BSAC Spring Conference 2024
Effective Antimicrobial Management: The What, Why & How
16-17 May 2024
Please find below links to the presentation from the 2024 BSAC Spring Conference
SESSION ONE - National Action Plan: Making it real, making it work
This video consists of the following presentations:
Central role of diagnostics
Dr Kerrie Davies, Senior Scientific Advisor, Office of the Chief Scientific Officer, NHS England
Containment though education and stewardship
Dr Naomi Fleming, Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead for the East of England, NHS England and Improvement
Measurement through surveillance
William Malcolm, Pharmaceutical Adviser & Clinical Lead for SONAAR programme, ARHAI Scotland
SESSION TWO - Antimicrobial challenges
This video consists of the following presentations:
Conflict, natural disaster and the impact on AMR - what exactly can be done?
Dr Aula Abbara, Consultant in Infection/ General Medicine, Imperial College NHS Healthcare
Management of paediatric CNS infections
Dr Stefania Vergnano, Consultant Paediatric Infectious Diseases & Immunology, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
Hospital Acquired Pneumonia
Dr Dan Wootton, NIHR Advanced Fellow, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician, University of Liverpool
Managing sore throats
Dr Efi Mantzourani, Reader, Cardiff School of Pharmacy
SESSION THREE - AI: The here, the now and the future
This video consists of the following presentations:
The use of machine learning in accurate and rapid antibiotic susceptibility testing
Dr Katja Fromm, Resistell
AI: Improving decision-making in infection management
Dr Tim Rawson, Imperial College London
SESSION FIVE: UK Antimicrobial Registry (UKAR)
This video consists of the following presentations:
Vanguard surveillance to inform the treatment of drug resistant infections
Professor Andrew Seaton, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
SESSION SIX - Revitalising the antibiotic pipeline
This video consists of the following presentations:
UK delinkage scheme - where to next?
Professor Philip Howard OBE, AMR Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, NHS England & NHS Improvement - North-East & Yorkshire, UK
National and regional pull incentives
Deepali Patel, Director of International Policy, AMR Action Fund
SESSION SEVEN - Garrod Lecture
This video consists of the following presentations:
SESSION SEVEN - Garrod Lecture
SESSION EIGHT - The best antibiotic is no antibiotic: Alternative treatment options
This video consists of the following presentations:
The microbiome
Dr Chrysi Sergaki, Principal Scientist - Microbiome Group Leader, MHRA
Bacteriophages - an opportunity too good to miss?
Dr Ben Temperton, Associate Professor of Microbiology, University of Exeter
SESSION NINE - Pharmacy first: evolution or devolution?
This video consists of the following presentations:
Setting the Scene. Experience from Scotland
Professor Andrew Seaton, Consultant in Infectious Diseases and General Medicine, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde
Dr Kieran Hand, AMR National Clinical Lead for Pharmacy & Prescribing, NHS England
Pharmacy First service in England
Panel discussion Chaired by:
Dr Annie Joseph, Consultant Microbiologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust
SESSION ELEVEN - Invited papers: a session supported by JAC and JAC-AMR
This video consists of the following presentations:
Antimicrobial resistance and death certification: are we there yet?
Dr Ioannis Baltas, ST3 Infectious Diseases & Medical Microbiology NIHR Academic Clinical Fellow, University College London
Beyond Borders: A Global Risk Analysis of Extensively Drug-Resistant Typhoid Outbreaks in Pakistan
Dr Saeed Ahmad, Doctoral Researcher (Epidemiology & Public Health), Tampere University, Finland
Scale and Spread of a Quality Improvement Initiative Promoting Metronidazole Intravenous to Oral Switch (IVOST) in the Acute Hospital Setting: Antimicrobial Stewardship, Patient Safety, Workforce and Environmental Sustainability Benefits
Dr Rachael Rodger, Antimicrobial Pharmacist, NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde
UKHSA Start Smart Then Focus Antimicrobial Stewardship: Effective Implementation During the COVID-19 Pandemic at an NHS Foundation Trust in the UK
Dr Rasha Abdelsalam Elshenawy, Department of Clinical, Pharmaceutical & Biological Sciences, University of Hertfordshire
SESSION TWELVE - All children with C. diff infection should be treated with antimicrobials
This video consists of the following presentations:
For
Dr Beatriz Larru Martinez, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust
Against
Dr Katja Doerholt, Paediatric Infectious Diseases Consultant, St. George's University Hospital London
SESSION FOURTEEN - The One Health Agenda: an essential approach or artificial political concept in relation to AMR?
