Harvard Infectious Diseases in Adults 2023
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:
- Optimal decision-making in the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of infectious diseases
- Newer antimicrobials and treatment strategies for highly resistant infections
- Mpox (monkeypox): comprehensive updates on epidemiology, testing, vaccination, treatment
- The latest on COVID-19, including long COVID
- Prevention and treatment of infection in immunocompromised hosts
- Update on antifungal diagnostics and therapy
- State-of-the-art approaches to common infections, including complicated urinary tract and intra-abdominal infections, and musculoskeletal infections
- Clinical approaches to complex, rare, “don’t-miss” infections
- Infections in persons with substance use disorder
- What’s new in HIV prevention and management
- New, evolving, emerging, and re-emerging infectious diseases
Schedule
8:00am to 8:20am | Introduction and Road Map: Infectious Diseases of AdultsDr. Nesli Basgoz | |
8:20am to 9:05am | Principles of Antimicrobial TherapyDr. Alyssa R. Letourneau | |
9:05am to 9:50am | Update on Antifungal Diagnostics and TherapyDr. Michael K. Mansour | |
9:50am to 10:00am | Break | |
10:00am to 10:45am | Antimicrobial StewardshipDr. Alyssa R. Letourneau | |
10:45am to 11:30am | Clostridioides difficile Infection, including Recurrent and Refractory Disease and Novel ApproachesDr. Elizabeth Hohmann | |
11:30am to 12:00pm | Live Q & A | |
12:00pm to 1:00pm | Break |
1:00pm to 1:20pm | Panel Workshop #1: Resistant Gram Positive Infections – MRSAModerator: Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau | |
1:20pm to 1:40pm | Panel Workshop #2: Resistant Gram Positive Infections – VREModerator: Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau | |
1:40pm to 2:00pm | Live Q & A | |
2:00pm to 2:20pm | Panel Workshop #3: Resistant Gram Negative Infections – IModerator: Dr. Alyssa R. Letourneau | |
2:20pm to 2:40pm | Panel Workshop #4: Resistant Gram Negative Infections – IIModerator: 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 InfectionsDrs. Michael K. Mansour and Sarah Turbett | |
4:00pm to 4:40pm | Plenary – Public HealthDr. Larry Madoff | |
4:40pm to 5:10pm | Live Q & A |
8:00am to 9:00am | Encephalitis and Healthcare-Associated CNS Infections: The Newest Guidelines and Best PracticesDr. Allan R. Tunkel | |
9:00am to 9:50am | Tick Talk: Lyme Disease, Ehrlichia, Anaplasma, Babesia, Rickettsia, and Other Tick-Borne InfectionsDr. Kimon C. Zachary | |
9:50am to 10:00am | Break | |
10:00am to 10:50am | Bone and Joint Infections: A Conceptual FrameworkDr. Sandra B. Nelson | |
10:50am to 11:40am | Staphylococcus aureus: Déjà Vu All Over AgainDr. Henry F. Chambers | |
11:40am to 12:10pm | Live Q & A | |
12:10pm to 1:00pm | Break |
1:00pm to 1:35pm | Panel Workshop #5: Native Bone Infections including Diabetic Foot Infection and Sacral OsteomyelitisModerator: Dr. Sandra B. Nelson | |
1:35pm to 2:10pm | Panel Workshop #6: Orthopedic Device Infections: Prosthetic Joint InfectionsModerator: 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 InfectionsDr. Kevin L. Ard | |
3:40pm to 4:30pm | New and Emerging VirusesDr. Martin S. Hirsch | |
4:30pm to 5:00pm | Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in 2023Dr. Sandra B. Nelson | |
