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Full Schedule

  • Saturday, October 24, 2026
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2401 - Spore Wars: New Antifungals in the Pipeline
    Moderator: David B. Cluck, PharmD (he/him/his) – East Tennessee State University - Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy
    Moderator: Marisa H. Miceli, MD – University of Michigan Health
    Speaker: Daniel B. Chastain, PharmD (he/him/his) – University of Georgia College of Pharmacy
    Speaker: Nathan P. Wiederhold, PharmD – University of Texas Health - San Antonio
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDHIV-STD-TBPediatric IDTraineeTransplant
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2402 - Futile Care or Not? Optimizing Antimicrobial Use At the End of Life
    Moderator: Christopher Blais, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA – Ochsner Medical Center
    Moderator: Gregory M. Schrank, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Speaker: Noah Boton, MD – NYU-Langone
    Speaker: Thomas Morel, MD – Ochsner Medical Center
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDInvestigative IDPediatric IDTraineeTransplant
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2403 - Connecting Continents: Shared Challenges and Contrasting Customs in Peds ID
    Moderator: Angela Campbell, MD, MPH – Emory University School of Medicine/CDC
    Moderator: Andi L. Shane, MD, MPH, MSc (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
    Moderator: Ravi Jhaveri, MD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Speaker: Anita Jane Campbell, MBBS, DCH, PG DipPID, FRACP, PhD (she/her/hers) – The University of Western Australia
    Speaker: Dorothy Dow, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Duke Pediatric Infectious Diseases/Duke Global Health Institute
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDPediatric ID
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2404 - What’s New in NeuroID
    Moderator: Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, MD,MPH (she/her/hers) – washington university
    Moderator: Rodrigo Hasbun, MD (he/him/his) – UTHealth Houston
    Speaker: LAKSHMI CHAUHAN, MD – University of Colorado Anschutz
    Speaker: Yuping D. Li, MD – Washington University in St. Louis
    Adult IDTrainee
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2405 - Back to Reality: Will My ID Recommendations Work At Discharge?
    Moderator: Yussef Bennani, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FACP (he/him/his) – Virginia Commonwealth University
    Moderator: Nahid Hiermandi, DO – University of California San Francisco
    Speaker: Lucila Marquez, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Baylor College of Medicine
    Speaker: Ank E. Nijhawan, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – University of Texas Southwestern
    Adult IDPediatric ID
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2406 - Cancer Prevention and Screening for People Living with HIV
    Moderator: Amesika Nyaku, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Adult IDHIV-STD-TBTrainee
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2408 - Controversies in Medical Education
    Debate-Style Moderator: Paul S. Pottinger, MD, FIDSA, FACP (he/him/his) – University of Washington
    Debate-Style Moderator: Jennifer M. Babik, MD, PhD – University of California San Francisco
    Debate-Style Speaker: Sara K. Schultz, MD, FACP – Temple University
    Debate-Style Speaker: Kusha Davar, MD – Keck School of Medicine of USC
    Debate-Style Speaker: Matthew R. Davis, PharmD – Infectious Disease Connect
    Debate Style Speaker: Gayle p. Balba, MD (she/her/hers) – Georgetown University School of Medicine
    Global IDPediatric IDTraineeCOVID-19
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2409 - Leveraging Sequencing Strategies for Public Health Surveillance
    Moderator: Shiwei Zhou, MD – University of Michigan
    Moderator: Anne Piantadosi, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Emory University
    Speaker: Kimberlee A. Musser, PhD (she/her/hers) – New York State Department of Health
    Speaker: Jonathan Edgeworth, PhD, FRCPath – Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
    Adult IDPediatric IDTrainee
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2410 - Strengthening Partnerships: Infection Prevention and Quality & Safety Working Together
    Moderator: Aaron Milstone, MD MHS (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Moderator: Hilary Babcock, MD (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St. Louis
    Speaker: Andrew S. Resnick, MD MBA (he/him/his) – The Chartis Group
    Speaker: Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine
    HIV-STD-TB
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2411 - Public health departments driving statewide antibiotic and diagnostic stewardship
    Moderator: Sujan Reddy, MD (he/him/his) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
    Moderator: Milner Staub, MD MPH (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Speaker: Sarah Kogut, MPH, CIC (she/her/hers) – New York Department of Health
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDPediatric IDTrainee
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    PL-2407 - Pipeline - Diagnostics
  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2401.1 - Spore Wars: New Antifungals in the Pipeline

    Moderator: David B. Cluck, PharmD – East Tennessee State University - Bill Gatton College of Pharmacy

