March 6, 2025
Welcome and Announcements
Hamid Bassiri, MD, PhD
Attending Physician, Divisipon of Infectious Diseases
Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Chair, St. Jude/PIDS Symposium Transplant Planning Committee
Gabriela Maron, MD, MSc
Medical Director of Clinical Operations
Department of Infectious Diseases
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
St. Jude Grand Rounds
The Role of the Intestinal Microbiome in Cancer Immunotherapy
Marcel van den Brink, MD, PhD
President and Chief Physician Executive
City of Hope Los Angeles and National Medical Center
Moderator: Gabriela Maron, MD, MSc
Updates from the Pediatric Infectious Diseases Transplant Network (PIDTRAN)
Moderator: Kevin J. Downes, MD
Cytomegalovirus-specific T cell Immunity in Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients
Daniel Dulek, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital
Vanderbilt University Medical School
Clinical Characteristics and Outcomes of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (CAP) Requiring Hospitalization Among Non-Lung Pediatric Solid Organ Transplant Recipients (pSOT)
Maheswari (Mahi) Ekambaram MBBS, Fellow
Pediatric Infectious Diseases Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
Oral Abstracts Session 2
Abstract Presentation 4: Transplant/ICH
Implementation and Clinical Impact of an Immunocompromised Infectious Diseases Service at a Large Academic Pediatric Hospital
Alexander Plattner, MD, MBA
Washington University School of Medicine
Moderator: Gwenn Skar MD, PhD
Oral Abstracts Session 2
Abstract Presentation 5: General Research
Comparison of Geographic Variation of CMV Glycoprotein B Between Minnesotan and Ugandan Populations
Autumn Kittilson, BS
University of Minnesota Medical School
Moderator: Gwenn Skar MD, PhD
Frontiers in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Quest for a Chlamydia T cell Vaccine
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
Moderator: Matthew Kelly, MD, MPH
Pediatric Transplant/Immunocompromised Hosts Platform
Influenza Vaccine Optimization Strategies in Immunocompromised Hosts
Natasha Halasa MD, MPH
Craig Weaver Professor in Pediactric Infectious Diseases
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Moderator: Tanvi S. Sharma, MD, MPH
Interactive Session: When Less is More: Risk Stratified Antibiotic Use Practices in Patients with Underlying Malignancies
QA Session
Adam Esbenshade, MD, MSCI
Gabrielle Haeusler, MBBS, FRACP, PhD
Maria Elena Santolaya, MD
Moderator: Gabriela Maron, MD, MSc
Challenging Dogma: Empiric Antibiotic Utilization in Pediatric Oncology with Non-neutropenic Fever
Adam Esbenshade, MD, MSCI
John N. Lukens, Jr. Chair in Pediatric Hematology and Oncology
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Moderator: Gabriela Maron, MD, MSc
When Less is More: Risk Stratified Antibiotic Use Practices in Patients with Underlying Malignancies
Risk Prediction Models in Children with Fever and Neutropenia
Maria Elena Santolaya, MD
Department of Paediatrics, Hospital Dr Luis Calvo Mackenna
Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Moderator: Gabriela Maron, MD, MSc
When Less is More: Risk Stratified Antibiotic Use Practices in Patients with Underlying Malignancies
Less is More . . . When to start and when to stop antibiotics in FN
Gabrielle Haeusler, MBBS, FRACP, PhD
Acting Director, Department of Infectious Diseases
Royal Children's Hospital, Melbourne, Australia
Moderator: Gabriela Maron, MD, MSc
Pediatric Transplant/Immunocompromised Hosts Platform
Virus specific T cells for the treatment of infections following solid organ transplantation.
Thomas M. Pfeiffer, MD
Assistant Professor of Pediatrics
Division of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cellular Therapy
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Moderator: Hamid Bassiri, MD PhD
Frontiers in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
Bone Appétit: Host-pathogen interactions during osteomyelitis
Jim Cassat, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Pathology, Microbiology, & Immunology
Associate Director, Vanderbilt Institute for Infection, Immunology, and Inflammation
Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Moderator: Gwenn Skar MD, PhD