Thanks 🙏 a lot! I'm delighted to be able to share the experience I've gained with patients who deserve to have everything possible done to make this treatment possible!

👋 it’s time 🕰️ to register to the @ESCMID #ESGNTA exclusive onsite workshop (no live webcast) entitled "State of the Art Clinical Evidence for the Use of Phage Therapy in Clinical Practice: the Pathways for Efficacy" that will take place in Lyon the 12-13th November 2024 ➡️ escmid.org/event-detail/stat…! Download the updated program here ➡️ escmid.org/fileadmin/escmid/…, and register here ➡️ members.escmid.org/login?Ret… to come and meet in person the world experts in the field of clinical #phage therapy 🤩 ! Such a honor for me to organize this incredible event and to make Lyon the world capital of #bacteriophage therapy during 2 days! We are ready to welcome you in 2 months 🔥! Do you know that Lyon is the city of Lights ✨? The Lyon city has a huge history and was called Lugdunum. It was an important Roman city, the capital of Gaul that was part of current Western Europe. Lyon has a rich architectural heritage through the centuries. The Festival of Lights (Fête des lumières) is celebrated every year on December 8 to mark the city's victory over the last plague epidemic, which ravaged the city and ended on December 8, 1852 (we don't know if natural #phages were involved as a player in such eradication!). It was particularly important for me to set up the course in a significant location and it will take place in the hangar of the 1st film 🎬, where the first movie 🎞️ in the story of cinema was recorded 🎥 by the brothers « Lumière » (Light ✨ in English), named Auguste and Louis Lumière. You will sit in a highly comfortable cinema seat and you have to know that you will be in the venue that welcome the annual International Lumiere Film Festival each year in October (institut-lumiere.org/)! We are excited to welcome our hosts with @MCOCongres in particular fantastic conditions. Here are below some 📸 to share you the current atmosphere waiting you! I love ❤️ my city ✨ I love ❤️ my country 🇫🇷! So happy and excited to welcome the faculty and attendees here! Register and participate to the #phage history, an incredible ✨ film 🎥 that is still ongoing (we don’t know the end, but I think that we have together the ability to influence it)! Thanks 🙏 to all our partners @FondationHCL Vésale Bioscience @Jafral1 BiomX Inc @ATechnophage Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. for their educational support! @OnlyLyon @villedelyon @CHUdeLyon @HCL_research @UnivLyon1 @InstitutLumiere @Inserm @CNRS @Sante_Gouv @esgnta 📸 Credits (1, 2: T. Ferry; 3: Velvet) 1 Chapelle de l’Hotel-Dieu 2 Muse de l’Opera 3 Hangar du Premier Film

"Black 😱 Thursday" or "Incredible 🤩 Thursday" 📆? Each Thursday, since many years, I am managing the 1-day multidisciplinary hospital dedicated to complex bone and joint infection (#BJI) at @CHUdeLyon. It is one of the main activity of our referral center called #CRIOAcLyon (crioac-lyon.fr). It could be the "Black 😱 Thursday", as we are receiving each time 15-20 patients, who are coming sometimes from far, with very difficult situation that we have to manage with humility. It is moreover not easy as we have few time to welcome them decently, whereas they are ill and most of time severely disabled. We have to be available to hear their story, whereas they are suffering, to perform examination, imaging, blood test, dressing, and then to take the best medico-surgical decision for them! In fact, it is really the "Incredible 🤩 Thursday"! First of all we found an optimal organization with first examination during the morning by infectious diseases physicians, and then performance of a multidisciplinary staff at 2 p.m. that includes discussion with the personal input of each specialties! What a pleasure to see >10 professionals with their computer, fully concentrated to hear each individual history, analyzing what they could add, and concretely participating to the decision we are taking together! Learning from each other is so awesome, as the direct impact for the patient is really perceptible (for instance, a pleasure for me to share my vision about #phage therapy, and at the counterpart hearing and understanding how to perform a total femur implantation is impressive)! We were also so happy to welcome this week Salomé and Olivia, two 15-years-old teenagers 👭, for their work experience internship, as they would like to discover our jobs! They brought us a lot of happiness and motivation, and it was fantastic to see their enthusiasm and to see their eyes full of stars 🤩! They participated to the management of the patients, they saw injection of #phage under sonography, they participated to discussions, and also to the multidisciplinary clinical round! I'm very keen to share with the new generation the importance of keeping the patient at the centre of our efforts, but also the importance of ethics and respect and professional conduct among colleagues, and the crucial role of what everyone contributes at their own level, both at the paramedical and at the medical level! All of that facilitates the set-up of innovations, but we frequently need to accept some compromise in the intervention we would like to propose and sometimes unfortunately we have to accept that we failed to cure the patient because of superbugs. In the end, and more importantly, I hope we always succeed from a human perspective with such a spirit and with the sincere involvement of everyone here!  I acknowledge sincerely all my colleagues, I love working each Thursday with all of you 💙 (especially in this difficult time for me)!