    Moderator: Marisa H. Miceli, MD – University of Michigan Health

    Speaker: Daniel B. Chastain, PharmD – University of Georgia College of Pharmacy

    Speaker: Nathan P. Wiederhold, PharmD – University of Texas Health - San Antonio

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2402.1 - Futile Care or Not? Optimizing Antimicrobial Use At the End of Life

    Moderator: Christopher Blais, MD, MPH, FACP, FIDSA – Ochsner Medical Center

    Moderator: Gregory M. Schrank, MD, MPH – University of Maryland, Baltimore

    Speaker: Noah Boton, MD – NYU-Langone

    Speaker: Thomas Morel, MD – Ochsner Medical Center

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2403.1 - Connecting Continents: Shared Challenges and Contrasting Customs in Peds ID

    Moderator: Angela Campbell, MD, MPH – Emory University School of Medicine/CDC

    Moderator: Andi L. Shane, MD, MPH, MSc – Emory University School of Medicine & Children's Healthcare of Atlanta

    Moderator: Ravi Jhaveri, MD – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Speaker: Anita Jane Campbell, MBBS, DCH, PG DipPID, FRACP, PhD – The University of Western Australia

    Speaker: Dorothy Dow, MD, MSc – Duke Pediatric Infectious Diseases/Duke Global Health Institute

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2404.1 - What’s New in NeuroID

    Moderator: Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, MD,MPH – washington university

    Moderator: Rodrigo Hasbun, MD – UTHealth Houston

    Speaker: LAKSHMI CHAUHAN, MD – University of Colorado Anschutz

    Speaker: Yuping D. Li, MD – Washington University in St. Louis

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2405.1 - Back to Reality: Will My ID Recommendations Work At Discharge?

    Moderator: Yussef Bennani, MD, MPH, FIDSA, FACP – Virginia Commonwealth University

    Moderator: Nahid Hiermandi, DO – University of California San Francisco

    Speaker: Lucila Marquez, MD, MPH – Baylor College of Medicine

    Speaker: Ank E. Nijhawan, MD, MPH – University of Texas Southwestern

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2406.1 - Cancer Prevention and Screening for People Living with HIV

    Moderator: Amesika Nyaku, MD, MS – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2409.1 - Leveraging Sequencing Strategies for Public Health Surveillance

    Moderator: Shiwei Zhou, MD – University of Michigan

    Moderator: Anne Piantadosi, MD, PhD – Emory University

    Speaker: Kimberlee A. Musser, PhD – New York State Department of Health

    Speaker: Jonathan Edgeworth, PhD, FRCPath – Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2410.1 - Strengthening Partnerships: Infection Prevention and Quality & Safety Working Together

    Moderator: Aaron Milstone, MD MHS – Johns Hopkins University

    Moderator: Hilary Babcock, MD – Washington University in St. Louis

    Speaker: Andrew S. Resnick, MD MBA – The Chartis Group

    Speaker: Pranavi Sreeramoju, MD – University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine

  • 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    MP-2411.1 - Public health departments driving statewide antibiotic and diagnostic stewardship

    Moderator: Sujan Reddy, MD – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Moderator: Milner Staub, MD MPH – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Speaker: Sarah Kogut, MPH, CIC – New York Department of Health

