178 - Mycobiome and Invasive Fungal Infections

10/4/2019

1:45 PM - 3:00 PM

Room: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 145 AB

MOC Credit: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CME Credit: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACPE Credit: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: 0221-9999-19-375-L04-P

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

discuss the composition, diversity, and anatomic location of endogenous human fungal communities
demonstrate an understanding of methods to measure, classify, and analyze human fungal communities by culture-independent methods
state the impact of human fungal communities on immune function and susceptibility to invasive mycoses

Presentations:

1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
1811 - Clinical Implications of Emerging Fungal-Host Interactions
Mihai Netea, MD, PhD – Radboud University Medical Center
2:10 PM - 2:35 PM
1812 - Candida Intestinal Colonization and Bloodstream Infections
Bing Zhai, PhD – Memorial Sloan Kettering
2:35 PM - 3:00 PM
1813 - Human Fungal Communities in Health and Disease
Joseph Petrosino, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

Moderator(s)

Tobias Hohl, MD, PhD

Associate Attending
Memorial Sloan Kettering
New York, New York

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Anna Huppler, MD

Assistant Professor
Medical College of Wisconsin
Milwaukee, WI

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose

Speaker(s)

Mihai Netea, MD, PhD

Head Division Experimental Internal Medicine
Radboud University Medical Center
Nijmegen, Netherlands

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Joseph Petrosino, PhD

Professor and Chairman
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX
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Bing Zhai, PhD

Research Associate
Memorial Sloan Kettering
New York, NY

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose