| Day 1 | (April 22, 1985) Session I-Rapid Diagnosis |
| ‘Rapid Viral Diagnosis; Its Role in Patient’s Care’, G.D. Hsiung, Yale University School of Medicine and VA Medical Center, West Haven, Connecticut | |
| ‘Immunofluorescence Assays’, C. George Ray, University of Arizona | |
| ‘Immunoenzyme Assays in the Diagnosis of Enteric Viruses’ | |
| Robert Yolken, Johns Hopkins University | |
| ‘Diagnosis of Hepatitis Viruses’ | |
| Mario Escobar, Medical College of Virginia | |
| ‘Biotin–Avidin for Enhancing Viral Diagnosis’ | |
| John Sever and Lata Neuurka, National Institute of Health | |
| ‘DNA and RNA Probes’ | |
| Charles van der Horst, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
| Day 2 | (April 23, 1985) Session II-Clinical Aspects of Viral Infections |
| ‘Diarrhea Viruses in Infants, Children and their Families’ | |
| Carl B. Brandt, Children’s Hospital, National Medical Center and George Washington University | |
| ‘HTLV’, Leukemia, and AIDS | |
| Phyllis Kanki, Harvard School of Public Health | |
| ‘Human Parvoviruses’ | |
| John Kelleher, Baystate Medical Center, Springfield, MA | |
| ‘Papillomaviruses’ | |
| Keerti Shah, John Hopkins University, School of Hygiene and Public Health | |
| Day 3 | (April 24, 1985) Session III-‘Prevention and Therapy in Virus Infections’ |
| ‘Antiviral Chemotherapy for Herpesviruses’ | |
| Richard Whitley, University of Alabama in Birmingham | |
| ‘Interferon’s as Antiviral Agents’ William E. Stewart II, University of South Florida, College of Medicine | |
| ‘Herpesvirus Vaccine (CMV, VZV, HSV)’ | |
| Stanley Plotkin, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania | |
| ‘Hepatitis Viruses’ | |
| James Maynard, Center for Disease Control | |
| ‘Development of a Rotavirus Vaccine for Infant Gastroenteritis’ | |
| Albert Kapikian, National Institute of Health |