DR. ABDUL GHAFUR MBBS MD(Med) MRCP(UK) FRCPath(UK) NAME ABDUL GHAFUR.K SEX MALE DATE OF BIRTH 15-04-1971 NATIONALITY INDIAN ADDRESS APOLLO SPECIALITY HOSPITAL 320 ANNA SALAI,CHENNAI,600035 INDIA MOBILE.NO 00919710506285 E-MAIL drghafur@hotmail.com

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS FRCPath (UK) May 2007 MRCP (UK) March 2002 MD(Medicine) June 1999 Kasturba Medical Colege ,Mangalore Manipal Academy of Higher Education,India. MBBS: June1994 GovernmentMedical College,Trichur, Calicut University,India. CURRENT APPOINTMENT 06/06/08-ONGOING : Consultant in Infectious Diseases , Infection Control and Clinical Microbiology; Adjunct Associate Professor in Infectious diseases,Apollo Hospitals,Chennai,India.

PREVIOUS APPOINTMENTS 21/06/04-30/04/08 : Specialist Registrar in Clinical Microbiology , Infection control and Chronic infection services, Division of Infection; Royal Free Hospital,London 2003-2004 : Senior Clinical Fellow(Registrar) in Respiratory and HIV Medicine; Royal Free Hospital ,London March 2000-July 2003 : Medical specialist,Sharjah Ministry of Health,UAE August 99 - March 2000 : Consultant Physician, EMS Hospital,Kerala,India. June1996- June 1999 : Post Graduate Student in Medicine, Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore ,India. 1995-96: Post Graduate student in General Surgery, Calicut Medical College, Kerala

Official positions

Advisory member,Longitude prize announced by British prime minister

Steering committee member for the National antibiotic policy and antibiotic guidelines by Indian Ministry of Health. Antimicrobial stewardship work group member of International society of Chemotherapy. Ad Hoc executive member of Interntaional society of Chemotherapy.

Antimicrobial Stewardship committee Chairperson – Clinical Infectious Disease Society (INDIA) Coordinator-Chennai declaration Coordinated the First joint meeting of medical societies –“A Road map to Tackle the challenge of Antimicrobial resistance” CIDSCON 2012 pre conference symposium,August 2012.

Editorial board member

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents(IJAA)

Journal of Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control(ARIC)

Journal of Microbiology & Infectious Disease(JMID)

Indian Journal of Critical care Medicine(IJCCM)

Reviewer of Journals

JAPI,Mycoses,WHO bulletin,Virulence,IJCCM,JCMID,ARIC,JCM etc.

Achievements

Selected as Advisory member,Longitude prize announced by British prime minister.

Selected to be listed in Marquis who’s who in the world 2015

Apollo clinical excellence award (as the in charge, Infectious diseases and infection control, Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai), an award for the best clinical activity (team) among all Apollo hospitals (for the excellence in antibiotic stewardship and infection control activity in Apollo cancer hospital, Chennai)

Coordinated the meeting ”A Road map –To tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance”;the first joint meeting of medical societies of India on tackling antibiotic resistance issue.

Publications, Chapters and Posters Chapters • Chennai declaration: Chapter in the book on antimicrobial

resistance prepared for G20 ministers meeting-in press

• Abdul Ghafur,Mathhhew E Falagas.Chapter on Scabies- Gorbach’s 5 minute Infectious Diseases consult edited by Dr.Falagas, 2nd Edition.Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• Vasant Nagvekar,Abdul Ghafur,Mathhhew E Falagas.Chapter on rabies-Gorbach’s 5 minute Infectious Diseases consult edited by Dr.Falagas, 2nd Edition. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

• Chapter on Fungal infections of brain-A.Ghafur chapter in Neurosurgery text book-edited by Dr.Vincent

• A Ghafur,Vidyalakshmi,Sureshkumar.Implementing antibiotic policy in Indian Hopsitals.Conference update,HISICON 2013 Mumbai.

• A Ghafur,Vidyalakshmi,Priyadarshini .A Road map to tackle the challenge of Antimicrobial resistance-APICON update 2013

• Chapter on Antibiotics management of ICU infections-medicine update-APICON2011 Dr. A.Ghafur & V.Nagvekar

• Chaper on soft tissue infections-APICON update-2012

• Chapter on HIV and surgery-Dr.Aswini and Dr.Ghafur-Apollo surgical course update-2012

• Chapter on Management of VAP; Monogram on VAP published by Elsevier 2013

• Antibiotics stewardship: IMA book on anibiotics resistance-in press

Published papers Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi PR, A Murali, Priyadarshini K, Thirunarayan MA.Emergence of Pan-drug resistance amongst gram negative bacteria! The First case series from India. JMID. 2014; 4 (3): 86-91 A Ghafur. Chennai Declaration: An initiative our country could be proud of! Indian Journal of Medical Microbiology, (2014) 32(1): 1-2 Dorairajan Sureshkumar, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Abdulghafur and Venkatsubramanian Ramasubramainain. Vancomycin Mic Creep Among Methicillin- Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus: A Report.American Medical Journal 4 (2): 197-200, 2013 Abdul Ghafur.Perseverance, persistence, and the Chennai declaration.The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Volume 13, Issue 12, Pages 1007 - 1008, December 2013

Shringarpure S, Thachil JV, Gaffur A, Geetha.A case of clinically inapparent bilateral adrenal histoplasmosis in an Immunocompetent person. Ann Trop Med Public Health 2013;6:479-81. Abdul Ghafur, P. R. Vidyalakshmi, K. Priyadarshini, Jose M. Easow, Revathi Raj, T. Raja. Elizabethkingia meningoseptica bacteremia in immunocompromised hosts: The first case series from India.SAJC 2013;2(4):211-15. A.Ghafur. Superbugs and we intensivists: A time for introspection… IJCCM,2013;17(3):125-126. A.Ghafur. India must overhaul medical training to act on antimicrobial resistance. BMJ 2013;347:f4230 doi: 10.1136/bmj.f4230

Ram Gopalakrishnan, P Senthur Nambi, V Ramasubramanian, K Abdul Ghafur, Ashok Parameswaran: Histoplasmosis in India: Truly Uncommon or Uncommonly Recognised? JAPI 2012;60:25-8

Ashwini Choudhary, Ram Gopalakrishnan, Senthur Nambi P., Ramasubramanian V., Abdul Ghafur K. & Thirunarayan M.A. Antimicrobial susceptibility of Salmonella enterica serovars in a tertiary care hospital in southern India. Indian J Med Res 137, 2013:800-80

A Ghafur , PS Sharee, Nambi P Senthur . Mucormycosis in Patients without Cancer: A Case Series from A Tertiary Care Hospital in South India.JAPI 2013 ; 61: 305-8 Abdul Ghafur ‘The Chennai Declaration’: An Indian perspective on the antimicrobial resistance challenge Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance 1 (2013) 5–6

Abdul Ghafur.Call for global action to halt the superbug.MJA 2013;198 (5):251 A Voss,A Ghafur."The Chennai declaration" - Indian doctors' fight against antimicrobial resistance. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2013, 2:7 doi:10.1186/2047-2994-2-7 Abdul Ghafur.“The Chennai Declaration”- A solution to the antimicrobial resistance problem in Indian subcontinent.Clin Infect Dis. (2013)doi: 10.1093/cid/cis1224. Ghafur A, Mathai D, Muruganathan A et al. "The Chennai Declaration" Recommendations of "A roadmap- to tackle the challenge of antimicrobial resistance" - A joint meeting of medical societies of India. Indian J Cancer [Epub ahead of print] [cited 2012 Dec 6]. DOI:10.4103/0019-509X.104065 Available from: http://www.indianjcancer.com/preprintarticle.asp?id=104065

Abdul Ghafur, Ashwini Tayade, Priyadarshini Kannaian. Clinical profile of patients treated with cefepime/tazobactam: A new ß-lactam/ß-

lactamase inhibitor combination. J Microbiol Infect Dis. Vol 2, No 3, September 2012,2012; 2 (3): 79-86 A Ghafur*, V Nagvekar, S Thilakavathy, K Chandra, R Gopalakrishnan and PR Vidyalakshmi. “Save antibiotics, save lives”: an Indian success story of infection control through persuasive diplomacy. Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control 2012, 1:29 Abdul Ghafur.Can India be the wing commander in the global fight against antimicrobial resistance?JAPI 2012;60:42-43. Abdul Ghafur, Ramasamy Pushparaju, Sarathy Nalini, Krishnamurthy Rajkumar, Durairajan Sureshkumar. Sensitivity pattern of Gram negative bacteria to the new β-lactam/ β-lactamase inhibitor combination: Cefepime/tazobactam .JMID. 2012; 2 (1): 5-8 Ghafur A. A Call to action: For the attention of oncologists!. South Asian J Cancer2012;1:48-9

