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ASID 2010 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING
WEDNESDAY 26 MAY 2010 Please note this is a preliminary program and may be subject to change
ASID Council Meeting
9.00am -
11.00am
Meeting Room 2
2.30pm -
ASID Annual Scientific Meeting 2010 Registration Open
6.00pm
2.30pm -
Internet Area Open - Meeting Room 2
6.00pm
SIGS Joint Plenary (ANZPID/ANZMIG)
3.00pm -
4.00pm Auditorium 2
Chair: A/Prof Monica Slavin and Prof David Isaacs
Prof Andrew Pollard - Professor of paediatric infection and immunity and Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group,
3.00pm - University of Oxford.
3.30pm
Treatment and Prevention of bacterial meningitis in childhood
Dr Christopher Blyth - Paediatric infectious diseases physician and clinical microbiologist, University of Western
3.30pm - Australia and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children.
4.00pm
Paediatric mycoses
4.00pm -
Afternoon Tea - Outside Meeting Rooms 3 and 4
4.20pm
Mycology SIG Break Out Meeting Paediatrics SIG Break Out Meeting
4.20pm - 4.20pm -
Auditorium 2 Meeting Rooms 3 and 4
5.30pm 5.30pm
Chair: Prof Jonathan Carpetis and A/Prof Pamela
Chair: A/Prof Tom Gottlieb
Palasanthiran
Dr Jenny Robson - Infectious diseases physician Prof Kevin Marsh - Director, Kenya Medical
and clinical microbiologist Sullivan Nicolaoides Research Institute (KEMRI) Wellcome Trust
4.20pm -
Pathology programme, Kenya, head of the molecular
4.45pm Mycotic Keratitis – A Northern Australian 4.20pm -
parasitology group, and Professor of Tropical
Experience 4.50pm
Medicine at the University of Oxford.
4.45pm -
Case Reports Severe malaria in childhood
5.25pm
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4.45pm - Dr Elaine Cheong - Allergic or Invasive? Back to
5.00pm Black Prof Kim Mulholland - Prof of International Child
5.00pm - Dr Brendan McMullan – Fungal endocarditis: still 4.50pm - Health, Menzies School of Health Research.
5.15pm a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge 5.20pm
5.15pm -
Dr Sumudu Britton - Recurrent Cryptococcosis Global perspective on childhood pneumonia
5.30pm
6.00pm -
Welcome Reception - Crocosaurus Cove
8.00pm
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ASID 2010 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING
THURSDAY 27 MAY 2010 Please note this is a preliminary program and may be subject to change
7.30am Registration
7.30am -
Arrival Coffee/Tea - Exhibition Concourse
8.15am
Opening and Symposium 1: Vector borne / malaria
8.15am -
Auditorium 2
10.00am
Chairs: Dr Joshua Davis and A/Prof Tom Gottlieb
8.15am -
Welcome to Country - Bilawara Lee, Larrakia Elder
8.20am
8.20am - Dr Josh Davis - Convenor Local Organising Committee 2010, Infectious Diseases Physician, Royal Darwin Hospital, and Clinical
8.25am Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health Research.
8.25am - A/Prof Tom Gottlieb - President of ASID, Senior Specialist, Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
8.30am Concord Hospital.
Prof Kevin Marsh - Director, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Wellcome Trust programme, Kenya, head of the molecular
8.30am -
parasitology group, and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford.
9.00am
The challenges of malaria in Africa
A/Prof Ric Price - Infectious Disease Physician at the Royal Darwin Hospital, and a senior research Fellow at the Menzies School of
9.00am -
Health Research.
9.30am
Challenges for eliminating malaria from the Asia-Pacific region
Dr Cameron Simmons - Wellcome Trust Senior Fellow, Hospital for Tropical Diseases and Oxford University Clinical Research Unit in
9.30am -
Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam.
10.00am
The challenges of dengue in South East Asia
10.00am -
Morning Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
10.30am
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Proffered Papers 2: Antibiotics and Infection
Proffered Papers 1: Paediatric Infections
10.30am - 10.30am - Control
12:00pm Auditorium 2 12:00pm Meeting Rooms 3 and 4
Chairs: Dr Tom Snelling and Dr Malcolm McDonald Chairs: Dr Ben Rogers and Dr Krispin Hajcowicz
Dr K Daveson - Gentamicin and therapeutic
10.30am - A/Prof C Nourse - Invasive group A streptococcal disease in 10.30am -
guidelines nomograms: are appropriate
10.45am children in Queensland 10.45am
pharmacokinetic targets being met?
