2023 UCSF World TB Day Symposium

Date: Friday, March 24, 2023 [in-person and virtually via Zoom]

Time of Event: 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time

Description: Curry International Tuberculosis Center (CITC) will co-host the UCSF World TB Day Symposium with the UCSF Center for Tuberculosis. The theme for this year's event will be: The Many Faces of the TB Community: Partnership between patients, researchers, and advocates. The program will feature keynote talks and panel discussions by local and international leaders in TB research, policy, clinical and programmatic practice, and advocacy. This event will virtually connect with World TB Day events in London. 

Enrollment is limited and pre-registration is required. To register for either in-person or virtual participation, please click the Apply button at the top of this screen. Note that you will be asked to log in if you haven't already done so. Applicants will be informed of their enrollment status within a few days of the application deadline.

In-person participants will be informed about current UCSF COVID-19 policies and procedures closer to the time of the event. Thank you for your patience as COVID-19 protocols are dynamic and frequently updated by UCSF.

Registration Deadline: March 23, 2023 at 5:00 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time (virtual only)

Registration is now closed for in-person participation

Cost: There is no fee for this event. Lunch will be provided for in-person participants.

Credit: CME and Nursing CEU credits are not available for this event.

Target Audience: This event is intended for healthcare professionals who work with tuberculosis. 

Presenters (partial list):

Achilles Katamba, PhD, MBChB, MS
  Senior Lecturer, Department of Internal Medicine
  Makerere University
  Principal Investigator
  Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC)
  Kampala, Uganda

Payam Nahid, MD, MPH
  Professor, School of Medicine
  Director, UCSF Center for Tuberculosis
  University of California, San Francisco
  San Francisco, CA

Lisa Chen, MD
  Professor, School of Medicine
  Medical Director/Principal Investigator
  Curry International Tuberculosis Center
  University of California, San Francisco
  San Francisco, CA

Alex Kityamuwesi, MBChB, MSc
  Physician Scientist
  Uganda Tuberculosis Implementation Research Consortium (U-TIRC)
  Kampala, Uganda

Segundo León, MPH
  General Director, Research and Social Responsibility
  Universidad Privada San Juan Bautista
  Lima, Peru

Solima Sabeel, PhD
  Postdoctoral Fellow
  Department of Pathology, Division of Immunology
  University of Cape Town
  Cape Town, South Africa

Suzanne Dufault, PhD
  Postdoctoral Fellow and TB RAMP Scholar
  University of California, San Francisco
  San Francisco, CA

Liya Wassie, PhD
  Senior Scientist Immunology Directorate
  Armauer Hansen Research Institute
  Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Janice K. Louie, MD, MPH
  Medical Director, San Francisco Department of Public Health
  Tuberculosis Prevention and Control Program
  Assistant Clinical Professor, Department of Medicine
  University of California, San Francisco
  San Francisco, CA

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The Curry International Tuberculosis Center is designated as a Tuberculosis Center of Excellence for Training, Education, and Medical Consultation (TB COE) via a funded cooperative agreement with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The Curry International Tuberculosis Center prioritizes learners from the western region of the United States which consists of seventeen jurisdictions: Alaska, Arizona, California (including Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco), Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, Washington, Wyoming, and the U.S. Pacific Island Territories.