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2025 Companion Animal Antimicrobial Stewardship Workshop

May 12-13, 2025 Raleigh, North Carolina

This represents the second meeting of companion animal antimicrobial stewards and provides an important opportunity to develop strategies for cohesive and collaborative efforts moving forward. Attendees will build upon progress made towards previously identified challenges and opportunities within companion animal antimicrobial stewardship with three main areas of focus:

  • Hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs
  • Research opportunities and needs
  • Antimicrobial stewardship curriculum
  • Who: Representatives from veterinary schools and key partners
  • What: A one-and-a-half day, in-person companion animal antimicrobial stewardship workshop. Topics will include working group updates, including progress made and challenges to implementation of hospital antimicrobial stewardship programs, research opportunities and needs, and antimicrobial stewardship curriculum. A half day will be focused on infection prevention and control using carbapenem-resistant organisms as a model.
  • When: May 12–13, 2025
  • Where: College of Veterinary Medicine at NC State University. (Raleigh, North Carolina)
  • Contact: This workshop is hosted by North Carolina State University, the University of Minnesota, Tufts University, and the Ohio State University. Email ceregistration@ncsu.edu with questions or concerns.

Monday, May 12, 2025

TimeTopicPresenter
8:00amCheck-In and Breakfast
9:00amWelcomeDean Kathryn Meurs
Dr. Erin Frey
9:15amKeynoteFergus Allerton, BVSc, CertSAM, DipECVIM-CA, FRCVS
10:00am2023 Workshop Review and Working Group Updates
11:00amBreak
11:15amAntimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Progress and Barriers Lightning Talks
11:45amAntimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Advancing Priorities Discussion
12:30pmLunch
1:30pmResearch: Progress Barriers and Lightning Talks
2:00pmResearch: Advancing Research Discussion
2:45pmBreak
3:00pmAntimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum: Progress and Barriers Lightning Talks
3:30pmAntimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum: Advancing Priorities Discussion
4:15pmDay 1 Debrief
4:30pmPoster Session Ice Cream Social and Optional Small Animal Hospital Tour

Tuesday, May 13, 2025

TimeTopicPresenter
7:30amBreakfast
8:00amWelcome
8:05amCarbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE): Background and Discussion-Based Case Study
9:00amCRE Happened to Me: Perspectives from Hospitals Encountering CRE
10:00amBreak
10:15amOperationalizing Infection Prevention and Control
11:15amAssociation for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Update
11:30amWorking Group Tasking for Next Steps
12:00pmAdjourn

$50.00 – Includes 2 breakfasts & 2 lunches

2 options for lodging with Workshop rates

Aloft Raleigh 2100 Hillsborough St, Raleigh, NC 27607

Group Rate: $189 night + tax.

Set in the heart of Raleigh, the hotel is across from NC State University. There is a free Wolfline Bus stop one block away that will take you to and from the Workshop (Route 60)

Hilton Garden Inn Raleigh /Crabtree Valley 3912 Arrow Drive  Raleigh, NC 27612

Group Rate: $169 night + tax

Next to the Crabtree Valley Mall, by the intersection of I-440 and Highway 70. The hotel offers a free shuttle to and from the workshop as well as local restaurants

Extend your stay in Raleigh and join CAAMS at the 2025 NIAMRRE Conference May 13-15, directly following the 2025 Companion Animal Antimicrobial Stewardship Workshop. CAAMS workshop attendees save $50 on non-member pricing and NIAMRRE members save 10% through March 1 when registering for the NIAMRRE Conference. Contact events@niamrre.org with questions.

Thank you to our sponsors!