[leish-l] Fwd: KP To Luigi 3-19-03

[Jeffrey Shaw]

>From: "K.P. Chang" <changk at mail.finchcms.edu>
>To: Luigi Gradoni <gradoni at iss.it>
>Subject: KP To Luigi 3-19-03
>
>Dear Luigi,
>
>This is  the first formal or semi-formal proposal of organizing WorldLeish III
>submitted electronically according to the stipulations anounced in worldleish
>website. Ziya will post it in the website along with those expected to arrive
>before the deadline set for April 15th. Suggestions and comments from all
>leishmaniacs are expected and hopefully could be posted as well, if at all
>possible. They will undoubtedly help the committee members of WorldLeish I and
>II to decide before May 30th, 2003.
>
>Website anouncement of a request-for-proposal and posting of submitted
>proposals and comments two years in advance is hopefully an improvement. The
>principal purpose is to faciliate the participation of all leishmaniacs 
>before,
>during and after the conference electronically by using the website. This has
>many obvious advantages over the conventional practice to decide the next
>meeting site at the end of the previous one.
>
>Personally, I would be delighted to have a meeting in Italy so that I could
>convince you once again the origin of Italian spaghetti from Chinese noodles
>brought back by Marco Polo.
>
>KP
>
>PS The message is forwarded to serveral American colleagues for their
>consideration of active participation.
>
>Luigi Gradoni wrote:
>
> > Dear Ziya (and dear all),
> > this is a formal application to host WorldLeish3 in Sicily, Italy. The
> > Director of the "Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia
> > (IZS)", Dr Santo Caracappa, has expressed the willingness to take care of
> > the organization in terms of meeting facilities and financing aspects. He
> > has great experience in the organization of national and international
> > scientific meetings involving over 1,000 participants. He is also a
> > leishmaniac: the institution he heads has been recently appointed as a
> > national reference centre for canine leishmaniasis.
> > Marina, Michele and myself (i.e. the leishmaniacs from Istituto Superiore
> > di Sanità in Rome) will support him in the meeting organization.
> >
> > Following your suggested point-by-point items:
> >
> > (a) The location is a tourist village close to Palermo, the head town of
> > Sicily. Participants may fly to the international airport either directly
> > (from several countries) or via Rome or Milan.
> >
> > b) The congress centre has a plenary session room for 7-800 participants,
> > plus eight rooms for 150 participants. All modern congress facilities are
> > available.
> >
> > c) There are already several financing bodies which may support the
> > meeting. Both registration fees and the cost for participant's accomodation
> > are expected to be much lower than in WorldLeish2 (around 200 Euro and 50
> > Euro/night, respectively).
> >
> > d) I understand the BoB's concern that it's time to change the site after 2
> > meetings held in the Mediterranean. However, for big meetings like this
> > other aspects have priority, such as financial, logistic, security, etc.
> > The extraordinary ospitality of Sicilian people, the historical and natural
> > beauty of this land, and the old tradition in leishmaniasis studies (the
> > Palermo school of medicine introduced the antimonial treatment of VL for
> > the first time, in 1915), should be also taken into account.
> >
> > Looking forward to see positive comments posted in the website,
> >
> > Ciao,
> >
> > Luigi
> >
> >