February 2-4, 2000

International Symposium on Combination Vaccines, presented by the National Vaccine Program Office (NVPO) and jointly sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Food and Drug Administration, National Institutes of Health, and the World Health Organization to be held at the Natcher Conference Center on the campus of NIH, located in Bethesda, MD. Call (404) 639-4450 or visit the NVPO web site.

February 15, 2000

National Foundation for Infectious Diseases Awards Dinner*, honoring R. Gordon Douglas, Jr., MD and Ted Turner to be held at the Ritz-Carlton, Pentagon City, Arlington, VA.

March 5-9, 2000

The 4th Decennial International Conference on Nosocomial and Healthcare-Associated Infections, jointly sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology (APIC), and the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA). The conference will be held in conjunction with the annual meeting of SHEA at the Hyatt Regency Atlanta in Atlanta, GA. Contact Hachero Hill at (301) 530-1619 x16 or visit the web site.

April 30-May 2, 2000

The Third Annual Conference on Vaccine Research*, sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the International Society for Vaccines, the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research at the Food and Drug Administration, the US Department of Agriculture, the Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute at Georgetown University, and the World Health Organization to be held at the Renaissance Washington, DC Hotel in Washington, DC.

June 3-5, 2000

New and Reemerging Infectious Diseases: A Clinical Course*, sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with Emory University School of Medicine, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), to be held at the Grand Hyatt Atlanta in Atlanta, GA.

July 5-8, 2000

The 34th National Immunization Conference will be held in Washington, D.C. To obtain information about the conference, contact the CDC National Immunization Program by phone at (404) 639-8225 or by fax at (404) 639-8828. For commercial entities wishing to exhibit in the IIMEX area, please contact NFID by phone at (301) 656-0003, by fax at (301) 907-0878, or by e- mail at kkantelo@nfid.org.

*For more information about these events and meetings, please contact, Kip Kantelo, NFID, 4733 Bethesda Ave., Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20814-5228, (301) 656-0003 x 19, fax (301) 907-0878, e- mail: kkantelo@nfid.org, or visit our web site.