This video consists of the following presentations:
Scene setting
Dr Catrin Moore, Reader in Global Health & Infectious Diseases, St. George’s, University of London
For
Professor Will Gaze, University of Exeter Medical School
Against
Professor Alan McNally, Institute of Microbiology & Infection Professor in Microbial Evolutionary Genomics, University of Birmingham
BSAC Spring Conference 2023
Addressing the AMR Burden in Everyday Practice
18-19 May 2023
Please find below links to the presentation from the 2023 BSAC Spring Conference
SESSION ONE: Emerging, imported and forgotten infections
This video consists of the following presentations:
Welcome and opening remarks
Dr David Jenkins, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust & BSAC President
Management of imported infections - CPE from Ukranian casualties treated in The Netherlands
Dr Daan Notermans, Medical Microbiologist, Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Tuberculosis - programmatic testing and treatment for latent tuberculosis in migrants
Professor Ajit Lalvani, NIHR Health Protection Research Unit in Respiratory Infections, Imperial College London
Group A streptococcus pleural empyema in children
Dr Thomas Christie Williams, Wellcome Trust ECAT Clinical Lecturer, The University of Edinburgh & Registrar in Respiratory Paediatrics at the Royal Hospital for Children, Glasgow
SESSION TWO: Recording AMR as primary cause or contributory cause of death
This video consists of the following presentations:
Balancing the opportunity and risk: the political importance of making this happen
Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK Government Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, UK Department of Health and Social Care
Death certification and AMR
Dr Alan Fletcher, National Medical Examiner for England and Wales
What education, training and advocacy is now needed?
Dr David Jenkins, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust & BSAC President
SESSION THREE: Invited lectures
This video consists of the following presentations:
New models of antimicrobial funding in England
Professor Philip Howard OBE, AMR Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead, NHS England & NHS Improvement - North-East & Yorkshire, UK and immediate Past President, BSAC
UKAR update
Professor Gareth Jones, Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Aberdeen and Co-Chief Investigator of the UK Antimicrobial Registry
SESSION FIVE: Fungal infection challenges
This video consists of the following presentations:
Systemic fungal infections - the stewardship challenges
Ms Laura Whitney, Regional Antimicrobial Stewardship Lead London, NHS England and NHS Improvement
Implementation of an antifungal stewardship program and the impact on a stem cell transplant centre
Mr Richard Wilson, Research Pharmacist, Imperial College London
Candida resistance in the ICU
Dr Tihana Bicanic, Reader & Consultant in Infectious Diseases, St George’s University of London & St George’s Hospital
SESSION SEVEN: Keynote Lecture
This video consists of the following presentations:
Rethinking AMS: New ideas for appropriate access from India
Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan, President of the One Health Trust, Senior Research Scholar, Princeton University
SESSION EIGHT: CLINICAL LESSONS
This video consists of the following presentations:
Understanding the role of accessory genes in AMR phenotype using interpretable machine learning models.
