Integrated, multi-specialty IPC teams - the future? With Dr David Weber
In this week's episode, Martin talks to Dr David Weber of Uniiversity Hospitals South Carolina about his hospital's integrated IPC team which includes quality improvement and behaviour specialists as...
17 Aug 202217min
IPC Team Experiences during COVID
Martin catches up with Phil Russo whilst at the APSIC meeting in Singapore and we discuss a recent paper that has looked at the experiences of IPC Teams in Australia during the pandemic. What went wel...
10 Aug 202218min
VAP in the ’too difficult’ box - could VAE be the answer? with Dr Michael Klompas
In this week's episode, Martin talks to Dr Michael Klompas, Infectious Disease physician, Hospital Epidemiologist, and Professor of Population Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women'...
3 Aug 202230min
Hidden reservoirs contribute to plasmid-mediated transmission with Dr Kalisvar Marimuthu
In this week's episode, Brett and Martin talk to Adjunct Assistant Prof Dr Kalisvar Marimuthu, who is currently a senior consultant in Infectious Diseases at the National Centre for Infectious Disease...
27 Jul 202227min
Glove or no glove - with Dr Jon Otter
In this week's episode, Brett and Martin caught up with Jon Otter to discuss the 'Glove or no glove' campaign currently being implemented at Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals in London UK. Jon has recent...
20 Jul 202217min
Turning prevalence into incidence to determine the burden of healthcare associated infections
In this week's episode, Martin Kiernan talks to Brett Mitchell about his recent paper that estimates the burden of HCAI from a prevalence study. Papers discussed are: Lydeamore MJ, Mitchell BG, Buckna...
13 Jul 202231min
Are we experts? Phil, Brett and Martin mull this over
This week's podcast is a live chat recorded in Melbourne in June and features Phil Russo, Brett Mitchell and Martin Kiernan, who discuss whether we think that we are IPC experts (or not). Have a liste...
5 Jul 202218min
Arrival of Monkeypox and will transmission paradigms change post-COVID? With Dr Deb Friedman
A/Professor Deb Friedman is the Deputy Chief Health Officer at the Department of Health Victoria, Australia. Prior to that she was the Medical Director of infection prevention control and response in...
29 Jun 202228min
