78 - Update on New Syndromic Panel Tests

Speaker(s)

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  Blake Buchan, PhD

  Associate professor of Pathology/ Clinical Microbiology
  Department of Pathology
  Medical College of Wisconsin
  Milwaukee, Wisconsin

  Disclosure: Accelerate : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing), Scientific Research Study Investigator (Status: Ongoing); BioFire Diagnostics : Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing), Scientific Research Study Investigator (Status: Ongoing), Speakers' bureau (Status: Ongoing); Curetis : Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing), Scientific Research Study Investigator (Status: Ongoing)
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  Laura Certain, MD, PhD

  Assistant Professor, Infectious Diseases
  University of Utah
  Salt Lake City, Utah

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Heba Mostafa, MD, PhD, D(ABMM)

  Assistant Professor of Pathology, Director of the Molecular Virology Laboratory
  Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
  Baltimore, Maryland

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit

No CPE Credits

Learning Objectives:

• explain the correlation between molecular and culture-based results for the diagnosis of pneumonia and the potential impact on patient management
• discuss the strengths and limitations of emerging sequence-based diagnostic tests for orthopedic infections, including 16S ribosomal sequencing, targeted PCR, and meta-genomics
• discuss the strengths and limitations of current diagnostic panels in characterizing infections in transplant populations and outline considerations for optimal personalized transplant molecular panels.

Presentations:

• 11:30am – 12:45pm EDT

  Next Generation Pneumonia Panels: which Approach Is Right for You?
  Blake W. Buchan, PhD – Medical College of Wisconsin
• 11:30am – 12:45pm EDT

  Sequence-based Diagnostics for Prosthetic Joint Infections
  Laura Certain, MD, PhD – University of Utah
• 11:30am – 12:45pm EDT

  Transplant Infections: What Is the Ideal Panel?
  Heba Mostafa, MD, PhD, D(ABMM) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine