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FIS 2013 – Action on Infection

The FIS (Federation of Infection Societies) Annual Conference is a collaboration between all organisations who have an interest in infection from across the UK

In 2013, BSAC hosted the three day event on behalf of all societies at the prestigious ICC in the heart of Birmingham.
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The meetings podcasts are available below.

Day 1

Monday 11 November 2013
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Resistance Surveillance Professor David Livermore	Download video Download slides
Vaccines Professor Rob Read	Download video Download slides
Antibacterial pharmacodynamics: choosing the right agent, dose and duration Professor Alasdair MacGowan	Download video Download slides
Ceftaroline Professor David Livermore	Download video Download slides
Fidaxomicin Professor Mark Wilcox	Download video Download slides
Daptomycin Dr Andrew Seaton	Download video Download slides
A pilot study measuring the kinetic profile of IP-10 over the first 14 days of TB chemotherapy Dr Rachel Saunders	Download video Download slides
HDV infected patients with active HBV replication have mutations in HBV reverse transcriptase Mrs Elham Shirvani-Dastgerdi Medizinische Klinik III	Download video Download slides
Incorporating tuberculosis strain typing data into routine contact tracing investigations: experience from the field Dr Melinda Munang	Download video Download slides
Distinguishing Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia from Colonisation by Semi-Quantitative PCR Dr Daniel Weiland	Download video Download slides
Development of the Nottingham NUH OPAT service – A Study analysing the Figures behind the Funding Dr Susan Snape	Download video Download slides
Development of a Human Probiotic Infusion service for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection Dr Victoria McCune	Download video Download slides
Update on current management options for difficult UTI Dr Ann Pallett	Download video Download slides
Practical challenges in diagnosis of uncomplicated and complicated UTI Dr Guduru Gopal Rao	Download video Download slides
Global access to effective antibiotics – bridging the gap between science & policy Professor Otto Cars	Download video Download slides
The real cost of treating C diff infection Ms Laura Whitney	Download video Download slides
Public Health England guidance on C diff treatment Professor Mark Wilcox	Download video Download slides
DIFICLIR TM (fidaxomicin): Patient cases studies Dr Deepa Nayar	Download video Download slides
Improved patient outcomes and antibiotic stewardship through smarter testing Dr Matthew Dryden	Download video Download slides
The OPAT Initiative 2013 and beyond – including results of 2013 Audit Dr Andrew Seaton	Download video Download slides
Presenting a credible business case to your Trust – lessons learned since 2009 Dr Graeme Jones	Download video Download slides
Consider the patient, the drug and the device – how do you choose? Mr Tim Hills	Download video Download slides
OPAT Good Practice Recommendations application within paediatrics Dr Sanjay Patel	Download video Download slides
OPAT & Antibiotic Stewardship Dr Sanjay Patel	Download video Download slides
Measuring and reporting success: Good database principles and presenting the initial results from the national OPAT registry Dr Mark Gilchrist	Download video Download slides
Resistance surveillance – the UK landscape Professor Alasdair MacGowan	Download video Download slides
Emerging Strategies for Control of Multidrug Resistant Organisms in Health Care Environment Dr Roy Chemaly	Download video Download slides
Surveillance of antimicrobials – establishing a national point prevalence survey system Dr Maggie Heginbothom	Download video Download slides
Gram positive bacteraemia Professor Jean-Christophe Lucet	Download video Download slides
Gram negative bacteraemia Dr David Enoch	Download video Download slides
Central-line associated bloodstream infections Professor Peter Wilson	Download video Download slides
Syndromes associated with biological weapons Lieutenant Colonel James Dunbar	Download video Download slides
Politics and Biological Weapons? How does the international community deal with things? Professor Malcolm Dando	Download video Download slides
Smallpox, Bird-flu, Chicken-soup- Concerns About the Misuse of Medical Research and Emerging Technologies Dr Brett Edwards	Download video Download slides
Politics and Biological Weapons – how do UK and Irish institutions currently see things? Dr Lorenzo Cladi	Download video Download slides
Prospect for HIV cure in adults Dr John Frater	Download video Download slides
Early treated infants and the Mississippi baby Dr Steve Welch	Download video Download slides
The future of HIV services in the new NHS Dr Simon Barton	Download video Download slides
When the Drugs don’t work – a case of HSV encephalitis Dr Nicola Price	Download video Download slides
A fungal spore in the csf! Dr Susie Froude	Download video Download slides
Best Practice in Examination Dr Emyr Benbow	Download video Download slides
Enhancing undergraduate microbiology teaching and learning Dr Bethany Davies	Download video Download slides
Improving your teaching to postgraduates Professor Elizabeth Hughes	Download video Download slides

