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
Conference Overview
- 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.
Agenda
Monday, May 12, 2025
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00am | Check-In and Breakfast | |
| 9:00am | Welcome | Dean Kathryn Meurs Dr. Erin Frey |
| 9:15am | Keynote | Fergus Allerton, BVSc, CertSAM, DipECVIM-CA, FRCVS |
| 10:00am | 2023 Workshop Review and Working Group Updates | |
| 11:00am | Break | |
| 11:15am | Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Progress and Barriers Lightning Talks | |
| 11:45am | Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs: Advancing Priorities Discussion | |
| 12:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm | Research: Progress Barriers and Lightning Talks | |
| 2:00pm | Research: Advancing Research Discussion | |
| 2:45pm | Break | |
| 3:00pm | Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum: Progress and Barriers Lightning Talks | |
| 3:30pm | Antimicrobial Stewardship Curriculum: Advancing Priorities Discussion | |
| 4:15pm | Day 1 Debrief | |
| 4:30pm | Poster Session Ice Cream Social and Optional Small Animal Hospital Tour |
Tuesday, May 13, 2025
| Time | Topic | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 7:30am | Breakfast | |
| 8:00am | Welcome | |
| 8:05am | Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales (CRE): Background and Discussion-Based Case Study | |
| 9:00am | CRE Happened to Me: Perspectives from Hospitals Encountering CRE | |
| 10:00am | Break | |
| 10:15am | Operationalizing Infection Prevention and Control | |
| 11:15am | Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology Update | |
| 11:30am | Working Group Tasking for Next Steps | |
| 12:00pm | Adjourn |
Registration
$50.00 – Includes 2 breakfasts & 2 lunches
Location and Lodging
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
