BSAC Spring
Conference & AGM
15-16 May 2025, ICC Birmingham UK
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
Thursday 21st March
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
Friday 22nd March
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!
Poster abstracts
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Investigating the effect of tobramycin dry powder inhaler on the eradication of Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms.
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Audit to monitor the compliance of antibiotic prescribing and reviewing according to the trust guidelines at Acute Medical Unit at George Eliot Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
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Is the message getting through An update on public understanding of antibiotics from a nationwide household survey in England, 2017
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Galleria mellonella A novel tool for screening antimicrobial activity against the anaerobe Clostridium perfringens.
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High levels of antibiotic prescribing in the community predict high numbers of bacterial infections requiring hospital admission
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Does using gas plasma device change bacterial composition of diabetic foot ulcers and reduce the need for antibiotics
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Antimicrobial resistance in lower respiratory tract infections of children a systematic review and meta-analysis
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BSAC Bacteraemia Resistance Surveillance A five year review of non-susceptibility (2013-2017)
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Epidemiology of Escherichia coli bacteraemia secondary to a urinary tract focus of infection an analysis of local antibiotic susceptibility
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Knowledge, beliefs and practices on antibiotic use and resistance among a group of trainee nurses in Sri Lanka
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Colonization with selected antibiotic resistant bacteria among a cohort of Sri Lankan university students
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Retrospective Economic Evaluation of Off-Label Dalbavancin Use in an Acute Medical Hospital
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Evaluation of non-medical prescriber interventions in the management of gram-negative bacteraemia
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Evaluation of the effect of different sugars and polyols on Streptococcus mutans biofilm
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A feasibility study to investigate the effects of procalcitonin testing on antibiotic prescribing in lower respiratory tract infections in an Irish hospital
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A means to an end – Adaptation to antibiotics related to biofilm formation in Critical Care Medicine, with relation to Pseudomona aeruginosa
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ADMISSION SCREENING AND ISOLATION OF PATIENTS COLONISED WITH CARBAPENEMASE-PRODUCING ENTEROBACTERIACEAE AN AUDIT OF LOCAL PRACTICE
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Influenza vaccination and infection in long-stay hospital patients – an antimicrobial stewardship opportunity
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