St. Jude/PIDS Program

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Wednesday, March 2	Meet the Experts – VIRTUALLY (Nonaccredited)
10:00 – 10:45 AM	How to Develop Scholarship in Infectious Diseases in Immunocompromised Hosts Moderator: Hayley Gans, MD, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA Stanford University School of Medicine Betsy Herold, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics (Pediatric Infectious Disease) Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women’s Health Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Pediatrics Vice Chair for Research Department of Pediatrics Chief, Department of Pediatrics Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Director, Translational Prevention Research Center Hamid Bassiri, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine Attending Physician & Associate Fellowship Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Faculty, Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Co-director, Immune Dysregulation Program, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
11:00 – 11:45 AM	Advanced Practice Provider Roles in Pediatric Transplant and Immunocompromised Hosts ID Moderator: Tanvi Sharma, MD, MPH, FPIDS Boston Children’s Hospital Katelyn Leake, CPNP Boston Children’s Hospital Elizabeth Marini, CPNP Boston Children’s Hospital Jacquie Toia, DNP Lurie Children’s Hospital Krystal Kohlman, PA-C Stanford Children’s Hospital Kira Kuhn, CPNP Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
12:00 – 12:45 PM 1:00 – 1:45 PM 4:00 – 4:45 PM	The Role of Infection Prevention and Control in Immunocompromised Hosts Moderator: Inci Yildirim, MD, PhD, MSc Yale School of Medicine Ana M. Vaughan-Malloy, MD, MPH Associate Hospital Epidemiologist Associate Medical Director Infection Prevention & Control Associate Medical Director Antimicrobial Stewardship Program Department of Pediatrics Boston Children’s Hospital Instructor in Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School Benjamin Hanisch, MD Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases Program Children’s National Medical Center Investigator, Children’s National Research Institute How to Develop a Career in Transplant Infectious Diseases in Immunocompromised Hosts Moderator: Tanvi Sharma, MD, MPH, FPIDS Boston Children’s Hospital Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH Director, Immunocompromised Host Infectious Disease Professor, UC Department of Pediatrics Cincinnati Children’s Janet Englund, MD Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Washington School of Medicine Seattle Children’s Hospital The Role of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Immunocompromised Hosts (Inclusive of Pharmacists and Medical Personnel) Moderator: Haley Gans, MD, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA Stanford University School of Medicine Josh Wolf, MD, PhD Associate Member St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Rachel Wattier, MD, MHS Medical Director, Pediatric Antimicrobial Stewardship Program, UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital San Francisco Associate Professor, Pediatrics University of California, San Francisco Ted Morton, PharmD Clinical Pharmacy Specialist Department of Infectious Diseases St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Thursday, March 3	Transplant and Immunocompromised Hosts ID Symposium: Bench to Bedside
7:50 AM	Welcome and Announcements Hayley Gans, MD Clinical Professor, Pediatrics – Infectious Diseases Stanford University Gabriela Maron, MD Associate Member St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
8:00 – 8:55 AM (45 min + 10 Q&A)	Grand Rounds Curative Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease John F. Tisdale, MD Senior Investigator, Cellular and Molecular Therapeutics Branch National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute
9:00 – 9:45 AM (35 min + 10 Q&A)	Platform Presentation 1 Virus-specific T Cells Post Transplant Catherine Bollard, MD, FRACP, FRCPA Bosworth Chair for Cancer Biology Director, Center for Cancer and Immunology Research Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine Children’s National Hospital The George Washington University, School of Medicine and Health Sciences
9:45 – 10:00 AM (10 min + 5 Q&A)	Oral Abstract 1 Hailey Skonhovd Ross St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell (HCT) and Solid Organ Transplant (SOT) Recipients: Preliminary Results from a Multi-Site U.S. Study
10:00 – 10:15 AM	Break
