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1 Tuesday 17 April :00 Quran Recitation Main Hall 8:10 National Anthem 8:40 Welcome ( Professor Darabi President of MUMS ) 9:00 Welcome Ministry of Health 9:10 9:20 9:30 Role of infection control in resistive economy Report of the Scientific Secretary of the Congress Panel Discussion: Respiratory infections in community Dr Shapour Badiee Dr Mohammad Hassan Aelami Coordinator: Dr Hamid Reza Naderi Panel Staff: Professor Talat Mokhtari Azad Dr Mohammad Sadegh Rezaie, Professor Fatemeh Fallah Dr Ahmad Reza Shamshiri, Dr Jafar Soltani 10:20 Special Program 10:30 Break and Poster Visit 11:00-13:00 Comprehensive Lectures and Special Program Professor Mohammad Taghi Saraf, Professor AbdolAli Kharazmi Professor Reza Farid Hoseini, Professor Mahdi Balali Mood 11:00 Special Program

2 Main Hall Tuesday 17 April :10 12:00 12:30 Hand hygiene: from local to global, Outbreak experiences: what are the most important steps to stop the outbreak Probiotic vs. placebo as prophylaxis for children after the first febrile urinary tract infections 13:00 Pray & Lunch Professor Didier Pittet Professor Petra Gastmeier Professor Farahnak Asadi 14:00 Panel Discussion: Proper use of antibiotics in intestinal infections Coordinator: Dr Shahram Abdoli Oskouei Panel Staff: Dr Ashraf Tavanai Sani, Dr Mohammad Ali Kiani Dr Nasseroddin Mostafavi, Dr Behrooz Bonyadi Dr Jabbar Ali Safai,Dr Amir Nasimfar 15:00-16:00 Comprehensive Lectures and Special Program Professor Farah Ashrafzadeh, Professor Simin Partovi, Dr Mitra Naseri 15:00 15:30 Horizontal to vertical strategies to prevent MDRO Clean hands: Movie followed by book signing Professor Petra Gastmeier Professor Didier Pittet

3 Tuesday 17 April :30 Panel Discussion: Hand hygiene Salon A2 Coordinator: Dr Reza Vafaeenejad Panel Staff: Farnaz Mostofian, Professor Mehrdad Askarian Dr Ali Hosseininasab, Dr Reza Shojaeian Dr Naghmeh Zabolinejad 10:30 Break and Poster Visit 12:00-13:00 Panel Discussion: The role of nutrition in the prevention of health-care associated infections Coordinator: Professor Hamid Reza Kianifar Panel Staff: Professor Rahim Vakili, Dr Ali Jafari, Dr Mohammad Safarian Dr Nosrat Ghaemi, Dr Hamid Ahanchian 13:00 Pray & Lunch 14:00 Panel Discussion: Fever & Neutropenia Coordinator: Dr Ali Amanati Panel Staff: Parvin Rezai, Dr Zahra Badiei, Dr Parisa Badiee Dr Mohammad Saeed Sasan, Dr Mazyar Ziyaeyan Dr Abolghasem Allahyari Oral Presentations ( 15:00-17:20 ) Professor Nosrat Lotfi, Professor Farhad Heydarian Dr Sepideh Bagheri, Dr Parisa Badiee, Dr Nasseroddin Mostafavi

4 Tuesday 17 April :00 Role of Zinc in prevention of infection in children Professor Nosrat Lotfi 15:10 15:20 15:30 15:40 15:50 Distribution and antimicrobial susceptibility pattern of bacterial pathogens causing urinary tract infection in Imam Reza Hospital, Mashhad: A two-year surveillance study ( ) Evaluation of persistent antimicrobial effect of chlorhexidine-based shampoo on human skin to be used for patients before surgeries The study of barriers in hand hygiene from the perspective of clinical staff in Taleghani Tabriz Educational Center Education program on hand hygiene: the assessment of a training workshop on the knowledge and attitude of medical students Identification of yeast species isolated from bronchoalveolar lavage specimens of high-risk individuals using MALDI-TOF MS Mehrnaz Kafashian Hosna Zare Arezoo Mehrnia Tahoora Afshari Saleh Dr Hossein Zarrinfar Dr Hossein Zarrinfar, Dr Samaneh Noroozi, Dr Bahareh Imani Dr Amir Nasimfar, Nasim Naroui 16:00 16:10 16:20 Generation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa aerosols during handwashing from contaminated sink drains, transmission to hands of hospital personnel, and its prevention by use of a new heating device Antifungal effect of Lactobacillus acidophilus as a probiotic strain on Candida albicans strains Optimal hand washing technique to minimize bacterial contamination before neuraxial anesthesia: a randomized control trial Mohammad Mehdi Attarpour Yazdi Reyhane Jamadi Seyed Ehsan Asadi Salon A2

