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Le Méridien Dubai Hotel &Conference Centre, Dubai, UAE

21st & 22nd March 2019

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2nd UAE InternationalConference onAntimicrobialResistance (ICAMR)

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Dear Friends and Colleagues, It gives me great pleasure to welcome you to 2nd UAE’s International Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (ICAMR) 2019, in Dubai, United Arab Emirates 21st to 22nd March 2019. ICAMR 2019 promises you an enriching scientific and educational gathering, shedding the light on the latest advances in research and practice through presentations, workshops and interactive discussions with current, in-depth quality scientific contents in the field of Antimicrobial Resistance. The conference is organized by the National Antimicrobial Resistance Committee in UAE. We believe that the conference will provide an exceptional opportunity for everyone to share and acquire knowledge and experience on a wide spectrum of topics that are related to microbiology, infectious disease, infection control, and antimicrobial stewardship in addition to an opportunity to meet and rub shoulders with the experts in the field and innovative educators. We wish you great learning at the ICAMR 2019.

Dr. Najiba M Abdulrazzaq Consultant InternistHead of Medical Dept.Al Kuwait Hospital DubaiHead of Central IPC Committee, MOHAPNational AMR Committee Co-ChairDubai, UAE

Welcome Message

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Dr. Najiba M. Abdulrazzaq

Dr. Khuloud Bin Rafeea Dr. Ashraf El Houfi

Consultant InternistHead of Medical Dept.Al Kuwait Hospital DubaiHead of Central IPC Committee, MOHAPNational AMR Committee Co-ChairDubai, UAE

Prof. Hala Fouad Ismail Consultant Microbiology & ImmunologyAl Kuwait Hospital LaboratoryPure HealthDubai, UAE

Dr. Hamid Ragab OrbanDoctor of Veterinary MedicineAnimal Production SpecialistAnimal Wealth SectorAbu Dhabi Food Control AuthorityAbu Dhabi, UAE

Senior Clinical PharmacistPharmacy (Dep) – Pharmacy (Div)Tawam HospitalAl Ain, UAE

Chairman of the Infection Control CommitteeConsultant ICU Dubai HospitalDubai, UAE

Dr. Layla Al Dabal BSc, MD MSc (UK) FRCP (UK)ConsultantMedical-Infectious DiseasesRashid HospitalDubai, UAE

Organizing Committee

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Dr. Najiba M Abdulrazzaq

Dr. Nawal Al Kaabi

Dr. Manal Abdul Fattah Ahmed Ali

Dr. Mubarak Alfaresi

Consultant InternistHead of Medical Dept.Al Kuwait Hospital DubaiHead of Central IPC Committee, MOHAPNational AMR Committee Co-ChairDubai, UAE

Head Of Pathology & Laboratory MedicineConsultant Medical MicrobiologistSheikh Khalifa General HospitalUmm Al Quwain, UAE

Specialist MicrobiologyUmm Al Quwain, UAE

Dr. Motasem AbuelreishMD, ABP, ABPIDConsultant, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, AQWCHHead, Infection Control Committee, AQWCHHead, Antimicrobial Stewardship Team, AQWCHHead, Central Antimicrobial Stewardship Team, MOHAP, Al Qassimi Women’s &Children’s HospitalSharjah, UAE

Acting Chief Medical OfficerPediatric Infectious Disease ConsultantMedical Institute – Medical AffairsSheikh Khalifa Medical CityAbu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Layla Al Dabal BSc, MD MSc (UK) FRCP (UK)Consultant Medical Infectious DiseasesRashid HospitalDubai, UAE

Dr. Khuloud Bin Rafeea Senior Clinical PharmacistPharmacy (Dep) – Pharmacy (Div)Tawam HospitalAl Ain, UAE

Dr. Ashraf El Houfi Chairman of the Infection ControlCommittee Dubai HospitalConsultant ICU, Dubai HospitalDubai, UAE

Scientific Committee

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Dr. Ahmad Subhi

Dr. Anju Nabi

Dr. Rania El lababidi

Dr. Jens Thomsen

Pharm.D, EMHA,BCPS (AQ-ID), AAHIVPSenior Manager Pharmacy Educationand Training Co-DirectorAntimicrobial Stewardship ProgramDepartment of Pharmacy ServicesCleveland Clinic Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi, UAE

Head of Microbiology &Infection control UnitDHA – Rashid HospitalDubai, UAE

Dr. Yousuf Mustafa Naqvi Senior Officer, Vaccines & BiologicsHealth Regulation DivisionRegulatory AuthorityAbu Dhabi, UAE

