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Fifth Decennial International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections (March 18-22, 2010)

Thursday, March 18, 2010

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9:00 AM-5:30 PM


Registration - Thursday

12:00 PM-4:00 PM


1
Advanced Epidemiologic Methods

2
Advancing Healthcare Epidemiology Using Business Cases, Patient Safety, and Performance Improvement Methods

3
Antimicrobial Stewardship: An Introduction to Get Smart for Healthcare

4
Hospital Construction with Infection Control in Mind

5
Occupational Health Scenarios and Guidance

6
Using NHSN Data for Prevention (participants must bring laptop computers)

2:00 PM-2:30 PM


Coffee Break for Workshop Attendees

4:15 PM-4:45 PM


Welcome Address

4:45 PM-5:00 PM


Awards - Thursday

5:00 PM-7:00 PM


7
A Global Approach to Maximize Infection Prevention in the Next Decade

7:00 PM-8:30 PM


Opening Reception

Friday, March 19, 2010

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6:30 AM-5:30 PM


Registration - Friday

7:00 AM-8:20 AM


8
Antimicrobial Stewardship in Non-Academic Hospitals and Healthcare Facilities

9
Career Development in Healthcare Epidemiology and Infection Prevention

10
Evaluating Evidence

11
Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC)

12
Infection Control for Immunocompromised Patients

13
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Healthcare Personnel (HCP) Safety Component: What Is Now Available

14
Outbreak Investigation

15
Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infections (CLABSI)

16
Surgical Site Infections (SSIs)

17
Technologies in Sterilization and Disinfection

18
Vaccine Preventable Infections in Healthcare

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


SHEA COI Taskforce - Invited Participants Only

8:30 AM-8:45 AM


Awards - Friday

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


19
Infection Prevention and Control: Setting the Research Agenda for the Next Decade

10:00 AM-10:30 AM


Coffee Break I - Friday

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


20
2009 H1N1 in the Healthcare Setting

21
Infection Control and the Healthcare Environment

22
Infection Prevention in Pediatrics

23
MRSA

24
Surveillance Innovations

12:00 PM-12:30 PM


Lunch - Friday

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


SHEA CME Committee - Invited Participants Only

SHEA External Affairs Committee - Invited Participants Only

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


SHEA Public Policy and Government Affairs Committee - Invited Participants Only

12:00 PM-2:30 PM


APIC Research Taskforce Meeting - Invited Participants Only

12:15 PM-1:15 PM


NHSN Members Meeting - Invited Participants Only

12:30 PM-2:00 PM


25
Antimicrobial Stewardship Professorial Rounds

26
C. difficile Professorial Rounds

27
Hand Hygiene Professorial Rounds

28
MDR Gram Negatives Professorial Rounds

29
Antimicrobial Stewardship

30
Clostridium difficile Posters

31
Critically Ill Patients (Adults)

32
Critically Ill Patients (Neonates and Children)

33
Dialysis

34
Disinfection and Sterilization

35
Emerging Pathogens

36
Fungal Infections

37
Hand Hygiene Posters

38
Molecular Epidemiology

39
Multidrug-Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria

40
Urinary-Tract Infections

2:00 PM-3:30 PM


41
Confronting Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Head On

42
Controversies in Contact Precautions: All Patients Colonized with Multidrug-

43
Measuring Antimicrobial Use

44
The Past, Present, and Future of HAI Prevention in Pediatrics: Defining the Research Agenda for the Next Decade

3:30 PM-4:00 PM


Coffee Break II - Friday

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


45
Assessing the Impact of Public Reporting on Improving Patient Safety

46
Infection Prevention and Control Challenges in Non-Acute Care Settings

47
New Approaches to Preventing Device-Related Infections

48
The Role of the Clinical Laboratory in Infection Prevention and Control

Saturday, March 20, 2010

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6:30 AM-5:30 PM


Registration - Saturday

7:00 AM-8:20 AM


49
Antiseptics to Prevent Infections

50
Electronic Surveillance in Infection Prevention

51
Emerging Fungal Infections

52
Hospital Biovigilance: What You Need to Know about Transplant Patient Safety

53
Infection Control in Resource-Limited Countries

54
Injection Safety/Sharps Safety

55
National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN) Multidrug-Resistant Organism (MDRO) and Clostridium difficile-Associated Disease (CDAD) Module: Review of the First Year of Use

56
Outbreak Investigation (Repeated Session)

57
Preventing Central Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection (CLABSI) (Repeated Session)

58
Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections in Neonatal Intensive Care Units

59
The Colonized or Infected Healthcare Worker

8:30 AM-9:30 AM


60
The Cutting Edge of Infection Prevention: The Top Four Submitted Scientific Papers of the 2010 Decennial

9:30 AM-10:00 AM


61
SHEA Lectureship

10:00 AM-10:30 AM


Coffee Break I - Saturday

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


62
Bloodstream Infections

63
Outbreaks

64
Staphylococcal Infections in Women and Children

65
Surveillance Trends

LB 1
Late Breaker Oral Abstracts

12:00 PM-12:30 PM


Lunch - Saturday

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


SHEA Publications Committee - Invited Participants Only

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


APIC International Thought Leader Focus Group - Invited Participants Only

12:15 PM-1:45 PM


CDC's EIP HAI-Community Interface Investigation/Coordinator Meeting - Invited Participants Only

12:30 PM-2:00 PM


66
Patient Safety Professorial Rounds

67
Intravascular Devices Professorial Rounds

68
MRSA (Healthcare and Community Associated) Professorial Rounds

69
Outbreaks and Clusters Professorial Rounds

70
HIV/AIDS/Hepatitis/TB

71
Infection Control in Low and Middle-Income Countries

72
Intravascular Device-Related Infections

73
Long-Term Care

74
MRSA (Community-Associated)

75
MRSA (Healthcare-Associated)

76
Occupational Health

77
Outbreaks and Clusters

78
Patient Safety

79
Surveys

SHEA Pediatric Special Interest Group - Invited Participants Only

LB 2
Late Breakers I

1:00 PM-2:00 PM


Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology (ICHE) Editorial Board - Invited Participants Only

2:00 PM-3:30 PM


80
Antimicrobial Use and Stewardship

81
Epidemiology of Multidrug-Resistant Gram Negative Bacteria

82
Infection Prevention and Public Policy

83
Recognizing and Reducing Infectious Risks to Healthcare Workers

84
Surveillance: New Perspectives

3:00 PM-4:30 PM


SHEA Research Network Meeting - Open to All Attendees

3:30 PM-4:00 PM


Coffee Break II - Saturday

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


85
Multidrug-Resistant Gram Negative Rods (MDR-GNR)

86
Saving the Lives of Newborns Worldwide: Preventing Infections in the Community and in Healthcare Settings

87
The Contaminated Hospital Room as a Source of Acquisition of Nosocomial Pathogens

88
Transnational HAI Monitoring and Control: The European Union Experience

6:00 PM-7:00 PM


SHEA Business Meeting (SHEA Members Only)

Sunday, March 21, 2010

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6:30 AM-5:30 PM


Registration - Sunday

7:00 AM-8:20 AM


89
Challenges in Conducting High-Quality Infection Prevention and Control Research

90
Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI)

91
Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CAMRSA)

92
Hand Hygiene

93
Infection Prevention and Ambulatory Care

94
Practical Control of K. pneumoniae and Acinetobacter

95
Practical Implementation of Bundles

96
Preventing Infections in Dialysis

97
Prevention of Non-Infectious Adverse Events

98
Surgical Site Infections (SSIs) (Repeated Session)

99
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP)

7:00 AM-8:30 AM


SHEA Education Committee - Invited Participants Only

8:30 AM-8:45 AM


Awards - Sunday

8:30 AM-10:00 AM


100
The Most Influential Publications of the Last Decade

10:00 AM-10:30 AM


Coffee Break I - Sunday

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


101
Clostridium difficile

102
Improving Hand Hygiene Compliance

103
Infections in Critically Ill Adult Patients

104
Infections in Patients in Long-Term Care Facilities

105
Surgical Site Infections

12:00 PM-12:30 PM


Lunch - Sunday

12:00 PM-1:00 PM


SHEA Long-Term Care Facility Special Interest Group - Invited Participants Only

12:00 PM-2:00 PM


Decennial Planning Committee - Invited Participants Only

SHEA Guidelines Committee - Invited Participants Only

SHEA Research Committee - Invited Participants Only

12:30 PM-1:30 PM


CDC Hygiene Working Group Meeting - Invited Participants Only

National Hand Hygiene Working Group Meeting - Invited Participants Only

12:30 PM-2:00 PM


106
Surveillance Professorial Rounds

107
Surgical Site Infections Professorial Rounds

108
Public Reporting/Healthcare Preparedness/Quality Assessment Professorial Rounds

109
Pediatrics/Obstetrics/Viral Infections Professorial Rounds

110
Healthcare Preparedness

111
Pediatrics and Obstetrics

112
Prevention Programs

113
Product Evaluation

114
Public Reporting of HAIs and Healthcare Epidemiology Policy

115
Quality Assessment

116
Surgical Site Infections Posters

117
Surveillance

118
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus (VRE)

119
Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia Posters

120
Viral Infections

LB 3
Late Breakers II

2:00 PM-3:30 PM


121
Can We Meet the Challenge? Raising the Bar of Surgical Site Infection Risk Reduction Strategies

122
New Innovations in Surveillance Toward 2020

123
Recent Advances in the Study of Healthcare-Related Infectious Disease Epidemiology

124
The Changing Epidemiology, Diagnosis, and Prevention of C. difficile Infections: Insights for the Next 10 Years

3:30 PM-4:00 PM


Coffee Break II - Sunday

4:00 PM-6:00 PM


125
Antimicrobial Stewardship: Moving Beyond the Guideline

126
Challenging Issues in Occupational Health

127
Reconsidering Transmission of Respiratory Illnesses

128
MRSA, 50 Years On: Where Do We Go from Here?

Monday, March 22, 2010

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6:30 AM-10:00 AM


Registration - Monday

8:00 AM-10:00 AM


129
The Changing Face of Influenza: The Global Impact of a Novel Strain

10:00 AM-10:30 AM


Coffee Break I - Monday

10:30 AM-12:00 PM


130
The Decade: Influential Events That Shape Our Future