Accreditation has been requested:
- BVIKM/SBIMC:
- NVII:
- NVMM: 6 points per day
The conference language is English
MONDAY NOVEMBER 7th, 2022
| Time | Titel |
|---|---|
| 09:00hrs – 10:45hrs | Welcome coffee and putting up posters |
| 10:50hrs – 11:00hrs | Welcome from the Organizing Committee |
| 11:00hrs – 12:00hrs | Plenary session (Chair: Erlangga Yusuf, clinical microbiologist, Erasmus MC) |
| 1. Scientific highlights in Clinical Microbiology in the last 2 years (Veroniek Saegeman, clinical biologist, VITAZ) | |
| 2. Scientific highlights in Infectious Diseases in the last 2 years (Bart Rijnders, Infectiologist, Erasmus MC) | |
| 12:00hrs – 12:45hrs | TABS’s diagnosis at a glance (Steven Martens, Arthur Poncelet, Joanna T’Jaeckx, François Mastroianni, trainee association BVIKM/SBIMC) |
| 12:45hrs – 13:30hrs | Lunch and visit of the exhibition and poster hall |
| 13:30hrs – 14:00hrs | Visit of the exhibition and poster hall |
| 14:00hrs – 14:45hrs | Plenary session (Chair: Michele van Vugt, infectiologist, Amsterdam UMC) |
| Alone in isolation – Family perspective from the family of a patient with Lassa fever in the Netherlands (Anique Nolet) | |
| 14:45hrs – 15:00hrs | Coffee Break |
| 15:00hrs – 16:30hrs | Parallel sessions |
| A. Sustainability and climate change | (Chair: Annelies Verbon, infectiologist, UMC Utrecht) |
| 1. Clinical microbiology laboratories, clinical microbiologists, doctors and climate change (Erlangga Yusuf, clinical microbiologist, Erasmus MC) | |
| 2. Climate change, vector borne infections and other infectious diseases (Steven Van Den Broucke, infectiologist, ITG) | |
| 3. Infection prevention and sustainability (Ingrid Spijkerman, clinical microbiologist, Amsterdam UMC) | |
| B. One Health | (Chair: Steven van Gucht, epidemiologist, Sciensano) |
| 1. (The decrease) of antibiotic use in veterinary medicine (Ilias Chantziaris, veterinarian, UZ Gent) | |
| 2. Wildlife reservoir – what’s the next pandemic (Marius Gilbert, epidemiologist, ULB) | |
| 3. Biological warfare (Matthew Lim, infectiologist, WHO) | |
| 16:30hrs – 16:45hrs | Coffee Break |
| 16:45hrs – 17:30hrs | Selected Abstract Presentations (Chairs: Carla Van Tienen & Olivier Denis, clinical biologist, UCL) |
| 1. Empirical antimicrobial use in ICU and outcome before and after abandoning the concept of healthcare-associated pneumonia: a single centre retrospective analysis (Thomas Couck, Resident intensive care medicine, UZ Gent) | |
| 2. Pharmacokinetics and PK/PD of temocillin in non-ICU urinary tract infection patients with various stages of renal insufficiency (Gert-Jan Wijnant, pharmacologist, UCLouvain) | |
| 3. Clinical impact of PCR-based Aspergillus and azole resistance detection in invasive aspergillosis. A prospective multicenter study (Sammy Huygens, doctor researcher infectiologist, Erasmus MC) | |
| 4. Cefiderocol susceptibility testing: disk diffusion compared to broth microdilution (Reza Soleimani, microbiologist, CHU UCL Namur) | |
| From 19:00hrs | Social event @ brewery ‘De Halve Maan’ |
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8th, 2022
| Time | Titel |
|---|---|
| 09:00hrs – 10:30hrs | Parallel sessions |
| A. Refugees | (Chairs: Rémy Demeester, infectiologist, CHU Charleroi and Meta Roestenberg, infectiologist, LUMC) |
| 1. Tuberculosis (Wouter Arrazola de Oñate, epidemiologist, VRGT) | |
| 2. Infectious disease in refugees (Michele van Vugt infectiologist, Amsterdam UMC) | |
| 3. Infectious disease specialist in crisis area (Elham Khatamzas, infectiologist/medical microbiologist, University Hospital Heidelberg) | |
| B. Challenges of Clinical Microbiology Laboratories | (Chairs: Maarten Heuvelmans, medical microbiologist, MMIG Gelderland and Marie Pierre Hayette, clinical biologist, CHU Liege) |
| 1. Laboratory automatisation and centralization (Astrid Muyldermans, clinical biologist, UZ Brussel) | |
| 2. Application of CE IVD rules in routine diagnostic lab in Belgium and the Netherlands (Pieter Vermeersch, clinical biologist, UZ Leuven and Robin van Houdt, molecular medical microbiologist, Amsterdam UMC) | |
| 3. Changing landscape in diagnostic microbiology (Andreas Voss, clinical microbiologist, UMCG) | |
| 10:30hrs – 11:00hrs | Break |
| 11:00hrs – 12:30hrs | Plenary Session: Antibiotics and non-antibiotics to treat MDR microorganisms (Chairs: Mark de Boer, infectiologist, LUMC and Daniel Huang, clinical biologist, UCL) |
| 1. New antibiotics in the pipeline against multidrug resistant Gram-negatives (Françoise Van Bambeke, pharmacologist, UCLouvain) | |
| 2. New guidelines MDR Gram negatives (Jan Dewaele, intensivist, UZ Gent) | |
| 3. Bacteriophages: clinical experience and regulation (Maya Hites, infectiologist, ULB and Isabel Spriet, Hospital Pharmacist, UZ Leuven) | |
| 12:30hrs – 13:30hrs | Lunch and visit of the exhibition and poster hall |
| 13:30hrs – 15:00hrs | Plenary session: Global Infectious Health (Chairs: Merel Lambregts, infectiologist, LUMC and Olivier Denis, clinical biologist, UCL) |
| 1. Foodborne outbreak – contaminated pizza in France and the Kinder chocolate Salmonella (Koenraad Van Hoorde, Sciensano) | |
| 2. Can the problem of highly pathogenic avian influenza be solved by a One Health approach? (Thijs Kuiken, veterinarian, Erasmus MC) | |
| 3. Monkeypox virus (Laurens Liesenborghs, infectiologist, ITG) | |
| 15:00hrs – 15:15hrs | Break |
| 15:15hrs – 15:45hrs | Professional Union of Infectiologists (Steven Callens, infectiologist, UZ Gent and Caroline Theunissen, infectiologist, ITG) |
| 15:45hrs – 16:45hrs | Plenary session: Active engagement on social media as a doctor or scientist during a pandemic (chair: Carla Van Tienen) |
| 1. Managing misinformation (Mathijs Binkhorst, pediatrician/neonatologist, Radboudumc Amalia Children’s Hospital) | |
| 2. Experience with communicating science in Covid times (Marc van Ranst, clinical biologist, UZ Leuven) | |
| 16:45hrs – 17:00hrs | Closing remarks |