BSAC Spring
Conference & AGM
15-16 May 2025, ICC Birmingham UK
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
Day 1
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
Day 2
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
Poster abstracts
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