Pediatric ID

Epi/Infection Control

Global ID

Trainee

Symposium

175 - Big Beasts I

Learning Objectives:

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

• state the key diagnostic and treatment paradigms for malaria
• describe how CMV infections are prevented, diagnosed, and treated in transplant patients
• discuss how community associated MRSA became widely distributed outside of health care settings

Presentations:

• 1:45 PM - 2:10 PM

  1801 - Malaria: Updates in Diagnosis and Treatment
  Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR – University of North Carolina
• 2:10 PM - 2:35 PM

  1802 - CMV- Taming the Troll of Transplantation
  Deepali Kumar, MD, MSc, FRCPC – University Of Toronto
• 2:35 PM - 3:00 PM

  1803 - The Rise and Fall of Community-Associated MRSA
  Paul J. Planet, MD, PhD – Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History; The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Moderator(s)

• 

  Samuel Shelburne, MD, PhD

  Professor
  The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
  Houston, TX

  Disclosure: Nothing to disclose

Speaker(s)

• 

  Deepali Kumar, MD, MSc, FRCPC

  Professor of Medicine
  University Of Toronto
  Toronto, ON, Canada

  Disclosure: Atara Biotherapeutics: Advisory Board, Grant/Research Support
  GSK: Advisory Board
  Merck: Grant/Research Support
  Oxford immunotec: Consultant, Grant/Research Support
  Pfizer: Advisory Board
  Qiagen: Research Grant
  Roche: Grant/Research Support, Research Grant
  Sanofi: Advisory Board
  Shire: Grant/Research Support
• 

  Jessica Lin, MD, MSCR

  Assistant Professor of Medicine
  University of North Carolina
  Chapel Hill, NC

  Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
• PP

  Paul Planet, MD, PhD

  MD
  Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, American Museum of Natural History; The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
  Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

  Disclosure: Nothing to disclose