  • 9:15 AM - 10:00 AM East Coast USA Time
    NL-2412 - Edward H. Kass Lectureship in the History of Medicine
    Speaker: Allison Agwu, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Johns Hopkins University
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    DS-2425 - Pre-emptive Strikes: Treating Bacterial Vaginosis Partner and Oral Vancomycin Prophylaxis
    Debate-Style Moderator: Anthony K. Leung, DO (he/him/his) – Cleveland Clinic Akron General
    Debate-Style Moderator: Dana M. Blyth, MD (she/her/hers) – Walter Reed National Military Medical Center
    Debate-Style Speaker: Anna M. Powell, MD – Johns Hopkins University
    Debate-Style Speaker: Caroline M. Mitchell, MD MPH – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Debate-Style Speaker: Abhishek Deshpande, MD PhD – Associate Professor
    Debate-Style Speaker: Colleen Kelly, MD – Mass General Brigham Healthcare Center
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlPediatric IDTraineeTransplant
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2418 - Breaking News: Scaling Up HIV Prevention
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2419 - EMR-ging Solutions to Improve Antibiotic Prescribing
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2420 - Fast, Furious and Flawless: Future of ID Testing
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2421 - Maternal/Infant RSV Immunization
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2413 - Join the Resistance 103: Drugging undruggable gram-positive bacteria
    Moderator: Annelies S. Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich
    Moderator: Ayesha Khan, PhD, D(ABMM), M(ASCP) – UC Irvine
    Speaker: Brian P. Conlon, PhD – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
    Speaker: Erlinda Ulloa, MD, MSc – Children's Hospital of Orange County
    Speaker: Jim E. Cassat, MD, PhD – Vanderbilt Health
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDInvestigative IDPediatric IDTraineeTransplant
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2414 - Doomsday Preppers: Laboratory Preparedness for High Consequence Infectious Diseases
    Moderator: Susy S. Hota, MD MSc (she/her/hers) – University Health Network, University of Toronto
    Moderator: Noreen Hynes, MD, MPH, DTM&H FIDSA FASTMH – Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health
    Speaker: Sheldon Campbell, MD, PhD – Yale School of Medicine, VA Connecticut Healthcare
    Speaker: Sarah Turbett, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Speaker: Marie-Claire Rowlinson, PhD, D(ABMM) (she/her/hers) – Association of Public Health Laboratories
    Adult IDEpi & Infection Control
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2415 - Outbreak Lessons from Latin America
    Moderator: Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD, MPH – Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Federico GOmez
    Moderator: Sofia del C Gonzalez, MSc (she/her/hers) – Asociacion Panamericana de Infectologia
    Moderator: Laila Woc-Colburn, MD (she/her/hers) – Emory University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Martin Casapia, MD (he/him/his) – Asociacion Civil Selva Amazonica. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia
    Speaker: Wilmer Villamil Gomez, MD, MSc (he/him/his) – Universidad Simon Bolivar Barranquilla Colombia
    Speaker: Susana C. Lloveras, MD (she/her/hers) – Hospital de Infecciosas "F. Muñiz”
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDPediatric IDTrainee
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2416 - Infectious Risks in Leukemia and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant
    Moderator: Joanna M. Schaenman, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    Moderator: Jessica Lum, MD – Cleveland Clinic
    Moderator: Madeleine R. Heldman, MD – Duke University
    Speaker: Zainab Shahid, MBBS – Memorial Sloan Kettering
    Speaker: Sophia Koo, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
    Speaker: Sanjeet S. Dadwal, MD (he/him/his) – City of Hope
    Adult IDTransplant
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2417 - Dissemination and implementation science at work in infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship
    Moderator: Charlesnika T. Evans (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Moderator: Julia E. Szymczak, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Utah
    Speaker: Heather Gilmartin, PhD, NP, CIC, FAPIC (she/her/hers) – Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus
    Speaker: Elizabeth Monsees, PhD, RN, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA, FAAN – Children's Mercy Hospital; UMKC School of Medicine
    Speaker: Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Adult IDGlobal IDInvestigative IDPediatric ID
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2422 - Breaking Down Silos: Practical Skills for Treating Substance Use as Integral to HIV Care​
    Moderator: Amesika Nyaku, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
    Speaker: Nikhil Seval, MD – Drexel University College of Medicine
    Moderator: Kinna Thakarar, DO, MPH (she/her/hers) – MaineHealth Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine
    Adult IDHIV-STD-TBTrainee
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2423 - Enteric Vaccines: Celebrating the past and planning the future​
    Moderator: Brian Chow, MD (he/him/his) – Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
    Moderator: Daniel C. Payne, PhD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital
    Speaker: Paul Offit, MD – Chldren's Hospital of Philadelphiam Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania
    Speaker: Sasirekha Ramani, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine
    Speaker: Hamid S. Jafari, MD – CDC and World Health Organization (ret.)
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDInvestigative IDPediatric IDTrainee
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2424 - We Got Your Back: Managing Postoperative Spinal Implant Infections
    Moderator: Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, MD,MPH (she/her/hers) – washington university
    Moderator: Geno Tai, MD – University of Minnesota
    Speaker: Aaron J. Tande, MD – Mayo Clinic, Rochester
    Speaker: Jenny R. Aronson, MD – Stanford Health Care
    Adult IDPediatric IDTraineeTransplant
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2426 - Is this infectious? Pediatric physician scientists on the case!
    Moderator: Allison H. Bartlett, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago Medicine
    Moderator: Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Children's Hospital Colorado
    Speaker: Sanjay K. Jain, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
    Speaker: Elizabeth Ann L. Enninga, PhD (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science
    Speaker: Charles Langelier, MD, PhD – University of California San Francisco
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlPediatric IDTrainee
  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2413.1 - Join the Resistance 103: Drugging undruggable gram-positive bacteria