MD MPH, Consultant Clinical MicrobiologyChair, UAE National Sub-Committee forAntimicrobial Resistance SurveillanceSection Head, Environmental HealthOccupational and Environmental Health Dept.Dept. of Health (DoH)Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Rayhan Hashmey Adjunt Assoc. Prof. of Medicine, UAEUChief, General Internal MedicineConsultant Infectious DiseasesTawam HospitalAl Ain, UAE

MD, Infectious Disease ConsultantAl Qassimi HospitalSharjah, UAE

Scientific Committee

Prof. Hala Fouad Ismail Consultant Microbiology & ImmunologyAl Kuwait Hospital LaboratoryPure HealthDubai, UAE

Scientific Program

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08:00 - 09:00 Registration

Session 1: AMRChairpersons: Jameela Mohammed & Ahmad Subhi

Session 2: Infection Control

10:10 - 11:00

11:00 - 12:30

Opening Ceremony & Coffee Break

13:00 - 14:00 Lunch Break

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

09:00 - 09:20

09:00 - 10:10

09:40 - 10:00AMR - A One Health ApproachAMR - GCC Updates

Maha Talaat09:20 - 09:40AMR UAE - Updates Najiba M Abdulrazzaq

Asim Alsaedi10:00 - 10:10 Panel Discussion

Abeer Rajeh

Infection Control in Endoscopy

11:00 - 11:20 Influx Plan

11:40 - 12:0012:00 - 12:20 Better Outbreak Management12:20 - 12:30 Panel Discussion

15:20 - 15:30 Panel Discussion

Maha TalaatAhmed Ghatwary

Jameela Mohammed

BD

11:20 - 11:40 Effective IPC program - Multimodal approach

Industry Symposium

Hala Fouad

14:00 - 14:20 Jens ThomsenNational AMR Surveillance

14:40 - 15:00 Rapid diagnostics in ASPTibor Pal15:00 - 15:20 Mechanism of Antimicrobial Resistance

14:20 - 14:40 Hamid RajabAnimal data for MDRO

17:35 Closing Remarks - End of Day 1

Dirar Abdalla16:05 - 16:25

16:45 - 17:05ASP experience - Prime Hospital

Rania El Lababidi

17:25 - 17:35

Pharmacokinetics and pharmakodynamics in ASP17:05 - 17:25 Marwa EzzeldinASP in primary healthcare

Panel Discussion

Layla Dabbal16:25 - 16:45

ASP UAE Updates15:45 - 16:05 Jameela MohammedBahrain experience and regional initiative in ASP

Welcome and Introduction

First Day - Thursday 21st March, 2019

Workshops - Thursday 21st March, 2019

12:30 - 13:00

Chairpersons: Motasem Abuelreish & Moeena Zain

Session 4: ASP15:45 - 17:35Chairpersons: Ashraf ElHoufi & Ahmad Subhi

Session 3: AMR14:00 - 15:30Chairpersons: Ayman Chkhis & Dirar Abdalla

Detection of CarbapenemResistance in the UAE (Oryx Meeting Room)

Carole Ayoub Moubareck

Jens ThomsenHands-on, WHONET workshop (Granada 1 & 2)

14:00 - 15:30

11:00 - 13:00

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Scientific Program

08:00 - 08:30 Registration

Session 1: ICPChairpersons: Abeer Rajeh & Hala Fouad

Session 2: AMR in Animal sector

10:00 - 10:15

10:15 - 11:45

Coffee Break

15:30 - 15:45 Coffee Break

12:25 - 14:00 Friday Prayer & Lunch Break

11:45 - 12:25 Industry Symposium MSD

08:30 - 08:50

08:30 - 10:00

09:10 - 09:30

How do bundles improve HAI

Infection prevention in critical care

Faryal Khamis08:50 - 09:10 Critical room design for better Infection Prevention Rohit Shetty

Ashraf El Houfi09:30 - 09:50 HAI surveillance at SEHA Obaida Merhab09:50 - 10:00 Panel Discussion

Hamid Rajab

Alternatives to Antibiotics in livestock production

10:15 - 10:35 Real Life AMR, one health approach

10:55 - 11:1511:15 - 11:35 Antibiotics at crossroads11:35 - 11:45 Panel Discussion

15:20 - 15:30 Panel Discussion

Shibu DanielHariharan Saminathan

Nihar Dash

10:35 - 10:55 AMR in Aquaculture

Session 3: ASP

Faryal Khamis

Ágnes Sonnevend

14:00 - 14:20 Role of ASP in Emergency Department

14:40 - 15:00 Carbapenem resistant Enterobacteriaceae in theUnited Arab Emirates – an update

