15 July 2010 (Thursday) Postgraduate Course - DICID/ESCMID Joint Workshop

Posgraduate Course - DICID/ESCMID Joint Workshop 

Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance

Date:                15 July 2010 (Thursday)

Time:               08:30 - 18:00     

Venue:            Beijing International Convention Center, Beijing, China

Organizers:     ESCMID AMR Study Group (ESGARS) DICID

Conveners:      Giuseppe Cornaglia, Verona

                       Jun Cheng, Beijing

Description:

This one day meeting will provide you the basic knowledge and essential updates of antimicrobial resistance.

Experts from Europe, Asia and mainland China will be invited to have brief review of antimicrobial resistance including bacterial infection, antimicrobial resistance and nosocomial infection. Also the AMR Study Group from ESCMID will introduce and explained the European protocols.

Apart from the general lectures, there will be luncheons which allow a face-to-face interactive discussion with the experts. The workshop will allow you to share experience and discuss about the special issues.

Objectives of Meeting

  •  To have an in-depth discussion between experts from Chinese and ESCMID experts

  •  To get Chinese doctors acquainted with European protocols

Agenda
09:00 - 11:00Introduction
09:00- 09:30Introduction of bacterial infection and the use of antibiotics
Speaker:  Giuseppe Cornaglia, Verona
09:30- 10:00Mechanism of antimicrobial resistance and ecology of resistant bacteria
Speaker:  Jordi Vila, Barcelona
10:00 -10:30            Nosocomial and community-acquired infections due to resistant bacteria
Speaker: Jesus Rodriguez Baño, Seville
10:30-11:00Discussion
11:00-11:30Coffee Break
11:30- 12:30           Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing and Surveillance
11:30-12:00Antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods
Speaker: Gunnar Kahlmeter, Växjö
12:00-12:30How to build up an ideal surveillance system: the role of laboratory and clinic
Speaker: Giuseppe Cornaglia,Verona
12:30- 14:00            Meet-the Professors Luncheon
14:00- 15:00           Trends in European microbiology
Speakers: Gunnar Kahlmeter, Växjö/ Jordi Vila, Barcelona
15:00-16:00Discussion
16:00- 16:30            Coffee Break
16:30- 18:00           China Chapter
16:30- 17:00            Resistance of Gram-negative Bacilli in China
Speaker: Minggui Wang, Shanghai
17:00- 17:30            Antibiotics: Drug Discovery and Policy in China
Speaker: Yonghong Xiao, Beijing
17:30- 18:00            Discussion and wrap up

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ESCMID Study Group for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance - ESGARS

ESGARS is permanently represented in the Advisory Board of the European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System (EARSS). EARSS, funded by DG SANCO of the European Commission and coordinated by the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM), is a European network of national surveillance systems, which collects comparable and validated antimicrobial resistance data for public health purposes.

The present ESGARS representative is its President, Fernando Baquero.

Further ESGARS Officers sitting in the EARSS Advisory Board have been Giuseppe Cornaglia (still present, acting as the ESCMID EC representative), Waleria Hryniewicz (Warsaw, Poland) and Helmut Mittermayer (Linz, Austria).

Vincent Jarlier (Paris) and Alkiviadis Vatopoulos (Athens, Greece) joined the EARSS Advisory Board during 2006


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