March 2017: Annual meeting, Leeds

The 2017 annual meeting took place on Thursday 16th March 2017 in Leeds.

Copies of presentation visual aids are available via links below. A printable meeting poster is available for download.

Programme

• 1000: Welcome
• 1015: HOODINI: Summary of the HOODINI study (NITCAR’s first collaborative project)
  Dr Damian Mawer, Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
  (Visual aids for this session are not available, as there will be a more full presentation at ECCMID 2017.)
• 1030: Critical Appraisal: preparing for the FRCPath critical appraisal exam
  Dr Miles Denton. Consultant Microbiologist Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, Lead Public Health Microbiologist, Yorkshire & The Humber Region, Health Protection Agency (and Critical Appraisal Examiner 2014).
• 1120: FRCPath Statistics: Are there enough patients? Is there a difference?
  Neil Corrigan, Senior Medical Statistician, Clinical Trials Research Unit, Leeds Institute of Clinical Trials Research, University of Leeds
• 1200: Lunch: Lunch provided
• 1230: AGM: NITCAR selection of officers
• 1315: Ongoing NITCAR projects: Complicated intra-abdominal infection, Hepatitis C virus, Vertebral osteomyelitis
• 1330: How NITCAR can support your project
• 1345: Some thoughts about setting a project up
  Dr Damian Mawer, Consultant in Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, York Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
• 1400: Project proposals
• 1500: Project selection
• 1530: Close