201 - No Cultures? No Problem: Making the Most of Formalin-Fixed Tissue for ID Diagnosis

Saturday, October 14, 2023

8:00 AM – 9:00 AM US ET

Location: 156 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Moderator(s)

Nira Pollock, MD, PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Medical Director, Infectious Diseases Diagnostic Lab/Associate Professor of Pathology and Medicine, HMS
Boston Children's Hospital
Boston, MA, United States
Jeannette Guarner, MD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Pathology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, GA, United States

Slides
Derrick Chen, MD (he/him/his)

Associate Professor
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Madison, WI, United States

Slides

Disclosure(s):

Nira R. Pollock, MD, PhD: No financial relationships to disclose

Jeannette Guarner, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Derrick Chen, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

CME Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1 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:

describe tissue histology workflow and techniques relevant to ID diagnosis, including both routine and specialized histochemical and immunohistochemical stains;
explain what can/cannot be diagnosed based on morphology;
describe methods for and advantages/disadvantages to molecular testing of formalin-fixed tissue for ID diagnosis

Presentations:

8:00 AM – 8:30 AM US ET

Making the Most of Formalin-Fixed Tissue for ID diagnosis - Cases (Part 1)
Speaker: Jeannette Guarner, MD (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine
8:30 AM – 9:00 AM US ET

Making the Most of Formalin-Fixed Tissue for ID diagnosis - Cases (Part 2)
Speaker: Derrick Chen, MD (he/him/his) – University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health