Category: Speaker

Team lead, clinical case management for emerging infection

WHO Health Emergency Programme

INSERM IAME, Team DesCID, Paris, France

 

Niccolò Buetti (MD, MSc) is board-certified in internal medicine and infectious diseases. He conducted his training in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology of the University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland and is completing his research fellowship at the INSERM-IAME unit (Team “Decision Science in Infectious Disease prevention, control and care”), Paris, France. He obtained in 2019 a Master degree in clinical epidemiology and healthcare research from the Sorbonne University of Paris, France. His research interests are intravascular catheter-related infections, hospital-acquired bloodstream infections and the epidemiology and control of multi-drug resistant bacteria in the hospital setting.

University Limerick Hospitals Group

 

Barbara is an Assistant Director of Infection Control Nursing in University Limerick Hospitals Group, Ireland. She qualified as a RGN in 1995 and graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons, with a Master’s Degree in Nursing in 2007, where she conducted a seminal research study on hand hygiene in Ireland. She is a senior nurse leader with over 17 years working in the specialised field of Infection Prevention & Control. She is the Healthcare Associated Infection Lead for the University Limerick Hospitals Group and manages the infection control service for Carbapenemase Producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) for this group of acute hospitals in the Mid-west region. She has collaborated with a multidisciplinary team in the design of an interdisciplinary Infection Prevention and Control in Healthcare module, in University of Limerick and is a member of the organising committee for the Safe Patient Course in the Royal College of Surgeons (RCSI) in Ireland. She has undertaken post-graduate training in the Royal colleague of physicians (RCPI) on Leadership and quality improvement. She has co-authored several published studies in the academic literature and presented at several national and international infection control conferences. Her main interests within infection control are hand hygiene, Quality Improvement, CPE and patient’s experiences. Her personal goal is to lead and influence the agenda of patient centeredness in infection control at a national level.
She is a member of the Infection Prevention Society UK, and Infection Prevention Control Ireland (IPCI).
Disclosure of interest: none declared

Queen Mary Hospital

Vincent Chi-Chung CHENG is the Chief of Service, Consultant Microbiologist and Infection Control Officer at Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong , and Honorary Professor at Department of Microbiology, The University of Hong Kong. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at The University of Hong Kong in 1994 with distinction in Medicine, and trained in the field of internal medicine. After acquisition of Membership from The Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom in 1997, he pursued further training in Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at Queen Mary Hospital. He obtained his Membership and Fellowship from The Royal College of Pathologists in 2004 and 2007 respectively. He was conferred Doctor of Medicine by The University of Hong Kong in 2012, and was awarded the Sir Patrick Manson Gold Medal for the best MD thesis. He is currently serving as International Editorial Board member of Journal of Hospital Infection, Infection Prevention in Practice, and has published over 230 international peer reviewed original articles in the areas of clinical infectious disease including SARS and influenza, diagnostic clinical microbiology, proactive infection control for multiple drug resistant bacteria, and respiratory and gastrointestinal viruses, and hospital outbreak investigations for bacteria, virus, and fungus.