Vidyalakshmi PR, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Ghafur KA, Nambi PS, Thirunarayana MA. Clinical, epidemiological, and microbiological profile of patients with vancomycin resistant Enterococci from a Tertiary Care Hospital. J Global Infect Dis 2012;4:137-8

Shareek, P.S., 1D. Sureshkumar, 1Ramgopalakrishnan,1V. Ramasubramanian, 1K. Abdul Ghafur and 2M.A. Thirunarayanan.Antibiotic Sensitivity Pattern of Blood Isolates ofAcinetobacter Species in a Tertiary Care Hospital: A Retrospective Analysis. American Journal of Infectious Diseases 8 (1): 65-69, 2012 Abdul Ghafur K, Reply to letter to editor –JAPI supplement on antibiotic resistance,Jan 2011 Ghafur A, Raza M, Labbett W, Chawla A, Smith C, Ngui SL, Davenport

A, Geretti AM. Travel-associated acquisition of hepatitis C virus infection

in patients receiving haemodialysis. Nephrol Dial Transplant. 2007

Sep;22(9):2640-4. Epub 2007 May 29.

M Chakrapani, D Shenoy, AK Gafoor Blood sugar profile in diabetics receiving plain insulin.Indian Journal of Medical Sciences ,May 2001; Vol.55, No.5:263-265 Poster presentation in conferences Abdul Ghafur,Vidyalakshmi,Priyadarshini,Thirunarayanan. An obituary to antibiotics-Emergence of pan drug resistance amongst Gram negative bacteria.CIDSCON 2013. Abdul Ghafur.Chennai declaration-An achievement in creating an attitude change.ID week SanFrancisco 2013 Abdul Ghafur,Vidyalakshmi,Priyadarshini,Thirunarayanan. Fosfomycin- promising option in the era of NDM-1-The first invitro data from India.ICAAC 2013 Denver.No 911

Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi PR, Chandra K. Successful implementation of an infection control programme in a tertiary care oncology centre from a developing country. P262. ICPIC June2013.Geneva A Ghafur,Vidyalakshmi,Chandra,Sahaya,Priyadharshini. Increasing needle stick injuries amongst the radiology team-needs attention! P297. ICPIC June2013.Geneva Dr Abdul Ghafur, Coordinator, Chennai Declaration .Oral presentation-High Impact paper-“The Chennai Declaration”-A historic document. Abstract no.O009,ICPIC June2013.Geneva

D.Sureshkumar,R.Gopalalkrishnan,K.Abdul Ghafur, V.Ramasubramanian. Infection Control Program To Rural Community Hospital In India- A Reality.P264. P297. Icpic June2013.Geneva Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi P R,Ashwini,Chandra,Pushparaju . Call for joint effort to tackle Gram negative resisitance. Tsunami cant be blocked with a barricade Paper no 121 ISAAR, Kuala Lumpur,9th-13March2013 Vidyalakshmi,Ravikant,Abdul Ghafur,Thirunarayan MA,Murugan. Anunsual case of SBP in a Cirrhotic-The first case reported from India.Paper No 270,ISAAR, Kuala Lumpur,9th-13March 2013 Abdul Ghafur,Priyadarshini,Vidyalakshmi P R . "Clinical Profile Of Carbapenem Resistant Bacteraemia Among Paediatric Population- First Clinical Study From India".A-534-0002-01455 Entitled At The 31st Annual Meeting Of The European Society For Paediatric Infectious Diseases. May 28-June 1 2013-Milan ,Italy Abdul Ghafur,Vidyalakshmi P R,Priyadarshini,Thirunarayan M A. Fosfomycin, A Promising Option In The Era Of NDM1- The First In Vitro Data From India. ICAAC September 2013 Abdul Ghafur, Priyadarshini Kannaian, Aswini Tayade .Clinical Study On Carbapenem Sensitive & Carbapenem Resistant Bacteremia In Neutropenic & Non-Neutropenic Patients-The First Series From India.P1368. Escmid April 2013

Sureshkumar D, Abdul Ghafur K, Ramasubramanian V, Vidyalakshmi PR, Tayade A, Apollo. Abstract P-565: Malaria Guidelines In India: Is It In Paper Or In Practice?(slide presentation)ICAAC2012

Senthur Nambi P, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Vidyalakshmi PR, Tayade A, Ramasubramanian V. Abstract P-564: Attitude of Doctors

towards Infectious Disease Subspecialist - A Report from South India. (slide presentation)ICAAC2012

Sureshkumar D, R. Gopalakrishnan, K. Abdul Ghafur, P. Vidyalakshmi PR, Tayade A. Abstract P-1004: Melioidosis in India: Rare or Rarely Diagnosed?ICAAC 2012

Senthur Nambi P, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Ramasubramanian V. Abstract P-1003. Sepsis does not Require High End Antibiotics Always - A Study from South India.ICAAC 2012

Ghafur A, Ashwini T, Priyadarshini K, Chandra K. Abstract K-1618. The first clinical study on the new Beta lactam-Betalactamase inhibitor combination: cefepime-tazobactam.ICAAC 2012

Ghafur.A, Vidyalakshmi P R, Chandra K, Anna Marie S, Shivaram Bharadwaj. Abstract K-236. Little steps towards Infection control: Where there is a will, there is a way; Even in the NDM-1 Era!!

Vidyalakshmi P R, Abdul Ghafur K, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Thirunarayanan MA. ABS117/12. Rising Carbapenem Resistance: The Sky’s the limit! (SELECTED FOR TRAVEL GRANT AS AMONG 10 BEST ABSTRACTS)

Tayade A, Abdul Ghafur K, Gopalakrishnan R, Priyadarshini K, Thirunarayan MA, Ramasubramanian V, Senthur Nambi P, Sureshkumar D. ABS121/12-Clinical profile of patients with colistin resistant Gram negative infections.

Shareek PS, Sureshkumar.D, Senthur Nambi.P, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K, MA Thirunarayan. ABSO022/12. Candidemia in a tertiary care center in South India: The newer trends in incidence and Fluconazole sensitivity

Shareek PS, Sureshkumar.D, Senthur Nambi.P, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K, Thirunarayan MA. ABS118/12. Antibiotic sensitivity pattern of Klebsiella species in a tertiary care Hospital: Static or Changing?

Gaikwad R, Abdul Ghafur K, Dedeepiya Devaprasad, Thirunarayan MA, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V. ABS127/12. A fatal infection with Scedosporium apiospermum after near-drowning.

Sureshkumar D, Abdul Ghafur K, Ramasubramanian V, Vidyalakshmi PR, Tayade A, Apollo. Abstract P-565: Malaria Guidelines In India: Is It In Paper Or In Practice?

Senthur Nambi P, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Vidyalakshmi PR, Tayade A, Ramasubramanian V. Abstract P-564: Attitude of Doctors towards Infectious Disease Subspecialist - A Report from South India.

Mucormycosis In Patients Without Cancer: A Case Series From A Tertiary Care Hospital In South India. Ghafur A, Shareek Ps, Senthur Nambi P, Vidyalakshmi Pr, Ramasubramanianv, Ashok Parameswaran, Thirunarayanma, Gopalakrishnan R;P392,Isham 2012,Berlin,June 2012

D. Sureshkumar, J. Hemalatha, A. Ghafur; Ignorance: a blessing or a curse-awareness among Indian physicians on NDM-1 and its impact on antibiotic selection: Abstract56.086,ICID,2012,Bangkok.

Elizabethkingia meningoseptica bacteremia in immunocompromised hosts: the first case series from India.Vidyalakshmi PR, Ghafur A, Revathy Raj, Jose Easow.ICHS 2012,Genova,Italy,June 2012

Clinical profile of Oncology patients with carbapenem resistant bacteraemia: The first case series from India. A.Tayade. A. Ghafur, K Priyadarshini, R.Revathy, T.Raja, J.M Easow. ICHS 2012,Genova,Italy,June 2012

Sureshkumar D, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Thirunarayan MA. Anaerobic Blood Culture For Developing World: A Necessity Or Luxury? Abstract No: ISE.235. 15th ICID • Bangkok, Thailand • June 13-16, 2012 Senthur Nambi Panchatcharam*, V. Ramasubramanian*, R. Gopalakrishnan*, A. Ghafur*, M. Thirunarayan** Cefepime-Tazobactam: A Promising Therapeutic Option.Abstract No: 50.011, 15th ICID • Bangkok, Thailand • June 13-16, 2012

A.Ghafur, V.Nagvekar, S.Thilakavathy, Chandra, Gopalakrishnan R. An Indian Success story of Infection Control through Persuasive Diplomacy. Poster at 3rd World Healthcare Associated Infection Forum, Annecy, France, June 2011.

Invasive fungal infections following Orthotopic Liver Transplantation:Revisiting Prophylaxis.Anand Ramamurthy,Bipin B Vibhure,AjithabShrivastava,Mahesh Gopashetty, ramgopalakrishnan, Abdul Ghafur,Anand Khakhar Abstract P515

Nagvekar V, Gopalakrishnan R, V. Ramasubramanian, Abdul Ghafur K, Senthur Nambi P, Thirunarayanan MA. Metallo B Lactamase prevalence among blood culture isolates of Enterobactereciae species between May 2010 and April 2011 in a tertiary care hospital from south India. Oral presentation for the International Workshop on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR-2011) on 11th – 13th November, 2011at Haffkine Institute, Mumbai.

Senthur Nambi P, Ramasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur, Vidyalakshmi, Thirunarayan M.A. Carbapenem resistance in blood culture isolates of E.coli and Klebsiella – a six year study from Chennai. Abstract No. 122 at 1st Global forum on Bacterial Infections, New Delhi, October 2011.

Sureshkumar D, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K. Attitude and Acceptance of H1N1 Flu Vaccine among Indian Health Care Workers- 50th Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) Chicago 2011

Sureshkumar D, Abdul Ghafur K. Needle-stick Injuries among Health Care Workers a report from India- 1st International Conference on Prevention & Control of Infections (ICPIC-2011) Geneva 2011.

Sureshkumar D, Ramasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan R,Dr.K.Abdul Ghafur Acute suppurative thyroiditis with Escherichia coli- a case report. Abstract P2-61, 8th International Symposium on Antimicrobial agents and Resistance (ISAAR), April 6-8, 2011, Seoul, Korea.

Sureshkumar D, Abdul Ghafur K. Hand Hygiene compliance of Indian health care workers – 1st International Conference on Prevention & Control of Infections (ICPIC-2011) Geneva 2011

Sureshkumar D, Ramasubramanian V, K.Abdul Ghafur. MA Thirunarayan Nosocomial blood stream infections in India Abstract 18 - 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011.

Sureshkumar D, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K, Vaccines and health care workers in India Abstract 24 - 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011.

Nagvekar V, Sureshkumar D. Ramasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Mycobacterial Culture Remains Essential for the Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis (TB):Reminder for Clinicians in Developing Countries. Abstract 22 at 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011.

Nagvekar V, Ramasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Vidhyalakshmi PR. Candidemia in a South Indian Tertiary Care Hospital: Analysis of Species and Sensitivity to Fluconazole. Abstract 13 at 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011

Nagvekar V, Gopalakrishnan R, Setia M, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K, Choudhary A. Comparison of tenofovir versus non-tenofovir regimens: A retrospective cohort analysis, India. Abstract 21 at 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011.

Vidhyalakshmi PR, Senthur Nambi P, Gopalakrishnan R, Ramasubramanian V, Abdul Ghafur K, Thirunarayan MA. Clinical and microbiological profile of patients with vancomycin resistant Enterococci from a tertiary care hospital. Abstract 14 at 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011

Choudhary A, Dhanda KK, Senthur Nambi P, Ramasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan R, Abdul Ghafur K, Thirunarayan MA. Changing trends in antimicrobial susceptibility for Salmonella species from tertiary care hospital from south India. Abstract 20 at 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011.

