdominal wall vascularization in cirrhotic patients, decreased postoperative pain and early rehabilitation. Course overview: This course is aimed at digestive surgeons having a special interest in liver surgery. The goal of this course is to share their experience with minor and major full laparoscopic hepatectomy by discussing the different steps and alternatives of this kind of approach on a theoretical basis and then by demonstrating the tips and tricks for improving laparoscopic liver resections during live surgery in the operating room. Technique advantages: • Enables preservation of the abdominal wall • Decrease rates of blood loss, clamping duration, • Reduce postoperative complications as well as shorter hospital stays. Target audience: • Hepatobiliary surgeon : liver, pancreas and bile ducts • Surgeons who want to develop a specific skill in minimally invasive surgery Course requirement: Good level of HPB skill  What will you learn? • To cover a broad spectrum of surgical procedures in laparoscopic liver surgery • To provide indications for surgical treatment and discuss operative complications • To highlight technicalities of surgical interventions through the broadcasting of pre-recorded live procedures • To describe postoperative clinical results and practical applications of evidence-based clinical medicine Educational methods Video, Lectures