3rd Nordic Seminar Infection Control 2024
20-21-22 nov 2024 Wallenberg Conference Center, Medicinaregatan 14, Göteborg. Everyone is very welcome to the 3rd Seminar on Infection Control in Göteborg, Sweden. Through generous support from the Nordic Council of Ministers, the conference is free to attend for the participants.
Programme
This year’s seminar will have to themes:
- How to get started with research
- The dangerous water – towards a water-free hospital?
All titles are preliminary
Wednesday Nov 20
10-12 Registration, put up posters
Coffee and sandwich
13-13.30 Welcome!
Agnes Wold, Ingegerd Adlerberth
13.30-14.30 John Brandberg
Doing research on everything – Åke Brandberg in memoriam
14.30-15 COFFEE
15-16 Christine Wennerås
How I discovered an infectious disease
16-17 Björn Rönnerstrand
Research across fields – antibiotic resistance and corruption
Thursday Nov 21
9-9.30 Gitte Lund Hansen Pass-through cabinets to wardrooms as storage for clean and sterile items – an infection hygiene challenge?
9.30-10 Tina Louise Schmock Teaching young people about what protects against chlamydia – a controlled study
10-10.30 COFFEE
10.30-11 Tove Windh
The influence of relative humidity on maintenance of sterility of sterilized pouches
11-12 Johan Bengtsson-Palme
Biofilms
12-13 LUNCH
13-14 Jon Edman Wallér
Sinks as reservoirs for antibiotic resistant bacteria
14-15 Joost Hopman
Is a water-free hospital the solution?
15-15.30 COFFEE
15.30-16.15 Joost Hopman, Johan Bengtsson Palme, Jon Edman Wallér
Disussion – the dangerous water
16.15- Poster session
Friday Nov 22
9-9.30 Kristian Nyström
Strategies for a safe drinking water
9.30-10 Berit Karlsen
Costs and effectiveness associated with contact tracingsdue to unexpected findings of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Oslo University Hospital
10-10.30 Judit Christensen
Spontaneous loss of MRSA carriage in children under two years of age, without the use of topical or systemic eradication treatment
10.30-11 COFFEE
11-11.45 Joakim Larsson
Our medicine in their water – on drug factories and antibiotic resistance
11.45-12.15 Prize ceremony
WRAPS to bring to the workshop
12.30-14 Vincent Collins
How to write a succesful application and how to approach the EU - workshop
14-15 Barriers for research – what could the network offer?
15-15.30 COFFEE
15.30-16 Summary – plan for networking
Nordic research network on infection control
Gothenburg University has by support from the Nordic Council of Ministers established a Nordic research network on infection control with yearly seminars in Gothenburg.