BSAC Spring
Conference & AGM
15-16 May 2025, ICC Birmingham UK
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
Poster abstracts
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