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Best wishes to our colleague Patrick Patrick Stapleton on his new joint chair position UCC Ireland in clinical microbiology and consultant post in CUH. Our huge loss is their tremendous gain. A massive thank you for everything. Follow @HSEMidWest Irish Society of Clinical Microbiologists Sandra Broderick

Dr Brian O’Connell & Dr Anna Rose-Prior, Consultant Microbiologists in the Dublin and Midlands RHA share some of the challenges of clinical microbiology. #AMRIC #AMRICKeepIPCWorking HSE Dublin and Midlands Department of Public Health-HSE Dublin & Midlands PatientsForPatientSafetyIreland HSE Ireland Tallaght University Hospital (TUH) St James's Hospital SSIS@TUH

A great day at the final AMRIC regional meeting. Lots of shared learning with our community colleagues

We are delighted to announce the launch of a new part of our website, Lives of the Fellows, celebrating the first female Fellows of the College, starting with Dr Mary Hearn who was admitted 100 years ago in 1924. heritage.rcpi.ie/Projects/Lives…

We're keeping warm in the wintertime by thinking of ESCMID Summer School. Attendance grant applications are closing soon on 31 December for this highlight event in the ESCMID Education Programme. Don't miss out on the opportunity! ow.ly/p0Tc50UquEI

Dr Tee Kate Teoh from the Public Heath Laboratory, Cherryorchard Hospital & St James's Hospital is now providing Insights into the epidemiology and spread of C.diff in Ireland #FocusOnInfection2025 #FOI2025 Trinity College Dublin School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin TTMI - Trinity Translational Medicine Institute #TCDClinicalMicrobiology

Tomorrow at 5.30pm we will host a webinar for penultimate or final-year HST trainees preparing to apply for a consultant role! Join for an engaging and insightful webinar designed to guide you through your next step-The Consultant Post. Register now: tinyurl.com/Model3ConW #NCHD

#HotOffThePress Implementation of carbapenem-sparing strategies are crucial to maintain their clinical utility and combat antimicrobial resistance #AMR #AntimicrobialStewardship #ClinicalMicrobiology 🦠🔬💊 Microbiology Society doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.…

A very interesting paper with some familiar names on the authorship! Congratulations to all involved. This certainly provides food for thought regarding susceptibility testing and prescribing of some less utilised antibiotics in lieu of carbapenems.

Interested in working in clinical microbiology? We'd recommend it! Our Lady of Lourdes, Drogheda have a one year registrar post available from July. Details in link hse.ie/eng/staff/jobs…

We are very excited for RCPI Faculty of Pathology's Annual Symposium this week. The symposium ends with some important presentations. Book now 👉 web-eur.cvent.com/event/506b353a…

Next up Royal College of Physicians of Ireland one of our SpRs presenting on a CPE outbreak with the use of molecular information to help inform outbreak management

Well done to our SpR Dr Sarah Kenny who was awarded the John ODowd medal for her QI project 👏 Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

Another microbiology medal winner! Big congrats to Dr AnneMarie Dolan on being awarded the George Greene medal Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

Huge congratulations to Prod Hilary Humphreys RCSI Clinical Microbiology who was award the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Dr Paula Cotter Medal for his outstanding contribution to pathological practice both in Ireland and internationally. So well deserved!

Irish Society of Clinical Microbiologists Great mtg yday held in Royal Marine Hotel Dun Laoighre. Interesting talks on CPE & hospital design by Prof M Cormican, Dr Manjula Meda and Prof Margreet Vos.

Late posting! But great spring meeting on Friday. Thanks to our SpRs & external speakers for wonderful presentations - lots of food for thought. Thanks to attendees for insightful discussions. And a huge selection of posters on display! See you in the autumn!

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Well done to our SpR Royal College of Physicians of Ireland Dr Zac Ramsamaroo for a great poster presentation at Oxford Bone Infection Conference. Really NB to consider the utility of molecular diagnostics and use them appropriately Vivien

Also wonderful to meet and catch up with some of our Irish colleagues in other specialities here at OBIC - plastics, Infectious Diseases Society of Ireland , ortho. Multidisciplinary engagement key to managing these complex infections