🙌 I am delighted, as Clinical and Educational Officer of the @ESCMID Study Group for Non-Traditional Antibacterial Therapy (@ESGNTA), to announce the official launch 🚀 for registration for the next ESGNTA ESCMID Workshop entitled: "State of the Art in Clinical Evidence for the Use of #Phage Therapy in Clinical Practice - Pathways for Efficacy and Efficacious Use" that will take place in Lyon 🇫🇷 the 12-13 November 2024! Click here to see the whole program ➡️ escmid.org/fileadmin/escmid/…, with an awesome faculty, from Europe and all over the world 🇫🇷 🇺🇲 🇹🇩 🇦🇺 🇮🇹 🇨🇦 🇮🇱 🇮🇩 🇾🇪 🇬🇪 🇬🇧! Dive with us into the forefront of clinical #bacteriophage therapy with this course, designed to illuminate the current clinical experiences, compassionate use protocols, cohort studies, and ongoing clinical trials in the field of bacterial infections (and not only bone and joint infections)! More information are available here and you can register there ➡️ escmid.org/event-detail/stat…. Please note that there is a special price for @ESCMID members, and the course is also open to non ESCMID members! We acknowledged 🙏 all the faculty, our sponsors and @FondationHCL for the support! See you in my beautiful city ✨ for this event! @DocSaimaAslam Constance Benson @MarcBuyse04 Radu Botgros @PhageForward Novella Cesta Sarah Djebara @DrGregGerman Sylvain Goutelle @cleverwebber @GHatfull @DoctorKoff Mzia Kutateladze Simone Lieberknecht Ryszard Miedzybrodzki @rannirpaz1 @robertschooley @AntoniaScobie @GinaSuhMD Florent Valour Nathalie Morgensztejn @CHUdeLyon @UnivLyon1 @IPATH @UCSDHealth @derbalgrist @unitorvergata Queen Astrid Military Hospital @UofT @PittDeptofMed @PhageAustralia @syd_health @Yale @EliavaPhage Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy @uclh @MayoClinicINFD @ESCMID @EMA_News @ansm @Sante_Gouv @sup_recherche @FondationHCL @PHAXIAM @BiomX_Inc @ATechnophage Armata

💫 It was a great honor to participate in Tbilissi this week to the 2024 France Alumni day organized by the French Ambassy in Georgia 🇬🇪! We were welcomed by Madam the French Ambassador in Georgia @Sherzag and his team who organized this nice event dedicated to health! We reported the cooperation that we have at @CHUdeLyon, @UnivLyon1 and @LeVinatier in Armenia 🇦🇲 and that we have developed in trauma patients and in the field of bone and joint infections since the 2020 war in Karabagh. We were connected in Georgia 🇬🇪 with our infectious diseases colleagues from the "Groupe Hospitalier Sud Île de France" located in Melun, and with colleagues from 🇦🇲 and Georgia 🇬🇪, and we discussed collaborative projects we could have in the patient care. Of note, it also includes also #phage therapy, especially as there is a huge heritage about this therapy in Georgia 🇬🇪 at the Eliava Institute that we have to not loose and that we have to develop to face complex clinical situations and antimicrobial resistance. Understanding when and how to use it in infected trauma patients remain a crucial step from my point of view! It is clear that in the current context, people and colleagues in Armenia 🇦🇲 and Georgia 🇬🇪 deserve our full attention and deserve that we take the time to understand their practice, with the aim to improve their capacity of develop an as optimal as possible patient care. The French spirit in healthcare we wish to defend is composed by universal values that it are essential to pass on from our point of view: humanism, humility, fair access to care, sharing of knowledge, multidisciplinary care and involvement of professionals who need to get to know, respect and appreciate each other, and work together towards a single goal: putting the patient at the centre of all decisions to improve the quality of care! By being connected with France Alumni, Campus France, the "Institut Français en Géorgie 🇬🇪" and the "Institut Français en Arménie 🇦🇲", we will generate for sure ambition in our West Caucasus students in health and Armenian and Georgian colleagues to learn French and to choose France 🇫🇷! In the current context, sure it is the best choice in the perspective of the "common good"! Merci 🙏 Thanks 🙏 მადლობა 🙏 ՇՆՈՐՀԱԿԱԼՈՒԹՅՈՒՆ 🙏 #francealumni #campusfrance #francealumniday #francealumniday2024 #phagetherapy #bacteriophage @Sante_Gouv @AmbaFR_Armenie @Sherzag @CHMelun @CHUdeLyon @LeVinatier @villedelyon @grandlyon @choosefrance #choosefrance @FranceAlumni @IFArmenie @IFParis @EliavaPhage #eliavainstitute @CampusFrance @UnivLyon1 @O_Decottignies

