25 - Hot Topics in TB

Speaker(s)

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  Melissa Badowski, PharmD, MPH

  Clinical Associate Professor
  University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy
  Chicago, IL

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

  Slides
• EH

  Eric Houpt

  University of Virginia

  Disclosure: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.
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  Caitlin Reed, MD, MPH

  Medical Director, Inpatient Tuberculosis Unit
  Infectious Diseases Division
  Olive View - UCLA Medical Center
  Sylmar, CA

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

Learning Objectives:

• discuss new and novel diagnostics in tuberculosis
• explain the new changes for treatment of MDR tuberculosis
• illustrate the challenges in the treatment of tuberculosis

Presentations:

• 5:15pm – 6:30pm EDT

  Challenges in the Treatment of TB: A Pharmacist Perspective
  Melissa E. Badowski, PharmD, MPH – University of Illinois at Chicago, College of Pharmacy
• 5:15pm – 6:30pm EDT

  New Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of MDR TB
  Caitlin Reed, MD, MPH – Olive View - UCLA Medical Center
• 5:15pm – 6:30pm EDT

  New Diagnostics in the Horizon for TB
  Eric Houpt – University of Virginia