The future of infection prevention and control: a dream to become real

Benedetta Allegranzi (Technical Lead, Infection Prevention and Control Hub, World Health Organisation)

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Mike Brown (University College London Hospitals, UK)

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Satyen Gohil (University College London Hospitals, UK)

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Ethan Sen (Great North Children's Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK)

Challenges in management of brain abscess

Jacob Bodilsen (Department of Infectious Diseases, Aalborg, Denmark)

Challenges in management of multi-resistant gram negatives in neurosurgical infections

Fiona McGill (Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK)

EVD Infections and an Infection Reduction Programme

Susan Larkin (The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust, UK)

What can be learnt from a career understanding the complexities and diverse life-styles of Gram-negative Burkholderia bacteria?

Eshwar Mahenthiralingam (Cardiff University, UK)

The Path of Yeast Resistance - The rise of antifungal drug resistance

Neil Stone (University College London Hospital, UK)

Investigating antibiotic access, use, and stewardship through an intersectional lens

Esmita Charani (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Pandemic Preparedness – moving upstream in detection

Susan Hopkins (UK Health Security Agency, UK)

Surveillance for variants of SARS-CoV-2 and monkeypox virus to inform risk evaluation

Lorenzo Subissi (World Health Organisation, Switzerland)

Outbreak research: successes, failures, and looking to the future

Jake Dunning (University of Oxford and Royal Free Hospital London, UK)

Paediatric respiratory infections hit the GAS: what went wrong in 2022-3?

Thomas Williams (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Understanding lineage emergence in pathogenic streptococci

Nicola Lynskey (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Streptococcus dysgalactiae – just one small Strep for mankind?

Oddvar Oppegaard (Haukeland University Hospital & University of Bergen, Norway)

Driving IVOS at a national level - A Scottish perspective

Frances Kerr (Healthcare Improvement Scotland, UK)

Driving IV to Oral Switch (IVOS) at a Local Level

Abi Jenkins (University Hospitals Birmingham, UK)

A critical appraisal of IV to oral antibiotic switch in practice

Kathryn Ashton (Manchester Foundation Trust, UK)

Unlocking the full public health value of vaccines: measuring the impact of vaccine on antimicrobial resistance

Megan Carey (IAVI and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK)

Vaccinating against antimicrobial resistance: pneumococcus and PCV

Katherine Atkins (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Vaccinating against antimicrobial resistance: Klebsiella pneumoniae, a priority pathogen

Charlene Rodrigues (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK)

Pfizer-sponsored promotional symposium: Personal Best: Top tips for antifungal stewardship

Silke Schelenz (Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Clinical Senior Lecturer, Clinical Strategic Lead Infection Sciences, Synnovis Kings College London, UK)

"What I wish I’d known as a new consultant"

Jasmin Islam (Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals NHS Trust, UK)
Charlotte Brookfield Consultant Microbiologist (Liverpool Universities NHS Trust, UK)

Roundtable networking and problem discussions

Inflammation in infection: should we target the IL-6/CRP axis, and can genetics help us?

Fergus Hamilton (University of Bristol, North Bristol NHS Trust & University Hospitals Bristol, UK)

“The Mould that Changed the World”; Impact of a novel musical about Antimicrobial Resistance and Antibiotic Stewardship on audiences in the USA

Meghan Perry (NHS Lothian, UK)

Beta-lactam/beta-lactamase inhibitor combination resistant Enterobacterales invasive infection – outcomes of cephalosporin versus non-cephalosporin treatment options

Stephen Hughes (Chelsea & Westminster NHS Trust, UK)

Exclusion and empowerment: Experiences of living with Antimicrobial Resistance in the UK

Ryan A Hamilton (De Montfort University, UK)

Evaluation of Clinical Utility of FebriDx® In a UK A&E Department

Kerrie Davies (University of Leeds and Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK)

Using Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to improve the management of patients with infections by actively involving clinical Microbiologists and infection specialists in the care of all patients through targeted, intelligent insights and interventions

Imran Qureshi (Croydon University Hospital, UK)

Multi-drug resistant Corynebacterium diphtheriae in asylum seekers in England in 2022: an emerging public health concern

Daniel Stewart (UK Health Security Agency, UK)

Educational effectiveness of a high-consequence infectious disease training course using ultraviolet simulation

Luke Hunt (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK)

Point of care ultrasound (POCUS) for the diagnosis of Botfly myiasis

Annalise Unsworth (Oxford University Hospitals, UK)

An Outbreak of Cutaneous Leishmaniasis from Belize: Clinical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Factors

Ronan Murphy (University Hospitals Birmingham, UK)

Translating metagenomics into clinical practice of complex paediatric neurological presentations

Sofia Morfopoulou (UCL Institute of Child Health, UK)

Linezolid and antidepressants – what if co-prescribing was permitted?

