VISITING PROFESSORS SEMINARS
JULY 1, 2006 – JUNE 30, 2007
Name
Home Dept & Institution
Presentation Title
The International Nosocomial Infection Symposium Nov.30, 06
The 1 day symposium began with opening remarks from Drs. Joanne Embree, Peter Cattini and George Zhanel; followed by the
plenary sessions which consisted of lectures from national, international and departmental keynote speakers. A summary of
the morning session was delivered by Dr. Ethan Rubinstein. The afternoon session was dedicated to the Department of
Medical Microbiology Graduate Students and ID/MM Fellows.
Dr. Daryl Hoban
Professor,
Department of Medical Microbiology,
University of Manitoba
Title of Talk: “Antimicrobial Resistance in
Canadian Intensive Care Units
Dr. Dennis Maki
Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine and
Head Section of Infectious Diseases,
University of Wisconsin Medical School
Title of Talk: “Central Line Associated
Infections”
Dr. Lindsay Nicolle
Professor, Internal Medicine and Medical
Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Dr. Coleman Rotstein
Dr. Anand Kumar
Professor of Medicine, Director of Infectious
Diseases, McMaster University and Hamilton
Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario
Associate Professor of Medicine, Sections of
Critical Care Medicine and Infectious
Diseases, University of Manitoba
Professor of Medicine, Head of Infectious
Diseases, University of Ottawa and Ottawa
Hospital
Title of Talk: “Nosocomial Urinary Tract
Infections”
Title of Talk: “Hospital and Ventilatory
Acquired Pneumonia”
Title of Talk: “Sepsis/Septic ShockAntimicrobial Therapy”
Dr. Gary Garber
Dr. Michael Mulvey
Chief, Nosocomial Infections and
Antimicrobial Resistance, National
Microbiology Laboratory, Health Canada,
Assistant Professor, Department of Medical
Microbiology, University of Manitoba
Post Doctoral Fellow, Department of
Microbiology, Immunology and Pathology,
Colorado State University,
Fort Collins, Colorado
Dr. Ayush Kumar
Title of talk: “Sesis/Septic Shock NonAntimicrobial Therapy”
Title of talk: “Pseudomembranous Colitis:
The New Epidemic”
Title of talk: Antimicrobial Efflux Pumps
in Pseudomonas aeruginosa”
The HIV / Antimicrobials / Graduate Student Research Mini Symposium May 23, 2007
The Graduate Student Association President, Meaghan Labine organized the symposium which was divided in to 2 sections with the
Visiting Professor series in the morning followed by the Graduate Student Research series in the afternoon.
Dr. Robert Coombs
Professor of Laboratory Medicine and
Talk of talk: “Shedding of HIV-1 at
Medicine; Vice-chair for Research,
mucosal sites in men and women:
Department of Laboratory Medicine
Implications for the interruption of
University of Washington, Seattle,
sexual transmission”
Washington
Dr. Robert Hancock
Director, Centre for Microbial Diseases and
Immunity Research; Professor of
Microbiology and Immunology and Canada
Research Chair
Title of Talk: “New Approaches to
treating bacterial infections”