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Come and join this FREE webinar to hear the most up to date issues related to skin, bone and joint infections from experts in the field.

The aim is to cover a wide variety of interesting topics including mycobacterial peri-prosthetic joint infections, application of molecular assays in the diagnosis of septic arthritis, epidemiological data related to skin infections as well as timing for intravenous to oral switch in skin and soft tissue infections and antibiotic alternatives in some of these infections.

Speaker bios

Dr Monica Chan graduated from University of Nottingham, UK in 2002 and obtained her MRCP (UK) in 2005. She completed her Advanced Specialist Training in Infectious Diseases in 2011 and is currently a Senior Consultant in the Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, National Centre for Infectious Diseases. She assists with teaching as Adjunct Assistant Professor in Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine and Core Faculty of the Infectious Diseases Senior Residency in Tan Tock Seng Hospital. She has been Head of the Tan Tock Seng Hospital Outpatient Parenteral Antibiotic Therapy Clinic since 2012 and Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases since 2019.

Prof. Matthew Dryden is a consultant in infection and microbiology at the Hampshire Hospitals Trust in Winchester, UK and at the Rare and Imported Pathogens Department, Public Health England. He is also an honorary senior lecturer at Southampton University Medical School and a Professor in the department of internal medicine at St George’s University School of Medicine in Grenada

Prof. Pasquale Pagliano is an Associate Professor of Infectious Diseases / Head of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Medicine, Surgery and Dentistry, Scuola Medica Salernitana in Salerno, Italy.
Previously, he worked at the Department of Infectious Diseases D. Cotugno Hospital AORN dei Colli in Napoli (Italy) and was the Head of the Neurology and Neurophysiology of Neuroinfection Unit (2010-2019).
His main areas of interest are SSTI, neurologic infections and HIV. He has authored over 90 publications in different fields of infectious disease including SSTI.

Dr Ahmad-Saeed has worked in Southampton for 15 years and completed her PhD on the detection of infection in paediatric bone and joint infections using real time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR). This technology has been used as part of a multicentre study funded by Health Technology Assessment looking at the feasibility of its use in infection detection. She has a special interest in molecular research, development and design of new molecular assays. Most recently, she has worked on the implementation of assays designed at looking at variants of concern.

Dr Parham Sendi is a specialist in internal medicine and infectious diseases, Professor in Infectious Diseases at the University of Bern, Switzerland and a clinical scientist. His clinical and research interests include osteoarticular and skin and soft tissue infections, cardiovascular infections, central nervous system infections, streptococcal infections and PK/PD of Antibiotics.

Prof. Silvano Esposito MD, has been professor of Infectious Diseases at the School of Medicine and Surgery, at the University of Naples, Italy, first, and at the University of Salerno, Italy, until November 2019. Former Director of the Department of Infectious Diseases at the University of Salerno, Italy. Over the course of his career, his clinical and research interest has been mostly in the area of bacterial infections, with special concern for bacterial resistance and antibiotic stewardship. He was the founder of the journal "Le Infezioni in Medicina" on 1993 and by November 2019 he is employed as full-time Editor in Chief.

Dr Kordo Saeed is currently working as a consultant clinical microbiologist at the Department of Infection, at University Hospitals Southampton NHS Foundation Trust & an honorary associate professor at the University of Southampton School of medicine. Dr Saeed is the secretary for the Skin, Bone and Joint infection working group of the International Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ISAC) and the chair of ISAC's Rapid Diagnostics and Biomarker Working group. He has published on infection control, antibiotic stewardship, bone and joint infections, biomarkers and sepsis.