Prof K Mulholland - Hyporesponsiveness to re-challenge dose Dr I Venkatachalam - Can an MRSA-free cohort
10.45am - 10.45am -
following pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine at 12 months of ward reduce orthopedic deep MRSA surgical site
11.00am 11.00am
age, a randomized controlled trial infections?
A/Prof D Lehmann - Sustained immune responses to neonatal Dr J Ho - Safe and successful treatment of
11.00am - and early infant pneumococcal conjugate vaccination followed 11.00am - intravenous drug users with a peripherally inserted
11.15am by pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine booster in Papua New 11.15am central catheter in an outpatient parenteral antibiotic
Guinea treatment service
A/Prof D Fisher - Sustainable MRSA control using
11.15am - Dr B Barber - Clinical and laboratory features of plasmodium 11.15am -
staged roll-out of an intervention bundle in a setting
11.30am knowlesi malaria in children 11.30am
of endemic MRSA
Dr S Iles - Influence of antibiotic prescribing patterns
11.30am - Dr A Bowen - Paediatric pneumonia in central Australia: an audit 11.30am -
on the incidence of multi-resistant organisms in a
11.45am of admissions to Alice Springs hospital in 2006 11.45am
tertiary intensive care unit, 2002-2009
A/Prof C Heath - A review of the Royal Perth
11.45am - Dr M Laman - Is a lumbar puncture justified in all children 11.45am -
Hosptial (RPH) experience of the Ashmore Reef
12.00pm presenting with a single febrile seizure? 12.00pm
explosion: a multi-faceted response.
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12.00pm -
Lunch & SIGS Business Meetings
1.00pm
Paediatric
SIG Healthcare Infection SIG Business
12.00pm - Mycology SIG Business Meeting 12.00pm - Business 12.00pm - Meeting
1.00pm 1.00pm Meeting 1.00pm
Auditorium 2 Waterfront 1 Meeting Rooms 3 and 4
Symposium 2: Viral hepatitis
1.00pm -
Auditorium 2
2.30pm
Chairs: Dr Joshua Davis and Dr Mark Douglas
1.00pm - Dr Benjamin Cowie - Physician and Epidemiologist, The Victorian Infectious Diseases Reference Laboratory
1.20pm Update on the Epidemiology of HBV and HCV in Australasia
1.20pm - Dr Joe Sasadeusz - Clinical director, Centre for Clinical Research Excellence in Infectious Disease (CCREID)
1.55pm State of the art and future directions in management of HBV
1.55pm - A/Prof Joseph Torresi - Infectious diseases physician, Austin Health
2.30pm State of the art and future directions in management of HCV
2.30pm -
Afternoon Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
2.50pm
Symposium 3: Indigenous Health
2.50pm -
Auditorium 2
4.20pm
Chair: Dr Daniel O'Brien and Dr Emma Spencer
2.50pm - Prof Diana Lennon - Professor of Population Child & Youth Health, The University of Auckland.
3.20pm Childhood infectious diseases in NZ
A/Prof Peter Morris - Paediatrician at the Northern Territory Clinical School (Flinders University), the Menzies School of Health
3.20pm -
Research, and the Royal Darwin Hospital.
3.50pm
Bronchiectasis and chronic ear disease in Australian Indigenous children
3.50pm - Dr Malcolm McDonald - Physician, Top End Remote Health
4.20pm Skin infections in remote Indigenous communities
4.20pm -
Educational Poster Viewing Evening and Drinks - Exhibition Concourse
5.30pm
5.30pm Mindil Markets and Deckchair Cinema
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ASID 2010 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING
FRIDAY 28 MAY 2010 Please note this is a preliminary program and may be subject to change
7.30am Registration
Advanced Trainee Presentations and Breakfast Meeting
7.30am -
Waterfront Rooms 1 and 2
9.30am
Chairs: A/Prof Cheryl Jones and Dr Andrew Burke
Speaker: Dr Indumathi Venkatachalam - Infectious Diseases Registrar, National University Hospital, Singapore
8.00am - Mentor: Dr Kate Clezy - Head of Infectious Diseases, Prince of Wales Hospital.
