March 5, 2025
Welcome and Announcements
Miguela A. Caniza, MD, MPH
Director, Infectious Diseases Division of Global Pediatric Medicine
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Luminaries in Global Health
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
Moderator: Jimmy Carlucci, MD
Luminaries in Global Health
Paediatric Infectious Diseases in Humanitarian Settings
Neal Russell, MD
Paediatric Advisor
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Moderator: Jimmy Carlucci, MD
Q&A with Luminaries in Global Health
Maria Elena Santolaya, MD
Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Dr Luis Calvo Mackenna
Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Neal Russell, MD
Paediatric Advisor
Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières
Moderator: Jimmy Carlucci, MD
State of the Art - Clostridioides difficile (C. diff.)
Biologic Treatment Approaches for Recurrent C. difficile Infection
Maribeth Nicholson, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Moderator: C. Buddy Creech, MD
State of the Art - Clostridioides difficile (C. diff.)
Development of a Multivalent mRNA-LNP Vaccine for Clostridioides difficile
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 Hospital of Philadelphia
Moderator: C. Buddy Creech, MD
State of the Art - Clostridioides difficile (C. diff.)
C. difficile Infection - Background, Diagnosis and Antibiotic Treatment
Larry K. Kociolek, MD, MSCI, FSHEA, FPIDS
Attending Physician, Division of Infectious Diseases
Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
Moderator: C. Buddy Creech, MD
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
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
Oral Abstracts Session 1
Implementation and Evaluation of a Repeat Blood Culture Guideline in Hospitalized Children with Cancer and Febrile Neutropenia
Muayad Alali, MD
Indiana University
Moderator: Andrea Berry, MD
Oral Abstracts Session 1
Demographic and Clinical Trends in Pediatric Drug-resistant Tuberculosis in Mumbai, India from 2020-2023
Dhruv Gandhi, MBBS
Bai Jerbai Wadia Hospital for Children, Mumbai, India
Moderator: Andrea Berry, MD
Oral Abstracts Session 1
Comparative outcomes of pediatric patients with hematologic malignancies with fluoroquinolone gram negative bacteremia vs fluoroquinolone susceptible gram negative bacteremia
Eleana Vasileiadi, MD
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
Moderator: Andrea Berry, MD
Career Development Presentation
Three Simulaneous Expectational Processes Continually On-going in the Brain of a Reader
George Gopen, JD, PhD
Professor Emeritus of the Practice of Rhetoric
Duke University
Moderator: Neil Surana, MD