The International Lecture Series provide the latest knowledges and global trends of infection control science. The lectures are invited from the leading countries of the infection control, such as UK, EU, USA, and South Korea.

April 2007 to March 2008

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07/07/03
Michael Gilmore
Harvard Medical School
Department of Ophthalmology
Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci: How commensal bacteria become hospital pathogens.

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07/11/28
Christof von Eiff
University Hospital of Muenster
Small Colony Variant

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07/12/03
Henry Chambers
San Francisco General Hospital
Community MRSA

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08/02/08
Jae-Hoon Song
Samsung Medical Center

April 2005 to March 2006

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06/02/03-06
Dawn Hill
North Bristol NHS Trust Southmead Hospital
Practical infection control

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06/01/16-19
Eric Taylor
Inverclyde Royal Hospital - Argyll & Clyde Acute Hospitals NHS Trust Greenock
1 Factors influencing the incidence of Surgical Site Infection (SSI) (1/16)
2 Patient preparation (1/16)
3 Antibiotic prophylaxis (1/17)
4 Rituals in the operating theatre (1/17)
5 Does minimally invasive surgery influence the incidence of SSI? (1/18)
6 Surgical wound care (1/18)
7 Audit of postoperative infection (1/19)
8 Post-discharge surveillance (1/19)

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05/10/03-06
Tyrone Pitt
Laboratory of HealthCare Associated Infection
1 Structure and functions of reference microbiological laboratories in UK (10/3)
2 Interaction of clinical and reference laboratories to improve patient management(10/3)
3 Quality control assurance in microbiological laboratories(10/4)
4 Identification and typing in the clinical and reference laboratory(10/4)
5 Introduction to bacterial typing(10/5)
6 Phenotypic typing methods(10/5)
7 Molecular typing I(10/6)
8 Molecular typing II(10/6)

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05/05/09-12
Ed Smyth
Director of Northern Ireland Healthcare-Associate Infection Surveillance Centre (HISC)
Introduction to Surveillance and HISC (5/9)
Overview of Surveillance of HCAI (5/9)
Setting-UP Surveillance (5/10)
Automated Data Entry (5/10)
SSI Surveillance (5/11)
Data Feedback (5/11)
Surveillance in the ICU (5/12)
Cost-effectiveness of Surveillance for SSI (5/12)

April 2004 to March 2005

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05/03/14-17
Hilary Humphreys
RCSI Education & Research Centre
Theatres construction and commissioning
MRSA control
Infections in ICUs
Medical device associated infections

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05/01/24-27
Peter Hawkey
West Midlands Public Health Laboratory, Health Protection Agency, Birmingham
Molecular typing methods
Control of tuberculosis
New use in identifying and controlling outbreaks

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04/12/13-16
Michael Emmerson
President of Hospital Infection Society, Queens Medical Centre
Perspective of Infection control
Repeated prevalence surveillance in hospitals

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04/11/15-18
Robert Spencer
Chair of Hospital Infection Society, Health Protection Agency, Bristol
Bioterrorism
Laboratory diagnostic needs for infection Control
Prevention of Central Venous catheter infections and new CVC devices

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04/11/08-11
Richard Slack
Queens Medical Centre
Outbreak recognition and control in the community
Legionnaires disease and air-borne pathogens

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04/10/18-21
Adam Fraise
Hospital Infection Research Laboratory Birmingham, City Hospital, Birmingham
Disinfection and sterilization
Endoscopy unit
Antibiotic policies and prescription control
Decontamination

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04/07/05-08
Peter Hoffman
Laboratory of Health Care Associated Infection, Health Protection Agency, London
Hospital Environment and laundry
Theatre ventilation
Isolation and ventilation
Decontamination of medical equipment
Prions (Transmissible spongiform encephalopathy)
Sterile Services Department (Functions of SSD)