8.30am
HAART What to do when the primary ART regimen fails – state of the art in 2010
Speaker: Dr Kathryn Davesen - Infectious Diseases Registrar, The Canberra Hospital
8.30am - Mentor: Dr Tony Allworth, Director, Infectious Diseases, Royal Brisbane Women's Hospital.
9.00am
Prevention and management of opportunistic infection associated with monoclonal antibodies
Speaker: Dr Sumudu Britton - Infectious Diseases Registrar, Royal Brisbane & Women's Hospital
9.00am - Mentor: A/Prof Chris Heath - Snr. Consultant Infectious Diseases Physician & Clinical Microbiologist, Royal Perth
9.30am Hospital.
Scedosporium as an emerging pathogen
9.30am -
Arrival Coffee/Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
9.50am
Symposium 4: Molecular Epidemiology
9.50am -
Auditorium 2
11.20am
Chairs: Dr Steven Tong and Dr Adam Jenney
9.50am - Prof Paul Keim - Director of Pathogen Genomics, Pathogen Genomics Research Institute
10.20am Global overview of plague, tularaemia and B.pseudomallei
10.20am - Prof Anne Kelso - Director, WHO Collaborating Centre For Reference And Research On Influenza
10.50am Emergence, epidemiology and evolution of pandemic (H1N1) 2009 influenza viruses
10.50am - Prof David Paterson - Professor of Medicine, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical Research
11.20am A tale of three clones - molecular epidemiology of common gram negative pathogens
11.20am -
Morning Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
11.40am
Frank Fenner Award
11.40am -
Auditorium 2
12.30pm
Chair: A/Prof Tom Gottlieb and Dr David Looke
11.40am - Award Presented by A/Prof Tom Gottlieb
11.45am Announcement of the Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases.
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11.45pm -
Presentation by Recipient of the Frank Fenner Award for Advanced Research in Infectious Diseases
12.20pm
12.20pm -
Presentation of other Awards
12.30pm
12.30pm -
Lunch (Waterfront Rooms 1 and 2) & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
1.30pm
Proffered Papers 3: Viral Infections Proffered Papers 4: Infections in the Region
1.30pm - 1.30pm -
Auditorium 2 Meeting Rooms 3 and 4
3.00pm 3.00pm
Chair: Dr Claire Italiano and Prof Anne Kelso Chairs: Prof Nick Anstey and Dr Anna Ralph
A/Prof V Chow - Inactivated trivalent seasonal
1.30pm - influenza vaccine induces cross-reactive antibody 1.30pm - A/Prof J Hayman - Darwin in Darwin – Charles
1.45pm responses against 2009 pandemic and 1934 PR8 1.45pm Darwin's 'mystery illness' is no longer infectious
H1N1 strains
Dr M Douglas - Can insulin sensitising drugs Dr J Davis - Sepsis in tropical Australia: high disease
1.45pm - 1.45pm -
improve hepatitis C response to interferon burden with disproportionate impact on Indigenous
2.00pm 2.00pm
treatment? populations
Dr K Hajkowicz - Cryptococcus infections in non-
Dr I Ratnam - Incidence of influenza, dengue and
2.00am - 2.00am - immunocompromised patients in the Northern
Japanese encephalitis (je) in australian travellers
2.15pm 2.15pm Territory of Australia: a comparison of recent and
visiting south and South East Asia
past cases
2.15pm - Dr T Snelling - Rotavirus vaccination: the story so 2.15pm - Dr K Holt - SNP typing Salmonella Typhi populations
2.30pm far for the Northern Territory. 2.30pm in typhoid-endemic areas
Prof D Gordon - Immunogenicity and safety of a Dr L Manning - Chloroquine and amodiaquine
2.30pm - unique influenza A (2009 H1N1) vaccine combining 2.30pm - promote human parvovirus B19 infection and
2.45pm recombinant hemagglutinin with a novel 2.45pm increase the risk of severe anaemia in children from
polysaccharide adjuvant malaria-endemic regions
Dr C Gordon - A comparison of Immunoglobulin G
2.45pm - subclass levels in severe pandemic 2009 influenza 2.45pm - Dr T Yeo - Severe plasmodium knowlesi at Queen
3.00pm A (H1N1) infection and severe community-acquired 3.00pm Elizabeth Hospital, Sabah, East Malaysia
pneumonia
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3.00pm -
Afternoon Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
3.20pm
Symposium 5: HICSIG Symposium
3.20pm -
Auditorium 2
4.30pm
Chair: Dr John Ferguson and A/Prof Mary-Louise McLaws
3.20pm - Prof Raina MacIntyre - Head of School, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University Of New South
3.35pm Wales
N95 respirators versus surgical masks in hospital health workers
A/Prof Mary-Louise McLaws - Associate Professor in Epidemiology, Infectious diseases Control. Director of Public
3.35pm - Health Programs, School of Public Health & Community Medicine, The University of New South Wales
4.00pm
Influenza - which mask; systematic evidence review
4.00pm - Dr John Ferguson - Infectious Disease Physician And Microbiologist, John Hunter Hospital
4.15pm ECCMID 2010 summary
4.15pm - TBC
4.30pm SHEA 2010 summary
Sir Macfarlane Burnet Address
4.30pm -
Auditorium 2
5.30pm
Chair: A/Prof Tom Gottlieb
Professor Kevin Marsh - Director, Kenya Medical Research Institute (KEMRI) Wellcome Trust programme, Kenya,
4.30pm -
head of the molecular parasitology group, and Professor of Tropical Medicine at the University of Oxford.
