Clean Hospitals Day International Conference
20 October 2022
Geneva, Switzerland
20 October 2022 (8:00 - 20:30)
Venue
Crowne Plaza Geneva
Only a 10 minute walk from Geneva Airport
Audience
Designed for infection prevention and control specialists, healthcare engineers, hospital managers, environmental hygiene specialists, cleaning service staff.
08:00 Welcome Coffee & Visit of the Exhibition
08:45 Session 1: Environmental Control
Moderators: Nahimana Tessemo (CH), Didier Pittet (CH)
- Healthcare surfaces: how clean is clean ? – Stephanie Dancer (United Kingdom)
- Evolution of biocide standards and regulations: a few clouds on the horizon? – Claire Khosravi, Karen Wares, Ellie Wishart (Clean Hospitals partners)
- True sustainability: the only way forward – Tracey Gauci (United Kingdom)
- Round table discussion
10:35 Coffee & Visit of the Exhibition
11:05 Session 2: The Healthcare Environmental Hygiene Self-Assessment Framework (HEHSAF)
Moderators: Ermira Tartari (MT), Pierre Parneix (FR)
- HEHSAF: surveys, tools and the transposable model – Alexandra Peters (Clean Hospitals)
- A deep dive into the Geneva model for environmental hygiene – Marie-Céline Zanella (Switzerland)
- Round table discussion
12:25 – 13:40 Lunch & Visit of the Exhibition & Parallel Company Symposia
12:30 Saraya symposium: Hand & environmental hygiene: How emergencies such as Covid-19 change the context of infection prevention & control
- Introduction “Addressing HCW behavior during the pandemic: from fear to fatalism – Mohamed Abbas (Switzerland)
- The blessing and curse of medical gloves in healthcare facilities, and the Covid hand hygiene compliance paradox – Ojan Assadian (Austria)
- The fear of ‘chemicals’: appropriate use and how to foster institutional legitimacy – Alexandra Peters (Switzerland)
12:30 Essity symposium: The future of hospital cleaning training. How virtual reality and interactive cleaning training can make a difference
- Different approaches to training hospital staff in Hand Hygiene – Carolina Fankhauser-Rodriguez (Switzerland)
- Behavioral change insights on how to make training more engaging and effective. How can interactive training improve environmental cleaning practices? – Jenny Logenius (Sweden)
- Can virtual reality make hospitals safer? – Hanna Bartnicka (Poland)
- Live demonstration of the virtual reality and Interactive trainings
12:30 B. Braun symposium: “Helimatic Performance qualification” Tool by B.Braun, a new way of challenging device for automated reprocessing of medical devices
- Dr. Heiko Henze – Manager Product Development @ B.Braun
- Carlos da Silva – Vice President @ B.Braun
13:40 Session 3: Medical Device Reprocessing
- Guidelines for validation: new European guidelines – Harry Oussoren (Netherlands)
- Example of national adaptation: the ‘Swiss checklist’ – Hervé Ney (Switzerland)
- Challenges and strategies for endoscope reprocessing – Jean-Louis Frossard (Switzerland)
- Round table discussion
15:30 Coffee & Visit of the Exhibition and Parallel sponsored mini-symposia
15:40 Sanitized mini-symposium: Antimicrobial surfaces in a clinical setting – The next step to maintain a hygienic environment in healthcare applications
- Alexandra Peters (Switzerland)
- Frédéric Loyrion (Switzerland)
15:40 The Interclean Group mini-symposium
- Programme to be coming soon
16:15 Session 4: Air and Water Control
- Real-life experiences of controlling Legionella in healthcare – Sara Romano Bertrand (France)
- Air control during construction in hospitals – Emmanuel Vanoli & Cyril Crawford (France)
- Round table discussion
17:35 Closing remarks
17:55 Clean Hospitals Day Get Together
19:30 Clean Hospitals Day Webber Teleclass
Registration includes access to:
- All scientific sessions and sponsored activities
- Lunch and coffee breaks
- Exhibition
Registration categories
Category
Early Bird Fee Until 5 September 2022
Regular Fee Until 5 October 2022
Late Fee From 6 October 2022
Participant
CHF 180
CHF 215
CHF 280
Low-income country
CHF 60
CHF 80
CHF 100
Lower-middle-income country
CHF 120
CHF 150
CHF 180
Nurse
CHF 140
CHF 165
CHF 190
Student / trainee
CHF 60
CHF 80
CHF 100
Industry
CHF 250
CHF 300
CHF 390
Become a partner
We are offering a broad range of excellent opportunities for you to partner with Clean Hospitals, so that you can highlight your brand and products to a targeted audience of +200 participants with interests in all areas of healthcare environmental hygiene.
Please note that all exhibition and sponsorship opportunities are allocated on a 1st come, 1st served basis.
For further information, please contact:
Coralie Deleage
Exhibition & Sponsorship Manager
MCI Suisse SA
Tel: +41 22 33 99 673
Email: coralie.deleage@wearemci.com
Audience
Licensed in biology and in management of health services, engineer-master in management, master degree in law in Executive Management and Strategy of organizations sanitary and social,
Holder of a university diploma in sterilization (DIU Lyon - Grenoble – France).
President of the SSSH (Swiss Society for Sterile Supply),
Teacher for the courses level 1, 2, 3, university diploma of sterilization, and for management courses.
Treasurer of the WFHSS since October 2014.
Treasurer of Clean Hospital Project
Expert - auditor in sterilization in the county of Geneva for the executive body.
Editor for sterilisation magazine
Her field of research is dedicated to hydric pathogens and associated bacterial communities in hospital water networks to better prevent patients from a contamination. Conversely to true bacterial pathogens that accord with the Koch’s postulate, the study of opportunistic infections including healthcare-associated infections, require to consider both opportunistic pathogens responsible for the infection, its natural reservoir and the microbial-associated communities. This intricate consideration of the opportunistic infection is based on the concept of the “pathobiome”, which integrates the complex interactions between microorganisms and considers opportunistic bacteria within its microbial community, within its hosts and its environment, in the pathologic context, in order to explain the occurrence of the infection.
He had the opportunity to work on various projects including aerodynamics, aeroacoustics and thermal simulations for several industries such rail, industrial equipment and aerospace. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, he had initiated collaborations with hospitals and used his expertise in CFD simulations for particle propagation issues.
His work with French hospitals has been published in reference journals (Scientific Reports, AJRCCM, Environment International) and raised the influence on environmental parameters on both air and surface contaminations. He is now leading a 3 years collaborative project with APHP named PRISMES with the objective to create a numerical platform aimed at a better diagnostic and mitigation of airborne transmission risk within a hospital by combining virtual twin, simulation & awareness of healthcare workers.
Ellie has a degree in Microbiology from University College Dublin, Ireland and has worked as Microbiology Laboratory Manager and Life Sciences & Medical Device Cleanroom consultant in previous roles.
Ellie has published on various topics, such as resistance to antiseptics & disinfectants, pre-operative skin disinfection, surgical hand antisepsis and environmental cleaning in the OR.