Harnessing the power of microbial genomics for infection control and outbreak response
Come along to this Microbial and Infection Control Genomics Workshop to discover the potential of microbial genomics and how to apply it to hospital outbreaks and infection control management - from bench to bedside and beyond.
The workshop will include practical sessions for:
- Routine surveillance
- Unexpected, odd and explosive outbreaks
- Evaluating infection control policy change
This workshop is particularly tailored for:
- Infection Control Practitioner
- Microbiologists or Advanced Trainees
- Public Health Physicians or Advanced Trainees
- Infection Control Nurses
- Infectious Diseases Pharmacists
- Sexual Health Physicians
- General Physicians
- Laboratory Scientists
- Clinical researchers
Queensland Genomics is pleased to provide the Microbial Genomics Workshop free-of-charge to all participants. Numbers are limited and preference will be given to Queensland Health employees, including Hospital and Health staff within the categories listed above.
Travel Scholarships
Queensland Genomics is offering up to 10 (up to $1000 each) Queensland based travel scholarships to regional, rural and remote Queensland Health clinicians and scientists (from sites requiring flights to Brisbane) and 5 interstate attendees (up to $500 each) to contribute to flights and accommodation expenses. Travel Scholarship applicants must:
- Provide a brief outline of their current role and how this workshop will support their current duties (max 100 words) to projects@qgha.org.au
- Obtain approval for attendance from their Departmental Director/Hospital Executive Director
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.
