CDC- Get Smart About Antibiotics Week, November 15-21, 2010

Get Smart about Antibiotics Week is an annual effort to coordinate the work of CDC’s Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work campaign, state-based appropriate antibiotic use campaigns, non-profit partners, and for-profit partners during a one week observance of antibiotic resistance and the importance of appropriate antibiotic use.

For more information, see: http://www.cdc.gov/getsmart/campaign-materials/week.html 

 

NFID/ Emory Clinical Vaccinology Course  

November 5-7, Hyatt Regency Bethesda, Bethesda Maryland

Sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases and the Emory Department of Medicine Division of Infectious Diseases and the Emory Vaccine Center

The Clinical Vaccinology Course focuses on new developments and issues related to the use of vaccines.  Leading experts, including representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, will discuss newly available vaccines and vaccines in the pipeline, as well as established vaccines whose continued administration is essential to improving disease prevention efforts.

The course is specifically designed for physicians, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, pharmacists, vaccine program administrators, and other health professionals involved with or interested in the clinical use of vaccines.  The course will also be of interest to health care professionals involved in the prevention and control of infectious diseases, such as Federal, state, and local public health officials.  Course participants should have a knowledge of or interest in vaccines and vaccine-preventable diseases.  

Topics include: How Vaccines Work, Childhood Immunization, Clinical Cases in Vaccinology, Special Topics in Vaccination, Adult Immunization, and Childhood and Adolescent Immunization.  Detailed course program and registration form are available at: www.nfid.org/conferences/course1110/.   

Continuing Education Opportunities at  IDClinician.Com

“ Serious Infections in the Critical Care Setting” 

 http://idclinician.com/ 

SIDP Annual Meeting- 20th Anniversary Celebration

 Agenda

8:30-9:30 am: New Member Breakfast

& Poster Session

9:30-10:30 am: Concurrent Session 1

Session A: Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy in 2010

Kim Leuthner, Pharm.D.

Session B: HIV in 2010: Translating Research Advances and Guidelines-Updates to Patient Care

Patrick Clay, Pharm.D.

10:30-10:45 am: Coffee Break

10:45-11:45 am: Utilizing Antimicrobial PK/PD principles in practice: the academic and clinical perspective

Marc Scheetz, Pharm.D.

Chris Bland, Pharm.D.

12:00-1:00 pm: Lunch/Business Meeting

1:00-2:00 pm: Clinical application of therapeutic drug monitoring of the azoles for invasive fungal infections

David Andes, MD

2:00-3:00 pm: Keynote: The Diminishing Antimicrobial Pipeline

Ramanan Laxminarayan, Senior Fellow, 

Resources for the Future, Washington DC

3:00-3:15 pm: Break

3:15-3:45 pm: Industry Perspective on the Antimicrobial Pipeline

John Rex, M.D.

3:45-4:15 pm: Clinician perspective on the Antimicrobial Pipeline

Annie Wong-Beringer, Pharm.D

4:15-4:45 pm: Panel Discussion/Q&A

4:45-5:00 pm: Announcements and Adjournment

5:00 - 7:00 pm: Reception and Dinner

ISAP-Post ICAAC Symposium in Boston

Focused presentation of cutting-edge topics, and the resulting high-level discussion at our Post-ICAAC symposia, make this one of the most anticipated scientific PK/PD events of the year. This year's symposium will be in Boston on September 15th, 2-6 pm. Details will be posted on our website soon (http://www.isap.org/).
 
As in previous years, the symposium has two parts.


1. Research trends: this year’s focus is on recent PK/PD research and trends related to TB drugs.


2. Forum for Young Investigators: brief presentations on PK/PD topics related to TB drugs as well as other areas are eligible and encouraged for submission. 
Young Investigators - this is a unique opportunity for insightful and motivating feedback regarding your research.



Program: 

PK/PD in special sites of infection-TB

 -TB drugs
- Brief introduction to M. tuberculosis infection (U. Theuretzbacher)


- Studying PK/PD of TB drugs - A daunting challenge (C. Peloquin)

Young investigator presentations

(PK/PD of TB drugs and general PK/PD): 10 min presentations

The agenda provides time for discussion after each presentation. At the closing of the symposium, ISAP travel awards for the accepted Young Investigators' presentations will be granted. Young Investigators are those within 3 years of graduation or post-doc appointments.

Abstracts are due by July 23. 
For more information and submission please contact Vincent Tam: VHTam@Central.UH.EDU