Nawal AlKaabi14:20 - 14:40 Antimicrobial stewardship programs in pediatrics

Matteo Bassetti15:00 - 15:20

Gram positive MDRO-Challenges and opportunities

17:35 Closing Remarks - End of Day 2

Session 4: ASP

Khulood Bin Rafeea

16:05 - 16:10

16:50 - 17:10 Role of new antibiotics in ASPRayhan Hashemy17:10 - 17:30 Rationalizing outpatient antimicrobial prescriptions

Layla Dabbal16:30 - 16:50Panel discussion

17:30 - 17:35 Panel discussion

C - diff management in ASP

15:45 - 16:05 Matteo Bassetti

Management of Gram Negative MDROs: The Evolvingrole of new BL/BLIs

Welcome and Introduction

14:00 - 15:30

15:45 - 17:35

Chairpersons: Najiba Abdulrazzaq & Louai Abdelrahman

Chairpersons: Motasem Abuelreish & Layla Dabbal

Chairpersons: Ashraf ElHoufi & Sahar Fahmy

Second Day - Friday 22nd March, 2019

APIC UAE chapter Workshop (Granada Meeting Room)

14:00 - 16:00

Workshops - Friday 22nd March, 2019

Rohit Shetty, Helena HrastrikVenkitesh R. T

Abeer Khalaf

N95 Fittest and IsolationRoom Stimulation (Granada Meeting Room)

10:15 - 11:45

Dr. Dirar Abdallah

Dr. Jameela Al Salman

Dr. Layla Al Dabal

Consultant Internal Medicine, IntensivistHead of ICU DepartmentChair of Antibiotics Committee and (ASP)Jordanian Board Internal MedicineMember of UAE national ASP CommitteeMember of ESCMID & ESGAP Prime HospitalDubai, UAE

Dr. Asim AlsaediConsultant, Infectious Diseases & Infection ControlDeputy, Associate Executive Director Infection Prevention and ControlKing Abdulaziz Medical City, JeddahNational Guard Health AffairsAsst. Professor, Internal Medicine &Infectious DiseasesKing Saud bin Abdulaziz UniversityHealth Sciences, Jeddah, KSA

Consultant in Infectious Diseases &Consultant in Geriatric MedicineMinistry of HealthBahrain

Dr. Carole Ayoub Associate Professor at Zayed UniversityCollege of Natural and Health SciencesZayed UniversityDubai, UAE

Dr. Matteo Bassetti Infectious Diseases DivisionSanta Maria MisericordiaUniversity HospitalUdine, Italy

Dr. Khuloud Bin RafeeaSenior Clinical Pharmacist Pharmacy (Dep)Pharmacy (Div), Tawam HospitalAl Ain, UAE

Faculty

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Dr. Najiba M. Abdulrazzaq Consultant InternistHead of Medical Dept.Al Kuwait Hospital DubaiHead of Central IPC Committee, MOHAPNational AMR Committee Co-ChairDubai, UAE

BSc, MD MSc (UK) FRCP (UK)Consultant Medical Infectious DiseasesRashid HospitalDubai, UAE

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Dr. Obaida MerhebDr. Faryal Ali KhamisSenior Consultant Adult InfectiousDiseases & Clinical MicrobiologyChairperson, Infection Control &Prevention CommitteeChairperson, AntimicrobialStewardship CommitteeThe Royal Hospital, Ministry of HealthMuscat, Oman

Dr. Abeer KhalafAPIC UAE PresidentChair of ICPCI ConferencePrevention and Control ofInfection Manager – SKMCSheikh Khalifa Medical CityAbu Dhabi, UAE

MS, MT, ASCP, CICCorporate Senior InfectionControl Officer Corporate Medical &Clinical Affairs DivisionAbu Dhabi Health Services CompanyAbu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Nihar Dash Dr. Rania El-LababidiPharm.D, EMHA, BCPS (AQ-ID), AAHIVPSenior ManagerPharmacy Education and TrainingCo-Director, Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Department of Pharmacy ServicesCleveland Clinic Abu DhabiAbu Dhabi, UAE

Faculty

Prof. Hala Fouad Ismail Consultant Microbiology & ImmunologyAl Kuwait Hospital LaboratoryPure HealthDubai, UAE

Dr. Ahmed GhatwaryEndoscopy Decontamination ConsultantDubai,UAE

Ms. Helena HrastnikMag.oec., Cleanroom SpecialistBranch ManagerCleanroom SolutionsDubai, UAE

MD, DABMM, CIC Chair Prevention and Control of Infection Assistant Professor, University Hospital SharjahSharjah, UAE

