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The 8th Healthcare-Associated Infections Conference programme will be available shortly.
If you are interested in attending the conference, please click here to register your interest.

Please note that the below information is relevant to the 2011 conference.

Tuesday, 25 October 2011
   
SESSION 9:  DEVICE RELATED HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS
Moderator:  Jeffrey Chapman, MD, FCCP,
Chair, Quality and Patient Safety, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
   
10:30 Care Bundles: What are they and do they Work?
Dr. Smita Sood,
MD, Microbiology, Microbiologist, Super Religare Laboratories Ltd., Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur, India
   
11:00 Catheter Related Infections–Impact and Prevention
Prof. Hervé Richet,
Hospital Epidemiology Unit, Hospital de la Timone. Research Unit on Emerging and Tropical Infectious Diseases, Marseille School of Medicine, Marseille, France
   
11:30 Intravascular Device-Related Infections: How do we get to Zero?
Dr. Sunanda Dey,
MD, Microbiology, Microbiologist, Super Religare Laboratories Limited, Kolkata, India
   
12:00 Q&A
   
12:30 Lunch
   
SESSION 10:  HEALTHCARE- ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS IN SURGERY
Moderator:  Dr. Steven M. Gordon,
Chairman, Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic, President, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
   
14:00 Surgical Site Infections
Dr. Steven M. Gordon, Chairman, Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic, President, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Cleveland, USA
   
14:45 Rational Use of Prophylactic Antibiotics in Abdominal Surgery
Priv. Doz. Dr. med. Michael Schwarz, Attending Surgeon, Head of Department for Minimally Invasive Oncological and Endocrine Surgery, BGPS Neu-Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Germany
   
15:30 Refreshment Break
   
SESSION 11:  HAND HYGIENE AND HOSPITAL INITIATIVES  
Moderator: Dr. Mansour Al-Zarouni, BSc (USA), MSc & PhD(UK),
Consultant Medical & Molecular Microbiologist, Sharjah Medical District – Ministry of Health, Sharjah, UAE
   
16:00 Hand Hygiene
Husain A. Alawadhi, MD, Consultant Intensivist & Pulmonologist, Al Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
   
16:30 HCAI Improvement Journey
Diane Wake,
Executive Director of Nursing & Operations, Director of Infection Prevention & Control, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK
   
17:00 Close of Conference
   
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