NSCMID 2022 Meeting Scientific Programme

Aalborg Denmark 1. – 4. September 2022

 

Thursday 1 September

Registration 0900-1130

Lunch 1130-1230

Opening
President of the NSCMID 2022 meeting Hans Linde Nielsen 1230-1240

Symposium 1

Antimicrobials: Breakpoints, dosing and administration
Chair: Lena Rós Ásmundsdóttir (NSCMID) & David Fuglsang-Damgaard (NSCMID 2022) 1240-1340

EUCAST breakpoints and dosing of antibiotics: Any link to clinical outcome? Professor Gunnar Kahlmeter, EUCAST Development Laboratory, Växjö, Sweden 1240-1310

Continuous infusion of antibiotics: coming of age? Professor Niels Frimodt-Møller, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 1310-134

Coffee/tea/exhibition/posters 1340-1405

Symposium 2

Global and societal aspects of COVID-19
Chair: Magnus Gottfredsson (NSCMID) & Ole Schmeltz Søgaard (NSCMID) 1405-1535

COVID-19 and global aspects, professor Flemming Konradsen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark 1405-1435

COVID-19 and mental health (Online from Perugia, Italy), professor Unnur A. Valdimarsdottir, University of Iceland & Karolinska Institutet 1435-1505

Social behaviour during COVID-19 – a new HOPE, professor Michael Bang Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark 1505-1535

Coffee/tea/exhibition/posters 1535-1600

Poster session
In the Europahallen’s Foyer, 1st floor 1600-1700

Honorary lecture

Four decades with HIV, Professor Jan Gerstoft, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 1700-1740

Welcome reception

At Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg 1800-200

 

Friday 2 September

Symposium 3

COVID-19 updates in a Nordic perspective
Chairs: Asko Järvinen (NSCMID) & Henrik Nielsen (NSCMID 2022) 0830-1030

A brief history of SARS-CoV-2 sequencing in Denmark, professor Mads Albertsen, Aalborg University, Denmark 0830-0900

Update on COVID-19 therapy, professor Jens Lundgren, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 0900-0930

Long terms effects of COVID-19, myth or reality? Senior Consultant Björn Blomberg, Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen, Norway 0930-1000

Thirty-three months of SARS-CoV-2; virus variants, other infections, and seasonal changes, professor Astrid Iversen, University of Oxford, England 1000-1030

Coffee/tea/exhibition/posters 1030-1100

 

Symposium 4

Brain infections: New hope and lasting puzzles?
Chairs: Hanna Jarva (NSCMID) & Nina Breinholt Stærke (NSCMID) 1100-1230

Bacterial meningitis – changing epidemiology and future treatments, professor Matthijs Brouwer, Amsterdam, The Netherlands 1100-1130

Update on encephalitis: A general update on the diagnostic and management approach to encephalitis, including the use of novel technologies, professor Arun Venkatesan, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 1130-1200

Brain abscess – challenges and perspectives, senior Consultant Jacob Bodilsen, Aalborg University Hospital, Denmark 1200-1230

Lunch 1230-1330

 

Sponsored symposium (Pfizer) (online)
Chairs: Michael Dalager-Pedersen (NSCMID 2022) & Ole Schmeltz Søgaard (NSCMID) 1330-1430

Early antiviral treatment of COVID-19, assoc. Prof. and Senior Consultant, PhD Sara Cajander, Örebro University and the Department of Infectious Diseases, Örebro University Hospital, Sweden 1330-1400

Drug-drug interaction management in clinical practice, professor, MD, PhD, FRCP Marta Boffito, consultant Physician and HIV Service Director, Clinical Research Facility Lead, 
Chelsea and Westminster Hospital , Imperial College London 1400-1430

 

Sponsored symposium (Copan Italia S.p.A.) (online)
Chair: Arnalda Giambra (Microbiology Laboratory Director, Copan Wasp Srl) + Kirstine Kobberøe Søgaard (NSCMID 2022)

Automated disk diffusion antibiotic susceptibility testing: the next step in full lab automation, Susan Sharp, Ph.D., DABMM, FAAM, Copan Diagnostics, Inc., U.S 1430-1500

Coffee/tea/exhibition/posters 1500-1530

 

Symposium 5

Update on Tuberculosis

Chairs: Björn Blomberg (NSCMID) & Ole Kirk (NSCMID 2022) 1530-1700

The bright side of the moonshot - TB diagnostics for a post pandemic world (Online from Geneve, Switzerland), Morten Ruhwald, MD, PhD Director of TB Programme. Campus Biotech Chemin des Mines, Geneve, Switzerland 1530-1600

HIV/TB co-infection, senior Consultant Raquel Martin-Iguacel, Odense University Hospital, Denmark 1600-1630

MDR-TB and beyond (Online from Sweden), associate Professor Judith Bruchfeld, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 1630-1700

 

Cultural walk in Aalborg (registration needed) 1800-1930, or
Football match: Aalborg stadium, Clinical Microbiology vs. Infectious Disease 1800-2000

 

Saturday 3 September

NSCMID Annual General Meeting 0830-0900

Symposium 6

Hospital acquired Infections – new microorganisms, and old bugs in disguise
Chairs: Anders Johansson (NSCMID) & Mette Damkjær Bartels (NSCMID 2022) 0900-1000

The rise and spread of Candida auris, senior lecturer and consultant medical mycologist, Riina Richardson, Wythenshawe Hospital & Manchester University, England 0900-0930

