IDWeek 2016 – Infectious Diseases

The IDWeek 2016 conference event will take place October 26-30, 2016 in New Orleans, LA.

IDWeek 2016 is intended for healthcare professionals in infectious diseases and healthcare epidemiology and prevention, including researchers, clinicians, quality and patient safety practitioners, epidemiologists, and public health officials, including those who see HIV and pediatric patients.

Highlighted sessions and workshops include:

• ID Diagnostics Update 2016
• Vaccine Preventable Outbreaks: How Can ID Fight the Skeptics?
• Distinguishing Viral and Bacterial Infections: A Diagnostic Debate
• Treating Infectious Diseases in Resource-Limited Settings
• Emergency Use Clinical Trials for Emergency ID
• Crossing the Line of Gram-Negative Resistance
• MERS-CoV Update
• Host/Microbe Metabolic Factors Shape Infectious Disease Pathogenesis
• Novel Insights into Fungal Pathogenesis
• How Whole Genome Sequencing Is Transforming Public Health
• Using Social Media to Advance Infection Prevention and Stewardship
• Friendly Fire – The Infectious Disease Complications of Immunotherapies
• Communicating with Vaccine Hesitant Patients
• Influence of the Microbiome on Infectious Diseases Pathogenesis
• Best Practices for Antibiotic Stewardship Programs
• Challenging Cases in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Infectious Diseases Diagnostics Cases
• Ebola: Convalescence and Sequelae
• Challenging Cases in Pediatric Infectious Diseases
• Getting it Right from the Start – Controversies in Dosing of Antimicrobials
• Pro/Con Interactive Symposium: Controversies in Infection Prevention
• Food and Travel: Detection of GI Pathogens
• When to Switch Antiretroviral Therapies

Please visit the IDWeek 2016 website for more information and registration.