Events

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Find out more from the experts and guideline authors who presented on the newly published clinical practice guidelines for UTIs. 

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CRE RESPOND hosted the Sepsis: What is the latest on optimal management of Sepsis seminar on Thursday 16th October and heard from expert clinicians and clinical educators.

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CRE RESPOND hosted the Respiratory Infections: Update on Managing Bronchiectasis and NTM Pulmonary Disease seminar on Thursday 11 September, and heard from expert clinicians and researchers as they presented the latest updates in respiratory infections.

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CRE RESPOND hosted our fifth annual Worldwide Precision Dosing seminar, allowing those in attendance to hear from expert clinicians and clinical educators from all across the world, including Australia, Europe, and Asia. The program featured presentations on precision dosing strategies for antifungals, antibiotics, and drugs in complex patient populations—including paediatrics and obesity.

Are you looking to enhance your knowledge of pharmacokinetics (PK) and gain hands-on experience with population pharmacokinetic (popPK) modelling? Whether you are new to the field or looking to deepen your expertise, this three-day workshop is designed to equip participants with the skills and insights needed to apply PopPK in both research and clinical practice.

This workshop is ideal for pharmacologists and clinical researchers, healthcare professionals and pharmacists, students and early-career professionals interested in PK modelling.

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BTID Day 2025 was an exciting day focused on providing updates and reflections on what’s new in Transplant Infectious Diseases. Topics included diagnostic and therapeutic challenges (HLH, CAR-T, and infection vigilance systems), novel diagnostics and therapeutics of fungal infections, surgical updates (BKVAN, organ perfusion); and using data and registries to drive research and improve quality.

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A/Prof Patrick Harris, ID Physician, Medical Microbiologist and NHMRC Emerging Leadership 2 Fellow at UQCCR chairs an Early Diagnostics seminar with Dr Shradha Subedi and Dr Chitra Ravi. They discuss central nervous system infections and rapid diagnostic tests, as well as use of cutting-edge genetic technology to rapidly and accurately find and identify harmful bacteria and their resistance to antibiotics directly from a blood sample.

Join the CRE RESPOND for a Dose Optimisation and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring seminar to hear from expert clinicians and clinical educators.

CRE RESPOND hosted the second OPAT/HITH Masterclass for 2024 on Thursday 28 November on Peripheral intravenous use of elastomerics in Hospital in the Home.

View the recording of the Anaesthesia, Surgery and Antibiotics seminar held Thursday 14 November 2024. Chaired by Associate Professor Jayesh Dhanani, Principal Research Fellow, UQCCR, UQ, Australia.

View the recording of our Microsampling seminar from Tuesday 29 October 2024 on the seminar webpage.

CRE RESPOND Respiratory Infections: Tuberculosis seminar was held Thursday 17 October 2024. Chaired by Dr Andrew Burke, Infectious Disease and Thoracic Physician, Brisbane with presenters from Korea and Australia.

CRE RESPOND's fourth Annual Worldwide Precision Dosing seminar was held on Tuesday 10 September.  Our panel of expert clinicians and clinical educators, from America, Europe and Australia, covered when and how to implement continuous infusions of antimicrobials in the ICU, precision dosing of aminoglycosides and dalbavancin, and practical case examples of using model informed precision dosing in clinical practice.

The CRE RESPOND Forum was held to share our latest updates and developments in reducing antimicrobial resistance through optimised dosing. Over the past two and a half years, our team, together with PhD students, has actively collaborated with centres and hospitals worldwide to continue our activity around optimised antimicrobial use. This forum presented some of our most recent exciting data and we hope that it will provide a springboard from which to plan for future innovations in clinical practice in infectious disease.

The Brisbane Transplant Infectious Diseases meeting was a great success!  We welcomed presenters from various disciplines focusing on transplant and infectious diseases care.

The CRE RESPOND Dosing in the Asia Pacific Seminar discussing dosing optimisation for difficult to treat infections was held Tuesday 16 April 2024, chaired by Dr Hafiz Abdul-Aziz, Research Fellow, UQ Centre for Clinical Research. View the recording on the seminar webpage.

The CRE RESPOND Antimicrobial Optimisation Workshop: Population pharmacokinetic modelling and dosing software was held 5-7 March 2024.

The first CRE RESPOND OPAT/HITH Masterclass for 2024 was held Thursday 29 February 2024 chaired by Dr Fekade Sime with expert clinicians and clinical educators discussing HITH Models of Care in England, Malaysia and Spain.

Join CRE RESPOND hybrid seminar to hear expert clinicians discuss latest updates in community acquired and ventilator associated pneumonia including pneumonia in tropical Australia.

CRE RESPOND is pleased to promote the NTM Australia Research Network meeting to be held Thursday 16 and Friday 17 November 2023 at the Mayne Medical Building, Herston, QLD, 4006.

Join CRE RESPOND hybrid seminar to hear the experts' updates and information on dosing software for clinical practice.