Plenary

Susan Huang MD MPH 1 1 University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases 101 The City Drive, Suite 400, ZC 4018 Orange, California 92868 USA sshuang@uci.edu     Multidrug-resistant organisms (MDROs) continue to increase in number...

Matthew Ames BE (Env), MBA (Tech Mgt), GAICD   This presentation will draw on my background in safety management in the oil and gas and mining industries and compare that with my experiences in the health sector. As a survivor...

Deverick J. Anderson, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FSHEA1 1Duke Center for Antimicrobial Stewardship and Infection Prevention, Durham, NC, USA Small, rural hospitals often have difficulty implementing best practices for infection prevention, developing strategies for antimicrobial stewardship, and meeting quality improvement regulations. ...

Dr Trisha Peel1  1Infectious Diseases and Antimicrobial Stewardship Physician, NHMRC ECF and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Infectious Diseases, The Alfred Hospital and Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia   Over 2 million surgeries are performed annually in Australia and up to...

Chong Wei Ong1,2 1 Canberra Hospital and Health Services, PO Box 11, Woden, ACT 2606; chong-wei.ong@act.gov.au 2 Calvary Public Hospital Bruce, PO Box 254, Jamison Centre, ACT 2614; chong-wei.ong@act.gov.au   Candida auris was first described as a novel species in...

Dr Jenny Firman1 1Principal Medical Adviser, Office of Health Protection, Australian Government Department of Health MDP 14, PO Box 9848, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia The process by which research and initiatives are converted into national and jurisdictional policy is not...

Professor Patricia Stone Infection prevention and control is a regional issue. One of the strongest predictors of a hospitalized patient having a multi-drug resistant organism infection or colonization is the setting from which the person was admitted from. Furthermore, increasingly...

Dr Jennie Wilson, Associate Professor, University of West London   The evidence based medicine movement emerged in the 1980s when the randomised controlled trial became acknowledged as the gold standard for comparing the efficacy of treatments and critical summaries of...

Prof Karin Thursky, MBBS, BSc, FRACP, MD Guidance Clinical Director Director, NHMRC National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship RMH at the Doherty Institute, 792 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne   Antimicrobial stewardship promotes optimal antimicrobial use, maximising individual patient outcomes while minimising harm...

Dale Fisher1,2 1 Division of Infectious Diseases, National University Hospital, Singapore 2 Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore   The best infection prevention practitioners can adapt infection control principles to the setting. An Infectious disease outbreak can begin...