133 - Hot Topics in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Speaker(s)

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  Stephanie Fritz, MD

  Associate Professor
  Pediatrics-Infectious Diseases
  Washington University
  St. Louis, Missouri

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

  Associate Professor
  University of Colorado/ Children's Hospital Colorado
  Denver, Colorado

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

  Professor
  University of California San Francisco
  San Francisco, California

  Disclosure: ViiV : I serve as protocol chair for a regulatory trial for a drug that is manufactured by ViiV/GSK, that also makes cabotegravir. The trial is partially funded by Viiv-GSK through the NIH/IMPAACT tiral network, but I do not receive any direct funding. (Status: Ongoing), Other Financial or Material Support (Status: Ongoing)
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  Kari Simonsen, MD

  Professor of Pediatrics
  University of Nebraska Medical Center
  Omaha, NE

  Disclosure: MedImmune : Scientific Research Study Investigator (Status: Ongoing); Melinta Therapeutics : Scientific Research Study Investigator (Status: Ongoing)

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:

• describe important clinical advances and biomedical discoveries from recent publications in pediatric infectious diseases that have the potential change practice
• discuss strategies for applying new findings highlighted by experts in the field to clinical practice and future research

Presentations:

• 4:15pm – 5:30pm EDT

  Challenges in Pediatric Preparedness
  Kari Simonsen, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center
• 4:15pm – 5:30pm EDT

  Hot Topics in Pediatric Global HIV
  Theodore Ruel, MD – University of California San Francisco
• 4:15pm – 5:30pm EDT

  Next-generation Sequencing and Metagenomics
  Kevin Messacar, MD – University of Colorado/ Children's Hospital Colorado
• 4:15pm – 5:30pm EDT

  Updates on Staphylococcus aureus Infections, Treatment, and Prevention
  Stephanie Fritz, MD – Washington University