5 Tuesday 17 April :30 The Interaction between nutrition and infection Dr Bahareh Imani 16:40 16:50 17:00 17:10 Best practice of implementation of the WHO multimodal hand Hygiene improvement strategy in Aalinasab hospital A Fluconazole delivery system based on Chitosan (Cs) and Polyvinyl Alcohol (PVA) Blend Films against Candida albicans The Study level of hand hygiene and its barriers at the personnel of Ali Ebne Abitaleb hospital in Zahedan city in 2017 Influenza vaccine coverage before and after of influenza vaccination ceremony Among health care workers: Results of a survey in an Iranian university hospital Samira Rahimi Saeed Parham Hassan Robabi Zohreh Shojaei Salon A2

6 Tuesday 17 April 2018 Salon A3 Oral Presentations (15:00-16:10) Professor Mehrdad Askarian, Dr Kiarash Ghazvini Dr Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh, Parvin Rezai Dr Forough Rakhshanizadeh 15:00 15:10 15:20 15:30 15:40 15:50 16:00 Bacterial contamination in liquid soap in a large-sized University hospital in northeast of Iran Evaluating the hand hygiene compliance of Ayatollah Rouhani Hospital in Babol during A study of hand hygiene compliance and its effective factor in Rajaee Cardiovascular Medical and Research Center In vitro activities of eight systemically active antifungal agents against a national collection of Candida parapsilosis complex isolates Hand hygiene compliance level at educational hospital wards of Mazandaran Heart Center The sensitivity of Candida species to antifungals isolated from educational hospitals The patterns of colonization and antifungal susceptibility of Candida isolated from preterm neonates in Khorramabad, South West of Iran Dr Kiarash Ghazvini Ebrahim Nasirae Masoumeh Rostami Sadegh Khodavaisy Maryam Mirzakhani Simin Taghipour Ali Zarei Mahmoudabadi

7 Wednesday 18 April :00-8:00 Meet the Professor Farahnak Asadi ( Urinary tract infections ) 8:00 Quran Recitation 8:20 Panel Discussion: Antimicrobial resistance Coordinator: Dr Hosein Masoumi Asl Panel Staff: Professor Gholamreza Irajian, Dr Mahnaz Arian Dr Kiarash Ghazvini, Dr Sepideh Elyasi Dr Esmail Mohammadnejad 9:20 Special Program 9:30 Panel Discussion: Infection prevention in NICU Coordinator: Professor Gholam Ali Mamouri Panel Staff: Mahboubeh Honarmand, Professor Narjess Pishva Professor Ashraf Mohammadzadeh, Professor Abdolkarim Hamedi Dr Reza Saeidi, Professor Hassan Boskabadi 10:20 Special Program 10:30 Break and Poster Visit 11:00-13:00 Comprehensive Lectures and Special Program Professor Mohammad Javad Parizadeh Professor Javad Akhondian, Dr Mahdi Maleknejad Professor Anahita Sanai Dashti, Mohammad Hassan Ezati Main Hall

8 Main Hall Wednesday 18 April :00 11:50 Special Program 12:00 12:30 Surveillance of healthcare associated infections Nosocomial infections in Iran, EMRO & the world Infection control: the Iranian strategy 13:00 Pray & Lunch Professor Ling Moi Lin Professor Mohammad Rahim Kadivar Dr Babak Eshrati 14:00 Panel Discussion: Proper use of antibiotics in urinary tract infections Coordinator: Professor Iraj Seddighi Panel Staff: Professor Mohammad Esmaili, Dr Seyed Ali Alamdaran Dr Ahmadshah Farhat, Dr Hadi Farsiyani Dr Mohammad Javad Dehghan Nayeri 15:00-17:00 Comprehensive Lectures and Book Signing Professor Mohsen Jafarzadeh, Dr Ahmadshah Farhat Dr Elaheh Heidari 15:00 15:30 16:00 Breastfeeding in infection prevention Current challenges in infection control Book Resistants Open debate and book signing Dr Khalil Farivar Professor Didier Pittet Thierry Crouzet & Professor Didier Pittet

