New Perspectives in Infection Control, ESCMID Postgraduate Education Course
12 - 14 March 2015, Kayseri, Turkey
Organisers
- ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infections (ESGNI)
- Turkish Society of Hospital Infections and Control
- Erciyes University
Course Coordinators
- Emine Alp, Kayseri, Turkey
- Murat Dizbay, Ankara, Turkey
- Ata Nevzat Yalçın, Antalya, Turkey
Course Objectives
- To discuss new advances in infection control
- To discuss behavioural attitudes of health care workers and ways to change the behaviour in infection control
- To discuss the economical analysis of nosocomial infections
- To share the experiences in infection control
Course Venue
Radisson Blu Hotel
Hunat Mahallesi
Sivas Caddesi No: 24/1
Melikgazi, Kayseri
Turkey
Phone +90 352 315 50 00
Fax +90 352 315 50 50
info.kayseri[at]radissonblu.com
Target Audience
Up to 80 interested clinical microbiologists and infectious disease specialists from all over the world.
CME Accreditation
The organisers of the course will apply for European CME accreditation through EACCME.
Contact Person (Scientific Programme & Administration)
Emine Alp
Erciyes University, Faculty of Medicine
Department of Infectious Diseases and
Clinical Microbiology
Kayseri
Turkey
Phone +90 053 631 464 30
Fax +90 035 243 752 73
aeminea[at]hotmail.com
Course Programme
Presentations are availabe in the ESCMID Online Lecture Library.
Thursday, 12 March 2015
16:00 Opening ceremony and welcome remarks. Emine Alp, Erdal Akalın (Turkish Society of Hospital Infection and Control) & Murat Akova (President of ESCMID)
16:30 A global approach and new perspectives in infection control. Erdal Akalın
17:00 Behavioural attitudes of health care workers in infection control: a different approach to behaviour change. Mary Louise McLaws
17:30 Establishing and directing an infection control programme in a hospital.
Barry Cookson
19:00 Cocktail
Friday, 13 March 2015
09:00 Surveillance definitions of health careassociated infections: what is new?
Sonja Hansen
10:00 Bundle strategies in infection control: why and how? Jordi Rello
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 How can we increase and monitor hand hygiene adherence in hospital?
Benedetta Allegranzi
12:00 Lunch
13:30 Antimicrobial stewardship programme: when, why and how? Murat Akova
14:00 Economical analyses of nosocomial infections: how can we do it?
Ata Nevzat Yalçın
14:30 Modern approach to the prevention of vascular catheter-related infections. Andreas Widmer (to be confirmed)
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 How to achieve the prevention of urinary tract infections at the bed side?
Saban Esen
16:30 The challenges of preventing ventilatorassociated pneumonia. Jordi Rello
Saturday, 14 March 2015
09:00 How should we best use molecular tools in infection control?
Ibrahim Abubakar
09:30 Glycopeptide-resistant enterococci: how to prevent HAI due to these
organisms? Frauke Mattner
10:00 Coffee break
10:30 Screening patients for multidrugresistant pathogens: when, why,
how long? Yesim Çetinkaya Sardan
11:00 Environmental cleaning and disinfection: what is new? Emine Alp
11:30 Closing remarks & lunch
Invited Faculty Members
- Ibrahim Abubakar, London, United Kingdom
- Erdal Akalın, Istanbul, Turkey
- Murat Akova, Ankara, Turkey
- Emine Alp, Kayseri, Turkey
- Benedetta Allegranzi, Geneva, Switzerland
- Barry Cookson, London, United Kingdom
- ¸Saban Esen, Samsun, Turkey
- Sonja Hansen, Berlin, Germany
- Frauke Mattner, Cologne, Germany
- Mary Louise McLaws, Sydney, Australia
- Jordi Rello, Barcelona, Spain
- Ye¸sim Çetinkaya ¸Sardan, Ankara, Turkey
- Andreas Widmer, Basel, Switzerland
- Ata Nevzat Yalçın, Antalya, Turkey