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