Day 2

Tuesday 12 November 2013
Presentation Details	Downloads
Use of posaconazole for cerebral aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient: case report and literature review Dr Richard Cooke	Download video Download slides
Post Traumatic Osteomyelitis: A rare presentation of Clostridium difficile infection Dr Jade Harrison	Download video Download slides
A blurry disguise from the ‘great imitator’ Dr Kamaljit Khalsa	Download video Download slides
Inflammatory complications in CNS tuberculosis Dr Kiranmai Bhatt	Download video Download slides
A rare case of injectional anthrax infection Dr Anoushka Kansara	Download video Download slides
A Hunter’s Infection Dr Philip Asquith	Download video Download slides
Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections isolated from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital: A case notes review Dr Katherine Clay	Download video Download slides
Educating the ‘Start Smart – Then Focus’ generation Professor Peter Davey	Download video Download slides
What are the public’s expectations for antibiotics and how can we influence them? Developing the TARGET website Dr Cliodna McNulty	Download video Download slides
Bacterial whole genome sequencing in clinical microbiology, infection control and public health Professor Julian Parkhill	Download video Download slides
Whole genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis – what are the benefits? Dr Timothy Walker	Download video Download slides
Viral genome sequencing to guide clinical management and public health Professor Judith Breuer	Download video Download slides
Antimicrobial Resistance Risk Assessments – key findings from the last ten years Professor Peter Silley	Download video Download slides
Can we predict the next European zoonotic MDR epidemic? Professor John Threlfall	Download video Download slides
MRSA in pigs – the Spanish experience Ms Concepción Porrero	Download video Download slides
Synovial fluid biomarkers and the diagnosis of implant related joint infections Dr Kordo Saeed	Download video Download slides
The role of intravenous antibiotic therapy Dr Andrew Seaton	Download video Download slides
The role of oral antibiotic therapy Dr Matthew Dryden	Download video Download slides
Success implementation of IV to Oral switch Dr Matthew Dryden	Download video Download slides
How to do it! A short course on Quality Improvement Dr Emma Donaldson, Dr Imran Qureshi	Download video Download slides
MDR Acinetobacter baumannii Dr Michael Borg	Download video Download slides
Can gonorrhoea remain a treatable infection? Dr Michael Borg	Download video Download slides
The development and evaluation of a peer education workshop for school aged children on hygiene and the prevention of infection Dr Vicki Young	Download video Download slides
What is the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients treated through an Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service? Dr David Barr	Download video Download slides
Investigation and antibiotic treatment of IID and suspected E.coli O157 and Clostridium difficile by general practitioners in England: are they doing the right thing? Dr Cliodna McNulty	Download video Download slides
Persistence of specific bactericidal antibodies against serogroup B meningococcus at 5 years of age after immunisation with 4CMenB in infancy and 40 months Dr Fiona McQuaid	Download video Download slides
Debate: ‘Screening for multiple antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MR-GNB) in NICU: Yes or No?’ Dr Abid Hussain	Download video Download slides
Debate: ‘Screening for multiple antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MR-GNB) in NICU: Yes or No?’ Dr Mitul Patel	Download video Download slides
Building a career in Academic Infectious Diseases Professor Jon Friedland	Download video Download slides
Building a career in Academic Microbiology and Virology Professor Judith Breuer	Download video Download slides

Day 3

Wednesday 13 November 2013, The ICC, Birmingham
Presentation Details	Downloads
Device-Related Bacteraemia – a Surrogate Marker of HCAIs Dr Mike Cooper	Download video Download slides
An outbreak of Clostridium difficile ribotype 027 in a residential home Dr James Clayton	Download video Download slides
Whole-genome sequencing to investigate the role of hospital water in transmission of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to burns patients Dr Beryl Oppenheim	Download video Download slides
The successful control of a Vancomycin resistant Enterococcus (VRE) outbreak in the Nephrology department of a large district hospital Dr Hala Kandil	Download video Download slides
TB screening in a Dialysis Unit: detecting latent TB infection is only half the problem Dr David Enoch	Download video Download slides
Cultural determinants of infection control behaviour: understanding drivers and implementing effective change Dr Michael Borg	Download video Download slides
Better Data = Better Outcomes : An illustration of a national information platform Professor Dilip Nathwani, Professor Marion Bennie	Download video Download slides
Better engagement with clinical teams Dr Emma Donaldson, Dr Imran Qureshi	Download video Download slides
Anti-infectives – the evidence base or lack thereof! Dr Andrew Lovering	Download video Download slides
Anti-fungals – the current state of the art Professor David Denning	Download video Download slides
Challenges of TDM in paediatrics Dr Jim Gray	Download video Download slides
The true course of Lyme disease in the UK Dr Matthew Dryden	Download video Download slides
The Imported Fever Service – Overview and update Dr Nick Beeching	Download video Download slides
Novel diagnostics methods for imported fevers Dr Matthew Dryden	Download video Download slides
Conference debate: Clostridium difficile targets – how low can you go? Motion: Successfully meeting objectives for Clostridium difficile adversely affects prescribing behaviour. The argument for: Dr Bharat Patel	Download video Download slides
Conference debate: Clostridium difficile targets – how low can you go? Motion: Successfully meeting objectives for Clostridium difficile adversely affects prescribing behaviour. The argument against: Dr David Jenkins	Download video Download slides
A career in infections from both sides of the fence Professor Peter Borriello	Download video Download slides
Introductory talk: What’s new and new evidence for old agents? Professor Alasdair MacGowan	Download video Download slides
Is Temocillin really an option for hospital-acquired pneumonia? Mr Hani Habayeb	Download video Download slides
Evidence for the use of new and old agents for Staphylococcus aureus infections? Dr Charis Marwick	Download video Download slides
Fidaxomicin first-line in C. difficile infection: is it justifiable? Dr Paul Wade	Download video Download slides

Event details

11 November 2013

The ICC, Birmingham

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FIS 2013 – Action on Infection

The FIS (Federation of Infection Societies) Annual Conference is a collaboration between all organisations who have an interest in infection from across the UK

Day 1

Resistance Surveillance

Vaccines

Antibacterial pharmacodynamics: choosing the right agent, dose and duration

Ceftaroline

Fidaxomicin

Daptomycin

A pilot study measuring the kinetic profile of IP-10 over the first 14 days of TB chemotherapy

HDV infected patients with active HBV replication have mutations in HBV reverse transcriptase

Incorporating tuberculosis strain typing data into routine contact tracing investigations: experience from the field

Distinguishing Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia from Colonisation by Semi-Quantitative PCR

Development of the Nottingham NUH OPAT service – A Study analysing the Figures behind the Funding

Development of a Human Probiotic Infusion service for the treatment of Clostridium difficile infection

Update on current management options for difficult UTI

Practical challenges in diagnosis of uncomplicated and complicated UTI

Global access to effective antibiotics – bridging the gap between science & policy

The real cost of treating C diff infection

Public Health England guidance on C diff treatment

DIFICLIR TM (fidaxomicin): Patient cases studies

Improved patient outcomes and antibiotic stewardship through smarter testing

The OPAT Initiative 2013 and beyond – including results of 2013 Audit

Presenting a credible business case to your Trust – lessons learned since 2009

Consider the patient, the drug and the device – how do you choose?

OPAT Good Practice Recommendations application within paediatrics

OPAT & Antibiotic Stewardship

Measuring and reporting success: Good database principles and presenting the initial results from the national OPAT registry

Resistance surveillance – the UK landscape

Emerging Strategies for Control of Multidrug Resistant Organisms in Health Care Environment

Surveillance of antimicrobials – establishing a national point prevalence survey system

Gram positive bacteraemia

Gram negative bacteraemia

Central-line associated bloodstream infections

Syndromes associated with biological weapons

Politics and Biological Weapons? How does the international community deal with things?

Smallpox, Bird-flu, Chicken-soup- Concerns About the Misuse of Medical Research and Emerging Technologies

Politics and Biological Weapons – how do UK and Irish institutions currently see things?

Prospect for HIV cure in adults

Early treated infants and the Mississippi baby

The future of HIV services in the new NHS

When the Drugs don’t work – a case of HSV encephalitis

A fungal spore in the csf!

Best Practice in Examination

Enhancing undergraduate microbiology teaching and learning

Improving your teaching to postgraduates

Day 2

Use of posaconazole for cerebral aspergillosis in an immunocompetent patient: case report and literature review

Post Traumatic Osteomyelitis: A rare presentation of Clostridium difficile infection

A blurry disguise from the ‘great imitator’

Inflammatory complications in CNS tuberculosis

A rare case of injectional anthrax infection

A Hunter’s Infection

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial infections isolated from Birmingham Heartlands Hospital: A case notes review

Educating the ‘Start Smart – Then Focus’ generation

What are the public’s expectations for antibiotics and how can we influence them? Developing the TARGET website

Bacterial whole genome sequencing in clinical microbiology, infection control and public health

Whole genome sequencing of M. tuberculosis – what are the benefits?

Viral genome sequencing to guide clinical management and public health

Antimicrobial Resistance Risk Assessments – key findings from the last ten years

Can we predict the next European zoonotic MDR epidemic?

MRSA in pigs – the Spanish experience

Synovial fluid biomarkers and the diagnosis of implant related joint infections

The role of intravenous antibiotic therapy

The role of oral antibiotic therapy

Success implementation of IV to Oral switch

How to do it! A short course on Quality Improvement

MDR Acinetobacter baumannii

Can gonorrhoea remain a treatable infection?

The development and evaluation of a peer education workshop for school aged children on hygiene and the prevention of infection

What is the risk of venous thromboembolism in patients treated through an Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy (OPAT) Service?

Investigation and antibiotic treatment of IID and suspected E.coli O157 and Clostridium difficile by general practitioners in England: are they doing the right thing?

Persistence of specific bactericidal antibodies against serogroup B meningococcus at 5 years of age after immunisation with 4CMenB in infancy and 40 months

Debate: ‘Screening for multiple antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MR-GNB) in NICU: Yes or No?’

Debate: ‘Screening for multiple antibiotic resistant Gram-negative bacteria (MR-GNB) in NICU: Yes or No?’

Building a career in Academic Infectious Diseases

Building a career in Academic Microbiology and Virology

Day 3

Device-Related Bacteraemia – a Surrogate Marker of HCAIs

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