10:15 – 11:00 AM (35 min + 10 Q&A)	Platform Presentation 2 Phage Therapy for MDRO and Mycobacteria in Transplant Candidate and Recipients Saima Aslam, MBBS, MS Director, Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Disease Service Associate Professor, Medicine University of California San Diego Health
11:00 – 11:25 AM	Research Update 2 *PIDS/St. Jude Transplant ID Research Working Group Updates* Kevin Downs, MD Assistant Professor of Pediatrics Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
11:25 AM – 12:05 PM (25 min + 10 Q&A)	Platform Presentation 3 COVID in the Immunocompromised Host Inci Yildirim, MD, PhD, MSc Medical Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Associate Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases and Global Health) Yale University School of Medicine Yale Institute of Global Health
12:05 – 12:35 PM	Lunch Break
12:35 – 2:05 PM	Case Conferences – Cases in Immunocompromised Hosts Moderator: Bill Muller, MD, PhD Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Moderator: Benjamin Hanisch, MD Children’s National Hospital Nicholas Geagan, MD Children’s National Hospital *Small But Mighty* Elizabeth Christian, MD Boston Children’s Hospital *A Red Herring* Lauren Kushner, MD Stanford University Medical Center *Don’t Rely on the Gram Stain: Fatal Hyperammonemia in Two Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients* Hannah Bahakel, MD Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center You Give Me Fever Brianna Ter Haar, MD Duke University School of Medicine Infectious Complications of HSCT Therapeutics Michel Mata, MD Hospital Infantil de Mexico An Uncommon Agent Involved in Soft Tissue Infection in a Child with Leukemia
2:05 – 2:15 PM	Break
2:15 – 2:30 PM (10 min + 5 Q&A)	Oral Abstract 2 Chris Severyn, MD, PhD Stanford University Gut Decontamination, the Microbiome, and the Risk of Bloodstream Infections During Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
2:30 – 3:10 PM	Interactive Session: Jeopardy Moderator: Hamid Bassiri, MD, PhD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
3:15 – 4:00 PM	Platform Presentation 4 Overview of Transplant Immunology Sandy Feng, MD, PhD Professor of Surgery, Division of Transplant Surgery Vice Chair of Research Department of Surgery University of California San Francisco
4:00 – 4:30 PM	Break
4:30 – 5:30 PM	Poster Session: Transplant and Research (Nonaccredited) Sessions will run simultaneously Transplant Posters Moderator: Mike Green, MD, MPH University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Moderator: Natasha Halasa, MD, MPH Vanderbilt University Medical Center Eimear Kitt, MD, FAAP Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Variation in Antibiotic Use and Incidence of Surgical Site Infections in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients Ronald Dallas, PhD St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital A Multicenter Study Exploring the Epidemiology and Outcomes of COVID-19 Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Cell Transplant, Cellular Therapy and Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: Preliminary Results from the Pediatric COVID-19 U.S. Registry Sarah Heston, MD Duke University School of Medicine Antibiotic Exposure and Risk of Cytomegalovirus Viremia Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients at a Single Institution Marc Foca, MD Albert Einstein School of Medicine A Retrospective Study of Valganciclovir Discontinuation Due to Toxicity or Intolerance in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients Muayad Alali, MD Indiana University Pediatric Febrile Neutropenia with Low Risk of Systemic Infection: When Is It Safe to Stop Antibiotics? William Otto, MD Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Manual Validation of an Automated Tool to Extract Blood Culture and Susceptibility Data from the Electronic Health Record for Children with Acute Myeloid Leukemia Research Posters Moderator: Buddy Creech, MD, MPH Vanderbilt University Medical Center Andrew B. Janowski, MD Washington University School of Medicine The Highly Conserved Stem-Loop II RNA Element (s2m) Is Critical for the Lifecycle of astrovirus VA1 But Is Dispensable for SARS-CoV-2 David Berman, DO Karius Diagnostics Rapid, Non-Invasive Detection of Non-H. pylori Helicobacter Infections in Immunocompromised Children Using Microbial Cell-Free DNA Next Generation Sequencing in Plasma Jane Symington, MD, PhD University of California San Francisco Elucidating Key Interactions Between Macrophages and Coccidioides Maria Perez Emory University An RSV Live-Attenuated Vaccine Candidate Lacking G Protein Mucin Domains Is Highly Attenuated, Immunogenic, and Effective in RSV Prevention in BALB/c Mice Stephen Isabell University of Minnesota Medical School Does Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Status Impact the Host Response to SARS-CoV-2? Shelby Walcott University of Alabama at Birmingham Resolution of Thrombocytopenia During Treatment for Symptomatic Congenital Cytomegalovirus Disease Rachel Bass Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine Nasal Microbiota Differences in Young Infants Are Associated with Early Childhood Irritability
