Opening remarks

Professor Philip Howard OBE

SESSION ONE: The Landscape

Lab diagnostics for Gram-negative infections

Dr David Jenkins

Epidemiology and challenge of MDR Gram-negative in the post COVID-19 era

Dr Louise Sweeney

Resistance mechanisms to the newest antibiotics

Professor David Livermore

Q&A

SESSION TWO: The Bugs

Free Paper: Bridging the gap between the laboratory and the clinic: P. aeruginosa biofilm infection in an ex vivo pig lung model of the cystic fibrosis lung

Miss Niamh Harrington, PhD Student, University of Warwick

Acinetobacter and AMR

Dr David Wareham

Pseudomonas – transmission and AMR in the context of cystic fibrosis chronic lung infections

Professor Jane Davies

Pseudomonas – transmission and AMR in the context of cystic fibrosis chronic lung infections

Professor Jane Davies

Shionogi symposium

Shionogi symposium: Introducing cefiderocol; the “Trojan Horse” cephalosporin – new clinical data and recent real world experience

SESSION THREE: The Infections

Complicated urinary tract infections

Dr Annie Joseph

Intra-abdominal sepsis

Professor Mark Wilcox

Management of difficult to treat infections on the ICU

Dr Sunny Kaul

Free paper: Broad-spectrum gram-negative coverage in non-ICU hospital acquired pneumonia

Mr Ed Whittaker, Medical Student University of Edinburgh

Q&A

Closing remarks

Professor Philip Howard OBE