Time | 1722 - 1730 |
Sepsis and Antimicrobial Stewardship – Two Sides of the Same Coin
On May 26, 2017 the World Health Assembly (WHA), the WHO’s decision-making body, adopted a resolution on improving the prevention, diagnosis, and management of sepsis. The first action urged by the resolution was for member states to develop national policy and processes to improve the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of sepsis; this is best articulated as a national Action plan for sepsis. In this Plenary session, world experts will address some exciting progress and remaining challenges in high, middle and low-income countries and how realistic and achievable actions can save literally millions of lives.
Karin Thursky
Karin Thursky (MBBS, BSc, MD, FRACP, FAHMS) is an infectious diseases physician and health services researcher who has over 20 years experience in the fields of antimicrobial stewardship and infections in the immunocompromised host. She has successfully implemented and scaled programs to improve the quality and safety of healthcare, and has a national leadership role in antimicrobial stewardship and sepsis. Karin was appointed as the inaugural Associate Director of Health Services Research and Implementation Sciences at Peter MacCallum Cancer Hospital in 2020 and has established a new Department of Health Services Research. She is also the Deputy Head of Infectious Diseases and the implementation stream for the NHMRC National Centre for Infections in Cancer. In her role at the Doherty Institute, Karin leads the National Centre for Antimicrobial Stewardship (NCAS) which takes a One Health approach to AMS across all human and animal health sectors); and is the Director of the Guidance Group at the Royal Melbourne Hospital which develops, implements and scales information technology to support the judicious use of antimicrobials.