Speaker: Professor Barbara E. Murray, J. Ralph Meadows Professor of Medicine, Director, Division of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Professor, Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, USA

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) presents a very personal threat to millions of individuals worldwide. The highest risk areas for AMR are those with heavy antibiotic use and where there is easy spread of bacteria, such as daycare centers, animal feedlots, lower resource countries and ICUs. Acquisition of commensal multi-drug resist bacteria by travellers is a documented way to spread AMR worldwide among healthy individuals, just as transfer of patients spread AMR commensal and pathogenic bacteria between hospitals locally and abroad. This lecture will discuss clinical problems presented by AMR, as well as reasons behind this epidemic and the lack of a strong antimicrobial pipeline.

Registration & breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.