CARTAGENA AND DOUGLAS BARKER

[Dr Douglas Barker]

DEAR FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES

XV TH INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE & MALARIA , CARTAGENA,
COLOMBIA, AUGUST 20TH TO 25TH , 2000

	BY THE KIND INVITATION OF THE PRESIDENT OF THE CONGRESS PROFESSOR
FELIPE GUHL
I WILL, IN FACT, GIVE (PROBABLY MY LAST IN LATIN AMERICA) A LECTURE ON
"LEISHMANIASIS : MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND DNA DIAGNOSIS"  IN THE SYMPOSIUM
NUMBER 8 ON "CLINICAL ASPECTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY OF LEISHMANIASIS" ON MONDAY
21ST AUGUST IN THE MORNING 10.30 - 12.30 .
	I HAVE ALSO BEEN INVITED TO CHAIR A FREE ORAL PRESENTATION SESSION.
I HOPE THAT AT LEAST SOME OF THE EX TRAINEES AND /OR EX STUDENTS WHO HAVE
BEEN TO MY LABORATORY OR RECEIVED INSTRUCTION BY MY TEAM AND I DURING
VARIOUS WORKING VISITS IN SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA WILL GIVE
PRESENTATIONS. IT WOULD BE SUPER IF SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN MY
COLLABORATORS OVER THE LAST TWENTY YEARS WOULD ALSO GIVE PRESENTATIONS IN
THE SAME SESSION.    IN ONE CASE, I HAVE BEEN REMINDED THAT IT IS FORTY TWO
YEARS SINCE I PUBLISHED MY FIRST PAPER WITH A CO - AUTHOR FROM A DEVELOPING
COUNTRY AND THAT WAS ON "ENTAMOEBA" WITH CARL  DEUTCH AND VICQA ZAMAN IN
1958.
	I HAVE SEEN A RECENT PROGRAMME FOR THIS CONGRESS (SEE INTERNATIONAL
FEDERATION FOR TROPICAL MEDICINE ISSUE NO 2 APRIL 2000) AND CAN ASSURE ALL
OF YOU THAT THIS WILL BE A SPLENDID CONGRESS WITH LOTS OF FAMOUS LECTURERS
(INCLUDING THREE NOBEL PRIZE WINNERS) AND INTERNATIONAL RENOWNED SPEAKERS.
THERE WILL BE  A TRULY GREAT SERIES OF SIMULTANEOUS SYMPOSIUM WHICH COVER
ALMOST THE WHOLE RANGE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE NOT JUST MALARIA.
NOT LEAST I AM TOLD THAT CARTAGENA IS ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CITIES IN
THE AMERICAS.
	I WOULD URGE EVERYBODY TO MAKE AN EFFORT TO ATTEND AND REMIND YOU
THAT THE EARLY (CHEAPER) REGISTRATION DATE IS 15TH JUNE  2000 .
WEB SITE for information.
http://wwwprof.uniandes.edu.co/~xviftm/cartagena.htm

YOURS SINCERELY
DR DOUGLAS
ps
By the way the book that Jorge Alvar is editing will hopefully go to the
printer by the middle or end of this month. To the four friends who have
not yet sent in their complete manuscripts please hurry up!!!!!
I would really like to have your papers in the book.