Miss Lucy Dillon, PhD Student, Queen's University Belfast
The consumption of human antibiotics in veterinary medicine, in Estonia, 2006–2022
Mrs Marju Sammul, PhD Student, Estonian University of Life Sciences
Patterns of general practitioner and nurse independent prescriber prescriptions for antibiotics dispensed in the community in England: A retrospective analysis
Professor Molly Courtenay, Cardiff University
Penicillin and cephalosporin cross-reactivity; a single centre UK study
Miss Eve Duke, Pharmacist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust
SESSION NINE: Penicillin allergy de-labelling
This video consists of the following presentations:
How do we translate policy to practice in the UK
Dr Louise Savic, Leeds Teaching Hospitals
Penfast study - lessons from Australia
Associate Professor Jason Trubiano, Infectious Diseases Physician & NHMRC Early Career Researcher, University of Melbourne, Department of Medicine (Austin Health)
SESSION TEN: Invited lecture
This video consists of the following presentations:
Nothing changes unless it changes: The role of rapid diagnostics in hepatology
Dr Vishal Patel, Consultant Hepatologist, Liver Unit, King's College Hospital London & Principal Investigator, The Roger Williams Institute of Hepatology, Foundation for Liver Research
SESSION TWELVE: Sustainability and innovation: Securing the future of antimicrobials
This video consists of the following presentations:
The post treatment impact of antimicrobials in the environment – a threat to yet be understood?
Professor Will Gaze, University of Exeter
Achieving sustainable antimicrobial usage: exploring the “how” from a systems perspective
Dr Kelly Thornber, Research Fellow, University of Exeter
Confronting a Permacrisis - the intersection between antimicrobial resistance, climate change and biodiversity loss
Mr Tom Tayler, Aviva Investors
SESSION FIFTEEN: Alternative approaches and preventative measures
This video consists of the following presentations:
Phage therapy
Professor Martha Clokie, Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester
Large scale cohort studies and genomics to understand Staphylococcus aureus colonisation and biology
Dr Ewan Harrison, Wellcome Sanger Institute
Faecal transplants
Professor Mark Wilcox, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Do it simple, do it well: reducing infection through low cost preventative measures
Professor Tim Walsh, University of Oxford
SESSION SIXTEEN: Why promoting patient and public advocacy matters to the AMR narrative
This video consists of the following presentations:
The AMR Narrative
Ms Vanessa Carter, AMR Patient Survivor & One Health Advocate and Founder, The AMR Narrative
BSAC Spring Conference 2022
Reigniting the AMR Agenda
10-11 May 2022
Please find below links to the presentation from the 2022 BSAC Spring Conference
SESSION ONE: THE IMPORTANCE OF DATA AND COMMUNICATION
This video consists of the following presentations:
The vital role of data in pandemic preparedness and management
Dr Susan Hopkins, Consultant, PHE/ DHSC / Royal Free Hospital
Data-driven communication to raise awareness of AMR and drive rational use of antibiotics
Dr Alex Costa, Health Programme Team, UNICEF
SESSION TWO: ROUTINE OR RAPID - HOW DO WE GET IT RIGHT?
This video consists of the following presentations:
Was the Longitude Prize too early? Are we ready for rapid diagnostics?
Mr Daniel Berman, Director, Global Health, Nesta Challenges
The blood culture pathway - how can we get it right?
Dr Michael Weinbren, AMR Diagnostics Programme Clinical Lead, NHS England and NHS Improvement
The effectiveness of rapid diagnostic tests for antimicrobial resistance
Dr Rebecca Glover, Assistant Professor in Health Policy, LSHTM
Q&A
All speakers, plus panellist Dr Rosemary Stevenson, AMR Diagnostics Programme Lead (Science & Policy Lead), NHS England and NHS Improvement
SESSION SIX: VACCINES - WHAT NOW? WHAT NEXT?
This video consists of the following presentations:
Lessons learnt from COVID vaccine development
Dr Charlie Weller, Head of Prevention, Infectious Diseases, Wellcome
Pneumococcal vaccine – a success story in progress
Professor Keith Klugman, Director, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
SESSION SEVEN: Keynote Lecture
This video consists of the following presentations:
The GRAM report - implications for infection management
Dr Christopher J.L. Murray, Chair of Health Metrics Sciences, University of Washington & Director of the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME).
