About National AMR Forum

CRE REDUCE and the University of Queensland have collaborated with national institutions and international partners on the delivery of the 3rd National Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Forum, held in Brisbane on November 8 2019 at the RBWH Education & Conference Centre at Herston

View the 2019 National AMR Forum Program.

In addition to the CRE REDUCE, the key partners included the Queensland Statewide AMS Program, UQ Primary Care Clinical Unit, UQ School of Veterinary Science,  UQ School of Dentistry,  UQ Institute of Molecular Bioscience and the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship.

We brought together physicians, nurses, pharmacists, veterinarians, dentists, policy makers, and others, under a multidisciplinary umbrella of effective action against AMR in human and animal medicine.

Please listen a series of podcasts recorded at the Forum featuring Forum expert speakers and guests. 



FORUM PODCAST SESSIONS

 

GOVERNMENT WELCOME

CHAIR: Dr Trent Yarwood, Director, Queensland Statewide Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr Jeannette Young, Chief Health Officer Queensland Health Topic: Queensland AMR Strategy.

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Professor Sara Cosgrove, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Topic: Antibiotic Stewardship in the Inpatient Setting: Notes from the field

 

SESSION TOPIC: Antimicrobial Prescribing in Australia (RBWH Education Centre Auditorium)

CHAIR: Dr Kathryn Daveson, ACT Health

Residential aged care facilities and AMR

A/Professor Noleen Bennet, National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship

Veterinary antimicrobial prescribing in Australia

Dr Kirsten Bailey, The University of Melbourne

Inappropriate use of antibiotics in Dentistry and Oral Surgery – Who and why and how do we stop it

A/Professor Martin Batstone, The University of Queensland

Antibiotics at end of life in aged care

Dr Bill Lukin, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

 

SESSION TOPIC: New Drugs (UQCCR Auditorium)

CHAIR: Dr Mark Blaskovich, Institute for Molecular Bioscience

New antibiotics in Australia - what is coming

Dr Hugh Wright, The University of Queensland, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Dynamic guidelines to account for emerging resistance and an expanding armamentarium

Professor Allen Cheng, Monash University

Are we winning against malaria?

Professor James McCarthy, QIMR Berghofer

Dosing guidelines to optimise antibiotic effectiveness

Mr Paul Williams, Sunshine Coast University Hospital (SCUH)

 

SESSION TOPIC: Better Diagnostics (RBWH Education Centre, Seminar Room)

CHAIR: Dr Patrick Harris, (UQCCR)

Culture-independent diagnostics for bacterial infections

Dr Amy Jennison, Public Health Microbiology, Health Support Queensland

Role of rapid diagnostics for identifying resistant pathogens

Dr Andrew Henderson, The University of Queensland, Metro South Health

Defining cost-effectiveness of new diagnostics and drugs

Dr Andrew Stewardson, Monash University

State of the art diagnostic approaches in veterinary medicine – Better use of data to drive decisions

Mr Brian Hur, University of Melbourne

 

INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL AMR INITIATIVES IN ANIMAL HEALTH

CHAIR: Dr Justine Gibson, The University of Queensland

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr Leigh Nind – Principal Veterinary Officer, Department of Agriculture, Epidemiology and One Health Section, Canberra.

 

SESSION TOPIC: Safeguarding the Microbiome (RBWH Education Centre Auditorium)

CHAIR: Professor Jeffrey Lipman, University of Queensland, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

The gut microbiome and emergence of resistance

Dr Sanmarie Schlebusch, Forensic and Scientific Services, Queensland Health

Should we expand use of FMT?

Dr Paul Chapman, MNHHS Dr Michael Thomas, Australian Red Cross Blood Service

Do non-antibiotic drugs also lead to the emergence of antibiotic resistance?

Dr Adam Stewart, The University of Queensland, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Companion animal-human AMR dynamics

Dr Kathryn Daveson, ACT Health

 

SESSION TOPIC: National levels AMS (UQCCR Auditorium)

CHAIR: Professor Mieke van Driel, The University of Queensland

Water, sanitation and hygiene in AMR

Dr John Beggs, Monarch Institute, Melbourne

AMS in the tropics

Ms Amy Legg, Royal Darwin Hospital

AMS for urban indigenous communities

Dr Geoffrey Spurling, Inala Indigenous Health Service, The University of Queensland

Implementation of AMS in regional settings

Dr Trent Yarwood, Queensland Statewide Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

 

SESSION TOPIC: Growing ID challenges (RBWH Education Centre, Seminar Room)

CHAIR: Dr Minyon Avent, Queensland Statewide Antimicrobial Stewardship Program

Non-tubercuolous mycobacterial infections AMR & AMS considerations

Dr Andrew Burke, The University of Queensland, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Biofilm mediated dental disease and implications for antimicrobial use and AMR

Dr Rod Marshall, Brisbane City Periodontics & Implants

Big AMS in little people

Ms Nicolette Graham, Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service

Nursing in AMS

Ms Fiona Gotterson, National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship

 

PANEL DISCUSSION: Environmental and infrastructure approaches to limiting AMR (RBWH Education Centre Auditorium)

CHAIR: Dr Krispin Hajkowicz, Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Professor Sara Cosgrove, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore

Professor Mieke van Driel, The University of Queensland

Dr Bronwyn Powell, Independent consultancy

Professor Jeffrey Lipman, The University of Queensland and Metro North Hospital and Health Service

Professor Alan Mark, The University of Queensland

Dr Leigh Nind, Department of Agriculture, Canberra



The keynote address will be delivered by Sara E. Cosgrove, a Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Director, Department of Antimicrobial Stewardship, The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, US. 

 

Venue

Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital
Cnr Butterfield St and Bowen Bridge Rd
HERSTON QLD 4029
Room: 
Auditorium - Royal Brisbane and Women's Hospital Conference and Education Centre