Dr. Tibor PalMD, PhD, DScProfessor of MicrobiologyConsultant Clinical MicrobiologistMedical Microbiology and ImmunologyCollege of Medicine andHealth Science UAE UniversityAl Ain, UAE

Dr. Agnes Sonnevend-PalDr. Rohit ShettyCEO, ConsultancyDubai, UAE

Dr. Hariharan SaminathanMD, B.V.Sc. & A.H., M.V.Sc.,Ph.D. (Toxicology), DABT, ERT (UKRT)Asst. Prof. of VeterinaryPharmacology & Toxicology Veterinary MedicineCollege of Food and Agriculture, UAE UniversityAl Ain, UAE

MD, PhD. Dr. Med. habilAssociate Professor, Medical Microbiology and Immunology, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAEUAl Ain, UAE

Dr. Maha TalaatRegional AdviserAntimicrobial Resistance &Infection Prevention and ControlDept. of Communicable Diseases PreventionWorld Health OrganizationRegional Office for the Eastern MediterraneanCairo, Egypt

Dr. Abeer RajehHead of Prevention and Control ofInfection Department Al Qassimi HospitalSharjah, UAE

Dr. Hamid Ragab OrbanDoctor of Veterinary MedicineAnimal Production SpecialistAnimal Wealth SectorAbu Dhabi Food Control AuthorityAbu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Jens Thomsen MD MPH, Consultant Clinical MicrobiologyChair, UAE National Sub-Committee forAntimicrobial Resistance SurveillanceSection Head, Environmental HealthOccupational and Environmental Health Dept.Dept. of Health (DoH)Abu Dhabi, UAE

Faculty

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CME & Useful InformationProgramRegistration open 8:00 – 17:30 Exhibits open 8:30 – 17:30Opening Ceremony will be from 10:10 AM to 11:00 AM in Conference Hall (GREAT BALLROOM 1&2) on 21st March, 2019.

CME/CPD AccreditationThe 2nd UAE International Conference on Antimicrobial Resistance (ICAMR) 2019 is accredited with:18 CME/CPD Credit Hours by UAE Ministry of Health & Prevention14 CME/CPD Credit Hours from Dubai Health AuthorityConference CME Certificates will be obtained starting 1st April 2019, through the Conference website: www.ICAMR-UAE.comDelegates should log in using the registration number on your delegate badge.The deadline to receive your Certificates is 1st June 2019.

Venue InformationLe Meridien Dubai Hotel (Airport) & Conference Centre, United Arab Emirates There are several ATM machines located at the venueThe Conference venue is a non-smoking venue. Participants are requested to visit designated smoking area when smoking is desired.

InternetFor your convenience, you will also be able to have free access to the internet on your personal devices by the name of " Le Meridien Guests WiFi", to access the free wifi you have to do the following:Go to settings > Click on Le Meridien Guests > Open internet explorer page > Click on connect > Click on visitor code > Enter your name and email address and tick that you agree to the terms and condition.

Food & BeverageCoffee breaks will be open to registered delegates in the Exhibition Area.Meals will be offered against daily vouchers provided with the badges.

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RegulationsMobile Phones, please keep your mobile phones on silent mode while in the conference rooms.Parking, A complimentary valet parking is extended by the hotel from 07:30 hrs. onwards from Great room 1 entrance facing natural elements side and also the delegates can avail of complimentary self-parking below* are the instruction for the same.*Upon entering the self-parking area (that is below the metro bridge) they will be given a parking ticket and the delegates will have to get that parking ticket validated from the hotel banquets team upon departure.Prayer Room, A permanent male & female prayer rooms are available at conference area. Kindly ask staff for directions.

Conference Organizers

InfoPlus Events LLCP.O. Box 71108 Dubai, United Arab EmiratesPhone: +971 (0) 4 4218996 Email: AMR@InfoPlusEvents.com

Important Contact NumbersMr. Ahmed HajeerProject Management+971 (0) 50 141 4808

Mr. Yasir MalikSpeakers’ Management+971 (0) 54 507 3068

Mr. Umair KhanRegistration Management+971 (0) 55 832 5094

Ms. Andrea CarreonSponsorship & Exhibition+971 (0) 58 819 0128

Evacuation Assembly PointIn case of an emergency evacuation procedure, please proceed in an orderly fashion to the main entrance of Le Meridien Dubai Hotel (Airport) & Conference Centre. Please follow the instructions of the Hotel Staff at all times.

The 2019 ICAMR meeting is partially supported by unrestricted education grants. ICAMR and IPE acknowledge the generous support from the following organization:

As of March 17, 2019

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EXHIBITORS

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Pfizer

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SUPPORT SPONSORS

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