    Moderator: Annelies S. Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich

    Moderator: Ayesha Khan, PhD, D(ABMM), M(ASCP) – UC Irvine

    Speaker: Brian P. Conlon, PhD – The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

    Speaker: Erlinda Ulloa, MD, MSc – Children's Hospital of Orange County

    Speaker: Jim E. Cassat, MD, PhD – Vanderbilt Health

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2414.1 - Doomsday Preppers: Laboratory Preparedness for High Consequence Infectious Diseases

    Moderator: Susy S. Hota, MD MSc – University Health Network, University of Toronto

    Moderator: Noreen Hynes, MD, MPH, DTM&H FIDSA FASTMH – Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health

    Speaker: Sheldon Campbell, MD, PhD – Yale School of Medicine, VA Connecticut Healthcare

    Speaker: Sarah Turbett, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    Speaker: Marie-Claire Rowlinson, PhD, D(ABMM) – Association of Public Health Laboratories

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2415.1 - Outbreak Lessons from Latin America

    Moderator: Carlos Franco-Paredes, MD, MPH – Hospital Infantil de Mexico, Federico GOmez

    Moderator: Sofia del C Gonzalez, MSc – Asociacion Panamericana de Infectologia

    Moderator: Laila Woc-Colburn, MD – Emory University School of Medicine

    Speaker: Martin Casapia, MD – Asociacion Civil Selva Amazonica. Universidad Nacional de la Amazonia

    Speaker: Wilmer Villamil Gomez, MD, MSc – Universidad Simon Bolivar Barranquilla Colombia

    Speaker: Susana C. Lloveras, MD – Hospital de Infecciosas "F. Muñiz”

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2416.1 - Infectious Risks in Leukemia and Hematopoietic Cell Transplant

    Moderator: Joanna M. Schaenman, MD, PhD – David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

    Moderator: Jessica Lum, MD – Cleveland Clinic

    Moderator: Madeleine R. Heldman, MD – Duke University

    Speaker: Zainab Shahid, MBBS – Memorial Sloan Kettering

    Speaker: Sophia Koo, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital/Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

    Speaker: Sanjeet S. Dadwal, MD – City of Hope

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2417.1 - Dissemination and implementation science at work in infection prevention and antimicrobial stewardship

    Moderator: Charlesnika T. Evans – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Moderator: Julia E. Szymczak, PhD – University of Utah

    Speaker: Heather Gilmartin, PhD, NP, CIC, FAPIC – Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus

    Speaker: Elizabeth Monsees, PhD, RN, CIC, FAPIC, FSHEA, FAAN – Children's Mercy Hospital; UMKC School of Medicine

    Speaker: Jennie H. Kwon, DO, MSCI – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2422.1 - Breaking Down Silos: Practical Skills for Treating Substance Use as Integral to HIV Care​

    Moderator: Amesika Nyaku, MD, MS – Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

    Speaker: Nikhil Seval, MD – Drexel University College of Medicine

    Moderator: Kinna Thakarar, DO, MPH – MaineHealth Medical Center/Tufts University School of Medicine

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2423.1 - Enteric Vaccines: Celebrating the past and planning the future​

    Moderator: Brian Chow, MD – Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA

    Moderator: Daniel C. Payne, PhD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital

    Speaker: Paul Offit, MD – Chldren's Hospital of Philadelphiam Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania

    Speaker: Sasirekha Ramani, PhD – Baylor College of Medicine

    Speaker: Hamid S. Jafari, MD – CDC and World Health Organization (ret.)

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2424.1 - We Got Your Back: Managing Postoperative Spinal Implant Infections

    Moderator: Geno Tai, MD – M Health Fairview UMMC Infectious Disease

    Speaker: Aaron J. Tande, MD – Mayo Clinic, Rochester

    Speaker: Matthew Goodwin, MD – washington university

    Speaker: Jenny R. Aronson, MD – Stanford Health Care

    Moderator: Nongnooch Poowanawittayakom, MD,MPH – washington university

  • 10:30 AM - 11:45 AM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2426.1 - Is this infectious? Pediatric physician scientists on the case!