Mo Kwok (Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, UK)

Opportunities for Simulation Based Learning in Infection Medicine

Callum Mutch (NHS Lothian, UK)

Preventable Deaths involving Sepsis in England and Wales, 2013-2022: A Systematic Case Series of Coroners’ Reports

David Launer (University of Oxford, UK)

Understanding barriers and enablers for vaccination against COVID-19 and Influenza amongst healthcare workers in the SIREN Study

Dominic Sparkes (UK Health Security Agency, UK)

Disproportionate infection, hospitalisation, and death from COVID-19 in ethnic minority groups and Indigenous Peoples: an application of the Priority Public Health Conditions analytical framework

Daniel Pan (University of Leicester, Leicester NIHR Biomedical Research Centre and University of Oxford, UK)

Human challenge using nasal Neisseria lactamica inoculation in pregnancy results in maternal but not infant N. lactamica colonisation and serological response

Anastasia Theodosiou (University of Southampton, UK)

Investigating the winter burden of respiratory infections in UK healthcare workers: lessons from rapidly adapting the SIREN COVID-19 cohort study

Sophie Russell (UK Health Security Agency, UK)

Secrets of Tears: Host-pathogen Interactions in Ocular Chlamydia Infections

Amber Barton (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK)

The impact of targeted molecular ciprofloxacin resistance testing on positive gonorrhoea samples in NHS Grampian

Ijeoma Okoliegbe (NHS Grampian, UK)

Inter-species interactions alter antimicrobial susceptibility in polymicrobial infection scenarios

Eva Bernadett Benyei (University of Cambridge, UK)

The host signal bile modulates fungal-host interactions through transcriptional rewiring of virulence and metabolism

James Larkin (University College Cork, Ireland)

Implementation of a novel One Health approach to support the investigation of the largest Shiga-toxin producing E. coli (STEC) O157 outbreak in the UK since the introduction of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS)

Neil Cunningham (UK Health Security Agency, UK)

Emerging rhabdoviruses and human infection in Uganda

James Shepherd (University of Glasgow-MRC Centre for Virus Research, UK)

Increased numbers of patients with advanced alveolar echinococcosis presenting to a national referral centre

Lara Payne (University College London Hospital, UK)

The elephant in the Salmonella room: an integrated approach identifies clade-specific signatures of invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella Enteritidis

Blanca Perez-Sepulveda (University of Liverpool, UK)

Pfizer-sponsored promotional symposium: CPE = Challenging Pathogen Encounters

David Jenkins (Consultant Medical Microbiologist, Infection Prevention Specialist, BSAC President University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust, UK)

Update on undergraduate teaching and learning for infection specialists

Bethany Davies (Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK)

Update on postgraduate training in infection specialities

Sylviane Defres (University of Liverpool, UK)

The GermBugs: Stories and illustrations to teach medical microbiology

Andrew Kirby (University of Leeds, UK)

Strategies to promote active infection learning through gamification

David Hettle (North Bristol NHS Trust, UK)

The UK’s Première Infectious Diseases Podcast: 2 years of ID:IOTS

Callum Mutch (NHS Lothian, UK)

Education in IPC – responding to changes in demand, widening access and improving flexibility

Elisabeth Ridgway (Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK) & Ruth Ward (Healthcare Infection Society, UK)

Simulation Training in High Consequence Infectious Diseases (HCID) - Improving Confidence in Risk Assessment and PPE

Oliver Bannister (Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK)

Ocular Tuberculosis

Onn Min Kon (Imperial College London, UK)

Candida Endopthalmitis and the role of routine opthalmological review in candidaemia

Nima Ghadiri (Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust , UK)

Microbial keratitis from diagnosis to targeted treatment

Stephen Kaye and Tobi Somerville (Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and University of Liverpool, UK)

Using genomics to optimise IPC 

James Price (Brighton and Sussex Medical School, UK)

Surveillance frameworks and data essential in predicting patients’ risk of HCAI and AMR   

Sid Mookerjee (Imperial College London, UK)     

Challenges and big questions in moving towards real-time integrated surveillance for AMR

Sarah Parkinson (RAND Europe, UK)

Point of Care and Community Diagnostics: The Patient Perspective and Experience

Jonathan Pearce (Antibiotic Research UK, UK)

Using Technology to Enhance Environmental Hygiene Monitoring

Conor McGinn (Akara Robotics, Ireland)

AMR Diagnostics: Changing hearts and mindsets

Jane Freeman (University of Leeds, UK)

Clinical interactive case

Michael Perry (Public Health Wales - Microbiology, UK)

Anaerobic bacteraemia and cancer

Ulrik Stenz Justesen (Odense University Hospital, Denmark)

Bacteroides fragilis enterotoxin; not so important in infection but a problem in the gut?

Annemarie Boleij (Radboud University Medical Centre, Netherlands)

U=U: unintentional undetectable?

Clemency Nye (Public Health Wales, UK)

It's all in your in head - Tackling neuroinflammatory differential diagnoses

Alex May (Public Health Wales Microbiology, UK)

Escaping diagnosis – an elusive case of rapidly progressive encephalitis

Matthew Powell (University Hospital of Wales, UK)