Webinars

 
In this webinar, participants will:

• Gain insights into how the rapid results from the Blood Culture Identification (BCID) panels have improved patient outcomes and reduced healthcare costs.
• Understand how the BCID panels helped to reduce healthcare worker time and increased their safety during the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Assess the analytical performance of all three of the ePlex BCID Panels for the rapid identification of gram-negative, gram-positive and fungal pathogens.

Featured Speaker

Professor Boyle is a consultant microbiologist at St. James’s Hospital and a clinical associate professor at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland. She is currently secretary of the European Union Committee of Medical Specialists in the Section of Medical Microbiology and treasurer of the European Union Committee of Medical Specialists (Multidisciplinary Joint Committee in Infection Control).

Professor Boyle’s main research interests are healthcare associated infection including aspects of prevention and economics of healthcare associated infection. She has published and presented internationally on a wide range of clinical microbiology topics including: infection therapeutics, MDROs, Helicobacter pylori, Clostriodioidies difficile, zoonosis, antimicrobial diagnostic stewardship and translational microbiology, reflecting her busy clinical practice.