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2011 APUA Leadership Award to ESCMID

18 September 2011, Chicago , USA. 2011 APUA Leadership Award to ESCMID. Our mission.

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2011 APUA Leadership Award to ESCMID

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  1. 18 September 2011, Chicago, USA 2011 APUA Leadership Award to ESCMID

  2. Our mission • The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases is a non-profit organisation whose mission is to improve the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of infection-related diseases. This is achieved by promoting and supporting research, education, training, and good medical practice.

  3. About ESCMID • Non-profit organisation founded in 1983 • 4'100 regular members all over the world. Combined with its associated and affiliated memberships, ESCMID reaches out to over 33'000 professionals.  • Governed by an Executive Committee of 8 members • Advised by an European Council of national representatives • Holdsscientificcongresses and meetings • Organises postgraduate courses and ESCMID SummerSchool • Supports 21 thematicstudy groups & standing committee on harmonisation of antimicrobialsusceptibilitytesting EUCAST • Worktogetherwith 52 Collaborative Centres • Produces the journal ClinicalMicrobiology and Infection (CMI).

  4. ECCMID - The Society's annual congress • 24th ECCMID 201410 - 13 May 2014, Barcelona, Spain • 23rd ECCMID 2013 27 - 30 April 2013, Berlin, Germany • 22nd ECCMID 2012 31 March - 3 April 2012, London, UK • 21st ECCMID/27th ICC 20117 - 10 May 2011, Milan, Italy • 20th ECCMID 2010 10 - 13 April 2010, Vienna, Austria • 19th ECCMID 2009 16 - 19 May 2009,Helsinki, Finland • 18th ECCMID 200819 - 22 April 2008, Barcelona, Spain • 17th ECCMID & 25th ICC 2007 7 - 10 May 2011, Milan, Italy

  5. Postgraduate Courses 2009-12 Amsterdam Ankara Athens Barcelona Belgrade Berne Bertinoro Brunnen Budapest Cluj-Napoca Copenhagen Grenoble Groningen Innsbruck Istanbul Izmir Kayseri London Madrid Manchester Marseille Oslo Palma de Mallorca Paris Pavia Porto Rome Saint Petersburg Santander Sibenik Siena Sousse Szeged Thessaloniki Treviso Vienna Zagreb 2012 ESCMID will hold its 100th post-graduatecourse

  6. ESCMID contributions to AMR • Leading and participation in several European Projects: • EUCAST (European Committee on Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing) • TROCAR (Translational Research on Combating Antimicrobial Resistance) • EARSS (European Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance System) • ….. • Organising Conferences • ESCMID/ASM Conference on Methicillin-resistant Staphlococci in Animals • ESCMID Conference on Fighting Infections Due to MDR Gram-positives • Others? • ESCMID Study Groups (total: 21 expert groups) • Directlytargeting AMR: AntibioticPolicies (ESGAP), Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance (ESGARS) • Most othersexplicitlystateactivity in the AMR field (www.escmid.org/science) • Supporting research grants & travel grants • Over 150,000 Euro for ECCMID Travel Grants in the last 10 years (DW: estimated at 25% per year of grantees in AMR) • At least 170,000 Euro for ESCMID Research Grants in 2011 (DW: Do you want to check the list to see if there are more?) • …. (?)

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