9 Wednesday 18 April :00-8:00 8:30 Meet the Professor Ling Moi Lin Prevention of surgical site infections: myths and facts Panel Discussion: Prevention of infections in the operating theater Coordinator: Dr Ali Jangjoo Panel Staff: Irandokht Mostafavi, Dr Ahmad Mohammadipour Professor Anahita Sanai Dashti, Dr Hamid Reza Naderi Dr Mohammad Abbasi Tashnizi, Dr Ehsan Keykhosravi 9:30-10:30 Comprehensive Lectures Professor Masih Naghibi, Dr Mahdi Asadi Professor Reza Mahdavi, Dr Mohammad Reza Motie 9:30 10:00 Oncological liver transplantation Infection in solid organ transplantation 10:30 Break and Poster Visit 11:00-12:00 Comprehensive Lectures Professor Christian Toso Dr Mohamed Abbas Professor Hosein Shabahang, Dr Kamyar Tavakoli Tabasi Professor Mohammad Hosein Ebrahimzadeh, Dr Reza Nazarzadeh 11:00 Robotic surgery in urology Professor Christophe Iselin Salon A2

10 Wednesday 18 April :30 Surgical hand preparation Dr Mohamed Abbas 12:00 Panel Discussion: Transplant infections Coordinator: Dr Ali Ghasemi Panel Staff: Samaneh Ghayoomi Aval, Dr Mohsen Aliakbarian Dr Amin Bojdi, Dr Shirin Sayahfar, Dr Masoud Yousofi 13:00 Pray & Lunch 14:00 Panel Discussion: Infection prevention in ICU Coordinator: Dr Gholamreza Khademi Panel Staff: Nasrin Khosravi Zenyani, Professor Mohammad Mehdi Feizabadi Dr Freshteh Sheibani, Dr Ahmad Bagheri Moghadm Dr Seyed Javad Seyedi Oral Presentations: (15:00-17:00) Dr Hassan Birjandi, Dr Alireza Rezapanah Dr Ali Ahmadabadi,Mehrdad Akbarzadeh Dr Ali Asghar Moinipour, Dr Ali Reza Ataie 15:00 15:10 15:20 Incidence and associated factors of superficial and deep post-cabg sternal infection in Mashhad Infection rate of extracted implantable ports in hematology oncology pediatric patients Which pathogen is the worst killer of burn patients? Negar Morovatdar Dr Reza Shojaeian Dr Ali Ahmadabadi Salon A2

11 Wednesday 18 April :30 15:40 15:50 The use of nanotechnology and nanoparticles for control of clinical infection Swab wound culture in burn patients: how much its results are correlated to blood culture results? Surgical site infection in general surgery: bacterial profile and antibiotic susceptibility Elham Jafarzadeh Majid Khadem- Rezaiyan Dr Alireza Rezapanah Dr Gholamreza Pouladfar, Dr Saeed Amel Jamehdar Maryam Parhizkar, Dr Esmail Mohammadnejad Dr Nasrin Moazen 16:00 16:10 16:20 16:30 16:40 16:50 HCV contamination of medical instruments in surgery department Proven central line infection in children with immune deficiency post- haematopoietic stem cell transplant, thymus transplant and gene therapy Effect of training on proper antibiotic prophylaxis before surgery in Payambar Aazam Hospital, Kerman, 2017 Evaluation of linezolid or cotrimoxazole in combination with rifampicin as alternative oral treatments based on an in vitro pharmacodynamic model of staphylococcal biofilm Synthesis and evaluation of colistin-molecular sieves combinations with the goal of reducing bacterial resistance Point prevalence survey of antimicrobial consumption in adult wards of Nemazee Teaching Hospital, Shiraz, Iran Mohammad Mehdi Attarpour Yazdi Zohreh Nademi Leila Moazen Seyed Ehsan Asadi Zhila Mohseni Zahra Jafarpour Salon A2

