40th anniversary programme
10 - 11 June 2020
| 10 June 2020 | ||
| 13:00 | Arrival and registration | |
| 13:30 |
Welcome |
Professor Hilary Humphreys, HIS President | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland |
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13:35 |
The formation of the Society |
Dr David Shanson, HIS Founder Member |
| 13:50 | A brief history of the Society | Dr Bob Spencer, HIS Honorary Archivist |
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14:00
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Session 1 | Overview of healthcare-associated infections and the evolution of HIS, international conferences, Lowbury lectures and education and training activities of HIS |
Chair: Professor Hilary Humphreys | Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
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14:05 |
Overview of healthcare-associated infections and infection prevention and control |
Professor Jonathan van Tam | Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Department of Health and Social Care |
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14:35 |
How the Society’s Lowbury lectures reflect the important IPC issues that have arisen over the last 40 years |
Professor Shaheen Mehtar | Stellenbosch University |
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15:05 |
How infection training has changed and is changing |
Dr Julian Sutton | University Hospital Southampton NHS Foundation Trust |
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15:20 |
HIS contributions to training
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Dr James Price | Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust |
| 15:40 |
Coffee/tea |
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| 16:10 |
Session 2 | Impact of HIS-funded research |
Chair: Dr Peter Jenks | University Hospitals Plymouth |
| 16:15 |
Impact of HIS-funded research - where has it led? |
Professor Jean-Yves Maillard | Cardiff University |
| 16:35 |
Impact of HIS-funded research - where has it led? |
Dr Elaine Cloutman-Green | Great Ormond Street Hospital and University College London |
| 16:55 |
Impact of HIS-funded research - where has it led? |
Dr Emma Wiley | Croydon University Hospital |
| 17:15 | Drinks reception and exhibition | |
| 20:00 | Dinner | |
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11 June 2020 |
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09:00 |
Arrival and registration |
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09:25 |
Session 3 | Top papers from the Journal of Hospital Infection (JHI) |
Chair: Dr Stephanie Dancer | NHS Lanarkshire | Past Editor in Chief, JHI |
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09:30 |
Most influential JHI papers | 1980 – 1989
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Professor Thomas Rogers | Trinity College Dublin | Past President HIS | Past Editor in Chief, JHI |
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09:45 |
Most influential JHI papers | 1990 – 1999 | Dr Steve Barrett | Past Editor in Chief, JHI |
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10:00 |
Most influential JHI papers | 2000 – 2009 | Dr Jenny Child | Harrogate and District NHS Trust | Past Editor in Chief, JHI |
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10:15 |
Most influential JHI papers | 2010 – 2020 |
Dr Jim Gray, Editor in Chief JHI | Birmingham Children's Hospital |
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10:30 |
What did we miss the first time around? What are the lessons we should have learned? |
Martin Kiernan | University of West London |
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11:00 |
Coffee/tea |
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11:30 |
Session 4 | Working parties and guidelines |
Chair: Dr Geoff Ridgway OBE | Past President HIS |
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11:35 |
Working parties – how influential has HIS been to the UK reduction in C. difficile and MRSA | Do guidelines make a difference? |
Professor Mark Wilcox | Leeds Teaching Hospitals |
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12:05 |
Challenges in producing guidelines
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Professor Peter Wilson | UCLH NHS Foundation Trust |
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12:35 |
Lunch and exhibition |
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13:30 |
Session 5 | Looking forwards |
Chair: Professor Thomas Rogers | Trinity College Dublin | Past President HIS |
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13:35 |
Molecular/whole genome sequencing and laboratory/diagnostic aspects of HCAI IPC |
Professor Sharon Peacock | University of Cambridge |
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14:05 |
Expectations from patients and the public |
Jennifer Bostock |
National Healthcare-Associated Infection Research Network, Service Users Research Forum |
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14:35 |
Antibiotic resistance and antimicrobial stewardship |
Professor Peter Davey | University of Dundee |
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15:05 |
Title to be confirmed |
Heather Loveday | University of West London |
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15:35 |
Closing lecture |
To be confirmed |
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16:05 |
Close and coffee |
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