| April 11th |
Topic |
Speaker Name |
| 8:00 – 8:30 |
Registration and Breakfast |
Posters and Exhibitors |
| 8:30 – 8:40 |
Welcome and Opening Remarks |
Dr. Elizabeth Bryce,
PICNet Co-Director |
| 8:40 – 9:00 |
Update on PICNet and provincial infection control initiatives |
Bruce Gamage
PICNet |
| 9:00 – 10:00 |
Keynote Speaker |
Sue Drinnan |
| 10:00 – 10:30 |
Health Break |
Posters and Exhibitors |
| 10:30 – 11:15 |
Interactive Session: Workplace Resilience |
Sue Drinnan |
| 11:15 – 12:00 |
C. difficile Treatments |
Dr. Ted Steiner, Associate Professor, UBC Infectious Diseases |
| 12:00 – 12:45 |
Lunch |
Posters and Exhibitors |
| 12:45 – 1:30 |
Outcome and effects of influenza vaccine policy |
Elayne Preston, Managing Consultant, Health & Wellness, Workplace Health, Fraser Health |
| 1:30 – 2:30 |
Setting up an antimicrobial stewardship program |
Dr. David Patrick, Medical Epidemiology Lead, BCCDC |
| 2:30 – 3:00 |
Health Break |
Posters and Exhibitors |
| 3:00 – 3:45 |
Breakout Sessions:
1. IPC off the side of your desk
2. Physician handwashing survey
3. Right brain/left brain thinking
|
1. Avril Taylor, Fraserview Intermediate Care; Mary Vachon, The Good Samaritan Society
2. Dr. Victor Leung, Providence Health Care
3. Bruce Gamage, PICNet |
| 3:45 – 4:00 |
Wrap-up |
Bruce Gamage,
PICNet |
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| April 12th |
Topic |
Speaker |
| 8:00 – 8:30 |
Breakfast |
Posters and Exhibitors |
| 8:30 – 8:45 |
Introduction |
Bruce Gamage, PICNet |
| 8:45 – 9:30 |
MRSA decolonization for surgical patients  |
Dr. Elizabeth Bryce,
Vancouver Coastal Health |
| 9:30 – 10:15 |
Provincial Housekeeping Best Practices |
Joanne Archer, PICNet |
| 10:15 – 10:45 |
Health Break |
Posters and Exhibitors |
| 10:45 – 12:15 |
Not what I want to hear: talking with patients when the news is unexpected, unwelcome, and changes lives
|
Evelyn Pollock, RN;
Adrienne Mercer and Carolyn Canfield, patients |
| 12:15 – 1:00 |
Lunch |
Posters and Exhibitors |
| 1:00 – 1:45 |
Reprocessing in small health care sites/personal care businesses/rural venues |
Penny Brawn, Regional Coordinator for Reprocessing, Northern Health |
| 1:45 – 2:30 |
health-care worker exposure to TB |
Nash Dhalla, TB Control Unit, and Michelle Mesaros, BCCDC |
| 2:30 – 3:00 |
Sheer Silliness: Groove-a-licious |
Joanne Archer, PICNet |
| 3:00 – 3:30 |
Wrap-up |
Bruce Gamage
PICNet |
