22 - Controversies in Candida

Speaker(s)

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  David Andes, MD

  Professor
  University of Wisconsin
  Madison, Wisconsin

  Disclosure: sFunga : Consultant (Status: Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Status: Ongoing)
• 

  Karen Bloch, MD, MPH

  Associate Professor
  Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  Nashville, Tennessee

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

  Issam Raad, MD

  Professor and Chair
  Infectious Diseases, Infection Control & Employee Health
  The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  Houston, Texas

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

Learning Objectives:

• discuss effective approaches to managing Candida-associated catheter infections
• evaluate the need for an ophthalmology consult in individual patients with candidemia
• explain the role of biofilms in Candida diseases

Presentations:

• 12:30pm – 1:45pm EDT

  Candida Biofilms: What Makes Them so Bad?
  David Andes, MD – University of Wisconsin
• 12:30pm – 1:45pm EDT

  Do I Need That Consult? Ophthalmology Consults for Candidemia
  Karen C. Bloch, MD, MPH – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
• 12:30pm – 1:45pm EDT

  Should I Always Pull It? Candida-associated Intravenous Catheter Infections
  Issam I. Raad, MD – The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center