5.30pm
The Changing Face of Child Health in Africa
7.00pm -
ASID Annual Dinner Under the Stars on the Skycity Lawns
11.00pm
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SATURDAY 29 MAY 2010 Please note this is a preliminary program and may be subject to change
8.30am Registration
8.30am -
Arrival Coffee/Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
9.00am
Symposium 6: Vaccines
9.00am -
Auditorium 2
10.30am
Chairs: Prof Jonathan Carapetis
Prof Andrew Pollard - Professor of paediatric infection and immunity and Director of the Oxford Vaccine Group,
9.00am -
University of Oxford
9.30am
Challenges in protecting children and adults against Streptococcus pneumoniae
9.30am - Moderator: Prof Jonathan Carapetis - Director, Menzies School Of Health Research plus expert panel including
10.30am special guests from politics and the media
Panel: Ms Claire Martin - CEO of the Australian Council of Social Services former Chief Minister of the Northern
Territory,
Ms Genevieve Hussey - ABC News Editor, Northern Territory,
Prof Robert Booy - Co-Director Australian National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance,
Prof Andrew Pollard - Professor of paediatric infection and immunity and Director of the Oxford Vaccine
Group, University of Oxford,
Prof Kim Mulholland - Professor of International Child Health, Menzies School of Health Research and London
School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
Prof David Isaacs - Paediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist, Children’s Hospital Westmead, and member of the
Australian Technical Advisory Group on Immunisation,
A/Prof Vicki Krause - Director Northern Territory Centre for Disease Control,
Prof Peter Collignon, Director of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, Canberra Hospital and Australian
National University
And some surprise guests!
Pandemics, panic and politics… a hypothetical at the pointy end of vaccination
10.30am -
Morning Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
10.50am
Proffered Papers 5: Staphylococcal Infections Proffered Papers 6: Mycobacterial Infections
10.50am - 10.50am -
Auditorium 2 Meeting Rooms 3 and 4
12.20pm 12.20pm
Chairs: Dr Catherine Marshall and Dr Tsin Yeo Chairs: A/Prof Vicki Krause and Dr Lex Tierney
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Dr P Britton - Community-associated paediatric
Dr C Luey - Auckland regional experience of
11.00am - staphylococcus aureus – demographics, clinical 11.00am -
patients with HIV and tuberculosis infection 1997 -
11.15am syndromes, methicillin resistance and empiric 11.15am
2009
antibiotic choices
11.15am - Dr I Abbott - Microbiology of necrotizing soft tissue 11.15am - Dr A Ralph - Nitric oxide, a potent antimycobacterial
11.30am infections; a 9-year Australian hyperbaric experience 11.30am mediator, in exhaled breath in pulmonary
tuberuclosis
A/Prof B Clark - The performance of tuberculin skin
11.30am - Mr L Brennan - Staphylococcus aureus diversity and 11.30am - testing and QuantiFERON-TB Gold as screening
11.45am transmission in the Royal Darwin Hospital 11.45am tests in renal dialysis patients following exposure to
a case of pulmonary tuberculosis
Dr R Chean - Evaluation of the cepheid genexpert Dr D O'Brien - ‘Paradoxical’ immune-mediated
11.45am - real-time PCR in the rapid identification and 11.45am - reactions to mycobacterium ulcerans during
12.00pm methicilin susceptibility of staphylococcal species 12.00pm antibiotic treatment; a result of treatment success
from blood cultures not failure
Dr S Tong - Clinical correlates of Panton-Valentine
Dr E Gray - Mycobacterium chelonae: limited
12.00pm - leukocidin, PVL isoforms and Clonal complex in the 12.00pm -
cutaneous disease - a case cluster treated with
12.15pm staphylococcus aureus population of Northern 12.15pm
monotherapy
Australia
Dr J Darby - Screening for Latent Tuberculosis
