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St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Conference

 

 
 

The St. Jude/PIDS Pediatric Infectious Diseases Conference features leaders in the field of Infectious Diseases and features Transplant ID, Original Research, Career Development and Global Health.

For over 20 years, this symposium, hosted by the St. Jude Department of Infectious Diseases and the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Society, has  highlighted research as a career for pediatric infectious diseases specialists by drawing from all the Pediatric Infectious Diseases training programs in the country.

 

Agenda for 2022 Conference

Wednesday, March 2 Meet and Greet
10:00 a.m.-4:45 p.m.

Meet the Experts

  • How to Develop Scholarship in Infectious Diseases in Immunocompromised Hosts
    • Moderator: Hayley Gans, MD, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA – Stanford University Medical Center
    • Betsy Herold, MD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    • Hamid Bassiri, MD, PhD – University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine; Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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  • 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

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  • 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 – Boston Children’s Hospital
    • Harvard Medical School
    • Benjamin Hanisch, MD – Children’s National Medical Center

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  • How to Develop a Career in Infectious Diseases in Immunocompromised Hosts
    • Moderator: Tanvi Sharma, MD, MPH, FPIDS – Boston Children’s Hospital
    • Lara Danziger-Isakov, MD, MPH – Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
    • Janet Englund, MD – Seattle Children’s Hospital

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  • The Role of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Immunocompromised Hosts (Inclusive of Pharmacists and Medical Personnel)
    • Moderator: Hayley Gans, MD, FAAP, FPIDS, FIDSA – Stanford University School of Medicine
    • Josh Wolf, MD, PhD – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
    • Rachel Wattier, MD, MHS – University of California, San Francisco
    • Ted Morton, PharmD – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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Thursday, March 3 Transplant and Immunocompromised Hosts ID Symposium: Bench to Bedside
7:50 – 8:00 a.m. Welcome and Announcements
Hayley Gans, MD, Stanford University Medical Center
Gabriela Maron, MD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
8:00 – 8:55 a.m.

Grand Rounds
Curative Therapies for Sickle Cell Disease
John F. Tisdale, MD, National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute

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9:00 – 9:45 AM Platform Presentation: Virus-specific T Cells Post Transplant
Catherine Bollard, M.D., FRACP, FRCPA, Children’s National Hospital, The George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences
(Lecture not recorded)
9:45 – 10:00 AM

Abstract Presentation: 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
Hailey Skonhovd Ross – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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10:00 – 10:15 AM
BREAK
10:15 – 11:00 AM

Platform Presentation: Phage Therapy for MDRO and Mycobacteria in Transplant Candidate and Recipients
Saima Aslam, MBBS, MS, University of California San Diego Health

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11:00-11:25 AM

Research Update: PIDS/St Jude Transplant ID Research Working Group Updates:
Kevin Downes, MD, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

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11:25 – 12:05 PM

Platform Presentation: COVID in Pediatric Immunocompromised Host
Inci Yildirim, MD, PhD, MSc, Yale School of Medicine

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12:05-12:35 PM LUNCH BREAK
12:35 PM –2:05 PM

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

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2:05 – 2:15 PM
BREAK
2:15 – 2:30 PM

Abstract: Gut Decontamination, the Microbiome, and the Risk of Bloodstream Infections During Pediatric Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation
Chris Severyn, MD, PhD – Stanford University

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2:30 – 3:10 PM

Interactive Session: Jeopardy
Moderator:
Hamid Bassiri, MD, PHD University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

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3:15 - 4:00 PM

Platform Presentation: Overview of Transplant Immunology
Sandy Feng, MD PhD, University of California San Francisco

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4:00 – 4:30 PM BREAK
4:30 – 5:30 PM
Poster Session: Transplant and Research (Nonaccredited)
The Transplant and Research Poster Sessions will run simultaneously.

