Monday September 23, Workshops:
- Bench to Bedside: Impact of microbiologic tests on clinical care and antimicrobial stewardship
- Where the rubber meets the road: Getting ready for your next CAP inspection in the Microbiology laboratory
- Lessons learned to improve biosafety
- Biology of biofilms
- Evidence-based (and common sense) workup of wound and tissue cultures
- MALDI-TOF for Microbiology: beyond identification (Part I) and Overview and best practices of Fournier Transform-Infra-Red (FT-IR) strain typing for real-time epidemiology
Enjoy wine, cheese and hot hors d'oeuvres with our exhibitors on Monday evening from 4:30-6pm!
Keynote Presentation: Open and FREE to all!
Monday September 23, 6-7pm.
Wastewater Intelligence: Bringing Human Health Insights from the Underground with Kait Hess Jimenez, MS, Biobot Analytics
Tuesday September 24, General Sessions:
- Women in lab leadership
- What do you do when AST breakpoints are broken?
- Utilizing host immune response to differentiate between bacterial and viral infections
- Zoonoses, past and present
- Antibiotic rapid review: pearls and pitfalls
- Quickness is key: Updates on rapid AST
- Integrating molecular methods into clinical microbiology diagnostics
- Understanding antimicrobial stewardship, reporting, and resistance
- Tick talk: Time for Lyme
- Student presentations
- Clinical case files