6th Annual International Pediatric
Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference
June 4-5, 2015
Children’s Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO 64108
Thursday, June 4, 2015----Auditorium
12:00pm-1:00pm
Steering Committee Meeting
1:00pm
Jason Newland, MD, MEd
Welcome
1:05pm-1:55pm
David Hyun, MD and
Literature support for antimicrobial stewardship programs
Holly Maples, PharmD
1:55pm-2:40pm
Joshua Courter, PharmD
2:40pm-2:50pm
BREAK
2:50pm-3:30pm
Meeting Participants
Starting an ASP: experiences from the front line
ASP Programs and Research from other Institutions
2:50pm-3:05pm
Calvin Daniels, PharmD
Effect of Implementation of Automatic Stop with and
without Prospective Audit With Feedback Upon
Meropenem Use in a Pediatric Hospital
3:05pm-3:20pm
Amanda Hurst, PharmD
“Handshake Stewardship”: Novel Method of Stewardship
is Highly Effective
3:20m-3:35pm
Nipunie Rajapakse, MD,
FRCPC, DTMH
Baby Steps: The Planning and Design of an Antimicrobial
Stewardship Program in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
Based in an Adult Tertiary Care Centre
3:35pm-4:20pm
ASP Award Presentations
3:35pm-3:55pm
Beatriz Larru, MD
Comparison of a hospital-cumulative antibiogram with
patient characteristic-stratified web-based antibiogram
3:55pm-4:20pm
JB Cantey, MD
Antibiotic Exposure and Adverse Outcomes in Very-LowBirth-Weight Infants: Each Day Matters!
4:20pm-5:20pm
Meeting Participants
ASP Programs and Research from other Institutions
4:20pm-4:35pm
Debra Palazzi, MD
Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship and Rapid Diagnostic
Testing: Right Bug, Right Drug, Right Time
4:35pm-4:50pm
Delia Carias, PharmD
Implementation of a Prescriber Alert to Optimize Empiric
Antibiotic Therapy in Patients with a History of Multidrug
Resistant Organisms
4:50pm-5:05pm
Zachary Willis, MD
Evaluating an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program in the
Context of National Trends
5:05pm-5:20pm
Megan Veverka, PharmD
Evaluation of Necrotizing Enterocolitis Treatment in a
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
6:30pm-9:00pm
DINNER
6th Annual International Pediatric
Antimicrobial Stewardship Conference
June 4-5, 2015
Children’s Mercy Hospital, 2401 Gillham Road, Kansas City, MO 64108
Friday, June 5, 2015----Auditorium
7:00am
BREAKFAST
8:00am
Karen Cox, RN, PhD, FAAN
Welcome
8:10am-9:00am
Thomas Walsh, MD
Treatment strategies for invasive fungal infections
9:00am-9:50am
Theoklis Zaoutis, MD,
MSCE
Antifungal stewardship: Is it an important aspect of
antimicrobial stewardship?
9:50am-10:00am
BREAK
10:00am-10:45am
Matt Kronman, MD, MSCE
Expanding stewardship's reach: Outpatient and surgical
stewardship
10:45am-11:30am
Julia Szymczak, PhD
The social determinants of antimicrobial prescribing:
Implications for stewardship program development
11:30am-11:45pm
Pick-up LUNCH:
11:45am-1:00pm
Meeting Participants
ASP Programs and Research from other Institutions
11:45am-Noon
Gayatri Mirani, MD
Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy at a Major
Children’s Hospital
Noon-12:15pm
Herbert Clegg, MD
Ambulatory Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
Development and Improved Use of Antimicrobials in
Pediatric Patients with Acute Respiratory Tract Infections
12:15pm-12:30pm
Marc Mazade, MD
Peer Comparisons of Prescribing for Streptococcal
Pharyngitis Improves Antibiotic Stewardship
12:30pm-12:45pm
Dipa Saha, MD
Urine Culture Follow Up in the Urgent Care: A Stewardship
Opportunity
12:45pm-1:00pm
Kelley Lee, PharmD
Increased Hospital-Wide Linezolid Consumption Paralleled
Increase in Linezolid Resistant Enterococcus Strains
1:00pm-1:15pm
Heidi Andersen, MD
Use of Shotgun Metagenome Sequencing to Detect Fecal
Colonization with Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria
1:15pm-1:30pm
BREAK
1:30pm-2:15pm
Anne Blaschke MD, PhD
Rapid diagnostic testing and antimicrobial stewardship:
personalized medicine for infectious disease
2:15pm-2:45pm
Meeting Participants
ASP Programs and Research from other Institutions
2:15pm-2:30pm
Christie Van Dyke,
PharmD
Impact of an Appendicitis Clinical Treatment Pathway on
Readmission Rates in Children
2:30pm-2:45pm
Nicholas Bennett,
MBBChir, PhD
An Assessment of Clinical Risk Factors for High-Level
Antibiotic Resistance to Beta-Lactams Among Patients at a
Free-Standing Children’s Hospital
2:45pm-3:30pm
Joshua Courter, PharmD
Quality improvement methods to enhance antimicrobial
stewardship
3:30pm-4:00pm
Jason Newland, MD, MEd
The political landscape of antimicrobial stewardship /
SHARPS Collaborative Update