Sunday

Edith Hsiung Practical Issues in Diagnostic Virology & Panel Discussion

Panel Discussion: Perspective: The Case for Rapid Antigen vs. Molecular vs. Cell Culture for Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections
     Dan Wiedbrauk, PhD, Warde Medical Laboratory, Ann Arbor, MI
     Marilyn Menegus, PhD, D(ABMM), F(AAM), University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY
     Stephen Young, PhD, Tricore Reference Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM
    
Interactive Session: Virology Jeopardy - Alexandra Valsamakis, MD, Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD
     
Practical Issues I: Sustaining a Culture of Safety in the Laboratory - J. Michael Miller, PhD, D(ABMM), Microbiology Technical Services, LLC, Dunwoody, GA
     
Practical Issues II: Antiviral Susceptibility Testing for Herpes and Influenza Viruses - Guy Boivin, MD, Laval University, Quebec, Canada
    

Tuesday Panel

Philip Hanff Memorial Clinical Case Presentations and Discussion

     Richard Hodinka, Ph.D., Children's Hosp. of Phila. & Univ. of Penn. School of Med., Philadelphia, PA
     Angela Caliendo, M.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA
     Marie Landry, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Participants are invited to submit cases for presentation by a panel member. Up to 3 cases may be accepted. Individuals whose cases are selected for presentation will receive free registration to the Clinical Virology Symposium, or will have their registration fee refunded if they have already registered and paid. Click here for an opportunity to receive a refund of your Symposium registration fee.

Tuesday Late Breaker

Optional - Late Breaking Topic(s) in Clinical Virology - Issues arising after the program is completed will be addressed as is appropriate.

Plenary Sessions

Monday

Session I: Clinical Aspects of Viral Diseases

Infection Control - Corey Casper, MD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA
Chronic Hepatitis E and Transplant Recipients - Nassim Kamar, MD, PhD, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Rangueil, Toulouse, France
Genetics of Resistance to Viral Infections - Shen-Ying Zhang, MD, PhD, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY
GI Viral Infections - John Treanor, MD, University of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, NY

Tuesday

Session II: Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections

Next-Generation Sequencing and Its Applications in Virology - Frederic D. Bushman, PhD, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Evaluating Diagnostic Tests for the Laboratory: Arboviruses/Dengue - Elizabeth Hunsperger, Ph.D., CDC, San Juan, PR
HPV – Changing the Cervical Cancer Paradigm - Thomas C. Wright, MD, Columbia University, New York, NY
Technology to Downsize and Simplify Molecular Testing - Richard Hodinka, PhD, Children's Hosp. of Phila. & Univ. of Penn. School of Med., Philadelphia, PA

Wednesday

Session III: Prevention of and Therapy for Virus Diseases

Use of Antiretroviral Drugs as Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for HIV Prevention - Colleen F. Kelley, MD, MPH, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA
Mathematical Modeling and HIV Vaccine Development - Arup K. Chakraborty, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
The US Varicella Vaccination Program: Near Elimination of Varicella Deaths, Other Successes and Remaining Challenges - Mona Marin, MD, NCID, CDC, Atlanta, GA
Constraints on Influenza Evolution: Oseltamivir Resistance and Beyond - Jesse D. Bloom, PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, WA