AGENDA 

 

14TH May 2025 

 

🕛 10.00 - 10.30  - Arrival

 

🕛 10.30 - 10.45  - Introduction and Welcome

Dr Annie Joseph Consultant Microbiologist, Nottingham University Hospitals 

 

🕛 10:45 - 11:05 - Culture Negative Sepsis

Prof Gavin Barlow, Professor of Infection, Hull York Medical School and the University of York and Honorary Consultant in Infectious Diseases at Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust 

 

🕛 11:10 - 12:00 - Spotting the Sepsis needle in Emergency Department

Setting the scene in paediatric and adult EDs followed by a panel discussion  

Prof Damian Roland, Honorary Professor in Paediatric Emergency Medicine, Leicester Hospitals and University

Dr Ed James, Consultant in Emergency Medicine, NHS Lothian, 

Clinical Advisor National Centre for Sustainable Delivery Unscheduled Care 

 

 

🕛 12:00 - 12:30 - Politics and Patient Perspective

Lord Craig Mackinlay , Member of the House of Lords, former MP for South Thanet and Sepsis survivor  

 

🕛 12:30 - 13:30 - Lunch

 

🕛 13:30 - 13:50 - The importance of medicine optimisation and deprescribing in antimicrobial resistance 

Associate Professor Catherine McKenzie, Critical Care Pharmacology and Honorary Consultant Pharmacist. Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton 

 

🕛 13:55 - 14:45 - How to achieve stewardship in difficult groups

Key considerations from the paediatric and immunocompromised population populations followed by a panel discussion 

Dr Alicia Demirjian consultant in paediatric infectious diseases and immunology, UK HSA; Evelina London Children's Hospital (Guy's & St. Thomas' NHS Foundation) and Dr Amy Quinton, Consultant in Medical Oncology, Velindre Cancer Centre, Cardiff 

 

🕛 14:45 - 15.00 - Break 

 

🕛 15:00 - 15:20 - Integrated Care Board ambition on AMR 

Sarah Chadwick, AMR Programme Manager, NHS West Yorks ICB 

 

🕛 15:25 - 15.45 - Trust board insights and perspectives on IPC, AMS & Sepsis

Dr Mark Garvey, Consultant Clinical Scientist in Microbiology and Director of Infection Prevention and Control (DIPC), University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust

 

🕛 15:50 - 16.10 - Evaluating the International performance of diagnostic systems for addressing AMR

Dr Jay Patel, Researcher at the Global Health Governance Programme, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh 

 

🕛 16:10 - 16.30 -  Closing Address