HISICON

Theme - "Blending Infection Control Into Clinical Practice"

XII HISICON (7-9 Feb 2013)
Twelveth National Conference of Hospital
Infection Society - India

Venue : Prof R.D Choksi Auditorium Tata Memorial Hospital , Parel, Mumbai

Secretariat
Dr Gita Nataraj
Dept of Microbiology
7th floor, Multistoreyed Building,
K.E.M Hospital, Parel, Mumbai 400012
Email: hisicon2013@gmail.com

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM | ACADEMIC PROGRAM 2013

8 February 2013

TIME	Event	Speaker
8:00 – 9:00am	Registration and breakfast
9:00 – 9:10am	Welcome address	Dr. Rohini Kelkar – Org. Chairperson
9:10 – 10:45am	Session I – Airborne Infection Control Chairpersons: Dr. Shaheen Mehtar and Dr.F.E.Udwadia
9:10 – 9:20am	Airborne Infections – A prelude	Dr Pradeep Vaideeshwar Prof., Pathology
9:20 – 9:50am	Keynote Address Infection control during epidemics and pandemics	Prof Seto Wing Hong Director, WHO Collaborating Centre for Infection Control, Hospital Authority, Hong Kong Professor, University of Hong Kong
9:50 – 10:10am	Preventing the transmission of tuberculosis in healthcaresettings – Practical solutions	Dr. Deepesh R Vendoti Public Health Expert TB Control, Mumbai
10:10 – 10:30am	TB transmission prevention in healthcare settings inMumbai – Observations and Challenges	Dr Nerges Mistry Director,The Foundation for Medical Research, Mumbai
10:30 – 10:45am	Audience participation	Dr Aruna Poojary
10:45 – 11:15am	Tea break
11:15am – 01:30pm	Session II – Inaugural ceremony
11:20 – 11:30am	HIS-India President’s address	Dr. T S Jain
11:30am – 12:00pm	Keynote address Working towards effective infection control: From local to global Chairpersons Dr. Geeta Mehta & Dr. Birgit Willinger	Prof. Didier Pittet Director,Infection Control Programme, University of Geneva Hospitals and Faculty of Medicine External Programme Lead, WHO First Global Patient Safety Challenge: Clean Care is Safer Care
12:00 – 12:40pm	Prof. Brahm Prakash Oration A Surgeon’s perception towards infection control Chairpersons Dr. R A Bhalerao & Dr. Victor Rosenthal	Padmabhushan Dr. Prafulla B Desai Surgical Oncologist Breach Candy Hospital Trust Mumbai
12:40 – 1:20pm	Dr. Ajita Mehta Memorial Oration Infection control in the days of MDR-TB - how do LMI countries cope? Chairpersons Dr. V N Acharya & Dr. Preeti Mehta	Dr. Shaheen Mehtar Extraordinary Professor (Acting Head: UIPC) Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences Stellenbosch University Tygerberg, South Africa
12:40 – 1:20pm	Vote of thanks	Dr. Raman Sardana Director, Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
1:30 – 2:15pm	Lunch
2:15 – 4:00pm	Session III – Infection control in clinical practice Chairpersons Dr. David Weber and Dr. F D Dastur
2:15 – 3:00pm	Impact of INICC Bundles on Device Associated Infection Rates in Intensive Care Units of Limited Resources Countries	Dr. Victor Rosenthal Chairman, International Nosocomial Infection Control Consortium, Argentina
2:15 – 3:00pm	Benefits of closed IV fluid system
3:00 – 3:20pm	Pseudomonas in NICU – killer bug or colonizer?	Dr. Nandini Shetty Consultant Microbiologist and HPA Training Coordinator UCLH NHS Foundation Trust & Health Protection Agency, UK
3:20 – 3:35pm	Atypical mycobacterial infections in adults and children- an unacceptable breach in infection control	Dr. Tanu Singhal Pediatric Infectious Disease Consultant Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital Mumbai
3:35 – 3:50pm	Case presentation on best practices in neonatology	Dr. Ruchi Nanavati Professor and Head, Dept of Neonatology Seth G.S M.C and K.E.M Hospital, Mumbai
3:50 – 4:10pm	Review of Infection Control in Limited Resource Settings	Dr. Preeti N Malani, MD, MSJ Associate Professor Internal Medicine Divisions of Infectious Diseases and Geriatric Medicine, University of Michigan Medical School, USA
4:10 – 4:30pm	Tea Break
4:30 – 5:00pm	Waterborne nosocomial infections and water quality	Dr. Rohini Kelkar Prof. and Head Dept of Microbiology, Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
5:00 – 5:30p.m	Practice and theory gaps in infection control – how to deal with this problem	Mrs. Gertie Van Kippenberg Germany
5:30 – 6:15pm	Oral paper presentations Venue I, Venue II, Venue III
5:30 – 6:30pm	Executive committee meeting followed by General Body Meeting
7:00pm onwards	Banquet – Emperor Hall, NSCI Mumbai