12 Wednesday 18 April 2018 Oral Presentations ( 15:00-16:10 ) Professor Fatemeh Khatami, Dr Seyed Javad Seyedi Dr Behzad Alizadeh, Fatemeh Ghasimi, Dr Raheleh Faramarzi 15:00 15:10 15:20 15:30 Assessing the problems of hospital infections reporting system from the perspective of infection control team in Sanandaj city s hospitals in 2017 Characterization of ventilator- associated pneumonia (VAP) and bacterial resistance pattern in patients hospitalized at the intensive care unit of Shahrekord hospitals Evaluation of prevalence of nosocomial infections and related factors in Beheshti hospital in Hamadan Detection of Class I, II and III Integrons in Staphylococcus lugdunensis isolates from hospitalized patients in Shiraz Teaching Hospitals ( ) Faeze Foruzanfar Fahimeh Nourbakhsh Parisa Rasouli Neda Pirbonyeh 15:40 Legal issues related to infectious diseases Alireza Ghassemi Toussi 15:50 16:00 16:10 Prevalence of urinary tract infections with etiologies other than E.coli in children The effect of treatment on infection control for care of patients with HIV Sticky mat: Yes Or No? Dr Mitra Naseri Ali Mohammad Hosseinpour Hava Abdollahi Salon A3

13 Thursday 19 April :00-8:00 Meet the Professor John Conly ( Infection control: past & future ) 8:00 Quran Recitation 8:20 Special Program 8:30 Panel Discussion: Hemorrhagic fevers Coordinator: Professor Batool Sharifi-Mood Panel Staff: Aniroda Broomand, Dr Ali Akbar Heydari Dr Mostafa Saleh Vaziri, Professor Farideh Akhlaghi Professor Maliheh Metanat 9:20-10:30 Comprehensive Lectures and Special Program Professor Mahmoud Panahi, Professor Mohammad Hadi Amirian Professor Mohammad Rahim Kadivar 9:20 Special program 9:30 Role of laboratory in the diagnosis of infectious diseases Professor Abdolvahab Alborzi 10:00 MRSA Professor John Conly 10:30 Break and Poster Visit Professor Mohammad Reza Bloursaz,Professor Ali Reza Modaresi Dr Hassan Motaghi Moghadam, Dr Hamid Farhangi MainHall

14 Thursday 19 April :00 Microbial resistance and new policies Dr Mohammad Mahdi Gouya 11:30 Antimicrobial resistance Dr Walter Zingg 12:00 Vaccination 12:30 Role of pollutants in infectious diseases 13:00 Pray & Lunch 14:00 Special program 14:10 Tuberculosis in children 14:30 Professor Mohammad Hosein Soltanzadeh Professor Mohammad Hadi Amirian Professor Mohammad Reza Bloursaz Panel Discussion: Proper administration of antibiotics in respiratory infections Coordinator: Dr Ali Reza Fahimzad Panel Staff: Dr Mohammad Javad Ghabouli, Dr Hamid Reza Sherkat Abbasiyeh Dr Ebrahim Sadeghi, Dr Abdolkarim Ghadimi Moghaddam Dr Abdolreza Malek, Dr Ali Khakshour 17:00 Closing Ceremony MainHall

15 Thursday 19 April :00-8:00 8:30 Meet the Professor Mohammad Rahim Kadivar Infectious diseases in children Panel Discussion: Role of microbiology laboratory in infection prevention program in hospitals Coordinator: Dr Gholamreza Pouladfar Panel Staff: Dr Freshteh Fani, Dr Bahman Pourabbas, Dr Saied Amel Jamehdar Dr Mohammad Javad Najafzadeh, Dr Amir Azimiyan Dr Hassan Ravansalar 9:30 Panel Discussion: Standard and isolation precautions Coordinator: Aniroda Broomand Panel Staff: Forough Mowla, Dr Roxana Mansour Ghanaie Dr Nooshin Peyman, Aazam Cheraghi, Mina Mostafavi 10:30 Break and Poster Visit 11:00-12:00 Comprehensive Lectures and Special Program Dr Seddighe Karbasi, Dr Ezat Khodashenas, Dr Maryam Khalesi 11:00 Infection control in dental Facilities, special focus on Dr Mehdi Norouzi blood-borne infections 11:30 Catheter-related infections Dr Walter Zingg Salon A2