5:00pm to 5:30pm | Live Q & A |
8:00am to 8:40am | Panel Workshop #7: Multidisciplinary Management of Intra-abdominal InfectionsModerator: Dr. Nesli Basgoz | |
8:40am to 9:20am | Panel Workshop #8: Multidisciplinary Management of Complex Urinary Tract InfectionsModerator: 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 COVIDDr. Arthur Y. Kim | |
10:30am to 11:00am | COVID-19 Treatment and VaccinesDr. Rajesh T. Gandhi | |
11:00am to 11:30am | COVID-19 and Monkeypox Transmission & Infection ControlDr. Erica S. Shenoy | |
11:30am to 12:00pm | SARS CoV-2 and Monkeypox TestingDr. Sarah Turbett | |
12:00pm to 12:30pm | Live Q & A | |
12:30pm to 1:00pm | Break |
1:00pm to 1:30pm | Monkeypox: Epidemiology and Public Health (US)Dr. Demetre Daskalakis | |
1:30pm to 2:00pm | Monkeypox on the Global StageDr. Boghuma K. Titanji | |
2:00pm to 2:40pm | Monkeypox: Clinical Manifestations and VaccinationDrs. Nesli Basgoz and Kevin L. Ard | |
2:40pm to 2:50pm | Break | |
2:50pm to 3:30pm | Monkeypox: Treatment, including Regulatory AspectsDr. Elizabeth Hohmann | |
3:30pm to 4:30pm | Live: New England Journal of Medicine Clinicopathologic Conference (CPC)Dr. Eric S. Rosenberg | |
4:30pm to 5:00pm | Live Q & A |
8:00am to 8:35am | Cellular and Immune-Based Therapies for Cancer: What the ID Clinician Needs to Know in 2023Dr. Michael K. Mansour | |
8:35am to 9:35am | Infections Related to Solid Organ Transplant and Non-Oncologic Immunomodulatory TherapyDr. Camille Nelson Kotton | |
9:35am to 9:45am | Break | |
9:45am to 10:45am | Infections in Hematologic Malignancies and Stem Cell TransplantationDr. Sarah Hammond | |
10:45am to 11:30am | EndocarditisDr. Molly L. Paras | |
11:30am to 12:00pm | Live Q & A | |
12:00pm to 1:00pm | Break |
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 HealthDr. Ruanne V. Barnabas | |
3:30pm to 4:00pm | Pre- and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIVDr. Kevin L. Ard | |
4:00pm to 4:45pm | HIV Management in 2023Dr. Rajesh T. Gandhi | |
4:45pm to 5:25pm | Understanding and Addressing the Continuing Challenges in HIV-Associated Opportunistic InfectionsDr. Nesli Basgoz | |
5:25pm to 5:55pm | Live Q & A |
8:00am to 8:50am | Tuberculosis UpdateDr. Rocío Hurtado | |
8:50am to 9:40am | Bronchiectasis, Pneumonia, and NTM Infections: Anatomic and Clinical ApproachesDr. Nesli Basgoz | |
9:40am to 9:50am | Break | |
9:50am to 10:40am | Advances in Viral Hepatitis: HBV and HCVDr. Arthur Kim | |
10:40am to 11:30am | Eye and ENT Infections: What You Need to Know in 2023Dr. Miriam B. Barshak | |
11:30am to 12:00pm | Live Q & A | |
12:00pm to 1:00pm | Break |
1:00pm to 1:35pm | Panel Workshop #11: Management of Complex Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infection: PulmonaryModerator: Dr. Rocío Hurtado | |
1:35pm to 2:10pm | Panel Workshop #12: Management of Complex Nontuberculous Mycobacterial (NTM) Infection: ExtrapulmonaryModerator: Dr. Rocío 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 UpdateDr. Edward T. Ryan | |
3:25pm to 4:05pm | Cases in Global Infectious DiseasesDr. Edward T. Ryan | |
4:05pm to 4:45pm | Infections in Persons with Substance Use Disorder: New Horizons and Emerging ApproachesDr. Jennifer A. Johnson | |
4:45pm to 5:15pm | Live Q & A |