The Lancet / ESCMID Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance
15 - 16 October 2011, Beijing, China
Organisers
- ESCMID
- The Lancet
- The Lancet Infectious Diseases
Scientific Committee
- Jun CHENG
Society of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Medical Association - Giuseppe CORNAGLIA
European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) - Po-Ren HSUEH
Global Chinese Association of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases and Taiwan Society of Microbiology - Lanjuan LI
Society of Infectious Diseases, Chinese Medical Association - John MCCONNELL
The Lancet Infectious Diseases - Chen WANG
Chinese Society of Respiratory Diseases
Preliminary Programme
Topics to be discussed include:
- Evidence for the efficacy of infectioncontrol policies
- Managing Gram-positive infections
- Infection control and Gram-negative infections
- Point-of-care diagnostics and the need for rapid tests
- Cost-effectiveness of antibiotic-restriction policies
- Role of the global village in controlling HAIs and resistance
Conference Secretariat
Emma Huang
#1303, China Merchants Plaza, East Building
No. 333 Cheng Du Road (N)
Shanghai, 200041
PR China
Phone +86 21 61333077
Fax +86 21 52980210
