Speakers
Professor Jan De Waele
Reena Mehta
Dr Andrew Conway-Morris
Stream 3
The aim of this session is to provide education around bedside implementation of antimicrobial stewardship and illustrate how stewardship is embedded into daily decisions in the intensive care unit. Using a case to illustrate the clinical conundrums faced, and an interactive format, the aim is to bring antimicrobial stewardship alive.
Learning Objectives:
Reena is a Consultant Pharmacist in Critical Care at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, London and Chair of the Intensive Care Society’s Learning Division.
Her specialist areas of interest are anti-microbial stewardship, medicines use in extra-corporeal circuits and health inequalities.
She has worked in Critical Care for over 15 years, and has co-authored and provided specialist input nationally into areas such as pharmacy critical care workforce, clinical guidelines, and advanced critical care training. Reena is an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Intensive Care Society and an Honorary Senior Lecturer at King’s College London. Within her organisation, she is a Principal Investigator on a number of CRN Portfolio studies
Reena is also the Pharmacy Lead for the South East London ICS - Critical Care/ODN and a member of the United Kingdom Adult Critical Care Pharmacy Leadership Forum. She has recently completed an MSc in Health Economics, Policy & Management at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Dr Conway Morris is a critical care consultant and MRC Clinician Scientist based at the University of Cambridge. He trained at the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh, undertaking a PhD in Edinburgh focused on immune failure in critical illness and nosocomial infection. His research interests include neutrophil function and dysfunction in critical illness, where he identified complement component C5a as a key driver of dysfunction in patients. He has also developed and tested a number of diagnostics for pneumonia, using both host and pathogen-focussed techniques. His animating force is a desire to improve the management of infection in intensive care, and combat the rising tide of antimicrobial resistance. He was recently awarded the Royal College of Anaesthetists 2023 Mackintosh Professorship. He is the director of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine’s research and antimicrobial stewardship learning pathways.
Ronan McMullan is a Consultant Microbiologist at Belfast Trust and Professor of Medical Microbiology at Queen’s University Belfast. His MD was focused on the development and assessment of the diagnostic accuracy of a Candida PCR test in ICU patients and he continues to pursue research on diagnostic tests for infection.
Ronan has been a member of NIHR prioritisation and funding committees (with the HTA and EME programmes) for hospital-based research. He is also Clinical Director of training & Assessment with the Royal College of Pathologists and has previously been an Education Associate with the GMC Curriculum Advisory Group.
His main research interests are in antimicrobial stewardship and diagnostic accuracy studies. Ronan’s current research is focused on use of rapid tests as an antifungal stewardship tool in critical care. He has a leadership role in several national trials, most of which are funded by the NIHR HTA programme.
