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
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
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
Virtual lunch session: Update on vaccines in Switzerland
August 21, 2025; 12:00-12:45
Update on vaccines in Switzerland
Speaker: Christoph T. Berger, Basel University Hospital
Moderator: Cornelia Staehelin, Inselspital Berne
Slides
Webcast
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
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
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
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
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
Virtual session special
12.00-12:45
Registration closed
131 participants
MDR Gram negatives: an insight from bed to bench and back
Virtual lunch session: Antiviral treatments for influenza: an update
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
109 participants
Antiviral treatments for influenza: an update
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
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?
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
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
97 participants
RSV vaccination and prevention: an update on recent progress
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
124 participants
ANRESIS, an update
Virtual lunch session special
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
138 participants
MDR Gram negatives: an insight from bed to bench and back
Virtual lunch session
12:00-12:45
Registration closed
129 participants
Fever in the returning traveler
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
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
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
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
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
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
92 participants
Digital microbiology: a revolution in the diagnostics lab
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
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
116 participants
Sepsis: progressing on a long winding road
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
Registration closed
119 participants
New antibiotics for MDR organisms
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
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
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
Virtual Zoom Session, 12:00-12:45
91 participants