IPC Training Day - Antimicrobial resistance and stewardship

26 February 2026

Programme Timings are subject to change

10:00 - 10:05 Welcome Chair
10:05 - 10:40 How to identify risk factors for resistance in and the role of WGS in diagnostic stewardship for TB. Dr Esther Robinson, Head of TB Unit, Consultant Microbiologist and Clinical Lead, UKHSA, UK
10:40 - 11:15

Therapeutic drug monitoring

Prof Alasdair MacGowan, Consultant in Infection Research, North Bristol NHS Trust, UK 

 

11:15 - 11:30 Break

 

11:30 - 12:05

AMR in neonatal and paediatric care

Dr. Beatriz Larru Martinez, Director of Infection Prevention & Control, Alder Hey Children's NHS Foundation Trust, UK
12:05 - 12:40

Antimicrobial resistance in invasive Group A Strep and implications for antimicrobial stewardship

Dr Deidre Brady, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Ireland
12:40 - 13:30

Lunch

 

13:30 - 14:05

Molecular epidemiology of Gram-negatives

Dr Michaela Day, Lead Clinical Scientist - Opportunistic Pathogen Section - UKHSA, UK

14:05 - 14:40 Treating infections caused by carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE) approaches to antimicrobial stewardship’ Dr Stephen Hughes, Consultant Antimicrobial Pharmacist, Chelsea and Westminster, NHS Foundation Trust, UK
14:40- 14:55 Break  
14:55 - 15:30 Presentation title to be announced Bobson Derrick Fofanah, Infection Prevention and Control Officer, World Health Organisation, Sierra Leone
15:30 - 16:05 Current and emerging antifungal resistance threats Dr Riina Richardson, Consultant Medical Mycologist, Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust, UK
16:05 - 16:10 Summary and close