ICPIC 2019 - International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control

ICPIC 2019 - International Conference on Prevention & Infection Control is organized by MCI Suisse SA and will be held from Sep 10 - 13, 2019 at CICG Geneva - International Conference Center Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland.

Conference Description:
The conference offers a unique forum for participants to exchange knowledge and experience in the prevention of healthcare-associated infections and control of antimicrobial resistance around the world.

The most resonating topics will be addressed including: antimicrobial resistance, catheter-related bloodstream infection, quality of patient care, advanced methods in hospital epidemiology research and early results of major clinical trials in the field, improving prevention strategies using various implementation tools as well as social media, telemedicine, and simulation models.

Pursuing its mission of improving patient’s safety everywhere at any time, ICPIC has decided to bring the patient to the conversation table. Our goal is for this programme to be patient-inclusive which means patients are invited to attend!

Session Highlights:
• Candida auris: Fake news or real threat?
• Control of Clostridium difficile – can we do better?
• Decolonization regimes to decrease CVC-BSI
• De-implementation of low-level evidence measures: Time for the big-jump?
• Generating high-quality evidence
• Healthcare-associated infections and the hospital environment
• Hospital microbiome
• How to empower key stakeholders in IPC (CEO, Nurse, patient)
• Isolation precautions
• Patient’s experience of HAIs, MDRO carriage or infection
• Prevention of surgical site infections
• Social media to support prevention measures
• Successful MDRO control is possible – Controversies in VRE control

Topics:
• Healthcare-associated infection
• Multidrug-resistant microorganisms
• Antimicrobials
• Special issues in infection control
• Surveillance of healthcare-associated infection
• Special patient populations
• Special settings
• Disinfection/sterilization
• Academies & Awards

Time: 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm

Speakers: Mohamed Abbas (CH), Hilary Babcock (US), Michael Behnke (DE), Vanessa Carter (ZA), Alessandro Cassini (WHO), Lauren Clack (CH), Kay Currie (UK), Luisa Denkel (DE), David Eyre (UK), Petra Gastmeier (DE), Jack A Gilbert (US), Dinah Gould (UK), Lindsay Grayson (AU), Sonja Hansen (DE), Loreen Herwaldt (US), Benedikt Huttner (CH), Rasmus Leistner (DE), Sebastian Lemmen (DE), Jean-Christophe Lucet (FR), Jonas Marschall (CH), Luke Moore (UK), Dan Morgan (US), Eli Perencevich (US), Diamantis Plachouras (SE), Maja Rupnik (SI), Valentijn Schweitzer (NL), Laurence Senn (CH), Barbara Slevin (IE), Hortense Slevogt (DE), Carl Suetens (SE), Ermira Tartari (MT), Sarah Tschudin-Sutter (CH), Andreas Voss (NL), Andres Widmer (CH), Susanne Wiklund (SE), Martin Wolkewitz (DE)