Comprehensive CME Program on Infectious Diseases

This comprehensive CME program ensures attendees are current with state-of-the-art approaches to prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases. Updates, best practices, and new guidelines are presented by nationally recognized ID experts and master clinicians. Education is practical and results driven:

1. Optimal decision-making in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases
2. Newer antimicrobials and treatment strategies for highly resistant infections
3. Mpox (monkeypox): comprehensive updates on epidemiology, testing, vaccination, treatment
4. The latest on COVID-19, including long COVID
5. Prevention and treatment of infection in immunocompromised hosts
6. Update on antifungal diagnostics and therapy
7. State-of-the-art approaches to common infections, including complicated urinary tract and intra-abdominal infections, and musculoskeletal infections
8. Clinical approaches to complex, rare, “don’t-miss” infections
9. Infections in persons with substance use disorder
10. What’s new in HIV prevention and management
11. New, evolving, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases

Session 1: Monday Morning

8:00am to 8:20am – Introduction and Road Map: Infectious Diseases of Adults by Dr. Nesli Basgoz

8:20am to 9:05am – Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy by Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau

9:05am to 9:50am – Update on Antifungal Diagnostics and Therapy by Dr. Michael K. Mansour

9:50am to 10:00am – Break

10:00am to 10:45am – Antimicrobial Stewardship by Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau

10:45am to 11:30am – Clostridioides difficile Infection, including Recurrent and Refractory Disease and Novel Approaches by Dr. Elizabeth Hohmann

11:30am to 12:00pm – Live Q & A

Session 2: Monday Afternoon

1:00pm to 1:20pm – Panel Workshop #1: Resistant Gram Positive Infections – MRSA, Moderator: Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau

1:20pm to 1:40pm – Panel Workshop #2: Resistant Gram Positive Infections – VRE, Moderator: Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau

1:40pm to 2:00pm – Live Q & A

2:00pm to 2:20pm – Panel Workshop #3: Resistant Gram Negative Infections – I, Moderator: Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau

2:20pm to 2:40pm – Panel Workshop #4: Resistant Gram Negative Infections – II, Moderator: Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau

2:40pm to 3:00pm – Live Q & A

3:00pm to 3:10pm – Break

3:10pm to 4:00pm – Flummoxing Cases in Fungal Infections by Drs. Michael K. Mansour and Sarah Turbett

4:00pm to 4:40pm – Plenary – Public Health by Dr. Larry Madoff

4:40pm to 5:10pm – Live Q & A

Tuesday, May 02, 2023

Session 3: Tuesday Morning

8:00am to 9:00am – Encephalitis and Healthcare-Associated CNS Infections: The Newest Guidelines and Best Practices by Dr. Allan R. Tunkel

9:00am to 9:50am – Tick Talk: Lyme Disease, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Babesia, Rickettsia, and Other Tick-Borne Infections by Dr. Kimon C. Zachary

9:50am to 10:00am – Break

10:00am to 10:50am – Bone and Joint Infections: A Conceptual Framework by Dr. Sandra B. Nelson

10:50am to 11:40am – Staphylococcus aureus: Dj Vu All Over Again by Dr. Henry F. Chambers

11:40am to 12:10pm – Live Q & A

12:10pm to 1:00pm – Break

Session 4: Tuesday Afternoon

1:00pm to 1:35pm – Panel Workshop #5: Native Bone Infections including Diabetic Foot Infection and Sacral Osteomyelitis, Moderator: Dr. Sandra B. Nelson

1:35pm to 2:10pm – Panel Workshop #6: Orthopedic Device Infections: Prosthetic Joint Infections, Moderator: Dr. Sandra B. Nelson

2:10pm to 2:40pm – Live Q & A

2:40pm to 2:50pm – Break

2:50pm to 3:40pm – State-of-the-Art Diagnosis and Management of Sexually Transmitted Infections by Dr. Kevin L. Ard

3:40pm to 4:30pm – New and Emerging Viruses by Dr. Martin S. Hirsch

4:30pm to 5:00pm – Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in 2023 by Dr. Sandra B. Nelson

5:00pm to 5:30pm – Live Q & A

Wednesday, May 03, 2023

Session 5: Wednesday Morning

8:00am to 8:40am – Panel Workshop #7: Multidisciplinary Management of Intra-abdominal Infections, Moderator: Dr. Nesli Basgoz

8:40am to 9:20am – Panel Workshop #8: Multidisciplinary Management of Complex Urinary Tract Infections, Moderator: Dr. Jacob Lazarus

9:20am to 9:50am – Live Q & A

9:50am to 10:00am – Break

10:00am to 10:30am – Clinical Manifestations of COVID, including Long COVID by Dr. Arthur Y. Kim

