Future Opportunities in Antimicrobial Stewardship through Diagnostic Innovations

This webinar will explore the shifting landscape of the rapid diagnostic laboratory with the introduction of new technologies that provide antimicrobial stewards and infection preventionists with rapid identification of organisms and their susceptibilities to antimicrobials in hours versus days. This is changing how patients are screened for antimicrobial-resistant pathogens and increasing appropriate antimicrobial prescribing to enhance patient outcomes.

This is the second webinar in a three-part series on how the emergence of new antimicrobials and diagnostic technologies such as phage therapy has led to personalize phage to the infecting microbe and more advanced stewardship possibilities.

Speakers:

– Robin Patel, MD: Director, Infectious Disease Research Lab Mayo Clinic

– Betsy Wonderly Trainor: Alliance Director, Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria (CARB-X)