Established in 1980 through a donation generously provided by Dr Jos Kelsey to enable a guest lecturer of international reputation to be invited to speak at the CSC Conference annually. The Kelsey fund is now maintained by the CSC.
The first Kelsey Lecturer was Dr P Makela, Helsinki, at the Keele Conference in 1982 on the topic of “Some Problems in Field Evaluation of Hand Disinfection. There are some years since the lecture was established where a lecture was not delivered for various reasons. The following is the history of lectures where information was available for collation.
# | year | dates | Location | Kelsey Lecturer | title |
22nd | 1980 | 16th to 18th April | University Newcastle | Kelsey Lectureship established | |
24th | 1982 | 23rd to 26th March | University of Keele | 1st Dr P Makela, Finland | Some problems in field evaluation of hand disinfection |
25th | 1983 | 18th to 20th April | Bath | 2nd Prof B Birgitta Nilehn, Sweden | Role of the Environment in Hospital Infections – Design of CSSD |
26th | 1984 | 4th to 6th April | Univ Nottingham | 3rd Dr WA Wahba, WHO Copenhagen | Hospital Acquired Infection – The Role of the World Health Organisation.” |
27th | 1985 | 27 to 29th | King Alfred’s, Winchester | Miss Sheila Scott Department of Health, UK | Sterile Supply – Past, present and future |
28th | 1986 | 15th to 17th April | Cardiff | Dr J Ferreres | A coordinated approach to infection control surveillance |
29th | 1987 | 24th to 26th March | Univ Warwick | Dr B Nystronm | Evaluation of standards for washing/heat disinfection Processes. |
30th | 1988 | NO PROGRAMME | Portsmouth | ||
31st | 1989 | NO PROGRAMME | Leeds | ||
32nd | 1990 | 2nd to 4th April | Univ East Anglia | Dr Dan Janssen | Monitoring and control of steam and ETO -a global view |
33rd | 1991 | 11th to 13th April | Edinburgh | Dr DM Taylor | Inactivation of slow viruses including CJD |
34th | 1992 | 7th + 8th April | Solihull Birmingham – Joint conference with ICNA & ISSM | Barry Collins Memorial lecture by Prof F Daschner | Epidemiology Topic |
35th | 1993 | UMIST Manchester | Barry Collins Memorial lecture by Prof H G Sonntag, Germany | ||
36th | 1994 | Blackpool | |||
37th | 1995 | No Conference | |||
38th | 1996 | 8th + 9th May | Eastwood Park, Gloucestershire | No Kelsey Lecture | |
39th | 1997 | 14th to 16th April | Univ Birmingham | Prof Walter Koller | Cleaning and Disinfection by use of machines |
40th | 1998 | 20-22 April | Birmingham | Dr Juhani Ojarjavi | Hand washing |
41st | 1999 | 12th to 14th April, | Belfast | Prof Arderne Forder | Unknown |
42nd | 2000 | 17th to 19th April | Cirencester | Miss Rosalind Plowman | Hospital Acquired Infection: where is the Czar? |
43rd | 2001 | 25th to 27th April | Univ Manchester | Dr William A Rutala | New Technologies in Low Temp Sterilization |
44th | 2002 | 15th to 17th April | UMIST | Dr DL Pineau (France) | Problems of Biofilms and Endoscopes |
2003 | 7th to 9th April | Univ Warwick | Michele Alfa | Measurement of Cleaning Standards | |
49th | 2004 | 5th to 7th April | Bath | Prof Mike Bramble (BSG) UK | Decontamination of endoscopes – mission impossible? |
2005 | 25th to 27th April | Dundee | Dr Dorothy Canter | Lessons Learned from Decontaminating facilities following 2001 Bacillus Anthracis attacks | |
2006 | 10th to 12th April | Cardiff | Dr Olavi Kajender | Nanobacteria: characteristics detection and medical Importance of self propagating calcifying nanoparticles. | |
2007 | 23rd to 25th April | UMIST Manchester | Prof Adriano Duse | Experiences of viral hemorrhagic fevers in Aftrica | |
2008 | 21st to 23rs April | Liverpool | Prof Shaheem Mehtar South Africa | Decontamination in the Western Cape | |
2009 | 27th to 29th April | Dublin | Dr Egil Lingaas, Norway. | Decontamination in Norwegian Healthcare & vCJD – value of risk perception | |
2010 | 29th to 31st March | Cambridge (50th Anniversary CSC) | Prof Sayed Sattar | Assessing chemicals as disinfectants: Koch to Kelsey and beyond | |
2011 | 18th to 20th April | Bournemouth | Prof Heike Martiny | Cleaning and disinfection of channels: not as easy as it seems | |
2013 | 15th to 16th April | Bristol | Dr Michael Borg, Mater Dei Hospital Malta | Behaviour change in infection prevention: pitfalls and opportunities | |
2014 | 7th to 8th April | Forest of Arden Birmingham | |||
2015 | 13th to 14th April | St Pierre, Chepstow | Gee Yen Sin | Ebola: a global perspective | |
2016 | 11th March | Leeds | Dominic Goulet | Myths of sterilization | |
2017 | 3rd to 4th April | Leicester | Prof Hilary Humphries | Preventing infection in operating theatres – more myth than science | |
2018 | 16th to 17th April | Cardiff | Prof Manfred Rotter, Vienna Austria Dedicated to the memory of Prof Graham Ayliffe (Past Chair CSC) | Historical perspectives of testing the efficacy of hand Antiseptics. |