10:30am to 11:00am – COVID-19 Treatment and Vaccines by Dr. Rajesh T. Gandhi

11:00am to 11:30am – COVID-19 and Monkeypox Transmission & Infection Control by Dr. Erica S. Shenoy

11:30am to 12:00pm – SARS CoV-2 and Monkeypox Testing by Dr. Sarah Turbett

12:00pm to 12:30pm – Live Q & A

12:30pm to 1:00pm – Break

Session 6: Wednesday Afternoon

1:00pm to 1:30pm – Monkeypox: Epidemiology and Public Health (US) by Dr. Demetre Daskalakis

1:30pm to 2:00pm – Monkeypox on the Global Stage by Dr. Boghuma K. Titanji

2:00pm to 2:40pm – Monkeypox: Clinical Manifestations and Vaccination by Drs. Nesli Basgoz and Kevin L. Ard

2:40pm to 2:50pm – Break

2:50pm to 3:30pm – Monkeypox: Treatment, including Regulatory Aspects by Dr. Elizabeth Hohmann

3:30pm to 4:30pm – Live: New England Journal of Medicine Clinicopathologic Conference (CPC) by Dr. Eric S. Rosenberg

4:30pm to 5:00pm – Live Q & A

Thursday, May 04, 2023

Session 7: Thursday Morning

8:00am to 8:35am – Cellular and Immune-Based Therapies for Cancer: What the ID Clinician Needs to Know in 2023 by Dr. Michael K. Mansour

8:35am to 9:35am – Infections Related to Solid Organ Transplant and Non-Oncologic Immunomodulatory Therapy by Dr. Camille Nelson Kotton

9:35am to 9:45am – Break

9:45am to 10:45am – Infections in Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell Transplantation by Dr. Sarah Hammond

10:45am to 11:30am – Endocarditis by Dr. Molly L. Paras

11:30am to 12:00pm – Live Q & A

12:00pm to 1:00pm – Break

Session 8: Thursday Afternoon

1:00pm to 1:35pm – Panel Workshop #9: Challenges in Native Valve Endocarditis (including in Persons with Substance Use Disorder), Moderator: Dr. Molly Paras

1:35pm to 2:10pm – Panel Workshop #10: Multidisciplinary Management of Prosthetic Valve Endocarditis (including in Persons with Substance Use Disorder), Moderator: Dr. Molly Paras

2:10pm to 2:40pm – Live Q & A

2:40pm to 2:50pm – Break

2:50pm to 3:30pm – Plenary – Client-Centered HIV/STI Care: Advancing Equity in Health by Dr. Ruanne V. Barnabas

3:30pm to 4:00pm – Pre- and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV by Dr. Kevin L. Ard

4:00pm to 4:45pm – HIV Management in 2023 by Dr. Rajesh T. Gandhi

4:45pm to 5:25pm – Understanding and Addressing the Continuing Challenges in HIV-Associated Opportunistic Infections by Dr. Nesli Basgoz

5:25pm to 5:55pm – Live Q & A

Friday, May 05, 2023

Session 9: Friday Morning

8:00am to 8:50am – Tuberculosis Update by Dr. Roco Hurtado

8:50am to 9:40am – Bronchiectasis, Pneumonia, and NTM Infections: Anatomic and Clinical Approaches by Dr. Nesli Basgoz

9:40am to 9:50am – Break

9:50am to 10:40am – Advances in Viral Hepatitis: HBV and HCV by Dr. Arthur Kim

10:40am to 11:30am – Eye and ENT Infections: What You Need to Know in 2023 by Dr. Miriam B. Barshak

11:30am to 12:00pm – Live Q & A

12:00pm to 1:00pm – Break

Session 10: Friday Afternoon

1:00pm to 1:35pm – Panel Workshop #11: Management of Complex Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infection: Pulmonary, Moderator: Dr. Roco Hurtado

1:35pm to 2:10pm – Panel Workshop #12: Management of Complex Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infection: Extrapulmonary, Moderator: Dr. Roco Hurtado

2:10pm to 2:40pm – Live Q & A

2:40pm to 2:50pm – Break

2:50pm to 3:25pm – Tropical Medicine: 2023 Review and Update by Dr. Edward T. Ryan

3:25pm to 4:05pm – Cases in Global Infectious Diseases by Dr. Edward T. Ryan

4:05pm to 4:45pm – Infections in Persons with Substance Use Disorder: New Horizons and Emerging Approaches by Dr. Jennifer A. Johnson

4:45pm to 5:15pm – Live Q & A