You are invited to a seminar on “Enhanced, Personalised, and Integrated Care for Infection Management at the Point-of-Care” presented by Dr Tim Rawson.
Healthcare professionals who diagnose and treat infections must often do so rapidly to prevent harm to their patients. Their prescribing decisions can be assisted by providing them with access to treatment recommendations, based on the most likely organism causing the infection (antimicrobial guidelines) and data on local antimicrobial resistance patterns. These decision support systems are mostly rule-based, providing easy-to-access policies or guidelines.
Timothy Miles Rawson a Clinical Research Fellow at the NIHR Health Protection Research is currently leading a project exploring the utility of Enhanced, Personalised, and Integrated Care for Infection Management at the Point-of-Care (EPIC IMPOC). This aims to explore the utility of integrating machine learning techniques, rapid diagnostics, and mechanisms for drug dose optimisation into clinical decision support systems to improve infection management in the hospital setting. This has been supported by an EPSRC pump priming award, as part of Imperial Antimicrobial Resistance Collaborative (ARC) EMBRACE project, which aims to promote closer collaboration between engineering, physics, natural sciences, and medicine to develop novel solutions to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Date/Time: 9:30 Tuesday 17th January 2017,
Venue: Meeting Room 1&2, Bessemer Building, South Kensington Campus
For more details please see:
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/bio-inspired-technology/research/infection-technology/epic-impoc/
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Timothy_Rawson
Please reply to joao.reis@imperial.ac.uk if you intend to come and meet us on the 17th January, so that we have an idea of numbers.