Challenges in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

Presenters:

• Margaret Cook, Pharm.D., BCPS, Clinical Specialist, Department of Pharmacy, Aurora St. Luke’s Medical Center
• Michael Costello, Ph.D., MT(ASCP), Technical Director of Microbiology, ACL Laboratories
• Tom Dilworth, Pharm.D., BCPS, Clinical Pharmacy Supervisor, Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare – St. Francis
• Paul Hutson, Pharm.D., RPh(WI), Professor and Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, UW Madison School of Pharmacy
• Erik Munson, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Technical Director of Microbiology, Wheaton Franciscan Laboratory
• Ray Podzorski, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Clinical Microbiologist, Department of Pathology, Waukesha Memorial Hospital
• Valerie Ravenna, Pharm.D., BCPS, Pharmacy Coordinator- Infectious Diseases for Aurora Health Care
• Dave Warshauer, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Deputy Director, Communicable Diseases Division, WSLH

Description of Session:

The workshop will focus on the challenges that laboratories face in performing quality antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) and will provide guidance in meeting those challenges. Workshop speakers will emphasize why the continuing emergence of antimicrobial resistance poses a threat to public health. Guest pharmacists will discuss the role of antimicrobial stewardship programs and provide an introduction to pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics. The role of multiplex testing, changes in the 2015 CLSI antimicrobial susceptibility performance guidance documents, and the creation and sustainment of a statewide antibiogram project will also be explored.

P.A.C.E. Information:

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 1.0 contact hours of instruction toward credit.

This program is co-sponsored by ASCLS-WI which is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

As part of the new P.A.C.E. continuing education process, please go to the ASCLS CE Organizer web site to print your P.A.C.E. certificates. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. We will provide you this number during the teleconference.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this teleconference is January 14, 2016.

Registration:

Materials:

• Challenges in Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing – Brochure