Complicated Infections

Complicated Infections: Updates in Sexually Transmitted Infections

Thu 18 Jun 2026 12:00pm1:30pm
Registration: 
27 October 202518 June 2026

Venue

Frazer Institute Auditorium (formerly UQCCR) building 71/918
Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
Herston QLD 4029
Room: 
Auditorium

Join CRE RESPOND for the Complicated Infections: Updates in Sexually Transmitted Infections seminar on Thursday 18 June 2026!

A/Prof Andrew Burke will be chairing this seminar, which will deliver the latest updates in the management of complex and emerging sexually transmitted infections. Clinicians and researchers will present new insights into long‑acting retrovirals in HIV and HIV prophylaxis, explore the diagnostic landscape of Mycoplasma genitalium antimicrobial resistance assays, and examine gonorrhoea in Australia’s changing epidemiological landscape. 

Event Program:

11:45am - Light lunch and registrations

Foyer, Level 2, Auditorium, Frazer Institute

12:00pm - Welcome and introduction

Associate Professor Andrew Burke, Director of Infectious Disease, The Prince Charles Hospital

12:05pm - Long active retrovirals in HIV and HIV prophylaxis

Dr Ethan MacMinn, Gold Coast Sexual Health

12:25pm - The diagnostic landscape of Mycoplasma genitalium antimicrobial resistance assays

Dr Emma Sweeny, The University of Queensland

12:45pm - Gonorrheoa in Australia - a changing landscape

Ms Samantha Webster, Pathology Queensland

1:05pm - Q&A

1:30pm - Close

If you have any questions about the seminar please contact the CRE RESPOND team at cre.respond@uq.edu.au.

 

 

Contacts

Luminita Vlad, Centre Manager
07 3346 5045