The Opportunity to Eliminate

HPV Cancers

Monday 9 July 2018 | #HPVfreeIreland

Time Speaker

9.00 Registration

Prevention of HPV related cancers Chaired by Prof Mary Horgan, President RCPI Welcome Address 9.15 Prof Mary Horgan, President, RCPI, Consultant in Infectious Diseases A Patient’s story 9.20 Laura Brennan - Laura is 25 and has been diagnosed with terminal cervical cancer The burden of HPV related cancer in Ireland 9.30 Dr Katie O’Brien, Statistician, National Cancer Registry The importance of vaccines to a healthy population 9.50 Prof Karina Butler, Consultant Paediatrician, Chair of the National Immunisation Advisory Committee The HPV vaccine story in Ireland 10.10 Dr Brenda Corcoran, Consultant in Public Health Medicine, National Immunisation Office Screening – the benefits and limitations 10.30 Dr David Robert Grimes, Postdoctoral research fellow, Queen's University Belfast

10.50 Questions and Answers

11.15 Tea and Coffee Break

Current challenges in cervical cancer prevention Chaired by Robert O’Connor, Irish Cancer Society A Patient’s story 11.30 Patient Speaker to be announced Improving HPV uptake - how can GPs help? 11.40 Dr Deirdre Lundy, GP and coordinator for sexual and reproductive education, ICGP Implementation of primary HPV screening the Irish setting 12.00 Dr Ciarán Ó Riain, Consultant Histopathologist, St James's Hospital

12.30 Question and Answers

The Opportunity to Eliminate

HPV Cancers

Time Speaker

12.45 Lunch

The opportunity to eradicate HPV cancers Chaired by Prof Donal Brennan, Gynaecologist A Patient’s story 13.30 Emily Hourican, journalist, bestselling author and HPV cancer survivor HPV Head and Neck Cancer - Facts, Fiction, Friction 13.45 Prof James Paul O’Neill, Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Beaumont Hospital and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland A case for gender neutral vaccination 14.15 Dr Corinna Sadlier, Consultant Physician / Consultant in Infectious Diseases, Cork University Hospital

14.40 Question and Answers

14.45 Tea and Coffee Break

Development of a therapeutic mucosal-targeted HPV vaccine 15.00 Anne Moore Ph.D. Lecturer and Vaccine Immunology Principal Investigator at University College Cork

15.25 Question and Answers

Cervical Cancer Control though vaccination and immunotherapy 15.30 Prof Ian Frazer, AC FRS Faculty of Medicine University of Queensland, immunologist responsible for the HPV vaccine

16.15 Question and Answers