International Symposium 'Children in the pandemic'

We cordially invite you to our International Symposium 'Children in the Pandemic', organized by the University Hospital of Cologne and supported by the German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Kinder- und Jugendmedizin – DGKJ).

We are delighted to announce that this meeting will take place online on September 24^th, 2021 from 2 to 5 pm CEST.

The symposium will provide cross-disciplinary understanding of the role of children and adolescents in the COVID-19 pandemic and discuss current challenges.

For German participants 4 credit points in category A from the ‚Ärztekammer Nordrhein‘ are applied.

Programme

14:00-14:05 Welcome
14:05-14:25 TEST STRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN, Prof. Dr. Florian Klein, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne
14:25-14:35 Discussion
14:35-14:55 MULTISYSTEM INFLAMMATORY SYNDROME IN CHILDREN (MIS-C), Dr. med. Jakob Armann, Department of Pediatrics, University Hospital Carl Gustav Carus, Dresden
14:55-15:05 Discussion
15:05-15:25 QUALITY OF LIFE & MENTAL HEALTH IN CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC, Prof. Dr. Stephan Bender, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychotherapy & Psychosomatics, University Hospital of Cologne, Cologne
15:25-15:35 Discussion
15:35-15:45 Break
15:45-16:05 VACCINATION OF CHILDREN, Prof. Dr. Beate Kampmann, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London
16:05-16:15 Discussion
16:15-16:30 Outlook Symposium 2022

Organization

University Hospital of Cologne
University of Cologne

Inviting Institutions

Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, Psychotherapy
Department of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases
Department of Pediatrics and Adolescents
Institute for Genetics, CECAD
Institute of Virology

Supported by

German Society of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine