BSAC Spring Conference 2021
Stewarding the AMR agenda through the lenses of Prevention, Diagnosis and Treatment
29-30 April 2021
Please find below links to the presentation slides from the 2021 BSAC Spring Conference
Spotlight on AMR and Infection management - Global issues
SESSION TWO: PARALLEL SESSIONS
Impact of AMR in challenging populations
Improving antimicrobial prescribing in children
The importance of time to appropriate antibiotic therapy
Resistance game changers and challenges
AMR and big data: the art of the possible
Drugs, devices and diagnostics - the new frontiers
Collaborations to improve diagnosis and treatment of MDROS
SESSION TEN: PARALLEL SESSIONS
Clinical quandaries - case based presentations on global challenges
BSAC Spring Conference 2019
Global views, local problems: Innovative solutions to AMR and infection challenges
21 – 22 March 2019, The ICC, 8 Centenary Square, Birmingham, B1 2EA
Please find below links to the presentation slides and poster abstracts from the 2019 BSAC Spring Conference
PLENARY SESSION: SPOTLIGHT ON AMR AND INFECTION MANAGEMENT
Shortages, stockouts and scarcity: The issues facing the security of antibiotic supply and the role for pharmaceutical companies
Dr Deidre Cogan, Writer/Editor, Access to Medicine Foundation
The link between social and economic deprivation and AMR - via Skype
Professor Ramanan Laxminarayan, Director and Senior Fellow, The Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy, Washington DC
Innovation and AMR
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, Director, Academic Health Sciences Partnership [AHSP] in Tayside, Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Infection, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Tailoring stewardship to context: Drivers and patterns of antibiotic prescribing and consumption in rural China
Professor Helen Lambert, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Bristol Medical School, University of Bristol
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: INAUGURAL JAC ANNUAL LECTURE
UK Initiatives to Reduce Inappropriate Antibiotic Prescribing
Professor Alan Johnson, Head of Surveillance in the Healthcare-Associated Infection & Antimicrobial Resistance (HCAI & AMR) Division of the National Infection Service, Public Health England
Parallel Session One: Here now and almost here! Infection management of the future
Bacteriophages - how significant will their impact be?
Professor Martha Clokie, Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester
It all gone to worms - the role of odilorhabdins!
Dr Philippe Villain-Guillot, CEO, Nosopharm
Parallel Session Two: Diagnostics
Role of digital PCR in high accuracy measurement in infectious diseases
Dr Denise O’Sullivan, Science Leader, LGC
Inter-laboratory study comparing bacterial AMR predictions from WGS data
Dr Ronan Doyle, Research Associate, Great Ormond Street Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Developing metrology to support antimicrobial discovery, validation and screening
Professor Max Ryadnov, Biometrology Leader, National Physical Laboratory
Standardisation of procalcitonin measurement
Dr Amandine Boeuf, Researcher, Laboratoire de Métrologie et d’Essai (LNE)
SPONSORED SESSION: MOTIVATING CHANGE IN THE MDR-GNB TREATMENT PATHWAY – ARE WE TOO LATE?
State of the nation - The problems and challenges for the treatment of patients with MDR Gram Negative pathogens
Professor Peter Hawkey, University of Birmingham
Life after a MDR GNB Outbreak - Treatment pathway change in Manchester and emerging data
Dr Louise Sweeney, Central Manchester University Hospitals NHS Trust
PLENARY SESSION: GARROD LECTURE
Garrod Lecture 2019: MDR efflux in Gram negative bacteria - how understanding resistance led to a new tool for drug discovery
Professor Laura Piddock, University of Birmingham and GARDP
Global Knowledge exchange - Antimicrobial Resistance and Stewardship
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, Director, Academic Health Sciences Partnership [AHSP] in Tayside, Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Infection, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
PLENARY SESSION: KEY INFLUENCING PAPERS: WHAT HAS INFLUENCED AND IMPACTED PRACTICE IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS?
Stewardship
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, Director, Academic Health Sciences Partnership [AHSP] in Tayside, Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Infection, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Diagnostics
Dr Till Bachmann, Reader in Personalised Medicine in Infectious Diseases, Deputy Head of Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Behaviour Change & AMR
Dr Esmita Charani, Senior Lead Pharmacist, Imperial College London
PLENARY SESSION: CLINICAL LESSONS & FREE PAPERS SELECTED FROM ABSTRACTS
Managing self-limiting infections in community pharmacies: a cluster randomised controlled trial
Ms Eno Umoh, Public Health England
Ceftazidime/avibactam in paediatrics: Challenges and treatment outcomes
Mrs Frances Garraghan, Lead antimicrobial pharmacist, Manchester University Foundation Trust
Educating the workforce in AMR – too many gimmicks or coming up trumps?
Dr Angharad Davies, Clinical Associate Professor, Swansea University Medical School
Why do dentists prescribe antibiotics for adults with toothache or infection?
Mrs Wendy Thompson, University of Leeds
Structuring the Management of High-Risk Skin Infections: A Model Care Pathway
Dr Abid Hussain, University Hospitals of Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
PLENARY SESSION: GENOMIC & MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS
Current and future directions for rapid AMR diagnostics
Dr Till Bachmann, Reader in Personalised Medicine in Infectious Diseases, Deputy Head of Division of Infection and Pathway Medicine, University of Edinburgh
MALDI-TOF-MS - beyond species ID
Dr Belén Rodriguez Sanchez, Hospital Gregorio Maranon, Madrid
AMR detection in the WGS era
Professor John Rossen, Medical Molecular Microbiologist, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
PLENARY SESSION: PUBLIC POLICY AND PUBLIC PERCEPTION - HOW IT IS SHAPED AND INFORMED
Antimicrobial resistance: how journalism can help
Ms Madlen Davies, Health and science editor, The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
Public perception of antimicrobials and AMR – how it is shaped and informed
Dr Laurie Denyer Willis, Research Fellow, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
Parallel Session One: New Initiatives to Support AMR Innovation
Public health driven R&D of antibiotics for priority drug resistant infections
Dr Seamus O'Brien, R&D Director, Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP)
CARB-X: Building A Portfolio of New Antibiotics, Vaccines & Diagnostics with Open Science
Dr Richard Lawson, Director of the CARB-X Program Management Office
Swab and send – discovering new antimicrobials from natural products
Dr Adam Roberts, Senior lecturer, Liverpool School of tropical Medicine
Parallel Session two: Vaccines
What's new in conjugate vaccine development against infectious disease
Dr Viliam Pavliak, Senior Advisor, International Vaccine Institute
The global roadmap for STI vaccine development - state of the art review
Dr David McIntosh, Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer, Imperial College London
The of Role of Vaccines in Preventing AMR
Dr Rajeka Lazarus, Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Bristol
PLENARY SESSION: DEBATE: CONSERVATION OF ANTIBIOTICS - RESERVING VERSUS HETEROGENICITY
Conservation of antibiotics is the ONLY way forward
Heterogencity: A little bit of everything will work wonders - cycling antibiotics is the future!
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Defeating AMR: The trinity of prevention, preservation & promotion
You will find links to the slide sets below.
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE
Global epidemiology of infectious diseases and AMR and the role of informatics
Professor Michael Osterholm
PLENARY SESSION: HOW CAN VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS TO HELP WIN THE BATTLE AGAINST AMR?
Global burden of bacterial infections: the role of vaccines in reducing AMR
Dr David McIntosh
Enabling the adoption of new diagnostics within the UK healthcare system
Dr Fiona Carragher
PLENARY SESSION: PRESERVING ANTIBIOTIC EFFICACY THROUGH EFFECTIVE PRESCRIBING: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM STEWARDSHIP IN LMICS?
Stewardship in Kerala, India
Dr Sanjeev Singh
Experiences from Latin America
Dr Gabriel Levy Hara
Stewardship in Africa - challenges and opportunities
Dr Brian Godman
Diagnostic testing for point of care C Reactive Protein and how it can guide antibiotic prescribing
Supported by Abbott
BEYOND EMPERICAL THERAPY - Clinical Experiences with Fast Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing
Technology overview - The Accelerate Pheno™ System
Steve Holland
Clinical Experiences of the Accelerate Pheno™ System at an NHS District General Hospital
Dr Claire Thomas
PARALLEL SESSION - Routine and rapid surveillance systems
What surveillance do we have for AMR?
Dr Berit Muller-Peabody
Why is surveillance important after introducing vaccines?
Dr Michael Edelstein
Rapid surveillance in emergency situations: The Zika Experience
Professor Jimmy Whitworth
Legacy planning – what did we learn from Ebola
Dr Timothy Brooks
PARALLEL SESSION - The quiet revolution: the modernisation of laboratories - optimal use of existing diagnostics
Procalcitonin – lessons and limitations
Dr Stephan Harbarth
MALDI-TOF and its impact on patient care
Dr Savita Gossain
Syndromic approaches to infection detection - TaqMan array cards
Dr Martin Curran
PARALLEL SESSION - Successful stewardship across multidisciplinary settings
Alternative models of care: Nurses in antimicrobial stewardship
Jo McEwen
Successful stewardship in hospital settings (HDU and general)
Dr Charles Luyt
Antimicrobial stewardship in long term care facilities (LTCFs)
Dr Elizabeth Beech
PARALLEL SESSION - Global surveillance of resistance & antibiotic prescribing quality
Global Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (GLASS)
Professor Roman Kozlov
Global PPS
Professor Herman Goossens
PLENARY SESSION: VACCINES AND DIAGNOSTICS – WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD?
New Vaccines against Epidemic Infectious Diseases
Dr David McIntosh
PARALLEL SESSION - Innovation: Rapid diagnostics and emerging therapies
New for old and emerging treatments - a summary of new agents in development
Professor Alasdair MacGowan
Clinical need for rapid diagnostic tests
Professor Herman Goossens
Skin patch antibiotics - the next big thing?
Professor Ryan Donnelly
Harnessing the host-protein response to distinguish between bacterial and viral infections
Dr Liran Shani
Lefamulin: the potential for one antibiotic rather than two in CABP
Professor Mark Wilcox
PARALLEL SESSION - Next generation Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing of Bacteria
Rapid susceptibility testing: new phenotypic and non-WGS genotypic approaches
Dr Oskar Ekelund
WGS-based susceptibility testing for TB: from research to service delivery
Professor Grace Smith
Should WGS be used for susceptibility testing of bacteria other than TB?
Dr Matthew Ellington
Preparing for the Black Swans of resistance
Professor David Livermore
Progressing the new essential medicines agenda
Professor Celine Pulcini
Reporting Guidelines Workshop
Use of reporting guidelines to design, report and referee antibiotic stewardship studies
Dr Sheldon Stone
Latest clinical data and early experience of managing difficult-to-treat Gram-negative infections with a novel β-lactamase inhibitor combination
Supported by Pfizer
Current thinking about cephalosporins and CDI & AMR. Can a new cephalosporin help?
Supported by Cardiome
CLOSING PLENARY SESSION - NOVEL GLOBAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES
Delivering open access, high impact-low cost education to all
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE
Developing a global community of practice
Dr Elizabeth Tayler
Multi-drug resistance gram negative infections.
You will find links to the slide sets below.
Welcome
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, President, BSAC
The current global and UK epidemiology of GNB infections
Professor Timothy Walsh, Professor of Medical Microbiology and Antibiotic Resistance, Cardiff University
Burden and current global management on GNB infections: Lessons from a global PPS
Dr Ann Versporten, Global PPS Coordination Centre, University of Antwerp, Antwerp
Clinical presentations and impact of GNB infections in the UK
Dr Gavin Barlow, Infectious Diseases Consultant, Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust
Hospital antibiotic prescribing to minimise AMR - the Antibiotic Reduction Kit (ARK-Hospital) Programme
Professor Martin Llewelyn, Reader in Infectious Diseases, Brighton and Sussex Medical School
NDM, ESBL and KPC - the US experience
Dr Lilian Abbo, Chief Infection Prevention & Antimicrobial Stewardship JHS President WIAM Advisory Board UMMSM, Jackson Health System, University of Miami, United States
UK Guidelines for GNB infections
Professor Peter Hawkey, PHE Lead Public Health Microbiologist, Heart of England NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham UK
Optimising PK/PD for treatment of GNB
Dr Federico Pea, Institute of Clinical Pharmacology, University Teaching Hospital of Udine, Italy
A randomised controlled trial evaluating the TARGET (Treat Antibiotics Responsibly, Guidance, Education, Tools) Antibiotics toolkit
Miss Leah Jones, Trainee Health Psychologist & Research Assistant, Public Health England
Rapid phenotypic susceptibility testing of bacteria: SLIC by name and slick by nature
Dr Robert Hammond, Post Doctoral Research Fellow, University of St Andrews
Quality indicators and quantity metrics for responsible antibiotic use, lessons from DRIVE-AB
Dr Vera Vlahović-Palčevski, Clinical Pharmacologist, DRIVE-AB & University of Rijeka, Croatia
UK approach to use of metrics and targets for GNB infections
Dr Susan Hopkins, Consultant in Infectious Diseases & Microbiology, Royal Free Hospital, NHS Trust, London
GNB infections and stewardship
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, Consultant Physician and Honorary Professor of Infection, University of Dundee, Dundee UK
Prevention of GNB infections
Professor Peter Wilson, Consultant Microbiologist, UCHL Foundation NHS Trust, London
Drug discovery to combat GNB infections: current challenges and possible progress
Professor Mike Ferguson, Regius Professor and Associate Dean for Research Strategy, Biologicial Chemistry and Drug Discovery, University of Dundee, Dundee UK
BSAC AGM
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, President, BSAC
BSAC Virtual Learning Environment
Professor Dilip Nathwani OBE, President, BSAC & Mr Mark Lester, FutureLearn
BSAC Spring Conference 2016: Start Smart Then Focus! Infection challenges and better outcomes: Is better implementation the missing link?
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The UK 5-year AMR Strategy – a brief overview
Dr Berit Muller-Pebody |
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The Antimicrobial Managment Team [AMT] view
Dr Philip Howard |
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The prescriber view
Dr Thomas Johnston |
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How can improvement science contribute to the AMR agenda in the “real world setting”: instructive studies illustrating helpful tips for the busy practitioner?
Professor Nick Sevdalis |
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Improvement science: Adapting your strategy to ensure success
Dr Mike Cooper |
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Matching Michigan: Lessons in reducing central line infections in the Intensive Care Unit
Dr Carolyn Tarrant |
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Clinical Practice as behaviour: How can we use this concept to improve sepsis care?
Dr Fabiana Lorencatto |
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Amikacin to achieve clinical cure in adults with gram negative infections. Are therapeutic levels associated with effectiveness and adverse effects?
Dr Abi Jenkins |
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Development of an antimicrobial stewardship plan in regional medication chart for use with adult patients in an acute setting with separate antimicrobial section
Dr Caroline Mallon |
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Carbapenemase producing enterobactericeae screening: assessing local knowledge to a global threat
Dr Georgina Beckley |
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Rapid phenotypic susceptibility testing of bacteria: SLIC by name and slick by nature
Mr Robert J H Hammond |
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The GOTARGET Study: An evaluation of the TARGET (Treat Antibiotics Responsibly; Guidance, Education, Tools) Antibiotics Toolkit to improve antimicrobial stewardship in primary care using the Normalisation Process Theory
Ms Leah Jones |
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THE GARROD LECTURE – The role of the epidemiologist in antimicrobial chemotherapy
Professor John McGowan |
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CLOSING DEBATE: Surviving Sepsis and stewardship – a double edged sword?
Question: Start Smart then Focus – are these hopelessly competing objectives?
For: Dr David Jenkins, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, University Hospitals Leicester, Leicester
Against: Professor Alasdair McGowan, Professor of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobial Therapeutics, Southmead
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BSAC Spring Meeting 2013: Gram negative, gram positive, fungal and beyond – the increasing complexities of “everyday” infections
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What is happening now? Epidemiology of resistance
Professor Neil Woodford, London |
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Carbapenemases in pratice – lessons learnt from spread in our patch, prophylaxis and first/second line treatments
Dr Andrew Dodgson, Manchester |
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Pseudomonas in augmented care – should we worry?
Dr Michael Kelsey, London |
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Neisseria gonorrhea – the first untreatable infection
Professor Catherine Ison, London |
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Susceptibility testing for vancomycin in staph aureus – what do we do now
Dr Robin Howe, Cardiff |
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VRE – one difficult Gram positive after another. Treatment options for severe infections
Dr Nick Brown, Cambridge |
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Increase in transrectal ultrasound guided prostate biopsy associated infection; is a change in antimicriobial prophylaxis the solution?
Dr Cliodhna Ni Bhuachalla, Dublin |
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Antibiotic Management of Neutropenic Sepsis at The James Cook University Hospital
Dr Katherine Watson, Middlesborough |
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Optimisation of combination therapy for treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Dr Alexandra Cochrane, Bristol |
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The Perils of Medical Tourism
Dr Theodore Gouliouris, Cambridge |
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Directed therapy for fungal infections – latest advances
Professor Rosemary Barnes, Cardiff |
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News uses for old agents
Dr Kieran Hand, Southampton |
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