Trainee education day - Antimicrobial resistance & stewardship
05 July 2023
(Programme is subject to change)
| 10:00 - 10:05 | Welcome and introduction | Chair |
| 10:05 - 10:40 | Molecular epidemiology of Gram-negatives – UKHSA perspective | Dr Katie Hopkins,
Clinical Scientist, UK Health Security Agency |
| 10:40 - 11:15 |
Introduction to antimicrobial stewardship |
Dr Andrew Seaton,Antibiotic stewardship lead, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Comfort break |
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| 11:30 - 12:25 |
Therapeutic drug monitoring |
Prof Alasdair MacGowan, Consultant in Infection Research at North Bristol NHS Trust & Professor of Antimicrobial Therapeutics at the University of Bristol |
| 12:25 - 13:00 |
Treating infections caused by carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) approaches to antimicrobial stewardship |
Dr Stephen Hughes, Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist, Chelsea and Westminster, NHS Foundation Trust |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Lunch |
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| 13:45 - 14:20 |
How to identify risk factors for resistance in TB +/- the role of WGS in diagnostic stewardship for TB. |
Dr Esther Robinson, Head of TB Unit, Consultant Microbiologist and Clinical Lead, UK Health Security Agency |
| 14:20 - 14:55 | Critical thresholds of antimicrobial use in hospitals – and the development of resistance | Dr Tim Lawes, Specialist Trainee in General Paediatrics SCREDS Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Aberdeen |
| 14:55 - 15:10 | Comfort break | |
| 15:10 - 15:50 |
Current and emerging antifungal resistance threats |
Dr Ruth Ashbee,Visiting Lecturer, University of Leeds; Honorary Principal Clinical Scientist, Leeds General Infirmary and Empeiros Limited |
| 15:50 | Final discussion |