| 0800 – 1700 | Pre-Congress Workshops |
| 1800 – 1830 | Welcome Address and Award Presentations |
| 1830 – 1900 | Opening Plenary Lecture 1: SARS & COVID-19 Ling Moi Lin |
| 1900 – 2100 | Opening Reception |
| 0700 | Registration Opens | ||
| 0730 – 0815 | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium |
| 0815 – 0900 | Plenary Lecture 2: COVID-19 | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Symposium 1: Healthcare Associated Infection (HAI) Surveillance | Symposium 2: COVID-19 | Symposium 3: Hand Hygiene |
| Asian Perspective Chung Doo Ryeon |
Global Perspective on Hand Hygiene Didier Pittet |
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| CDC Perspective Benjamin J. Park |
Practical Issues on Hand Hygiene compliance Sharon Salmon |
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| WHO Perspective Benedetta Allegranzi* |
Hand Hygiene in Low and Middle-Income Countries | ||
| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1030 – 1100 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Symposium 4: Healthcare Associated Respiratory Diseases | Symposium 5: Sterilisation & Disinfection | Symposium 6: IPC in Special Settings :ILTC and Home Care |
| HA Inflenza Allen Cheng* |
Will Guidelines Help Patricia Ching |
State-of-the-art for ambulatory IC William R. Jarvis |
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| High Level Isolation for Highly Contagious Infections Leo Yee Sin* |
Singapore Perspective on Endoscopy Reprocessing Sherry Chua |
Local Perspective on IPC in ILTCs | |
| High Level Isolation for Highly Contagious Infections | Latest Update on Sterilisation & Disinfection David Weber |
Situation of MDRO transmission prevention among hospitals in a middle income country Akeau Unnahalekhaka |
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| Question and Answer Session | Lessons Learnt from an Incident of Incomplete Sterilization in a Large Dental Facility Chelsia Sim |
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| 1230 – 1300 | Plenary Lecture 3 | ||
| 1300 – 1400 | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium |
| 1400 – 1530 | Symposium 7: Multidrug Resistant (MDR) Organisms | Symposium 8: Environmental Hygiene | Symposium 9: Prevention of Ventilator-associated Pneumonia (VAP) / Ventilator-Associated Events |
| Epidemiology of MDROs in Asia Po-Ren Hsueh |
Building Design and Engineering approaches in Air-Borne Infection Control Terrence Rohan Chinniah |
Strategies for prevention of VAP Allen Cheng* |
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| Clostridioides Difficile Thomas Riley |
Outbreaks related to the environment Trish Perl |
Controversies in definition of VAP Stephan Harbarth |
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| Global Containment Efforts for MDROs Alison Holmes |
Controversies in Decontamination Andreas Voss |
Treatment of VAP and AMR | |
| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1530 – 1600 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | ||
| 1600 – 1730 | Debate Session 1: Is ventilation important in respiratory viral infections? | Symposium 10: Waste Management | Symposium 11: Free Paper Presentation |
| The role of surfaces in the transmission of emerging infectious diseases (MERS, COVID-19, Ebola): Pathogen survival and disinfection David Weber |
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| Waste Handling for Highly Infectious Pathogens | |||
| Waste Management Issues in Low and Middle-income Countries Namita Jaggi |
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| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1730 – 1830 | Council Meeting | ||
| 0700 | Registration Opens | ||
| 0730 – 0815 | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium |
| 0815 – 0900 | Plenary Lecture 4 | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Symposium 12: Outbreak Management | Symposium 13: IPC Considerations in Building and Renovation | Symposium 14: Implementation Science in IP |
| Lessons Learnt from historical outbreaks William R. Jarvis |
Overview Glenys Harrington |
Behavioral Change | |
| WHO Perspective on outbreak management Benedetta Allegranzi* |
How can patient environment contributed to HAI? Anucha Apisarnthanarak |
Use of Data and Technologies Eli Perencevich |
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| Local Perspective on outbreaks Shawn Vasoo* |
Local Perspective Ling Moi Lin |
ASP & IC Andrew Stewardson |
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| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1030 – 1100 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Symposium 15: Antibiotic Stewardship in the Region | Symposium 16: Microbiological Diagnosis for IPC | Symposium 6: IPC in Special Settings :ILTC and Home Care |
| Malaysia Perspective | Role of Public Health Lab in IPC | State-of-the-art for ambulatory IC William R. Jarvis |
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| National Implementation of Surveillance of Antimicrobial Utilization and Antimicrobial Stewardship | Role of Laboratory in detection, effective management and control of IPC Terrence Rohan Chinniah |
Local Perspective on IPC in ILTCs | |
| Local Perspective David Lye |
Emerging Carbapenem Resistance – Microbiological Approaches V Balaji* |
Situation of MDRO transmission prevention among hospitals in a middle income country Akeau Unnahalekhaka |
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| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1230 – 1300 | Plenary Lecture 5 | ||
| 1300 – 1400 | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium | Satellite Symposium |
| 1400 – 1530 | Symposium 18: MRSA & Other Gram Positive | Symposium 19: Molecular Typing in IPC | Symposium 20: SSI Prevention Strategies |
| Latest in Preventional and Control of MRSA Susan Huang |
Role of Molecular Typing Stephan Harbarth |
Japanese Perspective Keita Morikane |
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| Singapore Perspective on MRSA control Dale Fisher |
Molecular Typing in IPC in Singapore Kalisvar Marimuthu |
Using Data to Improve SSI Survelliance Eli Perencevich |
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| MRSA molecular epidemiology in Asia Hsu Li Yang* |
Molecular epidemiology in outbreaks Koh Tse Hsien |
Local Perspective Surinder Kaur M S Pada |
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| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1530 – 1600 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | ||
| 1600 – 1730 | Debate Session 2 | Symposium 21: Paediatric Neonatal IPC | Symposium 22: Emerging Fungal Infection |
| Neonatal IPC | Outbreaks of fungal infections Anucha Apisarnthanarak |
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| IC in Respiratory Pathogens & Paediatric | Aspergillus and Indoor Air Ling Moi Lin |
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| Norovirus and Enteroviruses – Infection Control Challenges | Emerging Fungal Infection Louis Chai |
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| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 0730 | Registration Opens | ||
| 0815 – 0900 | Plenary Lecture 6 | ||
| 0900 – 1030 | Symposium 23: Preventing Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection (CAUTI) | Symposium 24: Vaccine Preventable Diseases in Healthcare Settings | Symposium 25: IPC in Haemodialysis, OPAT and Other Ambulatory Settings |
| Lab in CAUTI | Vaccines for Healthcare Workers in Singapore Sapna Pradip Sadarangani |
Practical Ambulatory IPC Glenys Harrington |
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| Novel Technologies in CAUTI Paul Anantharajah Tambyah |
Emerging Vaccines Benedetta Allegranzi* |
CDC Recommendations on ambulatory IC Benjamin J. Park |
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| Using Collaborative model to improve practice (Prevention of CAUTI)? Ng Toon Mae* |
National Guidelines on adult vaccination Helen Oh |
Local Perspective on IPC in hemodialysis Suzie Burford* |
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| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1030 – 1100 | Coffee Break / Exhibition | ||
| 1100 – 1230 | Symposium 26: Late Breaker | Symposium 27: IP Professional Development | Symposium 28: Literature Review |
| HK Experience Patricia Ching |
Lee Lai Chee | ||
| Global Approach to IPC career development Alison Holmes |
Infection control papers for bedtime reading Kalisvar Marimuthu |
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| Local Experience | |||
| Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | Question and Answer Session | |
| 1230 – 1300 | Closing Ceremony | ||