    Moderator: Allison H. Bartlett, MD, MS – University of Chicago Medicine

    Moderator: Lilliam Ambroggio, PhD, MPH – Children's Hospital Colorado

    Speaker: Sanjay K. Jain, MD – Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center

    Speaker: Elizabeth Ann L. Enninga, PhD – Mayo Clinic College of Medicine and Science

    Speaker: Charles Langelier, MD, PhD – University of California San Francisco

  • 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    RF-2427 - Rapid Fire Poster Session: Multidimensional Stewardship
  • 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    RF-2428 - Rapid Fire Poster Session: Perinatal & Pediatric Infections, Prevention and Antimicrobial Stewardship
  • 12:15 PM - 12:45 PM East Coast USA Time
    RF-2429 - Rapid Fire Poster Session: Big Data, Big Insights in HIV
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2438 - Epidemiologic Insights in Pediatric ID
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2439 - Stop The Madness: Driving Diagnostic Excellence
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2440 - New School: Advances in ID Education
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2441 - STD Advances: GC & Beyond
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2430 - New Frontiers in COVID-19: Updates for 2026
    Moderator: Jorge Salazar, MD (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco
    Moderator: Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH – University of Minnesota
    Moderator: Susy S. Hota, MD MSc (she/her/hers) – University Health Network, University of Toronto
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlCOVID-19
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2431 - HIV updates for Non-specialists and Specialists Alike​
    Moderator: Vivek Jain, MD, MAS (he/him/his) – Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco
    Moderator: Raul Macias Gil, MD (he/him/his) – Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlHIV-STD-TBTrainee
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2432 - Beyond antibiotics: novel approaches for difficult to treat infections
    Moderator: Annelies S. Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich
    Moderator: Robin Patel, MD (she/her/hers) – Mayo Clinic
    Speaker: Daria Van Tyne, University of Pittsburg – Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases
    Speaker: Jon S. Friedland, MA PhD FRCP FRCPE FRCPI FMedSci FESCMID – European Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)
    Speaker: Carol M. Kao, MD, MSCI (she/her/hers) – Washington University in St Louis School of Medicine
    Adult ID
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2433 - Hot Topics in Pulmonary Fungal Infections
    Moderator: Sarah P. Hammond, MD (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Moderator: John W. Baddley, MD MSPH (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Speaker: John W. Baddley, MD MSPH (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Mitsuru Toda, PhD – CDC
    Speaker: Andrew H. Limper, MD – Mayo Clinic
    Adult IDGlobal ID
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2434 - 2026 Case-Based Gu(ID)elines: Aspergillosis, Immunomodulators, and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
    Moderator: Ronald G. Nahass, MD (he/him/his) – ID Care; Infectious Diseases Society (IDSA)
    Moderator: Lindsey R. Baden, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital
    Speaker: Mindy G. Schuster, MD, MSCE (she/her/hers) – University of Pennsylvania- Infectious Disease
    Speaker: Dora Y. Ho, MD, PhD, FIDSA (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Speaker: Michail S. Lionakis, MD, ScD – National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
    Speaker: Catherine Liu, MD, FIDSA (she/her/hers) – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; University of Washington School
    Speaker: Shahid Husain, MD (he/him/his) – University of Toronto
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlInvestigative ID
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2435 - Trail blazers: advances in non-animal models of pathogenesis​
    Adult ID
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2436 - Stronger Together: How to Build a Subspecialty ID Service Line to Deliver Effective Multidisciplinary Care
    Moderator: Marcos Coutinho Schechter, MD – Emory University
    Moderator: Taison Bell, MD, MBA – University of Virginia
    Epi & Infection Control
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2437 - Viral Infections with Novel Antineoplastic Treatments​
    Moderator: David C. Gaston, MD PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Moderator: Alan Koff, MBBS – University of California, Davis
    Speaker: Fareed Khawaja, MBBS – MD Anderson Cancer Center
    Speaker: Tessa Andermann, MD MPH – UNC School of Medicine
    Speaker: Erika Kampouri, MD – University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland
    Adult IDPediatric IDTrainee
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2442 - Transforming Public Health: From Community Action to Complex Interventions
    Moderator: Candice J. McNeil, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Moderator: Ina Park, MD, MS – UCSF
    Speaker: Ina Park, MD, MS – UCSF
    Speaker: Gary Whitlock, MD PhD (he/him/his) – 56 Dean Street, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    Speaker: Catherine Crossland, MD (she/her/hers) – Unity Healthcare
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDInvestigative IDHIV-STD-TBPediatric IDTraineeTransplant
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2443 - Off the Beaten Path: Stewardship in Non-Traditional Settings
    Moderator: Gregory M. Schrank, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – University of Maryland, Baltimore
    Moderator: Sophie E. Katz, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Speaker: Angela Vassallo, MPH, MS, CIC, FAPIC – Angela Vassallo, LLC
    Speaker: Milner Staub, MD MPH (she/her/hers) – Vanderbilt University Medical Center
    Speaker: Jacob Kilgore, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Marshall Health Network
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlInvestigative IDPediatric IDTransplant
  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2430.1 - New Frontiers in COVID-19: Updates for 2026

