Upcoming Medical Conferences in Uganda

4th African Epilepsy Congress is organized by International League Against Epilepsy (ILAE), International Bureau for Epilepsy (IBE) and will be held from Aug 22 - 24, 2019 at Imperial Resort Beach Hotel, Entebbe, Central, Uganda. Topics: • Basic Science • Building Capacity in Epilepsy Care • Clinical Epilepsy • Diagnosis, including Terminology and Classification • Drug Therapeutics • Epidemiology • Epilepsy Surgery • Etiologies • Neuroimaging • Neurophysiology • Neuropsychology • Paediatric Epileptology • Psychiatry • Social Issues/Nursing • Status Epilepticus • Stigma, Discrimination & Access to Care • Traditional Medicine and Epilepsy / Fostering Collaboration with Traditional Healers • Women and Epilepsy Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.

Tropical Medicine Excursions 2020 is organized by TROPMEDEX and will be held from Dec 06 - 18, 2020 at Entebbe, Central, Uganda. This CME Conference has been approved for a maximum of 60 CME hours. The TROPMEDEX round-trip excursions are designed for a maximum of 13 healthcare professionals who wish to improve their clinical skills in tropical medicine and travelers’ health in the endemic regions of Uganda. Tropical medicine experts from Africa and Germany supervise individual on-site bedside teaching, laboratory sessions (hands-on microscopy of parasites in the blood, stool, urine, and skin) and give lectures (in English) on up-to-date issues in tropical medicine and travelers health in various hospitals and research institutions. The curriculum covers the epidemiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control of the most important tropical infectious diseases. In addition, the participants get an insight into the local healthcare systems and explore during medical field excursions the fantastic scenery and prolific flora and fauna of Africa. Learning Objectives: Practice-oriented training courses in the tropics are essential for healthcare professionals to the prompt, correct diagnosis and treatment of tropical infectious diseases. TROPMEDEX organizes these courses for doctors, physicians, travel medicine practitioners, GP’s, public health experts, nurse practitioners, healthcare assistants, laboratory scientists, pharmacists and paramedics of all levels to Africa: • More travelers return from the tropics with tropical diseases • More refugees and asylum-seekers come to the Western world with unknown infections • Due to global warming tropical diseases, such as malaria and Dengue fever, spread to temperate climate zones Additional details will be posted as soon as they are available.