Conference

Korean Society of
Clinical Microbiology

  • 6/20 (Thu) Program
  • 6/21 (Fri) Program

27th General Meeting The Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology [6/20 Thu]

Program on June 20, Thursday
09:00-11:30 Premeeting Workshop by Korean Association of External Quality Assessment Service
Good practices in clinical microbiology
Moderator: Jae-Seok Kim (Hallym Univ.)
Principles, practice, and perspectives of blood culture Hye Gyung Bae (Seoul Clinical Laboratories)
Basics of MALDI-TOF and applications in blood culture Sunggyun Park (Keimyung Univ.)
Practice and prospects of antimicrobial susceptibility testing Mi-Kyung Lee (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Group A streptococci and streptococcal toxic-shock syndrome Sun Joo Kim (Gyeongsang National Univ.)
12:00-13:00 Luncheon Symposium 1 organized by bioMérieux Korea* Chair: Sun-Hwa Lee (Seegene Medical Foundation)
The global status of multi-drug resistant Gram-negative bacteria and new diagnostic tests for antimicrobial agents Susan Butler-Wu (Univ. of Southern California)
13:10-14:00 Commemoration Lecture Chair: Mi-Na Kim (Univ. of Ulsan)
A voyage through the realm of clinical microbiology Jong Hee Shin (Chonnam National Univ.)
Daily routine works of a clinical pathologist in clinical microbiology laboratory Ji-Hyun Cho (Wonkwang Univ.)
14:00-14:40 Plenary Lecture 1 Chair: Wee Gyo Lee (Ajou Univ.)
Candida and candidemia update Jong Hee Shin (Chonnam National Univ.)
15:20-17:00 Symposium 1. KSCM-JSCM Joint Symposium*
National infection control and prevention against antimicrobial resistance in Korea and Japan
Chairs: Chang-Ki Kim (Seoul Clinical Laboratories)
Tetsuya Matsumoto (Int. Univ. of Health and Welfare)
Current status and debate of AMR surveillance and precaution in Korea Hyukmin Lee (Yonsei Univ.)
Clinical microbiology in hospital environmental disinfection Young Ah Kim (Natl. Health Insurance Service Ilsan Hosp.)
National guideline for AMR surveillance and precaution Nobuaki Matsunaga (Natl. Cent. for Global Health and Medicine)
Role and efficacy of hospital environmental disinfection in infection control Yukihiro Hamada (Kochi Medical School Hosp.)
17:00-17:20 Panel Discussion Panels: Kazuhiro Tateda (Toho Univ.)
Tetsuya Yagi (Nagoya Univ.)

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  • Room A
  • Room B

27th General Meeting The Korean Society of Clinical Microbiology [6/21 Fri]

Program on June 21, Friday (Room A)
07:30-08:30 Meet the Expert 1*
Diagnostic stewardship
Implications for microbiology laboratory Zamberi Sekawi (Universiti Putra)
Implications for clinical practice David Lye (Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine)
09:00-10:40 Symposium 2. Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales pandemic preparedness and response * Chair: Kyungwon Lee (Seoul Clinical Laboratories)
Current antimicrobial therapy and beyond against carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales in Korea Yong Pil Chong (Univ. of Ulsan)
Carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales pandemic preparedness and response in Japan Tetsuya Yagi (Nagoya Univ.)
Laboratory response to the carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales pandemic in Korea Namhee Ryoo (Keimyung Univ.)
11:00-11:40 Plenary Lecture 2* Chair: Sun Joo Kim (Gyeongsang National Univ.)
Impact of randomised controlled trials on management of bacteraemia David Lye (Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine)
11:40-12:40 Luncheon Symposium 2 organized by Roche Diagnostics Korea* Chair: Heungsup Sung (Univ. of Ulsan)
Current challenges in molecular diagnostics after transplantation Tao Huang (APAC Business Manager)
12:40-14:20 Symposium 3. KSCM-MFDS Joint Symposium*
Cutting edge diagnostic kits for infectious diseases and unmet need for accelerated approval
Chair: Chulhun L. Chang (Pusan national Univ.)
Clinical development and the US FDA regulatory process of a rapid Phenotypic Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing platform-PhAST Kwangmin Son (PhAST diagnostics)
Transforming the future landscape of bacteremia diagnosis: how dRAST and microCIA are revolutionizing rapid susceptibility testing Sunghoon Kwon (QuantaMatrix)
Approval policy for innovative infectious disease diagnostic devices Seung Yong Lee (Ministry of Food and Drug Safety)
14:40-16:20 Symposium 5. KSCM-KDCA Joint symposium*
Education system for infection control professionals
Chair: Sue Shin (Seoul National Univ.)
Issues in infection control education in Japan Hiroki Ohge (Hiroshima Univ.)
Education system and future plans for training infection control professionals in Korea Sookkyung Park (Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency)
Current and future prospects of clinical microbiologists as infection control doctors Jae Hyeon Park (Seoul National Univ.)

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Program on June 21, Friday (Room B)
07:30-08:30 Meet the Expert 2
User Guide for Kor-GLASS AMR surveillance system
Part 1 Dokyun Kim (Yonsei Univ.)
Part 2 Soo Hyun Kim (Chonnam National Univ.)
09:00-09:50 Oral Presentation I*  
09:50-10:40 Oral Presentation II*  
11:00-11:40 Plenary Lecture 2* Chair: Sun Joo Kim (Gyeongsang National Univ.)
Impact of randomised controlled trials on management of bacteraemia David Lye (Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine)
11:40-12:40 Luncheon Symposium 3 organized by BD Korea* Chair: Hyukmin Lee (Yonsei Univ.)
Diagnostic solutions for multi-drug resistant gram negative organisms: Past, Present and Future Pearline Teo (BD Medical Affairs)
12:40-14:20 Symposium 4. Update on diagnosis and treatment of Helicobacter pylori infections Chair: Mi-Kyung Lee (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Current guidelines for the treatment of H. pylori infection Beom Jin Kim (Chung-Ang Univ.)
Update on the laboratory diagnosis of H. pylori infection Tae Yeul Kim (Sungkyunkwan Univ.)
Impact of H. pylori infection on microbiota Daewon Kim (Gachon Univ.)
14:40-16:20 Symposium 6. Diagnosis of parasite infection in Korea Chair: Min-Ho Choi (Seoul National Univ.)
10-year data of intestinal parasites observed in stool ova examination performed at Korea association of health promotion Bong-Kwang Jung (Korea Association of Health Promotion)
Current issue on rapid diagnosis of malaria Eun-Taek Han (Kangwon National Univ.)
Diagnosis of parasites from pathological tissue specimens Jong-Yil Chai (Seoul National Univ.)

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