- 08:45 - 31/01/2025 to 18:30 - 31/01/2025
- Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London, London, W1G 0RN, United Kingdom
Topics in Infection is an important in-person meeting for colleagues working in clinical microbiology, infectious diseases, public health, infection prevention and control, and science. For this special anniversary year, the extensive one-day programme showcases talks from leading experts on the progress in key areas of infection over the last 50 years, as well as updates on recent “hot topics” in all aspects of infectious diseases.
TOPICS COVERED
Microbiology, avian flu, HIV therapeutic advances, medical mycology, clinical infection, mosquito-borne diseases, infection surveillance, tuberculosis, viral haemorrhagic fevers.
WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
Colleagues working in clinical microbiology, infectious diseases, public health, infection prevention and control, and science. Including: Consultants, Directors, Fellows, Lab Technicians, Lecturers, Managers, Microbiologists, Nurses, Physicians, Registrars, Senior researchers, Scientists, Specialists, Students, Surgeons. With roles in: Biomedical research, Communicable diseases, Epidemiology, Global Health, Immunology, Infection control, Infectious disease, Medical microbiology, Microbiology, Neglected Tropical Diseases, Paediatrics, Parasitology, Public health, Tropical medicine, UK healthcare, Veterinary science, Virology.
SPEAKERS
- Professor Anna Maria Geretti, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy and North Middlesex University Hospital, London, UK
- Professor Armine Sefton, Emeritus Professor of Clinical Microbiology at Queen Mary, University of London
- Professor Sir Chris Whitty, Chief Medical Officer for England and chief medical adviser to the UK government, Consultant NHS physician at UCLH and The Hospital for Tropical Diseases.
- Professor David Heymann, Professor of Infectious Disease Epidemiology at LSHTM and a Distinguished Fellow at the Centre on Universal Health at Chatham House, London
- Dr Jake Dunning, Consultant and Hon. Clinical Associate Professor in Infectious Diseases at the Royal Free Hospital, London
- Dr John Moore-Gillon, Consultant Physician Emeritus, St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
- Dr Jolyon Medlock, Medical Entomologist at the UK Health Security Agency, Porton Down
- Professor Nicola Lewis, Director of the Worldwide Influenza Centre and the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Response Francis Crick Institute and Professor in One Health Evolutionary Biology at the Royal Veterinary College
- Professor Robin May, Chief Scientific Adviser at the Food Standards Agency (FSA) and Professor of Infectious Disease at the University of Birmingham
- Professor Tom Rogers, Emeritus Professor, Clinical Microbiology, Trinity College Dublin
For more information, please contact: [email protected].
