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
Overview of epidemiology and current trends of Legionnaires’ disease in the Nordics
Silja Mentula (FIN)

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
Niklas Broman (FIN)

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

Session 4: AMR surveillance
Is it time for AMR surveillance 2.0?
Gunnar Skov Simonsen, (NO)
Comments: Reetta Huttunen (FIN) and Anders Johansson (SWE)

Panel discussion

Session 5: Complications of hematogenously spreading infection

Hematological spread of oral flora – empyema and brain abscesses as part of the same entity
Øyvind Kommedal (NO)

Treatment of Children’s bone infections, when do we need intravenous antibiotics? 
Allan Nielsen (DEN)

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

Clinical picture and diagnostics of emerging tick-borne diseases in the Nordics  
Johanna Sjöwall (SWE)

Honorary lecture
Jaana Vuopio, (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)     

(When do we need) rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing in Nordics?
Oskar Ekelund (SWE)

How does reporting practices of wound swap cultures effect antibiotic use in the clinic. Different practices in the Nordics
Anu Pätäri-Sampo (FIN)

Session 8: Long covid          

Long covid
Judith Bruchfeld, SWE

Session 9: Invited early career scientists
More information will come

Session 10:  Preparedness for High Consequence Infectious Diseases - in collaboration with the NSCMID Working Group on High-level Isolation
High Consequence Infectious Diseases - What are they?
Jake Dunning (UK)

Management of High Consequence Infectious Diseases in the Nordics
Arne Broch Brantsæter (NO) and David Ekqvist (SWE)

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

Parvovirus B19 epidemic in pregnant women
Maria Wessman (DEN)

Bordetella pertussis
Qiushui He (FIN)

Session 12: HOT TOPICS

Viral health threats
Heli Harvala (FIN)

Is flucloxacillin out- toxic and less effective?
Thomas Benfield (DEN)

End of conference