Scientific program

14.30-16.00  Registration open (coffee)

16.00-16.10 Opening words

16.10-17.00
Session 1: Climate change – a medical and infectious disease threat also in the Nordics
Chair: Asko Järvinen (FIN, ID) and Annika Ljung (SWE, CM)

Lecture 1:Climate change Petteri Taalas (FIN)

Lecture 2: Climate change and Infectious Diseases  Jan C. Semenza (SWE)

17.00-17.30 Exhibition with coffee

17.30-18.30
Session 2: Emerging environmental health risks
Chair: Harri Marttila (FIN, ID) and Hans Linde Nielsen (DEN, CM)

Lecture 1: Overview of epidemiology and current trends of Legionnaires’ disease in the Nordics, Silja Mentula (FIN)

Lecture 2: Cryptosporidiosis Kurt Hanevik (NO)

19.00-21.00 
Welcome reception at the Pommern Museum 
Location: Sjöpromenaden, 2 Hamngatan, Mariehamn
(this activity is not sponsored by our industrial representativies)

08.00-09.30             
Session 3: Antibiotics – choice, administration and dosing
Chair: Harri Marttila (FIN, ID) and Mette Damkjær Bartels (DEN, CM)

Lecture 1: Therapeutic drug monitoring in critically ill patients, Anna-Karin Smekal (SWE)

Lecture 2: Continuous antibiotic therapy in the outpatient setting – practical considerations, Niklas Broman (FIN)

Lecture 3: Overestimating of mild and neglecting serious antibiotic reactions, Sigurdur Kristjansson (IS)

9.30-10.00  Exhibition with coffee

10.00-11.00  
Gold sponsor symposium - Shionogi

11.00-12.00
Session 4: AMR surveillance
Chair: Marjaana Pitkäpaasi (FIN, ID) and Antti Hakanen (FIN, CM)

Lecture 1: Is it time for AMR surveillance 2.0?  Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Tromsø (NO)
Comments: Reetta Huttunen (FIN) and Anders Johansson (SWE)
Panel discussion: Gunnar Skov Simonsen, Tromsø (NO), Reetta Huttunen (FIN) and Anders Johansson (SWE)

12.00-13.00
Exhibition with lunch

13.00-14.00
Poster session

14.00-14.30
Silver sponsor symposium - CSL Seqirus
Are Standard Vaccines Enough? Rethinking Influenza Protection in Older Adults
Chair: Professor Terho Heikkinen, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Turku, FIN

Speaker: Professor Tino F. Schwarz, Head of the Institute of Laboratory Medicine and Vaccination Centre at the Klinikum Wuerzburg Mitte, Campus Juliusspital, Academic Teaching Hospital of the University of Wuerzburg, Germany

14.30- 15.30
Session 5: Complications of hematogenously spreading infections
Chair: Paula Tähtinen (FIN, CID) and Truls Michael Leegaard (NOR, CM)

Lecture 1: Treatment of Children’s bone infections, when do we need intravenous antibiotics?, Allan Nielsen (DEN)

Lecture 2: Hematological spread of oral microbiota – empyema and brain abscesses as part of the same entity, Øyvind Kommedal (NO)

15.30-16.00
Exhibition with coffee

16.00-16.45 
Session 6: Tick borne diseases
Chair: Marika Nordberg (FIN, ID) and Valtýr Stefánsson Thors (IS, CID)

Lecture 1 Tick-borne diseases in the Nordics – epidemiology, Jukka Hytönen (FIN)

Lecture 2: Clinical picture and diagnostics of emerging tick-borne diseases in the Nordics, Johanna Sjöwall (SWE)

16.45-17.30
Honorary lecture
Chair: Antti Hakanen (FIN, CM)

Jaana Vuopio (FIN)

08.00-08.30
NSCMID General assembly

08.30-10.00
Session 7:Diagnostic stewardship in the battle of AMR  - in collaboration with NordicAST
Chair: Antti Hakanen (FIN, CM) and Lena Rós Ásmundsdóttir (IS,CM)

Lecture 1:         How can the microbiological laboratories play a key role in the work against AMR, Anna-Karin Smekal (SWE)

Lecture 2:         (When do we need) rapid antimicrobial susceptibility testing in Nordics?, Oskar Ekelund (SWE)

Lecture 3:         How does reporting practices of wound swap cultures effect antibiotic use in the clinic. Different practices in the Nordics, Anu Pätäri-Sampo (FIN)

10.00-10.30         
Exhibition with coffee

10.30-11.30 
Gold sponsor symposium - Pfizer
The burden of RSV in infants and overview of the current situation
Chair: Harri Marttila, MD, PhD, Turku University Hospital, FIN

Current status of RSV in infants / Terho Heikkinen, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Turku, FIN

Pediatric RSV insights across the Nordic countries – a panel discussion 

Thea Kølsen Fischer, Research director, Professor, Nordsjællands Hospital, DEN

Samuel Rhedin, MD, Associate professor, Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Sweden and Sachs’ Children and Youth Hospital Stockholm, SWE

Terho Heikkinen, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Turku, FIN

11.30-12.00  Session 8 : Covid
Chair: Asko Järvinen (FIN, ID)

Lecture: Origin of SARS-CoV-2, Thea Kølsen Fischer (DEN)             

12.00-13.00
Exhibition with lunch

13.00-13.30
Silver sponsor symposium (To be announced)

13.30- 14.45
Session 9: Invited early career scientists 15 min x 5
Chair: Jukka Hytönen (FIN, CM) and Valtýr Stefánsson Thors (IS, CID)?

Lecture 1 (DK): Chosen from abstracts

Lecture 2 (FIN): Chosen from abstracts

Lecture 3 (IS): Chosen from abstracts

 Lecture 4 (NO): Chosen from abstracts

Lecture 5 (SWE): Chosen from abstracts

14.45-15.15
Exhibition and coffee

15.15-16.45
Session 10: Preparedness for new pandemics  - in collaboration with NSCMID High level isolation group
Chair: Olli-Pekka Lehtonen (FIN, CM) and Ole Schmeltz Søgaard (DEN, ID)

Lecture 1:  High Consequence Infectious Diseases - What are they? Jake Dunning (UK)

Lecture 2: High level isolation collaboration in the Nordics, Arne Broch Brantsæter (NO) and David Ekqvist (SWE)

9.00-10.30
Session 11: Recent epidemics
Chair: Paula Tähtinen (FIN, CID) and Ingrid Hoff (NOR, ID)

Lecture 1:  Severe adenovirus 7 infection outbreak in the Finnish military,  Marjaana Pitkäpaasi (FIN)

Lecture 2: Parvovirus B19 epidemic in pregnant women, Maria Wessman (DEN)

Lecture 3: Bordetella Pertussis, Qiushui He (FIN)

10.30-11.00                         
Exhibition with coffee

11.00-13.00
Session 12: HOT TOPICS
Chair: Asko Järvinen (FIN, ID) and Magnus Rasmussen (SWE, ID)

Lecture 1:What is hot in FMT and gut microbiota, Eveliina Munukka (FIN)

Lecture 2: Is flucloxacillin out – toxic and less effective? Thomas Benfield (DEN)

Lecture 3: Viral health threats, Heli Harvala (FIN)

Lecture 4:  Long-covid, Judith Bruchfeld (SWE)

13.00-13.10
Closing remarks and welcome to NSCMID 2026 
Antti Hakanen and Mette Damkjær Bartels

13.10
Take away lunch