Dr K Buising - The use of pristinamycin for gram
12.15pm - 12.15pm - Infection (LTBI) prior to initiation of tumour necrosis
positive infections – clinical experience at an
12.30pm 12.30pm factor (TNF) inhibitors: a review of screening
Australian hospital
adequacy and test performance
12.20pm -
Lunch (Waterfront Rooms 1 and 2) & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
1.30pm
12.30pm - ASID AGM
1.30pm Meeting Rooms 3 and 4
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Symposium 7: ICU Infections
1.30pm -
Auditorium 2
3.00pm
Chairs: Dr Allen Cheng and A/Prof Dale Fisher
1.30pm - A/Prof Steve Webb - Senior Staff Specialist, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Perth Hospital
2.00pm H1N1 influenza in Australian and New Zealand Intensive Care Units in 2009
2.00pm - Dr Jonathan Iredell - Infectious Diseases physician and Microbiologist, Westmead Hospital
2.30pm Controversies in Management of Infections in ICU
Dr David Nicolau - Director, Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development and Coordinator for Research,
2.30pm -
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases and Pharmacy, Hartford Hospital
3.00pm
Prevention, diagnosis and management of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia
3.00pm -
Afternoon Tea & Poster Viewing - Exhibition Concourse
3.20pm
3.20pm - Oral Poster Session
3.50pm Auditorium 2
Symposium 8: Microbial Detective Stories
3.50pm -
Auditorium 2
5.30pm
Chairs: Prof Bart Currie and A/Prof Ric Price
3.50pm - Prof Paul Keim - Director of Pathogen Genomics, Pathogen Genomics Research Institute
4.30pm Hunting Anthrax: How the mystery of the white powder was solved
Panel: A/Prof Dale Fisher, A/Prof Tom Gottlieb, A/Prof Ronan Murray, Prof Tania Sorrell
4.30pm -
5.10pm Infectious Diseases at the Crossroads in 2010 – the top 5 infectious diseases issues of the last ten years and
the next ten years
5.10pm -
Closing Remarks by Dr Josh Davis, Convenor Local Organising Committee ASID Meeting 2010
5.20pm
5.20pm - Presentation of Next Year's Meeting by Dr Alex Padiglione - Convenor Local Organising Committee ASID Meeting
5.30pm 2011
5.30pm Close
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ASID 2010 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING
HIV WORKSHOP
SUNDAY 30 MAY 2010 Please note this is a preliminary program and may be subject to change
7.30am Registration
8.00am -
Breakfast - Pre function area outside meeting rooms
8.30am
ASID/ASHM HIV Update Workshop
8.30am -
Meeting Room 3 and 4
10.20am
Chairs: Dr Michelle Giles and Dr Jeffrey Post
8.30am - Dr Jeffrey Post - Infectious Diseases Physician, The Prince of Wales Hospital
9.00am Antiretroviral guidelines - state of the ART
9.00am - Dr Mark Kelly - Senior Medical Officer, AIDS Medical Unit, Brisbane
9.30am Managing cardiovascular risk in people with HIV
9.30am - HIV Workshop A 9.30am - HIV Workshop B
10.20am Meeting room 3 and 4 10.20am Meeting Room 1
Dr Jeffrey Post - Infectious Diseases Physician, The
Dr Michelle Giles - Infectious Diseases Physician,
Prince of Wales Hospital and
9.30am - Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital and 9.30am -
Dr Mark Kelly - Senior Medical Officer, AIDS Medical
10.20am Dr Tony Walls - Senior Lecturer, University of Otago 10.20am
Unit
Kelly is HIV positive and wants to have a baby Greg’s viral load is detectable again
10.20am -
Morning Tea - Pre function area outside meeting rooms
10.40am
10.40am - HIV Workshop A 10.40am - HIV Workshop B
11.20am Meeting room 3 and 4 11.20am Meeting Room 1
Dr Jeffrey Post - Infectious Diseases Physician, The
Dr Michelle Giles - Infectious Diseases Physician,
Prince of Wales Hospital and
10.40am - Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital and 10.40am -
Dr Mark Kelly - Senior Medical Officer, AIDS Medical
11.20am Dr Tony Walls - Senior Lecturer, University of Otago 11.20am
Unit