EpiLinx and WGS – in an outbreak setting, senior scientist, Henrik Hasman, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark 0930-1000

 

Sponsored symposium (Tillotts Pharma) (online)
Chair: Hans Linde Nielsen (Tillotts Pharma) + Truls Michael Leegaard (NSCMID)

How to reduce the risk of recurrent C. difficile infectionProfessor Mark Wilcox, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust & University of Leeds, UK 1000-1030

Coffee/tea/exhibition/posters 1030-1100

 

Parallel Symposia 7

1100-1200 Perspectives on collaborative clinical Trials in the Nordic Countries - plenary discussion in the Musiksalen
Chair: Pontus Nauclér (NSCMID 2022)

Denmark – Lars Østergaard 1100-1110

Sweden – Pontus Nauclér 1110-1120

Norway – Björn Blomberg 1120-1130

Iceland - Magnus Gottfredsson 1130-1140

Finland – Asko Järvinen 1140-1150

Plenary discussion 1150-1200

1100-1200 Bacterial systematics / Phylogenomics in the Europahallen
Chair: Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen (NSCMID 2022)

Nomenclature of Prokaryotes:  Principles, Applications, and Misconceptions (online) Markus Göker, DSMZ – German 1100-1130

The enduring power of names, professor Niels Nørskov-Lauritsen, Odense University Hospital,  Denmark 1130-1200

Lunch 1200-1300

 

Sponsored symposium (GSK) (online)
Chairs: Henrik Nielsen (GSK) & Magnus Gottfredsson (NSCMID) 1300-1400

Treatment of Omicron with mAbs and Direct Antivirals, Anders Sönnerborg, MD, PhD, Karolinska University Hospital, Sweden 1300-1325 

Improving Quality of Life for People Living with HIV, Dr. Nneka Nwokolo, MBBS, MRCP, Dip GU Medicine, DFFP, Global Head Patients Affairs, ViiV Healthcare 1325-1340

Epidemiology and complications of Herpes Zoster, Sigrún Alba Jóhannesdóttir Schmidt, MD, PhD, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark 1340-1352

A summary of topics from the GSK symposium 1352-1400

 

Symposium 8

Hot topics in CM & ID
Chair: Truls Michael Leegaard (NSCMID) & Anne-Mette Lebech (NSCMID 2022) 1400-1530

Sequencing platforms used real-time, researcher Hege Vangstein Aamot, Akershus University Hospital, Norway 1400-1430

Pathogenesis of Gram-positive bacterial toxic shock and necrotizing soft tissue infections, professor Anna Norrby-Teglund, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 1430-1500

The role of rifampicin in bone and joint-infections, senior consultant Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker, University of Groningen, The Netherlands 1500-1530 

Coffee/tea/exhibition/posters 1530-1600

 

Symposium 9

Young invited scientists (one speaker from each Nordic country) 
Chairs: Annika Ljung (NSCMID) & Jacob Bodilsen (NSCMID 2022) 1600-1715

Colonisation with Neisseria meningitidis can persist for up to two years, Iris Kristinsdottir - Iceland 1600-1615

Early intervention with 3BNC117 and romidepsin at ART initiation in people with HIV-1 infection: a randomized, controlled, phase Ib/IIa clinical trial (the 
eCLEAR study), Jesper Gunst - Denmark 1615-1630

Dynamics of circulating lymphocytes responding to human experimental enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli infection, Sehee Rim - Norway 1630-1645

The risk of pyelonephritis following cystitis – a nationwide primary healthcare study, Filip Jansåker - Sweden 1645-1700

Bacterial extracellular vesicles in the gut microbiome of newborn infants, Jenni Turunen - Finland 1700-1715

 

Update on the monkeypox outbreak in Europe,

Chair: Anders Koch (NSCMID 2022) 1715-1745

Professor Anders Fomsgaard, Statens Serum Institut, Denmark

 

Congress Dinner – Musikkens Hus 1900 - 

 

Sunday 4 September

Symposium 10 

Infective endocarditis, an unending challenge?
Chairs: Kirstine Kobberøe Søgaard (NSCMID) & Michael Dalager-Pedersen (NSCMID 2022) 0900-1000

Endocarditis with drug-resistant pathogens, professor Pierre Tattevin, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Rennes, France 0900-0930

Antibiotics vs. surgery for Infectious Endocarditis – what the future holds, senior consultant Emil Fosbøl, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark 0930-1000

Coffee/tea/exhibition/posters 1000-1030

 

Symposium 11 

One Year in…
Chair: Hans Linde Nielsen (NSCMID) 1030-1210

One Year in Infectious Diseases, senior consultant Hilmir Ásgeirsson, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden 1030-1055

One Year in Paediatric Infectious Diseases, senior consultant Mette Holm, Aarhus University Hospital, Denmark 1055-1120

One Year in Clinical Microbiology, senior consultant Lena Rós Ásmundsdóttir, University Hospital Reykjavik, Iceland 1120-1145

One Year in Infection Control (Online, Turku, Finland), docent, specialist in infectious diseases and internal medicine Mari Kanerva, Turku University Hospital, Finland 1145-1210

 

Closing remarks – and welcome to NSCMID 2023, Örebro, Sweden
Hans Linde Nielsen and Martin Sundqvist 1210-1230

Lunch – take away (pre-order) 1230