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Programme Overview

FIS/HIS International 2022 will be delivered as a two-day face-to-face and one day virtual event, with all content available on demand post-event. The programme will include plenary lectures, >30 scientific sessions, sponsored symposia, a trainee session and more.

All delegates who register to attend the across three days will, for the first time in the history of the event, be able to access the content from all four parallel sessions every day. 

The scientific content of the first two days (Thursday 22 and Friday 23 September) will be recorded and, after a weekend break, Monday 26 September will be entirely virtual with parallel sessions broadcast live.  Content will be available on demand to all registered attendees after the event.

FIS/HIS 2022 Plenary Lectures

Thursday 22 September

09:15 – 10:00

HIS Lowbury Lecture
Prevention of Surgical Site Infections: a personal odyssey
Professor Jan Kluytmans, UMC Utrecht

13:45 – 14:30

BIA JD Williams Lecture

16:35 – 17:15

RCPath Diamond Jubilee Lecture
Antimicrobial resistance: The slow pandemic
Professor Dame Sally Davies, Master of Trinity College and UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance

Friday 23 September

09:15 – 10:00

HIS Gary French Lecture
Title TBC
Professor Alison Holmes, Imperial College London

13:45 – 14:30

BIA Barnet Christie Lecture

Two-day face-to-face event 

Thursday 22 September 

Morning 

Association for Clinical Biochemistry - Microbiology Professional Group  WGS in the diagnostic lab – beyond SARS-CoV2 

ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infections  Contact precautions for multidrug-resistant microorganisms in hospitals – where to do and not to do them 

BIA  Understanding the pathogenesis of infectious diseases through human challenge models 

HIS  Trainee session 

HIS  HIS-funded research 

HIS  The HIS journals: pick of the papers 

Afternoon 

Central Sterilising Club Safety implications in endoscopy 

Welsh Microbiology Association  Imported/travel related infections 

Association for Clinical Biochemistry - Microbiology Professional Group  Point of care testing (POCT) for diagnosis of infection and infection prevention and control (IPC) 

British Paediatric Allergy, Immunology & Infection Group   Clinical Grand Round 

Friday 23 September 

Morning 

UK Clinical Pharmacy Association IMG  Shorter is better - a review of practice 

British Society for Medical Mycology  The changing world of fungal infections 

Microbiology Society  Disinfection in clinical practice  

BIA  Delivering infection services to vulnerable populations 

Afternoon 

Complex Surgical Infections: Neurosurgical Infections  

NITCAR  Research priorities in Infection for 2022 and beyond! 

UKHSA  National outbreaks and incidents 

HIS  Infection prevention and healthcare water  

Online 

Monday 26 September 

Morning 
ACPIC  Australia’s response to the pandemic in the aged care sector 
British Association for Sexual Health and HIV  Challenges in STI 
BSAC  IPC: A cornerstone of antimicrobial stewardship 
Infection Prevention Society Leading improvement in infection prevention & control practice using quality improvement
Scottish Microbiology Association  Skin and soft tissue infections in man and other animals 
UK Clinical Vaccine Network  Update in adult vaccinology 
Microbiology Society  Translating outcomes from infection science research to policy  

 

Afternoon 
UK Clinical Pharmacy Association IMG  Driving the national AMS agenda - feedback from the NHS England model 
ESCMID Study Group for Nosocomial Infections  How the COVID-19 pandemic shapes how hospitals will be designed 
European bone and joint infection society  Surgery explained, what an ID specialist and microbiologist needs to know from the surgeon 
IFIC  International perspective on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic  
Society for Anaerobic Microbiology  Lethal Gram negative anaerobes: not merely opportunists   
UKHSA  COVID-19 
Microbiology Society  New treatment regimens for antimicrobial resistant infections  
Water Management Society
Managing the environmental risks of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other waterborne pathogens 

 

We have a number of sponsorship opportunities available for this year's conference, if you would be interested in partnering with us, please get in touch and a member of the team will share our prospectus with you.

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