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

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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

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Friday, March 4 Pediatric Infectious Diseases Research Symposium
7:55-8:00 AM Welcome and Announcements
Elaine Tuomanen, MD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
C. Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
8:00 – 8:45 AM

Frontier Lecture: Contrasting MIS-C and Kawasaki Disease
Anne Rowley, MD, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University

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8:45 – 9:00 AM

Abstract: Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Zika Infection in Neural Tissues Reveals an Astrocyte-Driven Innate Immune Response Governed by Interferon Beta
Caleb Stokes, MD – University of Washington / Seattle Children's Hospital

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9:00 – 9:45 AM

Keynote Address: Why Did My Patient Die? Answers from the Pneumococcal Surface
Elaine Tuomanen, MD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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9:45 – 10:00 AM BREAK
10:00 – 10:45 AM

Frontier Lecture: Learning From the Human Adaptive Immune Response to Staphylococcus aureus Infections
Isaac Thomsen, MD, MSCI, Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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10:45 – 11:00 AM

Abstract: COVID-19 among pediatric patients with pre-existing pulmonary conditions: Preliminary results from the Pediatric COVID-19 U.S. Registry
Sapna Pardasani – St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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11:00 – 11:45 AM Frontier Lecture: Understanding and Predicting Biotic and Abiotic Perturbations to Developing Pediatric Microbiomes
Gautam Dantas, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
(Lecture not recorded)
11:45 - 12:00 PM BREAK
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM

2022 John H. Erskine Lecture in Infectious Diseases

Antibody and Vaccine Mediated Protection to Emerging SARS-CoV-2 Variants
Michael Diamond, MD, PhD, Washington University School of Medicine
(Lecture not recorded)

1:00 – 1:15 PM  LUNCH BREAK
1:15 – 2:00 PM

Career Paths Breakout Discussion
Sessions will run concurrently. Sessions are 20 minutes each with 5-minute break between sessions. Attendees will choose two sessions to attend.

Looking for a Job
Neil Surana, MD, PhD, Duke University School of Medicine
Jessica Snowden, MD, MS, MHPTT, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

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K-award Session
Emma Mohr, MD, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Elaine Tuomanen, MD, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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Talking to the Media
Craig Boerner, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
(Lecture not recorded)

2:00 – 2:15 PM BREAK
2:15 – 2:30 PM

Abstract: Viral DNAemia and Viral Seropositivity are Associated with Mortality in Pediatric Patients with Severe Sepsis
Stephanie S. Cabler, MD – Washington University School of Medicine

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2:30 – 3:15 PM

Luminary in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

My Journey in Pediatric Infectious Diseases: More Than “a Little Help from my Friends”
Sheldon Kaplan, MD, Baylor College of Medicine

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3:15 – 3:30 PM

Abstract: 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
Stephanie Rolsma, MD, PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

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3:30 – 4:00 PM

Career Development Presentation

The Value of Diversity in the Pediatric Infectious Disease Research Workforce
Anthony R. Flores, MD, PhD, MPH, University of Texas Health Sciences Center

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4:00 – 5:30 PM

Career Development Session

  • Infection Control: Lynn Ramirez, MD, MS – UCSF
  • Education: Kathleen McGann, MD – Duke
  • Transplant ID: Monica Ardura, DO, MSCS – Nationwide Children’s Hospital
  • Basic Science: Anne Rowley, MD – Lurie Children’s Hospital

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5:30 p.m. CLOSING REMARKS
Saturday, March 5 Global Health Symposium
8:00 – 8:05 AM Welcome and Introduction to GHS
Miguela A. Caniza, MD, MPH, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital


8:05 – 9:00 AM

Luminaries in Global Health

What About the Kids? Improving Outcomes for Children Living With or Exposed to HIV and Lessons Along the Way
Grace John-Stewart, MD, PhD, University of Washington / Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research

Pediatric pandemics: Case study of global HIV from 1981-2022
Sten H. Vermund, MD, PhD, Yale School of Medicine

Moderator: Jimmy Carlucci, MD, MPH, Indiana University School of Medicine

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9:00 – 9:15 AM Q & A with Luminaries
Moderator: Jimmy Carlucci, MD, MPH, Indiana University School of Medicine
9:15 – 9:30 AM BREAK
9:30 – 10:30 AM Poster Session Rapid Fire Abstract Presentations with Professors
10:30 – 10:40 AM

BREAK

10:40 AM – 12:00 PM

Global Network Session

Moderator: Elizabeth Schlaudecker, MD, MPH, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

 

  • Basic Research: Grace John-Stewart, MD, PhD, University of Washington / Fred Hutch Center for AIDS Research
  • Clinical Research: Matthew Laurens, MD, MPH, University of Maryland
  • Strategies for Incorporating Education/Capacity Building into a Global Health Career: Troy Moon, MD, MPH, Vanderbilt University Medical Center
  • Infection Prevention and Control: Miguela A. Caniza, MD, MPH, St Jude Children’s Research Hospital

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12:00 pm. Closing Remarks
 
 
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