    Moderator: Jorge Salazar, MD – University of California, San Francisco

    Moderator: Carolyn Bramante, MD, MPH – University of Minnesota

    Moderator: Susy S. Hota, MD MSc – University Health Network, University of Toronto

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2431.1 - HIV updates for Non-specialists and Specialists Alike​

    Moderator: Vivek Jain, MD, MAS – Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco

    Moderator: Raul Macias Gil, MD – Harbor-UCLA Medical Center

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2432.1 - Beyond antibiotics: novel approaches for difficult to treat infections

    Moderator: Annelies S. Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich

    Moderator: Robin Patel, MD – Mayo Clinic

    Speaker: Daria Van Tyne, University of Pittsburg – Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases

    Speaker: Jon S. Friedland, MA PhD FRCP FRCPE FRCPI FMedSci FESCMID – European Society of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ESCMID)

    Speaker: Carol M. Kao, MD, MSCI – Washington University, St. Louis

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2433.1 - Hot Topics in Pulmonary Fungal Infections

    Moderator: Sarah P. Hammond, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Moderator: John W. Baddley, MD MSPH – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Speaker: John W. Baddley, MD MSPH – Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

    Speaker: Mitsuru Toda, PhD – CDC

    Speaker: Andrew H. Limper, MD – Mayo Clinic

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2434.1 - 2026 Case-Based Gu(ID)elines: Aspergillosis, Immunomodulators, and Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia

    Moderator: Ronald G. Nahass, MD – ID Care; Infectious Diseases Society (IDSA)

    Moderator: Lindsey R. Baden, MD – Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Speaker: Mindy G. Schuster, MD, MSCE – University of Pennsylvania- Infectious Disease

    Speaker: Dora Y. Ho, MD, PhD, FIDSA – Stanford University

    Speaker: Michail S. Lionakis, MD, ScD – National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases

    Speaker: Catherine Liu, MD, FIDSA – Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center; University of Washington School

    Speaker: Shahid Husain, MD – University of Toronto

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2435.1 - Trail Blazers: Advances in Non-Animal Models of Pathogenesis​

    Moderator: Mahalia Desruisseaux

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2435.2 - Trail blazers: advances in non-animal models of pathogenesis​

    Moderator: Mahalia Desruisseaux

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2436.1 - Stronger Together: How to Build a Subspecialty ID Service Line to Deliver Effective Multidisciplinary Care

    Moderator: Marcos Coutinho Schechter, MD – Emory University

    Moderator: Taison Bell, MD, MBA – University of Virginia

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2437.1 - Viral Infections with Novel Antineoplastic Treatments​

    Moderator: David C. Gaston, MD PhD – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Moderator: Alan Koff, MBBS – University of California, Davis

    Speaker: Fareed Khawaja, MBBS – MD Anderson Cancer Center

    Speaker: Tessa Andermann, MD MPH – UNC School of Medicine

    Speaker: Erika Kampouri, MD – University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2442.1 - Transforming Public Health: From Community Action to Complex Interventions

    Moderator: Candice J. McNeil, MD, MPH – Wake Forest University School of Medicine

    Moderator: Ina Park, MD, MS – UCSF

    Speaker: Ina Park, MD, MS – UCSF

    Speaker: Gary Whitlock, MD PhD – 56 Dean Street, Chelsea & Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust

    Speaker: Catherine Crossland, MD – Unity Healthcare

  • 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2443.1 - Off the Beaten Path: Stewardship in Non-Traditional Settings

    Moderator: Gregory M. Schrank, MD, MPH – University of Maryland, Baltimore

    Moderator: Sophie E. Katz, MD, MPH – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Speaker: Angela Vassallo, MPH, MS, CIC, FAPIC – Angela Vassallo, LLC

