Sponsored Symposium – BMS – Chair: Dr. Paddy Mallon Dr. Catherine Fleming – Evolving Epidemiology of HIV in Ireland Dr. Paddy Mallon - Safety of atazanavir in clinical practice – the Irish Perspective.

Afternoon Coffee

Opening Address – ‘Response to Pandemic Influenza H1N1 – Lessons learned’ - Prof. Lindsay Grayson, Melbourne, Chair Prof Bill Powderly

SpR Clinical Case Presentations Chaired by Prof Bill Powderly, Judges: Prof. Steve Calderwood(MGH) and Dr. Lindsay Grayson

Sponsored Symposium – Pfizer – Chair: Prof. Mary Horgan New Updates on the Management of MRSA Nosocomial Infection Dr Ian Gould, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Scotland

Welcome – Dr. Gerard Sheehan

Plenary Session – Prof. Steve Calderwood, chair Dr. Gerard Sheehan ‘Cholera- a neglected infectious disease but still a recurring menace’

OPAT – Chair: Dr. Catherine Fleming Prof Lindsay Grayson – Melbourne Australia – 'OPAT - what it's all about and how it can help’

Mark Gilchrist – Imperial College London – ‘Introducing a new OPAT database + registry’

OPAT Experience in Northern Ireland in 2010 A McBride¹, J Kayes², B Kelly², C Nevin³, C Donnelly¹, S Hedderwick¹ Department of Infectious Diseases¹, Acute Services², Pharmacy³, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Northern Ireland

Predictors of Amputation during Admission for Patients Hospitalised with Diabetic Foot Disease: A Prospective Cohort Study DP Gallagher¹, SF Dinneen², CA Fleming¹.Department of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Galway, Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Galway

PrSeroprevalance of Schistosomiasis and Strongyloides Infection in Patients from Endemic Areas attending a European Infectious Diseases Clinic Sadlier C¹, Brown A¹, Lambert J¹, Sheehan G¹, Mallon P.W.G1, ², ¹ Department of Infectious Diseases, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland 2 School of Medicine and Medical Sciences, University College Dublin, Ireland.

Dr. Michael Barry – Dept of Pharmacoeconomics, Trinity College Dublin TBA

A 5 Year Retrospective Review Of Bloodstream Infection In A National Bone Marrow Transplantation Unit Fraher MH1, Kelleher M¹, Conneally E², O’Connell B ¹ Department of Clinical Microbiology, ²Department of Haematology, St. James Hospital, Dublin

Results of Irish National Point Prevalence Studies 2009 and 2010 D. Lambert¹, M. Philbin¹, A. Oza^{2 1}On behalf of the IAPG, ²On behalf of the HPSC

The Spectrum of Invasive Pneumococcal Disease at an Adult Tertiary Care Hospital in the Early 21st Century C. Rock, J. Fitzgerald, C. Sadlier, A. Brown, S. Kelly, C. Dowling, C. Bergin Department of genitourinary medicine and infectious diseases, St. James’s Hospital, James’s street, Dublin 8.

Closely Related KPC-producing K. pneumoniae from Hospital Inpatients and Community in Mid-West of Ireland.Iris Condon¹, Catherine Ludden², Mary Corcoran², Nuala O’Connell¹, Martin Cormican², Teck Wee Boo², Dearbháile Morris¹ Department of Microbiology, Mid-Western Regional Hospital, Limerick, Ireland ² Antimicrobial Resistance and Microbial Ecology (ARME) Group, School of Medicine, National University of Ireland Galway

Sponsored Symposium – Gilead – chair: Dr. Susan Clarke Shaping the Future: Long Term Sustainable Management of HIVProf Colm Bergin - Addressing challenges within HIV service delivery Dr Andrew Ustianowski, North Manchester Hospital – How will ART fit into the changing landscape?

Virology Session, co-chairs Prof. Sam McConkey, Prof. Colm Bergin

Dr. Tomas Hanke – University of Oxford - Development of a universal HIV-1 vaccine

Dr. Clair Gardner – Dept of Immunology and Biochemistry Trinity Dublin – Host factors in spontaneous resolution of HCV

Utility of Host Genetics to Individualise Hepatitis C (HCV) Treatment in HIV/HCV Co-infection O’ Shea D¹, Keane C², Farrell G¹, Gardiner C², Bergin C¹. ¹Department of Infectious Diseases, St James’s Hospital, James’s Street, Dublin 8 ²School of Biochemistry and Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2.

Epstein Barr Virus Gene Expression, HLA Alleles and Chronic High EBV Viral Load in Paediatric Renal Transplant Patients. J. Moran, M. Carr, A. Waters, J. Connell, A. Awan, W. Hall and J. Hassan. Centre for Research in Infectious Diseases & National Virus Reference Laboratory, School of Medicine and Medical Science, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4 & Department of Nephrology, Childrens’ University Hospital, Temple Street, Dublin 1, Ireland.

HIV-1 Tat Clade B Increases Interferon-gamma Production by Gamma Delta T-cells A Kennedy¹, DG Doherty², M Hennessy¹, JP Spiers¹. ¹Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, and ²Department of Immunology, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.

Switching Zidovudine to Tenofovir Improves Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Volume and mtDNA Content ER Feeney^{,1 2}, S Vrouenraets³, F Wit³, K Brinkman⁴, E Capel⁵, P Domingo⁶, F Villaroya⁷, J Capeau⁵, P Reiss³, PWG Mallon^1,2 on behalf of the PREPARE study group

Chronic Hepatitis B Treatment- A Comparison of Guidelines KM McFaul, C Fleming Dept of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital Galway

Patients Accessing Adult Ambulatory Care for HIV-infection in Ireland: preliminary demographic data. H. Tuite¹, A O’ Hora², M. Horgan³, P. Mallon⁴, B. Mooka⁵, S. Mc Conkey⁶, C. Bergin¹, C. Fleming⁷ on behalf of the HPSC group

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