🇧🇪🤝🇫🇷 Very happy to have participated to this session at EFORT 2024 in Hamburg 🇩🇪 with my colleague Orthopaedic surgeon Willem-Jan Metsemakers to report our respective experience about phage therapy in #osteomyelitis and prosthetic joint infections #PJI. The experience acquired in Lyon 🇫🇷 at #CRIOAcLyon @CHUdeLyon with the support of @FondationHCL (#PHAGEinLYON_Clinic program) and at Leuven 🇧🇪 at @UZLeuven (#PHAGEFORCE program) are growing in the field of management of complex musculoskeletal infections using #bacteriophage therapy, with more and more treated patients. Clinical trials are mandatory of course, one is ongoing, the "PhagoDAIR I" clinical trial funded by @PHAXIAM, but outside this kind of clinical evaluation, phage therapy is definitely a potential option as salvage therapy in particular patients in dead-end clinical situation. Very happy about this friendly and nice collaboration 😀 and about having the opportunity to share our experience to the audience and to colleagues coming from all over Europe 🇪🇺! Don’t hesitate to check the manuscript that we wrote together about what we presented today ➡️ eor.bioscientifica.com/view/… and, as it is an open access paper, there is not limit for sharing! Particular thanks 🙏 to Martin McNally, one of the past president of @EBJIS_ (European Bone & Joint Infection Society) for his enthusiasm about this therapy and for his moderation! And thanks 🙏 to everyone who is involved in 🇫🇷 and 🇧🇪 to make it feasible!

🌟Proud to have participated to the 9th GIMPHA conference this week-end in Tbilissi, Georgia 🇬🇪! Following the several missions that we performed with @CHUdeLyon in Armenia 🇦🇲 to improve the management and care of trauma patients, we are pleased to report here our multidisciplinary experience. #GIMPHA is the "Georgian International Medical and Public Health Association" that promotes the knowledge and the sharing in the field of Medicine in Georgia 🇬🇪. We were connected with a great pleasure with Sylvain Diamantis and Eka Chakvetadze @ekaterinachakv1, our infectiologist colleagues from the "Groupe Hospitalier Sud Ile-de-France" @CHMelun located in Melun, France 🇫🇷 who have developed since many years in Georgia 🇬🇪 a collaborative project about epidemiology in antimicrobial resistance and use of antibiotics funded by the "Direction générale de l'offre de soins (DGOS)" and supported by the French Embassy in Georgia. I presented the French multidisciplinary organization we set-up in referral centers #CRIOAc for the management of complex bone and joint infections in France 🇫🇷, the European 🇪🇺 standard of care for the management of bone and joint infections, based on @EBJIS_ ("European Bone & Joint Infection Society") philosophy and guidelines, and the innovations in the field such as the use of antibiotics-loaded bone substitutes and also phage therapy that we set-up in surgical patients at @CHUdeLyon thanks to the @FondationHCL. My colleague Tiphaine Roussel-Gaillard reported on the evidence-based European standard rules for microbial diagnosis, implemented and routinely used in @CHUdeLyon hospital system. My friend Mikhail Dziadzko gave a primer on an anesthesiologist-led multidisciplinary approach, illustrating the contemporary concept of perioperative medicine, and addressing functional capacity enhancement, empowerment, and chronic pain management in patients with bone and joint infection. It was a great moment to connect also our Armenian colleagues who were invited to connect with Georgian orthopedic surgeons and infectiologists 🇦🇲🤝🇬🇪! We were fully fueled and motivated 🚀 to share our experience in the medical field we covered, especially as Caucasian populations and Caucasian colleagues need that and deserved so much! #bacteriophage #phagetherapy #microbiology #standardofcare #georgia #Armenia #painmanagement #chronicpain #AMR #antimicrobioalresistance @ESAIC_org @ESCMID @Sherzag @EBJIS_