Friday, March 4	Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Symposium
7:55 – 8:00 AM	Welcome and Announcements C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH President, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society Edie Carell Johnson Chair and Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program Vanderbilt University Medical Center Elaine Tuomanen, MD Chair, Infectious Diseases Director, Children’s Infection Defense Center St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
8:00 – 8:45 AM	Frontier Lecture 1 Contrasting MIS-C and Kawasaki Disease Anne Rowley, MD Professor of Pediatrics (Infectious Diseases) and Microbiology-Immunology Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
8:45 – 9:00 AM	Oral Abstract 1 Caleb Stokes, MD University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Zika Infection in Neural Tissues Reveals an Astrocyte-Driven Innate Immune Response Governed by Interferon Beta
9:00 – 9:45 AM	Keynote Address *Why Did My Patient Die? Answers from the Pneumococcal Surface* Elaine Tuomanen, MD Chair, Infectious Diseases Director, Children’s Infection Defense Center St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
9:45 – 10:00 AM	Break
10:00 – 10:45 AM	Frontier Lecture 2 Learning From the Human Adaptive Immune Response to Staphylococcus aureus Infections Isaac Thomsen, MD, MSCI Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program Laboratory Vanderbilt University Medical Center
10:45 – 11:00 AM	Oral Abstract 2 Sapna Pardasani St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital COVID-19 among pediatric patients with pre-existing pulmonary conditions: Preliminary results from the Pediatric COVID-19 U.S. Registry
11:00 – 11:45 AM	Frontier Lecture 3 Understanding and Predicting Biotic and Abiotic Perturbations to Developing Pediatric Microbiomes Gautam Dantas, PhD Professor, Department of Pathology & Immunology Center for Genome Sciences & Systems Biology Washington University School of Medicine
11:45 AM – 12:00 PM	Break
12:00 – 1:00 PM	2022 John H. Erskine Lecture in Infectious Diseases *Antibody and Vaccine Mediated Protection to Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants* Michael Diamond, MD, PhD The Herbert S. Gasser Professor, Departments of Medicine, Molecular Microbiology, Pathology & Immunology Division of Infectious Diseases Washington University School of Medicine
1:00 – 1:15 PM	Lunch
1:15 – 2:00 PM	Career Paths Breakout Discussion Sessions run concurrently. Each session is 20 minutes with 5 minute break between sessions. Attendees choose 2 sessions to attend. Session 1: Looking for a job Neil Surana, MD, PhD Associate Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Duke University School of Medicine Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, MHPTT Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Duke University School of Medicine Session 2: K-award Emma Mohr, MD, PhD Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases University of Wisconsin-Madison Elaine Tuomanen, MD Chair, Department of Infectious Diseases Director, Children’s Infection Defense Center St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital Session 3: Talking to the Media Craig Boerner Senior Information Officer/National News Director Vanderbilt University Medical Center
2:00 – 2:15 PM	Break
2:15 – 2:30 PM	Oral Abstract 3 Stephanie S. Cabler, MD Washington University School of Medicine Viral DNAemia and Viral Seropositivity are Associated with Mortality in Pediatric Patients with Severe Sepsis
2:30 – 3:15 PM	Luminary in Pediatric Infectious Diseases Sheldon Kaplan, MD Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Head, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Section Baylor College of Medicine My Journey in Pediatric Infectious Diseases: More Than a “Little Help from my Friends”
3:15 – 3:30 PM	Oral Abstract 4 Stephanie Rolsma, MD, PhD Vanderbilt University Medical Center Development of a Kinetic ELISA (kELISA) and Reactive B Cell Frequency (RBF) Assay to Detect Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Pre-Fusion F Protein-Specific Immune Responses in Infants