Shareek PS, Ramasubramanian V, Gopalakrishnan R, Thirunarayan MA, Abdul Ghafur K. Antibiotic sensitivity pattern of Acinetobacter species bacteremia in a tertiary care hospital: a retrospective analysis. Abstract 7 at 1st Annual Conference of the Clinical Infectious Disease Society (CIDSCON), Hyderabad, August 13th and 14th, 2011

Cephalosporin resistant Enterobacteriacea. . A new plague? Ghafur A Balakrishnan I ,ECCMID,Copenhagen,April 2005. Detection of multiple cephalosporin resistance.FIS 2005,Cardiff. Ghafur A, Bose A, Balakrishnan I International invited lectures Chennai declaration: International pathology day; Royal College of Pathologists,London, 5th November 2014. Change and behaviour and life style: Euroscience open forum,June 2014,Copenhagen Chennai Declaration, ECCMID preconference workshop,Barcelona,April 2014 Chennai declaration, graduate institute ,Geneva,March 2014 Tackling antimicrobial resistance-Indian perspective-Royal free hospital,London,October 2013-10-10 Chennai declaration and antibiotic resistance: Public Health England,Colindale,London,October 2013.

Overcoming barriers to behavioral changes-Antimicrobial resistance:Incentivizing change towards a global solution: Chatham house(Institute of international affairs,London)october 2013. “Chennai Declaration”-An Indian initiative to tackle antimicrobial resistance, ICAAC september 2013 Denver,USA Meet the professor:ICAAC september 2013 Denver,USA along with Dr Otto cars,Laura piddock and Dr Antony So Meet the expert-setting up infection control in resource limited settings,ICPIC 2013-Geneva Hyperendemic Gram negatives-indian scenario-ICPIC 2013,June 2013 Geneva Chennai Declaration-A historic initiative-ICPIC June 2013-Geneva Indian perspective of tackling resistance-June 2013-ICPIC Geneva Indian perspective of tackling resistance-June 2013. 3rd world HAI meeting,Annecey,France Management of NDM producers-ECCMID Berlin April 2013 Gram negative resistance problem in India,Australian infectious diseases society and CDC combined meeting,March 2013,canberra,Australia Mobilising political will to tackle antimicrobial resistance, Australian infectious diseases society and CDC combined meeting,March 2013,canberra,Australia. ESBL in the community-ISAAR Kulalalampur March 2013 Management of ESBL UTI- ISAAR Kualalampur March 2013 Pan resistant Gram Negative bacteria-An Indian perspective. HAI conference on “Living in a world without antibiotics” Annecy,France.June 26-29, 2011 “Chennai declaration”: International patient safety congress,Hyderabad,Sep 2013

National Conferences and other invited lectures

Chennai declaration; IAMM jaipur,september 2014 Fungal infections in oncology patients,IAMM,september 2014. Antibiotics stewardship in Inida: Infection control conference,Hyderabad,september 2014. Chennai declaration:Phocon,chennai,spetember 2014.

Antibiotic stewardship; Theni medical college conference,June 2014 PUO, Fortis conference, April 2014 Pyrexia of Unknown origin; GAMICON 2013,December 2013,Mumbai Tackling antimicrobial resistance;GERICON,December 2013,Chennai Antibiotic resistance: Is there a future? PCCON 2013,November 2013,New Delhi Antibiotic stewardship- JPIMER Pondichery,November 2013 Antimicrobial resistance-CME by IMA Karnataka,Bangalore:October 2013 Invasive fungal infections- CME by IMA Karnataka,Bangalore:October 2013. Chennai Declaration-International patient safety congress,Hyderabad,Sep 2013. Plenary lecture;Chennai declaration,CRTICARE 2013,March,Kolkota Chennai declaration,APICON 2013,COIMBATORE,Jan 2013

Gram positive infections-APICON 2012,Calcutta -2012

Antibiotics in ICU-APICON Jan 2011 ,Ahmadabad

Tackling antimicrobial resistance,state Microbiology conference,Feb 2013,mangalore

Mucormycosis:CIDSCON 2012,chennai,August 2012 Combination of antibiotics, APCC meeting ,Delhi, Nov 2011

How can India tackle resistance,APCC meeting ,Delhi,Nov 2011

Pulmonary fungal infections-Respicon 2011,May-Calicut

Managing fungal infections—AIDC,Chennai,Dec 2011

Fungal pneumonias , lecture delivered in the Microcon 2009, national microbiology conference, Mysore.

“Meet the professor session” on Oncology infections, ICON meeting ,Mumbai 2009

Management of fungal infections in the ICU,criticare 2010,Hyderabad Feb 2010.

“Management of fungal infection in ICU”,Criticon 2010,Feb 2010.Mumbai Jeslok Hospital

Management of UTI-Apollo Infectious diseases forum-June 2013.

Chennai Declaration-The way foreward-meeting in Chennai by phramacists June 2013

Chennai declaration-SRM medical college,April 2013

Chennai Declaration,the way forward,AIFIC,Jan 2013,Chennai

Fungal infections and pulmonologists,Respiratory update,Hinduja

hospital,Mumbai,Dec 2012

An obituary-To antibiotics:City ENT meet,MMC,Chennai September

2012.

Gram Positive Infections:To intensivists in Calicut;September 2012

Indian resistance crisis:Time to reinforce practical solutions,All I ndia web

meeting,July 2012

“Bugs and Bucks” .CME conducted in Dubai April 2012

Management of MDR gram negatives--international meeting,Chennai

march 2012

Management of MDR gram negatives-Chennai march 2012

Lymphadenopathy-surgical course,Apollo,march 2002

Fungal infections-Critical care society-coimbatore-Feb 2012

Managing fungal infections-Care hospital-Vyzag. Feb 2012

Fungal Infections for intensivists-jan 2012-Hyderabad

Fungal infections –Indian scenario-Feb 2012,Chennai

Candida ,does she give fever?CIMSCON Ahamadabad,Jan 2012

Managing difficult to treat Gram negatives in Indian ICU-Hyderabad-Jan2012

Managing difficult to treat Gram negatives in Indian ICU-Chennai-Jan2012

Prophylaxis,pre emptive or empirical…Jaslok,Mumbai,dec 2011

Gram positive conclave, ,Chennai ,November 2011

Managing difficult fungal infections,Bangalore,November 2011

Managing difficult infection in a liver transplant patient,Global hospital,OCT 2011

Pyrexia of unknown origin,Hinduja hospital,Sep 2011

Management of infections in pregnant patients,MGIMS Pondicherry, sep 2011

Fungal infections management, Chennai,sep 2011

ICU fungal infections, Bangalore,sep 2011

How can India tackle the resistance crisis? Webinar to multiple centres,August 2011.

Tackling resistance-an Indian scenario-Cross border meeting-Kualalampur-July 2011

New approach in the management of fungal infection--chennai-July 2011

Gram positive infections-chennai,July 2011

Fungal infections –An Indian scenario-Mumbai-April 2011

Antibiotic resistance-Indian scenario-,Chennai-April 2011

“Antibiotics in ICU setting”-meeting in Chennai ,an international speaker forum-May 2011

Bad bugs-No drugs-State paediatric conference,Calicut-April 2011

Antibiotic rational usage-MIMS calicut-April 2011

Jaslok Infection meeting, Mumbai april 2011

Fungal meeting, madras university,march 2011

Advances in lab diagnosis-ramachandra Medical college Feb 2011

Pulmonary fungal infections, National Respiratory update, Hinduja Hospital,Mumbai, Dec 2010

Antifungal prophylaxis in Neutropenics,CME on fungal infections, KPC medical college , Kolkata.November 2010

Fungal infections and antifungals, Bangalore, November 2010

Controversy and considerations in managing infection in ICU, Cochin, November 2010.

Choosing the right antifungal, Chennai,October 2010

Rapid bacteriologic diagnosis. Critical care Infection update, Hyderabad,October 2010

Is third world the epicenter of antibiotic resistance, Critical care Infection update, Hyderabad,October 2010

Combination therapy in Gram negatives,Critical care Infection update, Hyderabad,October 2010.

Tackling resistance,Critical care Infection update, Hyderabad,October 2010

Antibiotics in community acquired pneumonia,Annual infection control meeting,MGMCRI,Pondichery,October 2010.