SESSION EIGHT: The physician, the pharmacist, the nurse and their microbiologist - the pivotal role of a MDT approach to behavioural science
This video consists of the following presentations:
Interactive panel presentations and discussion on the successes and failures of behavioural science interventions
Dr Esmita Charani, Senior Lead Pharmacist, Imperial College London, Professor Carolyn Tarrant, Professor of Health Services Research, University of Leicester, Dr Eva Krockow, Lecturer in Psychology, University of Leicester, Ms Sally Tipping, Specialist Antimicrobial Pharmacist, Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital
SESSION NINE: CLINICAL LESSONS
This video consists of the following presentations:
Nuances of implementing antibiotic stewardship in high prescribing English general practices: an implementation study
Dr Sarah Tonkin-Crine, Associate Professor and Health Psychologist, University of Oxford
TRAIL, IP-10, CRP Host-protein Signature score distinguishes between Viral and Bacterial Infection in Sepsis Patients
Dr Jeroen Stas, Medical Affairs Manager, MeMed Diagnostics
ST97 Staphylococcus aureus and oxacillin resistance: An emerging challenge for microbiologists?
Gareth Hughes, ST7 Microbiology & Infectious diseases, UKHSA Lab
SESSION TEN: INFECTION CONUNDRUMS
This video consists of the following presentations:
Approaches to Complex Urinary Tract Infections
Dr Annie Joseph, Consultant Microbiologist, Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust, Dr Tom Lewis, Northern Devon NHS Healthcare Trust
Intra-abdominal infections
Professor Mark Wilcox, Consultant / Head of Microbiology Research & Development / and Infection Lead of the Leeds NIHR Diagnostic Technologies Medical Technology and In Vitro Diagnostic Co-operative, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Management of penicillin allergy labels
Dr Jonathan Sandoe, Associate Professor, University of Leeds, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
Recent trends in serious fungal infection incidence, mortality and antifungal resistance
Professor David Denning, Professor of Infectious Diseases in Global Health, The University of Manchester
SESSION TWELVE: EQUITABLE ACCESS
This video consists of the following presentations:
Accelerating appropriate access to new antibiotics: Cefiderocol as a pathfinder
Jennifer Cohn, Global Access Project Leader, Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP)
Laboratory capacity for all - developing mobile laboratory services
Dr Alessandra Natale, Research Coordinator, Médecins Sans Frontières
SESSION FOURTEEN: ACCREDITATION AND COLLABORATION - THE BEST WAY FORWARD!
This video consists of the following presentations:
Supporting shared learning and stakeholder collaboration via the Global Antimicrobial Stewardship hub (GASP-h)
Professor Dilip Nathwani
Developing a UK Antimicrobial Registry – a BSAC collaboration with academic and industry partners
Dr Jacqueline Sneddon, Programmes Manager, BSAC
Launch of the Global Antimicrobial Stewardship Accreditation Scheme (GAMSAS) – supporting a quality improvement approach
Dr David Jenkins, Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Infection Prevention doctor & BSAC President, University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust
Civil-private sector-public alliance: AMR, COVID-19, and the Investment Community
Professor Dilip Nathwani, Dr Claudie Charbonneau, Pfizer
SESSION FIFTEEN: ANTIMICROBIAL SUSCEPTIBILITY TESTING
This video consists of the following presentations:
Interpreting EUCAST recommendations
Pegah Hafezi, AST LEAD, Severn Pathology, Bristol
Implementing RAST in routine microbiology services
Dr Per Rydstrom, Consultant clinical microbiologist, Clinical microbiology for Kronoberg and Blekinge County, Sweden
Whole genome sequencing as a tool for prediction of antimicrobial resistance: pros & cons
Dr Massimo Mentasti, Senior Scientist, Public Health Wales NHS Trust
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
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)
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!
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 Meeting 2013: Gram negative, gram positive, fungal and beyond – the increasing complexities of “everyday” infections
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Pseudomonas in augmented care – should we worry?
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Neisseria gonorrhea – the first untreatable infection
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Susceptibility testing for vancomycin in staph aureus – what do we do now
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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?
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Antibiotic Management of Neutropenic Sepsis at The James Cook University Hospital
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Optimisation of combination therapy for treatment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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The Perils of Medical Tourism
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Directed therapy for fungal infections – latest advances
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News uses for old agents
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