The Healthcare Infection Society (HIS) Annual Conference will provide expert discussion on key topics in infection prevention and control. The topic for 2024 is 'Risk management in IPC: Assessing and addressing the routine and the rare'.

TOPICS COVERED

Lectures will be held, with interactive panel discussions for each topic. There will also be abstract presentations, debates on key issues, an exhibition and a social evening event.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

This event is for anyone with an interest in the prevention and control of HCAIs: consultant microbiologists and doctors enrolled on an infection specialty training programme, nurses, clinical scientists, research scientists and others with a demonstrable professional interest in HCAIs.

SPEAKERS

• Andrew Poplett, Healthcare Estates Consultant
• Elaine Cloutman-Green, Great Ormond Street Hospital
• Jean-Yves Maillard, Cardiff University
• Theresa Lamagni, UKHSA
• Andrew Weightman, Cardiff University
• Susan Hopkins, UKHSA
• Manjula Meda, Frimley Park Hospital
• Michael Weinbren, Sherwood Forest NHS Trust
• Malcolm Thomas, Consulting Engineer
• Jon Otter, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
• Donald Inverarity, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh
• Rebecca Cordery, UKHSA
• Pauline Jumaa, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust
• Shanom Ali, UCLH
• David Enoch, Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge
• Ginny Moore, UKHSA
• Jasmin Islam, UKHSA
• Brendan Lawlor, Health Service Executive, Ireland
• Luke Hunt, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

For more information, please contact: [email protected]