88 - A Day With the Hospital Epidemiologist's Pager: Challenging Cases in Infection Prevention

Thursday, October 12, 2023

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US ET

Location: 258 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Interactive Moderator(s)

Daniel Morgan, MD, MS

Professor
Epidemiology & Public Health
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, United States

Slides
Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA (she/her/hers)

Professor
Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University in St. Louis
Saint Louis, MO, United States

Panelist(s)

Anna Sick-Samuels, MD;MPH (she/her/hers)

Assistant Professor
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD, United States
Jorge Salinas, MD

Hospital Epidemiologist
Stanford University
Palo Alto, CA, United States
Christopher Pfeiffer, MD, MHS (he/him/his)

Chief, Infectious Diseases Section and Hospital Epidemiologist
VA Portland Health Care System
Portland, OR, United States
Kaede Ota Sullivan, MD, MBA

Professor
Pathology and Laboratory Medicine
Temple University Health System
Philadelphia, PA, United States

Disclosure(s):

Daniel J. Morgan, MD, MS: No financial relationships to disclose

Hilary Babcock, MD, MPH, FSHEA, FIDSA: No financial relationships to disclose

Anna C. Sick-Samuels, MD;MPH: No financial relationships to disclose

Jorge Salinas, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Christopher D. Pfeiffer, MD, MHS: Department of Defense/MedPace: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, June 23, 2023); Pfizer, Inc.: Grant/Research Support (Terminated, June 2, 2022)

Kaede Ota Sullivan, MD, MBA: No financial relationships to disclose

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-0000-23-002-L01-P

Learning Objectives:

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

identify different approaches to infection control challenges;
describe the range of issues faced by infection control;
explain the relationship with the microbiology lab