Symposium “Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together”
Date: Monday 28 November 2022
Venue: South Auditorium, Mater Dei Hospital
Symposium Programme [Updated on 14/11/2022]
Chair
Dr Ermira Tartari Bonnici
Lecturer, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Health Science, University of Malta
09:00 Welcome address
Dr Stephen Lungaro Mifsud, Dean Faculty of Health Science, University of Malta
Dr Trevor Abela Fiorentino, Head Department of Nursing, University of Malta
09:15 The burden of Antibiotic Resistance: worldwide perspective
Dr Enrique Castro-Sánchez, Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College London, UK
10:00 The burden of Antibiotic Resistance: in the Maltese perspective
Prof Michael Borg, Head, Departments of Infection Control & Sterile Services
10:30 Coffee break
11:00 AMR– importance of learning from patients’ experience
Vanessa Carter patient advocate
11:45 Preventing MRSA bloodstream infections – A behaviour change experience
Prof Michael Borg, Head, Departments of Infection Control & Sterile Services
12:45 Lunch
13:45 Planetary health – How the climate emergency will be driving more, new, and old infectious diseases
Dr Enrique Castro-Sánchez, Honorary Lecturer, Imperial College London, UK
14:15 Panel discussion
Q& A session with experts
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Antibiotic use for respiratory tract infections
Dr Erika Saliba Gustafsson, Karolinska Institute, Sweden
16:00 Implementation of infection prevention and control core components
Dr Ermira Tartari Bonnici, Lecturer, Department of Nursing, University of Malta
16:30 Wrap-up of the day
