MSIS Annual Meeting Program 2007

Registration and Continental Breakfast

Welcome and announcements: G Cierny III , MD

Symposium 1: Preventing Surgical Site Infections
Moderator: George Cierny III, MD
SCIP, SIP, and the Evolution of National Hospital Performance Measures - Donald Fry, MD
The Patient at Risk- George Cierny III, MD
Screening for Patient Colonization- Lance Peterson, MD
Antibiotic Prophylaxis- Stephen Mosher, MD

Presentation of Basic Science Papers I Moderator: Doreen DiPasquale, MD

Symposium 2: Sergical Site Infection II
Moderator: Danny Wongworawat, MD
Patient and OR Environments- Patrick Parks, MD
The Surgeon's Role- Charalampos Zalavras, MD PhD
Skin Science- Charles E Edmiston, PhD MS CIC

Symposium- Industrial Horizons (non-CME)
Individualized Medicine and Infection Prevention- Patrick Parks MD, 3M Health Care St. Paul MN
Rapid Species Identification from Positive Blood Cultures Philip Onigman, AdvanDx, Woburn MA

Carl L Nelson, MD Memorial Case Discussion and Lunch
Abinash Virk MD, Rochester MN

Presentation of Clinical Study Papers
Moderator: Doreen DiPasquale MD

Symposium 3: SSI-III Perioperative
Moderator: Paul Holtum, MD
Therapy of Infections Caused by Methecillin-Resistant
Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA)- Raymond Chinn, MD
Managing the Use of Preventative Antibiotics in Surgery:
A New Paradigm for the Future- Donald Fry, MD

Friday Adjournment

MSIS Executive Board Meeting

Reception

Continental Breakfast

MSIS Business Meeting

Presentation of Clinical Study Papers II
Moderator: Doreen DiPasquale, MD

President's Lecture: Biofilms on Our Frontier, William Costerton PhD

Symposium 4: Antibiotic Depots in Clean Surgery
Moderator: A McLaren, MD
Low Dose AB-PMMA Composits- Pro: Ed McPherson, MD/Con: Doug Osmon, MD
Smart Gels- Javad Parvisi MD
Nano-Silver Technologies- Volker Alt, MD PhD
Antibiotic Gel Applications in Orthopaedics- Lew Schon, MD
Antibiotic Beads- George Cierny III MD

Presentation of Awards for Best Clinical and Best Basic Science Papers

Inauguration of MSIS 2007-8 Executive
Concluding Remarks and collection of evaluation forms
Conference Adjournment