Conference
Challenges in Addressing the Issue of Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) in Lithuania
Agenda
27 October 2016
Hotel Crowne Plaza Vilnius
K. Čiurlionio str. 84, Vilnius
| 9.00 – 9.30 | Registration of participants. Coffee |
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Chair: Dr. Vidmantas Paulauskas, Deputy Director of the State Food and Veterinary Service
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| 9.30 – 10.00 | Opening of the Conference. Welcoming address
Vytenis Povilas Andriukaitis, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety Virginija Baltraitienė, Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania Dr. Audronė Astrauskienė, Deputy Director of the Public Health Supervision Department in the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Lithuania Darius Remeika, Representative of Chamber of Agriculture of the Republic of Lithuania Deividas Kliučinskas, Acting Director of the State Food and Veterinary Service
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| 10.00 – 10.10 | AMR situation in Europe, strategy and vision
Dr. Koen Van Dyck, Directorate General for Health and Food Safety of the European Commission, Head of Unit D3 – Bilateral International Relations
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| 10.10 – 10.30 | Responsible use of antibiotics
Dr. Rafael Laguens, President of the Federation of Veterinarians of Europe
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| 10.30 – 11.00 | Scientific risk assessment in the field of AMR and raising public awareness
Dr. Ernesto Liebana Criado, European Food Safety Authority, Team Leader in the Biological Hazards and Contaminants Unit
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| 11.00 – 11.20 | Coffee break
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| 11.20 – 11.40 | AMR situation in the human health sector
Prof. dr. Saulius Čaplinskas, Director of the Centre for Communicable Diseases and AIDS
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| 11.40 – 12.00 | Source related antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni strains in Lithuania
Prof. dr. Mindaugas Malakauskas, Head of Food Safety and Quality Department at the Veterinary Academy under the Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
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| 12.00 – 13.30 | Lunch |
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Chair: Deividas Kliučinskas, Acting Director of the State Food and Veterinary Service |
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| 13.30 – 13.50 | Reducing usage of antimicrobials in livestock: the Dutch approach
Dr. Hetty van Beers-Schreurs, Director of the Netherlands Veterinary Medicines Authority
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| 13.50 – 14.10 | From stable to table – the AMR situation in the field of animal health
Dr. Vidmantas Paulauskas, Deputy Director of the State Food and Veterinary Service
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| 14.10 – 14.30 | Guidelines for the use of antibiotics for milking cows in Denmark
Dr. Audrius Furmonavičius, an independent veterinary expert
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| 14.30 – 14.50 | Scientific research in the field of resistance of bacteria to antibiotics
Dr. Modestas Ružauskas, Senior Research Fellow at the Microbiological Research Laboratory of Institute of Microbiology and Virology under Lithuanian University of Health Sciences
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| 14.50 – 15.10 | Practical experience, challenges
Dr. Sigitas Japertas, Lithuanian Veterinary Association/ Šarūnas Badaras, Representative of Lithuanian Pig Producers’ Association
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| 15.10 – 15.30 | Practical experience, challenges
Viktoras Žebelovičius, KG Group/ Dr. Arūnas Rutkauskas, President of the Lithuanian Organic Beef Cattle Farmers’ Association.
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| 15.30 – 15.40 | Practical experience, challenges
Dr. Saulius Petkevičius, Member of World’s Poultry Science Association, Member of the Board JSC “Putnu fabrika Kekava” |
| 15.40 – 16.00 | Questions – answers
Summarising (Wrap up) |
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