    Speaker: Milner Staub, MD MPH – Vanderbilt University Medical Center

    Speaker: Jacob Kilgore, MD, MPH – Marshall Health Network

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    DS-2445 - Friendly Debates in STI's​: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once
    Debate Style Moderator: Vivek Jain, MD, MAS (he/him/his) – Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco
    Debate Style Moderator: Candice J. McNeil, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlHIV-STD-TBTrainee
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2454 - This Just In: New Models of Care for HIV Treatment & Care
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2455 - Not Just Managing but Vanquishing: The New Era of Hepatitis Antivirals
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2456 - Vexing Vector Borne Illness
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    OA-2457 - Staph on the Loose! Survallance & Transmission of S.aureus HAIs
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2444 - Upcoming Therapeutics and Diagnostics, Integrated Solutions for Infectious Threats
    Moderator: Annelies S. Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich
    Moderator: Ayesha Khan, PhD, D(ABMM), M(ASCP) – UC Irvine
    Speaker: Silvio Brugger, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich
    Adult IDGlobal IDTransplant
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2446 - Innovations in Diagnosing and Managing Fungal Infections
    Moderator: Sarah P. Hammond, MD (she/her/hers) – Massachusetts General Hospital
    Speaker: Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, PhD (he/him/his) – Case Western University
    Speaker: Neil J. Clancey, MD – University of Pittsburgh
    Speaker: Shaun Yang, PhD, D(ABMM) (he/him/his) – Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
    Adult IDPediatric ID
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2447 - Management of the maternal-fetal dyad: Working together to reduce the impact of reproductive and congenital infections
    Moderator: Allison H. Bartlett, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – University of Chicago Medicine
    Moderator: Theodore Ruel, MD (he/him/his) – University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital
    Speaker: Melissa Nolan, PhD, MPH – University of South Carolina
    Speaker: Rachel L. Epstein, MD, MSc (she/her/hers) – Boston Medical Center
    Speaker: Jenell Coleman, MD, MPH, MSc – Jefferson Health
    Pediatric IDAdult IDEpi & Infection ControlInvestigative ID
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2448 - Safe living after hematopoietic transplant and solid organ transplant
    Moderator: Ryan C. Maves, MD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine
    Moderator: Yoram Puius, MD, PhD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine
    Speaker: Taylor Heald-Sargant, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago
    Speaker: Monica I. Ardura, DO, MSCS (she/her/hers) – Nationwide Children's Hospital
    Speaker: Robert J. Rolfe, Jr., MD, MSc – Duke University School of Medicine
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlPediatric IDTransplant
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2449 - So Many Ways to Break an Immune System: Host Dysregulation, Modern Immunosuppressants, and the Opportunistic Infections that Slip In Through The Cracks
    Moderator: Maryrose R. Laguio-Vila, MD – Rochester Regional Health
    Moderator: Jeremy A.W Gold, MD, MS – CDC
    Speaker: Virginia Pascual, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine
    Speaker: Michail S. Lionakis, MD, ScD – National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases
    Speaker: Dora Y. Ho, MD, PhD, FIDSA (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlPediatric IDTrainee
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2450 - Expanding our OPAT Offerings
    Moderator: Leah H. Yoke, PA-C, MCHS – Fred Hutch/University of Washington
    Moderator: Laila M. Castellino, MD – UT Southwestern
    Speaker: Zahra Kassamali Escobar, PharmD – Fred Hutch
    Speaker: Monica V. Mahoney, PharmD, BCPS (she/her/hers) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
    Speaker: Colleen Burgoyne, ARNP (she/her/hers) – School of Nursing, SUNY Brockport
    Epi & Infection ControlGlobal IDInvestigative IDPediatric IDTrainee
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2451 - Maine HIV/HCV Outbreak
    Moderator: Douglas Krakower, MD (he/him/his) – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2452 - Innovations in Diagnostic Stewardship
    Moderator: Michael Calderwood, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
    Moderator: Dan J. Morgan, MD, MS – University of Maryland
    Speaker: Blake W. Buchan, PhD, D(ABMM) – Medical College of Wisconsin
    Speaker: Ahmad Mourad, MD, MHS – Duke University School of Medicine
    Speaker: Jonathan H. Ryder, MD (he/him/his) – University of Nebraska Medical Center
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal IDInvestigative IDPediatric IDTransplant
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2453 - The Pets We Love, the Risks We Overlook: Antibiotic use and resistance in Companion Animals
    Moderator: Aaron Milstone, MD MHS (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins University
    Moderator: Shira Doron, MD – Tufts University
    Speaker: Stephen Cole, VMD MS DACVM (he/him/his) – University of Pennsylvania
    Speaker: Ana M. Vaughan-Malloy, MD (she/her/hers) – Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School
    Adult IDEpi & Infection ControlGlobal ID
  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    DS-2445.1 - Friendly Debates in STI's​: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

    Debate Style Moderator: Vivek Jain, MD, MAS – Division of HIV, Infectious Diseases & Global Medicine, San Francisco General Hospital, University of California, San Francisco