Candida infections in ICU,Sanjay Gandhi Institute, September2010.Lucknow.

Management of ICU infections, panelist, international Speaker forum, Chennai,September 2010

Tackling resistance, theory and practice, MIMS hospital, Calicut, September 2010.

Management of fungal infections in ICU,international speaker forum, September, Chennai 2010

Fungal infection and antifungals, Chennai, September 2010.

ICU infections, International speaker forum, delivered lecture, Chennai,August 2010.

Management of resistant bacterial infections.Chennai ,August 2010.

New paradigm in the management of sepsis, railway hospital, Chennai,August 2010.

Save antibiotics!! Dubai ,June 2010.

Fungal infections in ICU,DUBAI,June 2010.

Candida infections in ICU,June ,Vijayavada,2010.

Tackling antimicrobial resistance,Vijayavada ,june 2010

Management of fungal infections in ICU,Vijayavada,June 2010.

New horizons in the diagnosis of Sepsis,sriramachandra medical college, April 2010

Rational use of antibiotics, MIMS hospital,Calicut April,2010

“Management of Gram positive infections”lecture and panel discussion,criticare 2010,Hyderabad,Feb 2010

“Future of antifungals” criticare 2010 hYderabad ,feb 2010

“”Implant infection for intensivists”criticon 2010, Jeslok hospital,Mumbai Feb 2010.

‘”Management of fungal infection in Oncology patients” National Haematology conference,Jan 2010,Mumbay

“Are all Echinocandins the same? Asia Paific Critical Care conference in Delhi,Dec 2009

Management of complicated Gram positiveinfections, lecture delivered to a meeting of intensivists ansd physicians, Nov 2009,Chennai.

Participated in the Posoconazole expert meeting , Singapore , Nov 2009

Candida in the ICU, lecture delivered to the intensivists from South India, Chennai, Oct 2009

Swine flu in pregnancy, Talk given in Institute of obstetrics, Chennai, September 2009.

“How to debug the emerging threat of superbugs in oncology” ICON meetimg, Mumbai September 2009

Panelist in International Panel Discussion on “management of resistant gram positive infection, Bangalore,August 2009

”Bacterial and fungal infections in solid and nonsolid organ transplant recepients, Sepsis 2009 meet, New Delhi, August 2009

Management of invasive fungal infections, Critical care society , mangalore 2009

“Management of soft tissue infections,old bugs with new weapons”, Sepsis 2009 meet, New Delhi.,August 2009.

“ How to select antibiotics to to treat VAP” ,ootty July 2009

“Asian HAP guidelines” Talk given to the intensivists 30th June , at Marriot Hotel,Chennai

“Management of complicated skin and soft tissue infections” Railway hospital,Chennai, 12th June 2009

National Symposium on Management of Invasive Fungal Infections-2009 on Saturday 7 & Sunday 8 February, 09 at Hotel Intercontinental Lalit, Goa.Delivered a talk on “Mucormycosis in Haemato-oncology Patients”

“Management of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia” Delivered a talk ,Critical Care Forum, Calicut May 2009

“Management of Resistant Gram Positive infections”Delivered a talk ,ICU meet in Pondichery ,May 2009

“Invasive Fungal Infections” Trivandrum,2009

“Invasive Fungal Infections” Cochin 2009

“Management of Gram negative infections”Mangalore 2008 “Management of Gram negative infections”Coimbatore 2008 “Management of Invasive fungal infections”Coimbatore 2008

References Professor Dame Sally C Davies FRS FMedSci

Chief Medical Officer and Chief Scentific Advisor for England

Richmond House Room 123b; 79 Whitehall, SW1A 2NS

E MAIL: sally.davies@dh.gsi.gov.uk

T: 020 7210 5154

Dr.Christopher Kibbler FRCP FRCPATH

Consultantnt Microbiologist And Clinical Mycologist

Head Of The Department Of Microbiology

Royal Free Hospital

London NW3 2QG

Phone: 00442077940500 Ext.33545

christopher.kibbler@nhs.net

Dr.Susan Hopkins MD MRCP

Consultant In Infectious Diseases And Clinical Microbiology

Royal Free Hospital

London NW3 2QG

Phone:00442077940500 Ext:38260

susanhopkins@nhs.net