9 February 2013

TIME	Event	Speaker
8:00 – 9:00am	Breakfast
8:30 – 9:15am	Oral paper presentations	Venues I, II, III
9:10 – 10:45am	Session IV – From simple to complex to chronic to cliched
9:15 – 9:30am	Recent developments in hand hygiene	Dr. Namita Jaggi Director, Labs & Infection Control Artemis Health Institute, Gurgaon, India
9:30 – 9:45am	Publishing infection control literature	Dr. Preeti Malani
9:45 – 10:30am	Nosocomial Fungal Infections –Deathly Tales and Lessons Learnt	Dr. Birgit Willinger Chair, Austrian Society of Medical Mycology Dr. Pradeep Vaideeshwar Professor , Pathology, Seth GSMC & KEMH
10:30 – 10:45am	Hand hygiene is the last word in infection control - A debate	Dr. Farhad Kapadia P D Hinduja National Hospital and MRC vs Dr. J Divatia Tata Memorial Hospital
10:45 – 11:15am	Tea break
11:15am – 1:30pm	Session V – Sterilization and Disinfection in healthcare Co-ordinators Dr. Biswas, Dr. Shripad Chairpersons Dr. Hans Joachim Roedger Dr. Shaheen Mehtar
11:15 – 11:45am	Disinfection and Sterilization In Developing Countries: What Clinicians and IPs Need to Know	Prof. Dr. David Webber Professor of Medicine , Pediatrics and Epidemiology University of North Carolina Global School of Public Health
11:45am – 12:15pm	Minimal requirements for optimization of Medical Device Reprocessing	Mr. Robert Schrodel Pioneer Medical Devices AG, Berlin
12:15 – 12:45pm	Objective Monitoring of Hygiene and Sanitation for Infection Control in Hospitals	Dr. Martin Easter General Manager, Hygiena – UK
12:45 – 1:05pm	Pricey or priceless – reuse of single use medical devices a debate	Dr. Karapurkar (for) Dr. Sudeep Shah (against)
1:05 – 1:20pm	Novel disinfectants for Control of Healthcare Associated Infections	Brig. Dr. N S Lamba (Parallel session) Consultant & HOD Dept of Anesthesia Critical care & pain medicine Army Hospital (Research and Referral), New Delhi
1:20 – 1:35pm	Reduction of bioburden using antimicrobial copper touch surfaces	Dr. J Divatia Intensivist Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai
1:35 – 1:45pm	Audience participation	Dr Lona Dash
1:45 – 2:30pm	Food for the body and mind Walk down research lane – in search of an answer
2:30 – 3:45pm	Session VI – Antimicrobial Management Programme Co-ordinators Dr. Anjali Shetty & Dr. Sweta Shah Chairpersons Dr. Sujata Baveja & Dr. A R Pazare
2:30 – 2:45pm	Prophylactic Therapy	Dr. Rajeev Soman Consultant, P.D Hinduja National Hospital and MRC, Mumbai
2:45 – 3:00pm	The nuances of formulating a relevant empiric antimicrobial policy	Prof. Dr. V Balaji Dept of Microbiology, CMC, Vellore
3:00 – 3:15pm	Ensuring implementation of this policy	Dr. Abdul Ghafur Consultant ID Physician, Apollo Hospital, Chennai
3:15 – 3:30pm	MIC – our new best friend	Dr. Aalap Gandhi Medical Director, Astra Zeneca
3:30 – 3:45pm	Antimicrobial de-escalation	Dr. Raman Sardana Additional Director and Consultant Microbiologist, Apollo Hospitals, New Delhi
3:45 – 4:00pm	Tea break and audience interaction
4:00 – 6:00pm	Session VII – Administrative aspects and healthcare worker safety Co-ordinators Dr. Milind Ubale & Dr Anjali Shetty Chairpersons Dr. Sandhya Kamath & Dr. Gustad Davar
4:00 – 4:15pm	Risk assessment for infection prevention inpublic health settings	Dr. Usha Baveja Sr. Consultant Microbiologist, Medanta Medicity, New Delhi
4:15 – 4:30pm	Setting up an effective infection control programme	Dr. Sanjeev Singh Medical Superintendent AIMS, Keralal
4:30 – 4:45pm	Do returns justify investment?	Dr. Parag Rindani Head, Medical Strategy and Clinical Excellence, Wockhardt Hospitals
4:45 – 5:00pm	Healthcare worker safety – safe injection practices	Dr. Shaheen Mehtar
5:00 – 5:15pm	Infection control perspectives for accreditation	Dr. Harish Nadkarni CEO, Quality Care Principal Assessor, NABH
5:15 – 5:30pm	HCAI and Liability	Dr. Lalit Kapoor
5:30 – 5:45pm	To be announced
Valedictory Function