    Debate Style Moderator: Candice J. McNeil, MD, MPH – Wake Forest University School of Medicine

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2444.1 - Upcoming Therapeutics and Diagnostics, Integrated Solutions for Infectious Threats

    Moderator: Annelies S. Zinkernagel, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich

    Moderator: Ayesha Khan, PhD, D(ABMM), M(ASCP) – UC Irvine

    Speaker: Victor Nizet, MD – UCSD

    Speaker: Silvio Brugger, MD, PhD, FESCMID – University Hospital Zurich & University Zurich

    Speaker: Jacob Moran-Gilad, MD MPH FESCMID – ESCMID

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2446.1 - Innovations in Diagnosing and Managing Fungal Infections

    Moderator: Michael G. Ison, MD MS – NIAID

    Moderator: Sarah P. Hammond, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Speaker: Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, PhD – Case Western University

    Speaker: Neil J. Clancey, MD – University of Pittsburgh

    Speaker: Shaun Yang, PhD, D(ABMM) – Univeristy of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2447.1 - Management of the maternal-fetal dyad: Working together to reduce the impact of reproductive and congenital infections

    Moderator: Allison H. Bartlett, MD, MS – University of Chicago Medicine

    Moderator: Theodore Ruel, MD – University of California, San Francisco Benioff Children's Hospital

    Speaker: Melissa Nolan, PhD, MPH – University of South Carolina

    Speaker: Rachel L. Epstein, MD, MSc – Boston Medical Center

    Speaker: Jenell Coleman, MD, MPH, MSc – Jefferson Health

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2448.1 - Safe living after hematopoietic transplant and solid organ transplant

    Moderator: Ryan C. Maves, MD – Wake Forest University School of Medicine

    Moderator: Yoram Puius, MD, PhD – Albert Einstein College of Medicine

    Speaker: Taylor Heald-Sargant, MD, PhD – Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children’s Hospital of Chicago

    Speaker: Monica I. Ardura, DO, MSCS – Nationwide Children's Hospital

    Speaker: Robert J. Rolfe, Jr., MD, MSc – Duke University School of Medicine

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2449.1 - So Many Ways to Break an Immune System: Host Dysregulation, Modern Immunosuppressants, and the Opportunistic Infections that Slip In Through The Cracks

    Moderator: Maryrose R. Laguio-Vila, MD – Rochester Regional Health

    Moderator: Jeremy A.W Gold, MD, MS – CDC

    Speaker: Virginia Pascual, MD – Weill Cornell Medicine

    Speaker: Michail S. Lionakis, MD, ScD – National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases

    Speaker: Dora Y. Ho, MD, PhD, FIDSA – Stanford University

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2450.1 - Expanding our OPAT Offerings

    Moderator: Leah H. Yoke, PA-C, MCHS – Fred Hutch/University of Washington

    Moderator: Laila M. Castellino, MD – UT Southwestern

    Speaker: Zahra Kassamali Escobar, PharmD – Fred Hutch

    Speaker: Monica V. Mahoney, PharmD, BCPS – Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center

    Speaker: Colleen Burgoyne, ARNP – School of Nursing, SUNY Brockport

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2452.1 - Innovations in Diagnostic Stewardship

    Moderator: Michael Calderwood, MD, MPH – Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center

    Moderator: Dan J. Morgan, MD, MS – University of Maryland

    Speaker: Blake W. Buchan, PhD, D(ABMM) – Medical College of Wisconsin

    Speaker: Ahmad Mourad, MD, MHS – Duke University School of Medicine

    Speaker: Jonathan H. Ryder, MD – University of Nebraska Medical Center

  • 3:15 PM - 4:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    SS-2453.1 - The Pets We Love, the Risks We Overlook: Antibiotic use and resistance in Companion Animals

    Moderator: Aaron Milstone, MD MHS – Johns Hopkins University

    Moderator: Shira Doron, MD – Tufts University

    Speaker: Jane E. Sykes, BVSc, PhD, MPH, MBA, DACVIM(SAIM), FACVIM(Founding) – University of California, Davis

    Speaker: Stephen Cole, VMD MS DACVM – University of Pennsylvania

    Speaker: Ana M. Vaughan-Malloy, MD – Division of Infectious Diseases, Boston Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School

  • 4:45 PM - 5:30 PM East Coast USA Time
    BB-2458 - IDBugBowl
    Moderator: Kartikey Acharya, MD, MPH (he/him/his) – Medical College of Wisconsin
    Moderator: Elizabeth Markelz, MD – Brooke Army Medical Center