16 Thursday 19 April :00 Panel Discussion: Infection control in natural disasters Coordinator: Professor Hamid Reza Khanke Panel Staff: Shahram Taherzadeh, Dr Mojtaba Ahmadi, Mojtaba Khaledi Dr saeed Givechi, Dr Fariba Shirvani, Seyed Khalil Monabati 13:00 Pray & Lunch 14:00 Panel Discussion: Catheter-related & dialysis infections Coordinator: Dr Anoosh Azarfar Panel Staff: Dr Farzaneh Sharifipour, Dr Marjan Joudi, Dr Jalal Mardaneh Dr Majid Sezavar, Dr Reza Boland Nazar, Dr Leila Sayadi Oral Presentations: (15:00-16:40) Professor Abdollah Banihashem, Dr Mehran Beiraghi Toosi Dr Leila Sayadi, Dr Jamshid Yousofi, Dr Mohammad Reza Naghibi 15:00 15:10 15:20 15:30 Crimean Congo hemorrhagic fever and a new differential diagnosis, An experience in south Eastern Iran Incidence of needle stick and sharp injuries among health care workers in Iran Evaluation of UV irradiation disinfecting efficacy under actual conditions in hospitals Microbial load of air in government and private hospitals in Qazvin city, Iran Mehrdad Farrokhnia Saeid Pasban Noghabi Kobra Salimiyan Rizi Mohadeseh Choubdar Salon A2

17 Thursday 19 April :40 15:50 Investigating the relationship between load and the number of particles in the air of selected sections (delivery block, operating room, CCU, ICUOH, SICU, NICU, angiography) in Razavi Hospital of Mashhad in 2015 Study of occupational exposure among healthcare workers Marzeh Sadat Mousavi Mahnaz Mohammadpouri Dr Shohreh Farshad, Dr Anahita Alizadeh Ghamsari Dr Peyman Eshraghi, Dr Hassan Golmakani 16:00 16:10 16:20 16:30 Survey water and fluid hemodialysis microbiological quality and risk of transmission nosocomial hospital infection Comparative Mutant Prevention Concentration (MPC) values of Meropenem, Gentamicin, Tigecycline and Ciprofloxacin Tested Against clinical isolates of E. Coli (Ec), Serratia spp. (Sp), Acinetobacter spp. (As), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (Pa) and Klebsiella spp (Ks) The Effect of influenza vaccination on workers absenteeism in hospital personnel in Iran Study of drug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii in Kermanshah Province, West of Iran Ghodratollah Karami Dr Shohreh Farshad Zahra Kharaghani Reza Hatami Moghadam Salon A2

18 Thursday 19 April 2018 Oral Presentations (15:00-16:20) Dr Mohsen Hori, Dr Ahmad Khalifesoltani Dr Saeed Abtahi, Dr Jalal Mardaneh 15:00 15:10 15:20 15:30 15:40 15:50 Reoccurrence of an acquired post infectious heart disease in north- east of Iran A survey on the knowledge and attitude of health care workers in Tabriz Sina hospital about influenza vaccine The survey of knowledge and practice of nurses in standard precautions to prevent nosocomial infections in hospitals of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences Survey the prevalence of plasmid-dependent beta-lactamase resistance genes in gramnegative bacteria (Acinetobacter, Proteus, Klebsiella and Escherichia coli) commonly present in Amir al-momenin Burns Hospital in Shiraz Study for monitoring of carbapenemresistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa Trends and Interventions from 2010 to 2017 in burn department of Shafa hospital, Kerman Evaluation of evidence-based patient management standards in the hospitals affiliated to Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran Dr Hassan Mottaghi Fariba Rasti Zahra Pashaei Nezhad Maryam Moradi Zohre Ashraf Ganjooie Azam Sadat Amini Salon A3

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