PROGRAMME
🕛 10:30 - Introduction and Objectives
Dr Vanya Gant, Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University College London Hospital
🕛 10:45 - 11.05 - Respiratory Viruses in Hospitalised Adults: Unmet needs and opportunities
Professor Tom Wilkinson, Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Southampton General Hospital
🕛 11:10 - 11.30 - Management of Severe Community Acquired Pneumonia
Professor Ignacio Martin Loeches, Consultant in Intensive Care Medicine, St James’s Hospital, Ireland
🕛 11:35 - 11.55 - HAP: policy and prevention
Dr Dan Wootton, NIHR Advanced Fellow, Senior Clinical Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Respiratory Physician
🕛 12:00 - 13:00 - Lunch and Networking
🕛 13:00 - 13:25 - Community Testing for Respiratory Infections in a cohort of COPD patients
Dr Kay Roy, Consultant Respiratory Physician, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Dr Raj Gill, General Practice Physician Associate, Partner at Bloomsbury and Swiss Cottage Surgery
🕛 13:35 - 13:55 - Acute Respiratory Hub and Rapid Respiratory Diagnostics
Dr Caroline O’Keeffe, GP, Medical Director and Deputy CEO at North Hampshire Urgent Care
🕛 14:00 - 14:20 - Application of a Novel Diagnostic Assay for Respiratory Infections in the Emergency Department
Major Scott Pallett, RAMC ST5 Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
🕛 14:25 - 14:40 - Break
🕛 14:45 - 15:05 - Interactive Paediatric Clinical Cases
Dr Simon Drysdale, Consultant in Paediatric Infectious Diseases and Immunology, St George’s University Hospital
🕛 15:10 - 15:30 - Cognitive - Behavioural Factors that influence the impact of PCR-POCT results on antibiotic cessation in ICU
Dr Martine Nurek, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Imperial College
Professor Suveer Singh, Consultant in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital and Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust
🕛 15:35 - 15:45 - Take Home Messages
Dr Vanya Gant, Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, University College London Hospital