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22 May 2017Venue: John Innes Conference Centre, Norwich

CPD: 5 credits (applied for)

Implant related infections within orthopaedics

Implant related infections within orthopaedics

22 May 2017 Venue: John Innes Conference Centre, Norwich

Organised jointly by Orthopaedic Research UK and Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital

Course convenors:

Professor Iain McNamara, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Norfolk & Norwich University HospitalProfessor John Wain, Professor of Medical Microbiology, University of East Anglia

This event aims to bring together stakeholders from a variety of backgrounds to share experience and ideas with the common purpose of improving the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of patients with biofilm infection. A faculty of orthopaedic surgeons, clinical and experimental microbiologists will be talking about the latest research in this area. There will be interesting discussions around the latest molecular techniques in diagnosis and research, bioinformatics and clinical experience as well as clinical aspects of diagnosing and managing infection and the National Joint Infection Registry.

• Bring together a wide variety of opinion leaders in the field of orthopaedic implant infection

• Provide a broad introduction to the field for new researchers• Encourage inter-disciplinary debate and collaboration• Review the latest research in this area• Receive an update on the joint infection registry

Registration fees

Standard fee: £150 Retired/Student: £60 (This discounted fee is for people in full time education, and not earning a salary over 16k, or people who have retired.)

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Programme

Monday 22 May 2017

09:00 Registration and refreshments 09:30 Welcome and introduction Norwich Biofilms Group 09:40 Revision TKR networking Mr Peter James, Chair of the Nottingham Elective Orthopaedic Services

10:00 The role of graphene in prevention of infection Professor Ian Roberts, Professor of Microbiology, University of Manchester 10:20 Prevention and treatment of biofilm using comparative data Dr Robert Howlin, Research Fellow in Microbiology, University of Southampton

10:40 Discussion and invited questions10:50 Refreshments

11:20 Extracellular DNA – a roadmap to biofilm formation Professor Ian Charles, Director, IFR and founding Director of the Quadram Institute11:40 Small molecules anti biofilm agents Dr Elena Breidenstein, Research Scientist, Discuva

12:00 How reliable is the alpha-defensin immunoassay test Zimmer Biomet12:20 Discussion and invited questions12:30 Lunch13:30 Bacteriophages Dr Heather Fairhead, CEO, Phico Therapeutics Ltd13:50 Therapeutic approaches for biofilm eradication Professor James O’Gara, Personal Professor of Microbiology, National University of Ireland, Galway14:10 Tolerance and biofilms Professor Jean-Marc Ghigo, Head of Structure, Institut Pasteur 14:30 Discussion and invited questions

14:40 Refreshments 15:10 MDT approach to treating infected joints Mr Jonathan Miles, Clinical Director, Direct Care Unit, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital

15:30 Novel strategies for managing infection Speaker to be confirmed15:50 Treatment after failure to clear infection Speaker to be confirmed

16:10 Microbiology of prosthetic joint infection Speaker to be confirmed16:30 Discussion and invited questions

16:40 Summary16:50 Close of meeting

Educational objectives: