Please join us in Atlanta (or virtually) for IDWeek 2025. ID professionals from across the country and around the world will gather to collaborate, cooperate and learn from each other’s expertise. This is an excellent opportunity to share knowledge, gain experience, and grow your network.
Society members registration is now open! You can secure your spot and make hotel reservations from the registration link. PIDS members enjoy special member pricing as a benefit of membership. The next registration price increase is September 20. Act now!
The IDWeek Program-at-a-Glance is available and the pediatric track along with PIDS events have been assembled below. Start making your plans now!
The PIDS Foundation Annual Dinner is scheduled for Monday, October 20. Tickets for Better Together at the Georgia Aquarium are available to purchase now (through September 15).
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Best Practices in Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs (paid) | B216-B217
1:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Diagnostic Stewardship – Building Hospital Programs (paid) | B203
6:00 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. | meetID Meet and Greet for Mentors and Scholars | Vues Lobby Bar, Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park Invitation Only
7:15 a.m. – 7:55 a.m. | meetID Overview with PIDS Leadership | B213-B214
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | TB Workshop (paid) | B314
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Expanding Your Influence to Improve Antibiotic Use in Outpatient Settings (paid) | B203
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Infectious Disease Clinical Bootcamp for APPs (paid) | B211-B212
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | A Bug Worth Catching: Enhancing Clinical Teaching in Infectious Diseases (paid) | B216-B217
8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. | Generative AI in Infectious Diseases: A Hands-On Workshop for Clinical and Research Applications (paid) | B207-B208
8:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Pediatric Fellows’ Day | B213-B214
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | PIDS Foundation Lounge Open | Building B Lobby
9:00 a.m. – 9:25 a.m. | Meet Your Society Journal Editors | BugHub World Stage
1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Beyond the 101: Pondering Perplexing Prescribing Issues | B206
1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Wrestling With Measles in 2026 | B312-B313
1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Mano-a-Mano | B405-B407
1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Microbiome Research in Pediatric Populations: From Association to Application | B401-B402
1:30 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | What’s Hot in ID + HIV | Ballroom HB1
3:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. | Opening Plenary | Ballroom HB1
5:45 p.m. – 7:15 p.m. | PIDS Trainee Reception | B206
6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | PIDS Board of Directors Meeting | Dogwood Room A – M1 – North Tower, Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | PIDS Programs & Meetings Committee Meeting | B204
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Can Sustainability Work Sustain ID? | B314
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Culture Change: How to Get Clinicians and Institutions on Board With Appropriate Prescribing | B207-B208
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Maximizing Impact: Micro-ID Partnerships in Diagnostic Stewardship NGS Tests | B401-B402
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | New Antimicrobials in the Pipeline | B302-B304
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | These Blind Mice: When Bench Doesn’t Meet Bedside | B213-B214
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Top 10 Papers in Antimicrobial Resistance | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | PIDS Foundation Lounge Open | Building B Lobby
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | PIDS Past Presidents Meeting | B204 Invitation Only
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Pediatric Clinical Microbiologist Networking Hour | PIDS Foundation Lounge
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Edward H. Kass Lecture | Ballroom HB1
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | PIDS Booth Open | Exhibit Hall 1904
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Across the Globe: Looking Beyond the Usual Foes Faced by Transplant Recipients | B312-B313
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Advances in Sepsis Care and Quality Measures | B302-B304
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | AI in ID Education and Fellowship | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Applying Next-Generation Sequencing to Clinical Treatment and Prevention | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Challenging Cases in Infectious Diseases | Ballroom HB1
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Diagnostic Conundrums: Navigating Complex Clinical Decisions in Pediatrics | B308-B309
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Increasing Vaccine Confidence | B405-B407
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Lessons Learned in Biopreparedness and Biocontainment: Lassa Fever in the Midwest | B206
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Transforming Public Health Surveillance and Applied Epidemiology to Meet the Future: The U.S. Emerging Infections Program at 30 | B401-B402
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | IMG Networking Hour | PIDS Foundation Lounge
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | PIDS Education Committee Meeting | B204
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | A Day With the Antimicrobial Stewardship Pager | B405-B407
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | And Justice for All: Applying Infectious Disease/Infection Prevention in Strategies in High-Risk, Non-Health Care Populations | B312-B313
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Challenging Cases in Pediatric Infectious Diseases | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 2-3
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | How to Set Up Your International Medical Graduate Trainees and Junior Faculty for Success | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Keeping an Eye on H5 | Sidney J. Marcus Auditorium
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Long COVID: Where Are We Now and What Can We Do? | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Afternoon Delight: Challenging HIV & STI Coinfection Cases | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 2-3
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Caroline B. Hall Lecture | Ballroom HB1
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Contaminated Blood Cultures: Impactful or Inconvenient? | B302-B304
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Diagnostic Clinical Cases: What Do I Do With This Test Result? | Sidney J. Marcus Auditorium
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Pathogenesis of Neurological Diseases From Non-CNS Pathogens, What We Can Learn From Murine Models | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Practical Aspects of Antimicrobial Stewardship on Immunocompromised Patients | B206
4:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | John F. Enders Lecture | Ballroom HB1
5:15 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | PIDS Foundation Partner Reception | Oceans Ballroom, Georgia Aquarium Invitation Only
6:15 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. | PIDS Foundation Annual Dinner – Better Together | Oceans Ballroom, Georgia Aquarium (ticket required)
7:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Women in ID Breakfast | B401-B402
7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Courage Is Contagious: Become an Advocate for Change in Challenging Times | B216-B217
8:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. | Pediatric Division Chiefs Breakfast | B204 Invitation Only
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Beyond the Hospital Walls: Tackling HAI & AMR Surveillance in Non-Acute Settings | B207-B208
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | CDIFFerently: What’s New in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Clostridioides difficile? | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | cEo: Chief “Education” Officer-Career Pathways in Med Ed Leadership | B213-B214
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Diagnostic Trials: Past and Future | B211 – B212
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | IYKYK: Adolescents and HIV | B203
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Pediatric Antimicrobial Resistance: Key Updates for the Busy Clinician | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
8:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. | PIDS Foundation Lounge Open | Building B Lobby
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Maxwell Finland Lecture | Ballroom HB1
9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | PIDS Clinical Affairs Committee Meeting | B204
10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | JPIDS Editorial Board Coffee Hour | PIDS Foundation Lounge Invitation Only
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | PIDS Booth Open | Exhibit Hall 1904
10:30 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. | PIDS Sustainabil-ID Committee Meeting | B204
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Pediatric Bacterial Infections – Oral Abstracts | B213-B214
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | AI in Clinical Microbiology | B312-B313
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Narratives and Infectious Diseases, Stories to Enhance Recruitment Into ID and Care for the Patients We Serve | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Recent Advances in Understanding Respiratory Microbial Communities: From Association to Translation | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Vaccine Hesitancy at Home and Abroad | Ballroom HB1
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | What’s Best for Babies? Controversies in Neonatal Infectious Diseases Practice | B206
12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. | JPIDS Associate Editors Luncheon | B204 Invitation Only
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | A Decade of Emerging Congenital Infections: From A to Zika | B312-B313
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Big Beasts of Clinical Mycology | Ballroom HB1
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Cavities, Appys and CLABSIs, Oh My! Perspectives From Our Surgery and Radiology Colleagues | B302-B304
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Lowering Barriers to Diagnostics Access to Reduce Health Inequities and Improve Outcomes | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Management of Respiratory Viruses in Transplant Recipients in the Post-COVID-19 Pandemic Era | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | What’s Old Is New: Vaccine-Preventable Diseases | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 2-3
2:00 p.m. -3:00 p.m. | PIDS Transplant ID Committee Meeting | B204
2:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | IDSA Division Chiefs Community of Practice Luncheon | Maple Room, Atrium Level, South Tower, Omni Atlanta Hotel at Centennial Park
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | A Vaccine to Prevent Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection: How Close Are We? | B312-B313
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Bug to Drug: Translating Mechanisms of Antimicrobial Resistance to Treatment of Challenging Infections | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Challenging Cases in Immunocompromised Host | Sidney J. Marcus Auditorium
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Clinical Controversies | Ballroom HB1
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Environmental Upheaval and Infectious Diseases | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Friendly Debates in HIV & ID | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 2-3
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Influential Publications in Health Care Epidemiology, Antimicrobial Stewardship & Public Health | B405-B407
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | What’s New With Respiratory Infections in Children? | B206
4:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | SHEA Lectureship | B405-B407
4:45 p.m. – 6:00 p.m. | Stanley A. Plotkin Lecture in Vaccinology | Ballroom HB1
6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | PIDS Membership Meeting – State of the Society | Ballroom HB1
7:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. | PIDS Publications Committee Meeting | B204
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Can My Patient Get Their Chem0/Cells? How to Approach the Hematologic Malignancy Patient With an Active Infection | B207-B208
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | New ID Diagnostics in the Pipeline | B302-B304
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | One Size Fits One: Toward Individualized Management of Infectious Diseases | B308-B309
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Papers That Should Change Your Practice in Pediatric ID | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Tele-Antimicrobial Stewardship to Build Stewardship Capacity | B213-B214
8:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | PIDS Foundation Open | Building B Lobby
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | PIDS CORE Committee Meeting | B204
9:15 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Joseph E. Smadel Lecture | Ballroom HB1
10:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. | PIDS Booth Open | Exhibit Hall 1904
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Pediatric Respiratory Viral Vaccines – Oral Abstracts | B213-B214
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Clinical Trials That Will Change Your Practice | Ballroom HB1
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | ESPID/PIDS Joint Symposium: Perspectives in Pediatric Osteoarticular Infections: Bone Appetit! | B206
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Extrapulmonary Non-Tuberculosis Mycobacteria | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Fresh Strategies for Modern Challenges in Outpatient Antibiotic Stewardship | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 1
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Global Health at Home: Addressing Emerging Infections and Health Disparities in the U.S. | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 2-3
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Improving Health Equity Using Advanced Analytic Methods | B308-B309
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Maternal Immunization: A New Era of Prevention of Infant Infection | Sidney J. Marcus Auditorium
10:30 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | The Many Facets of Clinical Breakpoints: Impact of MIC, AMR and Dosing on Outcomes | B312-B313
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. | PIDS Global Health Committee Meeting | B204
1:15 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | meetID Conference Debrief | B204 Invitation Only
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | 2025 Case-Based Gu(ID)elines: COVID-19 Treatment and Management, Histoplasmosis and Strep Pharyngitis | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 2-3
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Challenging HIV Clinical Cases | Ballroom HB1
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Challenging Vaccine Issues: Beyond the Guidelines | Sidney J. Marcus Auditorium
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | It’s a Small World After All: Prevention and Treatment in the Expanding World of Pediatric Immunocompromised Hosts | B302-B304
1:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. | Stewardship and Sustainability Done Three Ways | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Pediatric Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases – Oral Abstracts | B203
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Cracking the Code of Resistance: A Deep Dive Into Metall0-Beta-Lactamase From Bench to Bedside | Thomas B. Murphy Ballroom 4
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Driving Better Decisions: Incentivizing Diagnostic Stewardship | B302-B304
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Expanding Global Stewardship Through Cultural Humility and Community Engagement | B312-B313
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Infectious Diseases 2026: Charting the Path Forward | Ballroom HB1
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Vaccines on the Horizon | B405-B407
3:15 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Why Do We Do This? Exploring the Data Behind Long-Established Practices in ID | B308-B309
4:30 p.m. – 5:45 p.m. | IDBugBowl | Ballroom HB1
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