VISITING PROFESSORS SEMINARS

JULY 1, 2006 – JUNE 30, 2007

Name / Home Dept & Institution / Presentation Title
The International Nosocomial Infection Symposium Nov.30, 06
The 1 day symposium began with opening remarks from Drs. Joanne Embree, Peter Cattini and George Zhanel; followed by the plenary sessions which consisted of lectures from national, international and departmental keynote speakers. A summary of the morning session was delivered by Dr. Ethan Rubinstein. The afternoon session was dedicated to the Department of Medical Microbiology Graduate Students and ID/MM Fellows.
Dr. Daryl Hoban
Professor,
Dr. Dennis Maki
Dr. Lindsay Nicolle
Dr. Coleman Rotstein
Dr. Anand Kumar
Dr. Gary Garber
Dr. Michael Mulvey
Dr. Ayush Kumar / Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine and Head Section of Infectious Diseases, University of WisconsinMedicalSchool
Professor, Internal Medicine and Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Professor of Medicine, Director of Infectious Diseases, McMasterUniversity and Hamilton Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario
Associate Professor of Medicine, Sections of Critical Care Medicine and Infectious Diseases, University of Manitoba
Professor of Medicine, Head of Infectious Diseases, University of Ottawa and OttawaHospital
Chief, Nosocomial Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance, National Microbiology Laboratory, Health Canada, Assistant Professor, Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology, ColoradoStateUniversity,
Fort Collins, Colorado / Title of Talk: “Antimicrobial Resistance in Canadian Intensive Care Units
Title of Talk: “Central Line Associated Infections”
Title of Talk: “Nosocomial Urinary Tract Infections”
Title of Talk: “Hospital and Ventilatory Acquired Pneumonia”
Title of Talk: “Sepsis/Septic Shock-Antimicrobial Therapy”
Title of talk: “Sesis/Septic Shock Non-Antimicrobial Therapy”
Title of talk: “Pseudomembranous Colitis: The New Epidemic”
Title of talk: Antimicrobial Efflux Pumps in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
The HIV / Antimicrobials / Graduate Student Research Mini Symposium May 23, 2007
The Graduate Student Association President, Meaghan Labine organized the symposium which was divided in to 2 sections with the Visiting Professor series in the morning followed by the Graduate Student Research series in the afternoon.
Dr. Robert Coombs
Dr. Robert Hancock / Professor of Laboratory Medicine and Medicine; Vice-chair for Research, Department of Laboratory Medicine
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington
Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases and Immunity Research; Professor of Microbiology and Immunology and Canada Research Chair / Talk of talk: “Shedding of HIV-1 at mucosal sites in men and women: Implications for the interruption of sexual transmission”
Title of Talk: “New Approaches to treating bacterial infections”