Agenda

2025 St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference

  1. Wednedsay, March 5

    7:50 – 8:00 AM

    Auditorium

    Miguela A. Caniza, MD, MPH

    Director, Infectious Diseases Division of Global Pediatric Medicine

    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital 
    8:00 – 9:30 AM Luminaries in Global Health
    8:00 – 8:30 AM

    Respiratory Viruses in Pediatric Patients with Cancer, Fever and Neutropenia: Tackling the Gaps

    Maria Elena Santolaya, MD

    Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Dr Luis Calvo Mackenna

    Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
    8:30 – 9:00 AM

    Paediatric Infectious Diseases in Humanitarian Settings

    Neal Russell, MD

    Paediatric Advisor

    Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
    9:00 – 9:15 AM Q & A with Luminaries
    9:15 – 10:45 AM

    State of the Art - Clostridioides difficile (C. diff.)

    Moderator: C. Buddy Creech, MD

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    9:15 – 9:40 AM

    Maribeth Nicholson, MD, MPH

    Associate Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    9:40 – 10:05 AM

    Joseph P. Zackular, PhD

    Assistant Professor, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine

    Co-Director, Center for Microbial Medicine

    Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Children's H
    10:05 – 10:30 AM

    Larry K. Kociolek, MD, MSCI, FSHEA, FPIDS

    Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases

    Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
    10:30 – 10:45 AM Q & A
    10:45 – 11:00 AM Break
    11:00 AM – 12:00 PM Breakout Career Sessions
    Auditorium

    Mentor-Mentee Relationship

    Maribeth R. Nicholson, MD, MPH

    Associate Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition

    Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Moderator: Kari Neemann, MD
    Meeting Room 2

    How to Utilize AI in Our Daily Workflow

    Arthur Chang, MD

    Assistant Professor of Pediatric Infectious Diseases

    University of Nebraska Medical Center/Children's Nebraska

    Moderator: Dr. Gwenn Skar
    Lecture Hall

    Finding and Negotiating Your First Job

    Toni Darville, MD

    Distinguished Professor of Pediatrics and Microbiology & Immunology Chief

    Division of Infectious Diseases

    North Carolina Children's Hospital

    University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Neil Surana, MD, PhD

    Assistant Professor

    Duke University
    12:00 – 1:00 PM LUNCH
    1:00 – 1:30 PM Oral Abstracts Session 1

    Abstract Presentation 1: Transplant/ICH

    Hayley Scheerer, MD (St. Jude Children's Research Hospital)

    Short Course Compared to Standard Antibiotic Courses for Treatment of Uncomplicated Gram-negative Bacteremia in Pediatric HCT Recipients

    Abstract Presentation 2: Global Health

    Dhruv Gandhi, MBBS (Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India)

    Demographic and Clinical Trends in Pediatric Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Mumbai, India from 2020-2023 

    Abstract Presentation 3: General Research

    Autumn Kittilson, BS (University of Minnesota Medical School)

    Comparison of Geographic Variation of CMV Glycoprotein B Between Minnesotan and Ugandan Populations
    1:30 – 3:00 PM

    Career Development Presentation

    Writing from a Reader's Perspective

    George Gopen, JD, PhD

    Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Rhetoric

    Duke University

    Moderator: Neil Surana, MD
    3:15 – 3:30 PM Q & A
    3:30 - 4:00 PM Poster Set-Up

    4:00 - 5:30 PM

    Board Room

    		 Poster Session - Global & Transplant/ICH Posters

  2. Thursday, March 6

    7:50 – 8:00 AM

    Auditorium

    Welcome and Announcements

    Hamid Bassiri, MD, PhD

    Attending Physician, Divisipon of Infectious Diseases

    Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

    Chair, St. Jude/PIDS Symposium Planning Committee

    Gabriela Maron, MD, MSc

    Director IDS-BMTCT

    Department of Infectious Diseases

    St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    8:00 – 8:30 AM

    Frontiers in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

    Bacteriophages: A New Era for Antibacterial Therapy with Ancient Predators

    John Bradley, MD

    Director, Infectious Diseases

    Rady Children's Hospital San Diego
    8:30 – 8:45 AM

    Q & A
    8:45 – 9:15 AM

    Oral Abstracts Session 3

    Abstract Presentation 6: Global Health

    Maria Jose Reyes Caceres, MD | UNITEC

    Parental Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices on Pediatric Vaccination in Honduras: Insights and Challenges for Improving Immunization Coverage

    Abstract Presentation 7: Conference Top Abstract

    TBD
    9:15 – 10:00 AM Challenging Cases in Immunocompromised Hosts

    Case 1:

    Adam Lee, MD | Fellow, University of California, Irvine

    Finding Nemo

    Case 2:

    Randal De Souza, MD | Fellow, Nationwide Children's Hospital

    Fantastic Yeasts and Where to Find Them

    Case 3:

    Daniel Whitehurst, MD | Clinical Fellow, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Pancytopenia Pandemonium
    10:00 – 10:15 AM

    BREAK
    10:15 – 11:45 AM

    State of the Art - Pneumonia

    Moderator: 
    10:15 – 10:40 AM

    F. Heath Damron, PhD

    West Virginia University
    10:40 – 11:05 AM

    Alpana Waghmare, MD

    Associate Professor, Department of Pediatrics

    Division of Infectious Diseases

    University of Washington/Seattle Children's Hospital
    11:05 – 11:30 AM

    Gail Rodgers, MD

    Deputy Director, Pneumonia

    Gates Foundation
    11:30 – 11:45 PM Q & A
    11:45 AM – 12:00 PM

    LUNCH
    12:00 – 1:00 PM

    2025 John H. Erskine Lecture in Infectious Diseases

    Title: TBA

    Barney Graham, MD, PhD

    Founding Director of the David Satcher Global Health Equity Institute

    Professor of Medicine and Microbiology, Biochemistry, & Immunology

    Morehouse School of Medicine
    1:00 PM Closing Remarks and Adjourn
 
 

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