11.12.2025
Virtual session: Tardoc
Virtual lunch session:
Tardoc
December 11, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Tardoc
Barbara Hasse, University Hospital Zürich
Madeleine Rothen, Board member SSI
Virtual sessions are organised in collaboration with the Swiss Society for Infectious Diseases. Scientifc coordination is rotating between the centres.
Schedule: Every 3rd Thursday per month, 12:00-13:00
Programme coordination
2024: Geneva University Hospital, Laurent Kaiser
2025: Basel University Hospital, Richard A. Kühl
2025
27.11.2025
Virtual session: Antibiotic crisis - burden and strategies against antimicrobial resistance
Virtual lunch session:
Antibiotic crisis - burden and strategies against antimicrobial resistance
November 27, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Antibiotic crisis - burden and strategies against antimicrobial resistance
Speaker: Marlieke de Kraker, Geneva University
Moderator: Pending
23.10.2025
Virtual session: Corticosteroids in Tuberculosis: Indications, timing and duration
Virtual lunch session: Corticosteroids in Tuberculosis: Indications, timing and duration
October 23, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Corticosteroids in Tuberculosis: Indications, timing and duration
Speaker: Graeme Meintjes, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Moderator: Maja Weisser, University Hospital Basel
Slides
Webcast
21.08.2025
Virtual session: Update on vaccines in Switzerland
Virtual lunch session: Update on vaccines in Switzerland
August 21, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
150 participants
Update on vaccines in Switzerland
Speaker: Christoph T. Berger, Basel University Hospital
Moderator: Cornelia Staehelin, Inselspital Berne
19.06.2025
Virtual session: Metagenomics in infectious diseases
Virtual lunch session: Metagenomics in infectious diseases
June 19, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
76 participants
Metagenomics in infectious diseases
Speaker: Alban Ramette, Institute for Infectious Diseases, Berne University
Moderator: Claire Bertelli, CHUV Lausanne
15.05.2025
Virtual session: Diagnostics and new risk classifications in S. aureus bacteraemia
Virtual lunch session: Diagnostics and new risk classifications in S. aureus bacteraemia
May 15, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
125 participants
Diagnostics and new risk classifications in S. aureus bacteraemia
Speaker: Achim Kaasch, University Clinic Magdeburg, Germany
Moderator: Werner Albrich, Cantonal Hospital St. Gall
17.04.2025
Virtual session: Sex and Gender in infectious diseases
Virtual lunch session: Sex and Gender in infectious diseases
April 17, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
83 participants
Sex and Gender in infectious diseases
Speakers:
Irene Abela, Zurich University Hospital
Giu Schmid, Checkpoint Zurich
Moderator: Marie Ballif, Inselspital Berne
20.03.2025
Virtual session: Polio - update on a forgotten threat
Virtual lunch session: Polio - update on a forgotten threat
March 20, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
154 participants
Polio - update on a forgotten threat
Speaker: Rainer Gosert, Basel University Hospital
Moderator: Günter Dollenmaier, Zentrum für Labormedizin St. Gallen
20.02.2025
Virtual session: Prevention of surgical site infections - old wisdom and new evidence
Virtual lunch session: Prevention of surgical site infections - old wisdom and new evidence
February 20, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
135 participants
Prevention of surgical site infections - old wisdom and new evidence
13.02.2025
Virtual session special: MDR Gram negatives: an insight from bed to bench and back
Virtual session special
12.00-12:45
Registration closed
131 participants
MDR Gram negatives: an insight from bed to bench and back
2024
21.11.2024
Virtual session: Antiviral treatments for influenza: an update
Virtual lunch session: Antiviral treatments for influenza: an update
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
109 participants
Antiviral treatments for influenza: an update
17.10.2024
Virtual session: Update on the Management of Infected Intravascular Catheters
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
120 participants
Update on the Management of Infected Intravascular Catheters
Niccolò Buetti, Geneva University Hospital
Moderator Sarah Tschudin Sutter, Basel University Hospital
19.09.2024
Virtual session: Treatment of Multi-Drug Resistant Gram-Negative Infections: What are the Guidelines telling us?
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
119 participants
Virtual session: Treatment of Multi-Drug Resistant Gram-Negative Infections: What are the Guidelines telling us?
20.06.2024
Virtual session: Mycoplasma pneumoniae: re-emergence with a new face
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
130 participants
Mycoplasma pneumoniae: re-emergence with a new face
Patrick Meyer-Sauteur, University Children Hospital Zurich
Moderator Stefan Kuster, Cantonal Hospital St. Gallen
18.04.2024
Virtual session: RSV vaccination and prevention: an update on recent progress
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
97 participants
RSV vaccination and prevention: an update on recent progress
21.03.2024
Virtual session: ANRESIS, an update
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
124 participants
ANRESIS, an update
14.03.2024
Virtual session special: MDR Gram negatives: an insight from bed to bench and back
Virtual lunch session special
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
138 participants
MDR Gram negatives: an insight from bed to bench and back
15.02.2024
Virtual session: Fever in the returning traveler
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
129 participants
Fever in the returning traveler
2023
16.11.2023
Virtual session; If, when and how to use rifampicin in patients with PJI
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
129 participants
If, when and how to use rifampicin in patients with PJI
Marjan Wouthuyzen-Bakker, University of Groningen, NL
Moderator: Barbara Hasse, Zurich University Hospital
12.10.2023
Virtual session; STI and current diagnostic and therapeutic concepts
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
92 participants
STI and current diagnostic and therapeutic concepts
Speaker: Dominique L. Braun, Zurich University Hospital
Moderator: Gilles Wandeler, Inselspital Berne
17.08.2023
BK Polyomavirus – One virus, three signature diseases, and what should be done about it
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
88 participants
BK Polyomavirus – One virus, three signature diseases, and what should be done about it
25.05.2023
Vaccination in immunocompromised patients
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
83 participants
Vaccination in immunocompromised patients
Prof. Arnaud Didierlaurent, Geneva University Hospital
Moderator Irene Abela, Zurich University Hospital
20.04.2023
Delafloxacin from bench to bed compared to older fluoroquinolones: potency, drawbacks and possible clinical applications
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
106 participants
Delafloxacin from bench to bed compared to older fluoroquinolones: potency, drawbacks and possible clinical applications
2022
01.12.2022
Digital microbiology: a revolution in the diagnostics lab
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
92 participants
Digital microbiology: a revolution in the diagnostics lab
27.10.2022
Update on Hepatitis Delta
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
94 participants
Update on Hepatitis Delta
Prof Francesco Negro, Geneva University Hospital
Moderator Laurent Kaiser, Geneva University Hospital
25.08.2022
Sepsis: progressing on a long winding road
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
116 participants
Sepsis: progressing on a long winding road
23.06.2022
New antibiotics for MDR organisms
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
119 participants
New antibiotics for MDR organisms
19.05.2022
CAR-T cells: Infectious disease implications
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
111 participants
CAR-T cells: Infectious disease implications
Dionysios Neofytos, Geneva University Hospital
Moderator: Christian van Delden, Geneva University Hospital
28.04.2022
Antiretroviral therapy 2022 and beyond: the future looks bright
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
133 participants
Antiretroviral therapy 2022 and beyond: the future looks bright.
PD Dr Dominique Braun, Zurich University Hospital
Moderator Enos Bernasconi, Lugano University Hospital
24.03.2022
Innovative therapeutic strategies for Covid-19 and influenza
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
120 participants
Innovative therapeutic strategies for Covid-19 and influenza
Susanne Herold, German Centre for Infection Research, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Moderator Roberto Speck, Zürich University Hospital