Gabriel Birgand – Infection Control Pharmacist – Epidemiologist

This animation summarises the key findings from a study conducted at Imperial College London investigating the challenges facing healthcare professionals who are trying to optimise antibiotic use in hospitals across different countries. The study is part of a PhD study investigating the Impact of Culture and Team Dynamics on the Implementation of Antimicrobial Stewardship Programmes. It was funded by research grants through the Economic and Social Science Research Council (ESRC) and the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR).

We recently enterprised an evaluation of blogs availables in the field of infectious diseases, clinical microbiology, antimicrobial stewardship and infection control. The following poster has been presented by Rachael Troughton (Imperial College London) at the last congress of the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA) Atlanta May 2016. This study is helping in understanding how bloggers and readers use blogs for their professional activites. You will also find a list of high-level blogs deeply assessed.

Here is a summary of studies and topics presented at the last ECCMID in Amsterdam.

I had the chance the present some preliminary results of the ARIBO project at the last European Conference of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases during which we assessed healthcare professionals behaviour during orthopaedic and cardiac procedures and it impact on the infectious risk.

The audience seemed to be interested with very good questions: what is the number of meters performed by people and what’s the impact on the air contamination? Is the type of ventilation system prevent the risk link to bad behaviour?

You will find below the PDF of the presentation. Feel free to comment!!!!

These slides were presented the 23rd March 2016 in Paris. This is a literature review of all relevant articles published from january 2015 to march 2016 on healthcare associated infections and antimicrobial resistance in critical cares. Most of slides are in English but some stay in French.

Please click here to get the PDF of the literature review

One of the world’s most ambitious collaborations to tackle the rise of drug resistant infections has launched at Imperial College London the 25th of september.

The Antimicrobial Research Collaborative (ARC) at Imperial we are attacking antimicrobial resistance from all angles. By bringing together leaders in microbiology, engineering, chemistry, clinical research, epidemiology, health economics, and more, we take a holistic approach to tackling this great threat to humanity.

Researchers, clinicians and allied healthcare professionals from Imperial’s faculties, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, industrial and third party collaborators will work together to address the global threat of drug-resistant infections.  They will conduct interdisciplinary research in drug-resistant infections, and translate findings into novel infection prevention strategies and therapies that can benefit patients.

Six recipients from Imperial’s School of Public Health, Department of Medicine and Life Sciences were awarded ARC Early Career Research Fellowships. These are one year funding awards for early career postdoctoral researchers who are working in the field of antimicrobial research.

Dr Martin Cole, Imperial alumnus and former Director Research Programmes, GSK (Pharma), presented the fellowships to Dr Gabriel Birgand, Dr Enrique Castro-Sanchez, Dr Myrsini Kaforou, Dr Johanna Rhodes, Dr Simren Gill and Dr Martina Valentini at the event.

Further information on ARC can be found on the ARC pages.