The conference will guarantee
an outstanding educational experience through a mixture of
state-of-the-art lectures by renowned experts in the field as
well as symposia, pro-and-con debates and industry organised
sessions. The academic programme, which shall encompass a wide
mixture of topics, will be regularly updated on the congress
website.
In addition, IFIC conferences are
recognised as venues for effective networking and experience
sharing between the participating delegates. This will be made
possible through numerous small group workshops and buzz
groups and the general organisation of the event.
Delegates will also have an extensive
opportunity to share their research and experience through
oral as well as poster presentations.
Keynote
lectures:
Global strategies for
antimicrobial resistance prevention and control
Gerald Dziekan; World Health
Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
H1N1: lessons learned and moving forward
Jonathan Van-Tam; Health Protection Agency
Nottingham, UK
Getting to Zero and Other Possible Dreams
Donald Goldmann; Institute for Health Improvement
Cambridge, USA
Dynamics of MRSA spread in healthcare settings and beyondEM>
Hajo Grundmann; EARSS Bilthoven,
The Netherlands
Symposia:
- Core components of Infection Prevention &
Control
- To screen or not to screen
- Making routine Infection Control Practices routine:
6 things that will really make
a difference
- Hand hygiene
- Expanding surveillance: lessons learned from the EU
- Communicating the infection control message
- Prevention of TB and other respiratory infections
- Evidence base for antibiotic policies
- Science at the bedside in every country
- Wound antisepsis
Workshops & buzz
groups:
- Near misses in infection control
- Basic requirements of infection control education
- Designing a ward
- Safe needles
- A worldwide view on infections in the elderly
- MRSA policies in Europe
- The five moments of hand hygiene
- Wound antisepsis
- Multi-resistant Gram negative control
- Safe childbirth
- Clinical waste management
- Prevention of nosocomial fungal infections
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