WELCOME

Dear Colleagues and Friends,
 
We look forward to welcoming you to Birmingham, Alabama on April 7, 2019 for CMV 2019, the 7th International Congenital CMV Conference and the 17th International CMV Workshop.
 
We are excited for the exchange of knowledge, generation of new ideas, and the scientific discussions that CMV2019 will bring to the CMV research field. We, along with the scientific organizing committee, hope to put together an engaging program that will integrate a diversity of topics related to CMV leading to productive and fruitful discussions among clinicians, scientists and families. We also look forward to lively oral and poster session discussions!
 
We hope that you will enjoy our southern hospitality and look forward to seeing you and saying "It is Nice to Have You in Birmingham!"
 
Sincerely,
 
Suresh Boppana, MD

University of Alabama at Birmingham,

School of Medicine

Co-Chair
Karen Fowler, DrPH
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
School of Medicine
Co-Chair
Shannon Ross, MD
University of Alabama at Birmingham,
School of Medicine
Co-Chair

ABOUT

The 7th International Congenital CMV Conference & 17th International CMV Workshop will take place in Birmingham, Alabama from 07 – 11 April 2019. The aim of this event is to help accelerate the prevention and cure of CMV disease by bringing the expertise of clinicians and scientists together in one forum. Both international meetings have been combined in order to enhance the translation from basic research to clinical practice and vice-versa to inspire basic scientists by highlighting the clinical problems and disease burden of CMV. This Conference attracts approximately 350 attendees and is relevant to Clinicians (including Pediatricians, Neonatologists, Gynecologists and Obstetricians, Transplantation Surgeons and Physicians), Researchers (including Microbiologists, Epidemiologists, Immunologists and Vaccinologists), Public Health Professionals, Childcare Providers, Parents, Students, Foundations & Advocacy Organizations, Intervention Developers and Providers, and Vaccine Developers.  

 

CMV 2019 Co-Chairs 

Suresh Boppana

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Karen Fowler

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Shannon Ross

The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

 

CMV 2019 Local Organizing Committee

Nitin Arora, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Bill Britt, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Cecelia Hutto, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Scott James, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

David Kimberlin, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Mark Prichard, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Swetha Pinninti,  The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Steffanie Sabbaj, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Veronica Sanchez, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

Rich Whitley, The University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA

 

 

CMV 2019 Scientific Advisory Committee

Stuart Adler, CMV Research Foundation, USA

Sophie Alain, National Reference Center for Herpesviruses, Limoges, France

Daniel Blazquez-Gamero, Pedíatric Infectious Diseases, Spain

Michael Boeckh, Fred Hutchinson, USA

Ravit Boger, Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, USA

Patrizia Caposio, OHSU, USA

Andrew Davison, University of Glasgow, UK

Lee Fortunato, University of Idaho, USA

Soren Gantt, University of British Columbia, Canada

Laura Gibson, University of Massachusetts, United States

Felicia Goodrum, University of Arizona, USA

Paul Griffiths, University College London, UK

Stipan Jonjic, University of Rijeka, Faculty of Medicine, Croatia

Rajiv Khanna, QIMR Berghofer Medical Research, Australia

Camille Kotton, Harvard Medical School, USA

Tatiana Lanzieri, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA

Tiziana Lazzarotto, University of Bologna, Italy

Marianne Leruez-Ville, Hopitam necker-Enfants-Malades, France

Daniele Lilleri, Fondazione IRCCS Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Per Ljungman, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden

Min-Hua Luo, Wuhan Institute of Virology, CAS, China

Arnaud Marchant, Institute for Medical Immunology, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium

Edward Mocarski, Emory University, USA

Hiroyuki Moriuchi, Department of Pediatrics, Nagasaki University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Japan

Marisa Mussi, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo, Brasil, Brazil

Albert Park, University of Utah, USA

Stanley Plotkin, University of Pennsylvania, USA

William Rawlinson, University of NSW and NSW Health Pathology, Australia

Masako Shimamura, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital, USA

John Sinclair, University of Cambridge, UK

Thomas Stamminger, Institute of Virology, Ulm University Medical Center, Germany

Domenico Tortorella, Icahn School of Medicine, USA

Ann Vossen, Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands

Gavin Wilkinson, Cardiff University, UK

Mark Wills, University of Cambridge, UK

Dana Wolf, Hadassah University Hospital, Israel

Andrew Yurochko, LSUHSC-S, USA