Scientific program

Congress opening 

Session 1
Climate change – a medical and infectious disease threat also in the Nordics
Climate change  
Petteri Taalas (FIN)

Climate change and Infectious Diseases  
Jan C. Semenza (SWE)

Session 2
Emerging environmental health risks
Cryptosporidiosis - diagnostics, epidemiology and immunology
Kurt Hanevik (NO)

Session 3
Antibiotics – choice, administration and dosing
Therapeutic drug monitoring in critically ill patients
Anna-Karin Smekal (SWE)

Continuous antibiotic therapy in the outpatient setting – practical considerations
Niclas Broman (FIN)

Overestimating of mild and neglecting serious antibiotic reactions
Sigurdur Kristjansson (IS)

Session 4
AMR surveillance

Session 5
Complications of hematogenously spreading infection

Session 6
Tick borne diseases
Tick-borne diseases in the Nordics – epidemiology
Jukka Hytönen (FIN)

Session 7
Diagnostic stewardship in the AMR battle - in collaboration with NordicAST
How can the microbiological laboratories play a key role in the work against AMR
Anna-Karin Smekal (SWE)                  

Session 9
Invited young scientists
More information will come

Session 10
Preparedness for new pandemics  - in collaboration with NSCMID High level isolation group
High Consequence Infectious Diseases - What are they?
Jake Dunning (UK)

Session 11
Recent epidemics in the Nordics
Severe adenovirus 7 infection outbreak in the Finnish military
Marjaana Pitkäpaasi (FIN)

Session 12
HOT TOPICS

End of conference