Kelly is HIV positive and wants to have a baby Greg’s viral load is detectable again
11.20am - HIV Workshop C 11.20am - HIV Workshop D
12.00pm Meeting room 3 and 4 12.00pm Meeting Room 1
Dr Olga Vujovic - Infectious Diseases Physician, Dr Pam Konecny - Staff Specialist, St George
The Alfred Hospital and Dr Adam Jenney - Hospital and Dr Alex Padiglione - Infectious
11.20am - Infectious Diseases Physician, The Alfred Hospital 11.20am - Diseases Physician, Monash Medical Centre
12.00pm 12.00pm
David develops a headache Michael is complaining of hip ache
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HIV WORKSHOP
ASID/ASHM HIV Update Workshop
12.00pm -
Meeting Room 3 and 4
12.30pm
Chairs: Dr Michelle Giles and Dr Jeffrey Post
12.00pm - Michelle Giles - Infectious Diseases Physician, Infectious Diseases Unit, The Alfred Hospital
12.30pm Discussion and close
12.30pm Close
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ASID 2010 ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC MEETING
CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORK WORKSHOP
SUNDAY 30 MAY 2010 Please note this is a preliminary program and may be subject to change
7.30am Registration
8.00am -
Breakfast - Pre function area outside meeting rooms
8.30am
ASID Clinical Research Network Workshop
8.30am -
Meeting Rooms 2
10.20am
Chairs: Dr Joshua Davis and Prof David Paterson
Prof David Paterson - Professor of Medicine, University of Queensland Centre for Clinical
8.30am - Research
8.50am Official Launch of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research
Network
A/Prof Steve Webb - Senior Staff Specialist, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Perth Hospital
8.50am -
9.30am Setting up a Clinical Trials Group - how Australia and New Zealand Intensive Care
Society did it
9.30am - Ms Adrienne Kirby - Biostatistician, Faculty of Medicine, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
9.50am Overview of clinical trial design
Dr David Nicolau - Director for the Center for Anti-Infective Research and Development and
Coordinator for Research in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
9.50am -
and Pharmacy, Hartford Hospital
10.20am
The challenges of conducting antibtiotic pharmacokinetic studies in the clinical
setting
10.20am -
Morning Tea - Pre function area outside meeting rooms
10.40am
ASID Clinical Research Network Workshop
10.40am -
Meeting Rooms 2
12.30pm
Chairs: Dr Joshua Davis and Prof David Paterson
10.40am - Ms Adrienne Kirby - Biostatistician, Faculty of Medicine, NHMRC Clinical Trials Centre
11.10am Common pitfalls in clinical trials analysis and how to avoid them
Dr Ben Rogers - Research Scholar, Paterson Group, University of Queensland Centre for
11.10am - Clinical Research
11.30pm COOEE - A prospective multicentre study of the epidemiology of Community-Onset
ESBL-producing E.Coli infections in Australia and New Zealand
Dr Natasha Holmes - PhD Fellow, Dept of Medicine, University of Melbourne
Infectious Diseases Physician, Austin Health
11.30am -
11.50pm VANESSA: Vancomycin Efficacy in Staphylococcal Sepsis in Australasia. A
prospective, multi-centre cohort study of outcomes in Staphylococcus aureus
bacteraemia in Australasia
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CLINICAL RESEARCH NETWORK WORKSHOP
Dr Joshua Davis - Convenor Local Organising Committee 2010, Infectious Diseases
Physician, Royal Darwin Hospital, and Clinical Research Fellow, Menzies School of Health
11.50pm - Research
12.10pm CAMERA: Combination Antibiotic treatment for MEthicillin Resistant Staphylococcus
Aureus. A pilot randomised controlled trial of vancomycin compared with
vancomycin plus flucloxacilln for MRSA bacteraemia
12.10pm - A/Prof Eugene Athan - Director Infectious Diseases, Barwon Health
12.30pm Short course treatment of osteoarticular infections: a randomised controlled trial
12.30pm Close
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