bioMérieux Knowledge Exchange Event
Join bioMérieux for the second annual Knowledge Exchange thought leadership event at ASM Microbe! The evening will include a cocktail reception and interactive presentation on the use of rapid diagnostics to fuel antimicrobial stewardship with a real-life case study from Baptist Memorial Hospital.
This forum is an educational sharing event designed to assist healthcare institutions of any size to better understand the changing antibiotic stewardship (ABS) landscape in the microbiology laboratory, clinical ID pharmacy, and on infection prevention. Topics to be discussed include the regulatory impact (Accreditation – The Joint Commission) and expectations (CDC, IDSA, APIC, ACP) of how antibiotic stewardship teams need to work cooperatively across their various disciplines to plan, develop, implement and execute a sustainable ABS model at their facilities through the shared experience of a large healthcare system and several of its sister hospitals.
Location: Hilton New Orleans Riverside
2 Poydras Street
Grand Salon A&B
Date: Saturday, June 3, 2017
Time: 7:45pm-10:00pm
Agenda:
7:45 - 8:30 pm: Registration & Cocktail Reception
8:30 - 9:30 pm: Interactive Panel Presentation
9:30 - 10:00 pm: Q&A and Networking
Limited to the first 200 attendees
Our Featured Panel:
Athena Hobbs, Pharm.D - Infectious Diseases Clinical Pharmacy Specialist, Memphis Baptist Hospital, Memphis, TN
Dr. Hobbs is an infectious diseases clinical pharmacy specialist at Baptist Memorial Hospital-Memphis. She graduated from the University of Texas at Austin College of Pharmacy, completed her post-graduate year one residency training at the University of Chicago Medicine, and completed her post graduate year two residency training in infectious diseases and antimicrobial stewardship at Seton Healthcare Family in conjunction with the University of Texas at Austin. Her particular areas of interest and publication are in antimicrobial stewardship.
Cindy York RN, CIC - Infection Prevnetionist, Baptist Memorial Hospital, Memphis, TN
Cindy York is a registered nurse and certified infection control professional. She has practiced her entire career at Baptist Memorial in Memphis. She has worked both as a staff and charge nurse in the CCU, as well as the hemodialysis acute and chronic care units. Approximately 10 years into her nursing career she transitioned into infection control, now referred to as Infection Prevention (IP). Her role here focuses on surveillance and reporting of hospital acquired infections and communicable diseases as well as education of staff, patients, and visitors regarding infection prevention. Cindy is also the IP Administrator for TheraDoc Software System, an integrated CDSS software system with infection prevention reporting and tracking. She is also responsible for NHSN reporting requirements.
Cindy is active in the local and the national APIC organization. She is a member of the Tennessee State Multi-Disciplinary Advisory Committee on the Prevention of Hospital Associated Infections, Board Certified in Infection Prevention (CIC) and a credentialed trainer in Epic and Cadence Applications.
Melissa Gilmore - Laboratory Director – Baptist Memorial Hospital, Oxford, MS
Melissa Gilmore is the Laboratory Director at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle and brings decades of experience to that position. She oversees a full service medical diagnostic laboratory with 47 employees and is responsible for all aspects of laboratory management including performance improvement, regulatory compliance, and quality control.
Melissa is a graduate of Mississippi University for Women where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Microbiology and then her certification in Medical Technology from the Baptist Memorial Hospital School of Medical Technology.
Before assuming responsibility as the laboratory director Melissa was the Microbiology Laboratory Supervisor at Baptist Memorial Hospital Golden Triangle. She managed the daily activities of the diagnostic microbiology laboratory which included monitoring blood culture contamination rates, antimicrobial stewardship, and infection control laboratory support. She was instrumental in spearheading a multi-disciplinary task force for antimicrobial stewardship. She participated, and is currently still active, in the hospital Infection Control Committee, Antimicrobial Stewardship Committee, as well as the Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee.
Her most recent project, which is especially pertinent to our panel discussion, is serving as clinical work group chairperson for a collaborative microbiology project involving 13 hospitals in their healthcare system. Additionally, she coordinates activities with infection control, clinical pharmacy, microbiology and information technology.
Moderator:
Mark Miller, MD, FRCP(C) - Chief Medical Officer, bioMérieux Inc.
Dr. Mark Miller has been the full-time Chief Medical Officer at bioMérieux since 2012 and is a member of the company’s Executive Management Committee. Originally from Montreal, Canada, he is a medical clinician, certified in Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases, and Clinical Microbiology. He also possesses a Master’s degree in Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Doctor Miller is a former Full Professor and current Adjunct Professor of Medicine at McGill University. Before joining bioMérieux, he worked full-time as the Head of Infectious Diseases, the Chair of Infection Prevention and Control, as well as the Chief of Clinical Microbiology at the Jewish General Hospital in Montreal, Canada. He currently lives in France, the location of the head office of bioMérieux.
Dr. Miller has multiple global roles at bioMérieux, contained within the Office of Medical and Scientific Affairs. He is the head of the Global Medical Affairs group, the Medical Diagnostics Discovery Department, the Clinical Affairs and Regulatory Affairs groups and the Companion Diagnostics activities. His major concentration is on demonstrating the medical value and health benefits of the company’s diagnostic tools, focusing on improving outcomes for patients, healthcare institutions and the entire medical system. He also continues to undertake part-time research on healthcare-associated infections at McGill University in Montreal.
Key Objectives
- Describe the role of antimicrobial stewardship in healthcare facilities.
- Understand ABS activities for 3 out of the 5 ABS member disciplines: Pharmacy, Infection Control and the Microbiology Laboratory.
- Identify Pharmacy challenges in facilitating antimicrobial stewardship with an example of roll out of pharmacy suppressions using CLSI guidelines.
- Identify Microbiology challenges with a description of best practice with collaboration between the microbiology lab, pharmacy and infection control. How can these 3 departments work synergistically and provide optimum patient care?
- Discuss microbiology testing utilization of antimicrobial susceptibility panels, procalcitonin testing, and blood cultures to enhance the stewardship program, and assist in the de-escalation of antibiotics.
- Identify Infection Control challenges in maintaining an effective stewardship program, including surveillance, isolation procedures for multi-drug resistance, etc.
- Discuss hospital accreditation guidelines nationwide for antimicrobial stewardship mandated by JCAHO as of January 2017.
- Enhancing accountability and leadership support
- Supporting optimal antibiotic usage with pharmacy expertise
- Intervening to de-escalate antibiotic usage by pharmacy (pre-built in the EMR)
- Tracking and monitoring antibiotic usage and resistance patterns. Discussion of utilization of Infection Control software
- Educating and Collaborating
