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The Kelsey Lectures

Name: Autumn Study Day 2025
Start: 2025-10-13T08:30:00+01:00
End: 2025-10-13T16:00:00+01:00
Location: Ramada Plaza

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	16^th to 18^th April	University Newcastle	Kelsey Lectureship established
24^th	1982	23^rd to 26^th March	University of Keele	1^st Dr P Makela, Finland	Some problems in field evaluation of hand disinfection
25th	1983	18^th to 20^th April	Bath	2^nd Prof B Birgitta Nilehn, Sweden	Role of the Environment in Hospital Infections – Design of CSSD
26^th	1984	4^th to 6^th April	Univ Nottingham	3^rd Dr WA Wahba, WHO Copenhagen	Hospital Acquired Infection – The Role of the World Health Organisation.”
27^th	1985	27 to 29^th	King Alfred’s, Winchester	Miss Sheila Scott Department of Health, UK	Sterile Supply – Past, present and future
28^th	1986	15^th to 17^th April	Cardiff	Dr J Ferreres	A coordinated approach to infection control surveillance
29^th	1987	24^th to 26^th March	Univ Warwick	Dr B Nystronm	Evaluation of standards for washing/heat disinfection Processes.
30^th	1988	NO PROGRAMME	Portsmouth
31^st	1989	NO PROGRAMME	Leeds
32^nd	1990	2^nd to 4^th April	Univ East Anglia	Dr Dan Janssen	Monitoring and control of steam and ETO -a global view
33^rd	1991	11^th to 13^th April	Edinburgh	Dr DM Taylor	Inactivation of slow viruses including CJD
34^th	1992	7^th + 8^th April	Solihull Birmingham – Joint conference with ICNA & ISSM	Barry Collins Memorial lecture by Prof F Daschner	Epidemiology Topic
35^th	1993		UMIST Manchester	Barry Collins Memorial lecture by Prof H G Sonntag, Germany
36^th	1994		Blackpool
37th	1995	No Conference
38^th	1996	8^th + 9^th May	Eastwood Park, Gloucestershire	No Kelsey Lecture
39^th	1997	14^th to 16th April	Univ Birmingham	Prof Walter Koller	Cleaning and Disinfection by use of machines
40^th	1998	20-22 April	Birmingham	Dr Juhani Ojarjavi	Hand washing
41^st	1999	12^th to 14^th April,	Belfast	Prof Arderne Forder	Unknown
42^nd	2000	17^th to 19^th April	Cirencester	Miss Rosalind Plowman	Hospital Acquired Infection: where is the Czar?
43^rd	2001	25^th to 27^th April	Univ Manchester	Dr William A Rutala	New Technologies in Low Temp Sterilization
44^th	2002	15^th to 17^th April	UMIST	Dr DL Pineau (France)	Problems of Biofilms and Endoscopes
	2003	7^th to 9^th April	Univ Warwick	Michele Alfa	Measurement of Cleaning Standards
49^th	2004	5^th to 7^th April	Bath	Prof Mike Bramble (BSG) UK	Decontamination of endoscopes – mission impossible?
	2005	25^th to 27^th April	Dundee	Dr Dorothy Canter	Lessons Learned from Decontaminating facilities following 2001 Bacillus Anthracis attacks
	2006	10^th to 12^th April	Cardiff	Dr Olavi Kajender	Nanobacteria: characteristics detection and medical Importance of self propagating calcifying nanoparticles.
	2007	23^rd to 25^th April	UMIST Manchester	Prof Adriano Duse	Experiences of viral hemorrhagic fevers in Aftrica
	2008	21^st to 23rs April	Liverpool	Prof Shaheem Mehtar South Africa	Decontamination in the Western Cape
	2009	27^th to 29^th April	Dublin	Dr Egil Lingaas, Norway.	Decontamination in Norwegian Healthcare & vCJD – value of risk perception
	2010	29^th to 31^st March	Cambridge (50^th Anniversary CSC)	Prof Sayed Sattar	Assessing chemicals as disinfectants: Koch to Kelsey and beyond
	2011	18^th to 20^th April	Bournemouth	Prof Heike Martiny	Cleaning and disinfection of channels: not as easy as it seems
	2013	15^th to 16^th April	Bristol	Dr Michael Borg, Mater Dei Hospital Malta	Behaviour change in infection prevention: pitfalls and opportunities
	2014	7^th to 8^th April	Forest of Arden Birmingham
	2015	13^th to 14^th April	St Pierre, Chepstow	Gee Yen Sin	Ebola: a global perspective
	2016	11th March	Leeds	Dominic Goulet	Myths of sterilization
	2017	3^rd to 4^th April	Leicester	Prof Hilary Humphries	Preventing infection in operating theatres – more myth than science
	2018	16^th to 17^th 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.
	2019	1^st to 2^nd April	Manchester	Prof Margreet C . Vos	Failure of cleaning and disinfection of endoscopes: prevalence, impact and (future) solutions
	2020	Coronovirus Lockdown	–	–	–
	2021	Coronovirus Lockdown	–	–	–
	2022	4^th to 5^th April	Stratford Upon Avon	Peter Hoffman	Past Present and Future – A lifetime experience of decontamination and infection control
	2023	3^rd to 4^th April	Newcastle upon Tyne	Joost Hopman	Sterilisation and Decontamination in low resource settings
	2024	15^rd to 16^th April	Gerrards Cross	Martin Exner	Disinfection and decontamination in healthcare settings:critical aspects of microbial control

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