March 3, 2022
Transplant and Immunocompromised Hosts ID Symposium: Bench to Bedside
Case Conferences – Cases in Immunocompromised Hosts
- Moderators: Bill Muller, MD, PhD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine,
Benjamin Hanisch, MD – Children’s National Hospital - Small but Mighty
Nicholas Geagan, MD – Children’s National Hospital
- A Red Herring
Elizabeth Christian, MD – Boston Children’s Hospital - Don’t Rely on the Gram Stain: Fatal Hyperammonemia Syndrome in Two Immunocompromised Pediatric Patients
Lauren Kushner, MD – Stanford University Medical Center
- You Give Me Fever
Hannah Bahakel, MD – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center - Infectious Complications of HSCT Therapeutics
Brianna Ter Haar, MD – Duke University School of Medicine
- An Uncommon Agent Involved in Soft Tissue Infection in a Child with Leukemia
Michel Mata, MD – Hospital Infantil de Mexico
Transplant Posters
Moderators: Mike Green, MD, MPH – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Natasha Halasa, MD, MPH – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- Variation in Antibiotic Use and Incidence of Surgical Site Infections in Pediatric Liver Transplant Recipients
Eimear Kitt, MD, FAAP – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia - 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
Ronald Dallas, PhD – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
- Antibiotic Exposure and Risk of Cytomegalovirus Viremia Among Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients at a Single Institution
Sarah Heston, MD – Duke University School of Medicine
- A Retrospective Study of Valganciclovir Discontinuation Due to Toxicity or Intolerance in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Patients
Marc Foca, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
- Pediatric Febrile Neutropenia with Low Risk of Systemic Infection: When Is It Safe to Stop Antibiotics?
Muayad Alali, MD – Indiana University
- Manual Validation of an Automated Tool to Extract Blood Culture and Susceptibility Data from the Electronic Health Record for Children with Acute Myeloid Leukemia
William Otto, MD – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Research Posters
Moderator: Buddy Creech, MD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
- The highly conserved stem-loop II RNA element (s2m) is critical for the lifecycle of astrovirus VA1 but is dispensable for SARS-CoV-2
Andrew B. Janowski, MD – Washington University School of Medicine - Rapid, Non-Invasive Detection of Non-H. pylori Helicobacter Infections in Immunocompromised Children Using Microbial Cell-Free DNA Next Generation Sequencing in Plasma
David Berman, DO – Karius Diagnostics
- Elucidating key interactions between macrophages and Coccidioides
Jane Symington, MD, PhD – University of California San Francisco
- An RSV live-attenuated vaccine candidate lacking G protein mucin domains is highly attenuated, immunogenic, and effective in RSV prevention in BALB/c mice
Maria Perez – Emory University
- Does Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Status Impact the Host Response to SARS-CoV-2?
Stephen Isabell – University of Minnesota Medical School
- Resolution of thrombocytopenia during treatment for symptomatic congenital cytomegalovirus disease
Shelby Walcott – University of Alabama at Birmingham
- Nasal microbiota differences in young infants are associated with early childhood irritability
Rachel Bass – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine