KILMER Conference 2025 – Call for Abstracts

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) and the Parenteral Drug Association (PDA) are pleased to announce a call for abstracts for sessions and posters for the 2025 KILMER Conference, which will be held from February 3-6, 2025, in Orlando, Florida. The theme for the 2025 KILMER Conference is Next Generation Microbiological Quality and Sterility Assurance. AAMI is seeking submissions that reflect this theme and address topics related to industry innovations in sterilization, sterility assurance, and microbiological quality for medical devices and pharmaceuticals, including but not limited to the following areas:

• Emerging technologies or approaches for cleaning, disinfection and sterilization
• Microbiological quality control, aseptic and sterilization process validation and monitoring
• Microbiological or alternative testing method
• Sterilization processes and modalities
• Pathways to facilitate or innovate regulatory approvals
• Quality control and assurance
• Materials compatibility
• Device and drug product packaging innovation
• Application of process control or parametric approaches
• Successes in industry-academia research partnerships
• Industry approaches and innovations for infection prevention and contamination control in clinical settings
• Sustainability
• Leveraging lessons from pandemics (e.g., supply chain.)
• Career development

Abstracts should be submitted here by August 31, 2024. If your proposal is accepted, you will be notified by October 1, 2024. Note that most sessions at the 2025 KILMER Conference will be between fifteen and twenty minutes, and single presenters are preferred. Proposals not accepted for a session presentation may still be considered for a poster presentation.

We encourage all interested parties to submit their abstracts for consideration. Questions may be directed to Amanda Benedict, AAMI vice president of Sterilization at abenedict@aami.org.