272 - Musculoskeletal Infections: Muscling Our Way Through

Saturday, October 14, 2023

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US ET

Location: 258 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Moderator(s)

Zanthia Wiley, MD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor of Medicine
Emory University
Atlanta, GA, United States
ER

Elizabeth Robilotti, MD MPH

Attending Physician
Hospital for Special Surgery

Disclosure(s):

Zanthia Wiley, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Elizabeth Robilotti, MD MPH: Replimune: Advisor/Consultant (Terminated, June 30, 2023)

Poorani Sekar, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

describe methods of diagnosing diabetic foot osteomyelitis, including radiologic methods and percutaneous bone biopsy;
apply the principles of biofilm-producing bacteria to the antibiotic treatment of prosthetic joint infections;
describe the evidence for oral antibiotic treatment of osteomyelitis and treatment durations

3:15 PM – 3:40 PM US ET

Diagnosing Diabetic Foot Osteomyelitis: Where Are We Now?
Speaker: Marcos Schechter, MD – Emory University School of Medicine
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM US ET

Treating Prosthetic Joint Infections: What About That Biofilm?
Speaker: Jessica Seidelman, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Duke University School of Medicine
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM US ET

Osteomyelitis and Orals: How Far Have We Come?
Speaker: Nicolas W. Cortes-Penfield, MD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska Medical Center