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Moore, Luke (UK)

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Chelsea & Westminster NHS Foundation Trust

 

I am an Infectious Diseases Physician and Clinical Microbiologist with special interests in critical care infections, antimicrobial resistance, and decision support systems. I hold a PhD in this field, two Masters degrees in Public Health and in Clinical Microbiology, both with distinction and I am a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and a Member of the Royal College of Physicians. I work clinically for secondary and tertiary care patients with infections in London, whilst my current research focuses on the epidemiology of antimicrobial resistance and outbreak detection, and on intelligent systems to aid antimicrobial stewardship.

Lemmen, Sebastian (DE)

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University Hospital Aachen

 

  • 1992 – 1993: Clinical Fellowship in Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Hospital, Harvard University, Boston, USA
  • 1994 – 1997: Internship at the Institute for Infectious Diseases and Environmental Medicine, University Hospital Freiburg, Germany
  • 1996: Specialization in Medical Microbiology and Epidemiology
  • Since 1997: Head of the Department for Infectious Diseases and Infection Control, University Hospital Aachen, Germany
  • 1998: Specialization in Infection Control and Environmental Medicine
  • 2006: Professor of Medicine at the University of Aachen, Germany
  • Since 2009: Head of the Center for Infectious Diseases (German Society for Infectious Diseases), University Hospital Aachen, Germany

Gould, Dinah (UK)

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Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom

 

Dinah Gould is a nurse and clinical scientist with a long-standing interest in infection prevention, especially hand hygiene. She leads the international flagship Cochrane review evaluating interventions to improve hand hygiene in patient care. Her recent research focuses on improving isolation precautions.

Huttner, Benedikt (CH)

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HUG

 

Benedikt Huttner is an infectious diseases specialist interested in antimicrobial stewardship, both in his clinical practice as well as in his research activities. After having finished his medical studies in Munich (Germany) in 2002 he trained in internal medicine in Bellinzona (Switzerland) and in infectious diseases in Zurich and Geneva (Switzerland). He is a member of the infection control team (SPCI) at HUG since 2007. Between 2010 and 2012 he spent two years in Salt Lake City (USA) in the context of a research fellowship. Since 2014 he is also attending physician at the division of Infectious Diseases at HUG and since 2016 “Privat-Docent” at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Geneva. Other research interests besides antibiotic stewardship in the inpatient and outpatient setting concern the decolonisation of multdrug-resistant Gram negative organisms.
Disclosure of Interest: None Declared

Eyre, David (UK)

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University of Oxford

 

Dr David Eyre is a Robertson Fellow at the University of Oxford’s Big Data Institute and a microbiology and infectious diseases clinician working in Oxford. David’s interests include the use of whole-genome sequencing as a tool for understanding the epidemiology and transmission of bacterial and fungal pathogens, in particular in healthcare settings. His previous work includes investigation of healthcare-associated transmission of Clostridium difficile and more recently investigating and controlling a large outbreak of Candida auris in Oxford.

Denkel, Luisa (DE)

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Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, German National Reference Center for Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

 

Luisa A. Denkel was born in Herzberg / Elster (Germany) in 1985. She obtained her diploma in biology at the Dresden University of Technology (Germany) in 2009. Subsequently, she did her PhD as a scholarship holder in the International Research Training Group (IRTG) 1273, funded by the German Research Foundation. During her PhD from 2009 – 2013, she was located at the Hanover Medical School (Germany) and the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm (Sweden). Her doctoral thesis was entitled “Molecular mechanisms of resistance against oxidative stress in Salmonella Typhimurium”. In 2015 she completed her Master of Epidemiology at the Berlin School of Public Health (BSPH), Charité Berlin.
In 2013, she was recruited by the Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin. Her research activities focus on multi-resistant Gram-negative bacteria including ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae, and infection control in (neonatal) intensive care units.

Carter, Vanessa (ZA)

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Healthcare Social Media South Africa – #hcsmSA

 

Vanessa is an Antibiotic Resistance (MRSA) e-Patient Scholar. She is also the founder of #hcsmSA (Health Care Social Media South Africa). #hcsmSA is a Twitter chat which she moderates to discuss Sustainable Health Development (#SDG3). By profession, Vanessa was a creative director for 18 years, since closing her business to pursue advocacy she has been appointed as an advising e-Patient to The South African Antibiotic Stewardship Program (SAASP) and ASPIRES (Antibiotic use across Surgical Pathways), EyeforPharma, InfectionControl.Tips and Doctors 2.0 and You, Paris. She was an accredited Social Media Ambassador for HIMMS17, is currently an e-Patient Scholar at Stanford University MedX, a co-chair of The Public Health Association of South Africa (PHASA) Health IT SIG and a member of the Interaction Design Foundation (IDF) which focuses on the principles of human-centered design. Vanessa is also a patient reviewer for the BMJ and Speaking engagements have included the African Union.