3:30 – 4:00 PM	Career Development Presentation *The Value of Diversity in the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Workforce* Anthony R. Flores, MD, PhD, MPH Associate Professor, Pediatric Infectious Diseases University of Texas Health Sciences Center
4:00 – 5:30 PM	Career Development Session Infection Control Lynn Ramirez, MD, MS University of California San Francisco Education Kathleen McGann, MD Duke University Transplant ID Monica Ardura, DO, MSCS Nationwide Children’s Hospital Basic Science Anne Rowley, MD Lurie Children’s Hospital
5:30 PM	Closing Remarks
Saturday, March 5	Global Health Syposium
8:00 – 8:05 AM	Welcome and Introduction to GHS Miguela A. Caniza, MD, MPH Director, Global Infectious Diseases Program Member, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine and Department of Infectious Diseases St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
8:05 – 9:00 AM	Luminaries in Global Health Moderator: Jimmy Carlucci, MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health Indiana University School of Medicine Grace John-Stewart, MD, MPH, PhD Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology, Medicine – Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Pediatrics Co-Director, Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children University of Washington Associate Director UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) What About the Kids? Improving Outcomes for Children Living With or Exposed to HIV and Lessons Along the Way Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD Anna M.R. Lauder Professor of Public Health Dean Yale School of Public Health Professor, Pediatrics Yale School of Medicine Pediatric Pandemics: Case Study of Global HIV from 1981-2022
9:00 – 9:15 AM	Q&A with Luminaries Moderator: Jimmy Carlucci MD, MPH Assistant Professor, Pediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases and Global Health Indiana University School of Medicine
9:15 – 9:30 AM	Break
9:30 – 10:30 AM	Poster Session (Rapid Fire Abstract Presentations with Professors) Moderator: Ye Jin Kang, MD, MSc, MPP Burroughs Wellcome Scholar in Pediatrics UT Southwestern Medical Center Residency Program Founder, Director, Global Humanitarian Engagement, Inc. Epidemiology of Infections, Including COVID-19 Ian Michelow, MD, MMed, DTM&H Associate Professor of Pediatrics The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases RI Hospital/Hasbro Children’s Hospital Center for International Health Research Guliz Erdem, MD Professor of Pediatrics The Ohio State University College of Medicine Section of Infectious Diseases Nationwide Children’s Hospital Infectious Prevention, Control and Education Parvathi Kumar, MD Associate Director of Early Clinical Development ReAlta Life Sciences Spyridon Karageorgos, MD Pediatric Resident Aghia Sophia Children’s Hospital Diagnostics Tanya Rogo, MD, MPH&TM, FAAP Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases Hasbro Children’s Hospital Brown University Alpert Medical School Immunocompromised Hosts Sahera Dirajlal-Fargo, MS, DO, FAAP Associate Professor of Pediatrics The Warren Alpert Medical School, Brown University Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases RI Hospital/Hasbro Children’s Hospital Center for International Health Research
10:30 – 10:40 AM	Break
10:40 AM – 12:00 PM	Networking Session Moderator: Elizabeth Schlaudecker, MD, MPH Medical Director, Division of Infectious Diseases Global Health Center Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics University of Cincinnati Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center Basic Research Grace John-Stewart, MD, MPH, PhD Professor, Global Health, Epidemiology, Medicine – Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and Pediatrics Co-Director, Global Center for Integrated Health of Women, Adolescents, and Children University of Washington Associate Director UW/Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research (CFAR) Clinical Research Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH Professor, Pediatrics University of Maryland School of Medicine Strategies for Incorporating Education/Capacity Building into a Global Health Career Troy Moon, MD, MPH Associate Professor, Pediatrics Division of Infectious Diseases Vanderbilt University Medical Center Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health Infection Prevention and Control Miguela A. Caniza, MD, MPH Director, Global Infectious Diseases Program Member, Department of Global Pediatric Medicine and Department of Infectious Diseases St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
12:00 PM	Closing Remarks

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