Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium bids farewell to longtime presenters

The Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium will bid farewell this year to a couple of longtime presenters.

The 36th edition of the meeting will be held Nov. 18 and 19 at the Sheraton Times Square Hotel in New York.

This year will mark the final presentations by Sarah S. Long, MD, professor of pediatrics at Drexel University College of Medicine in Philadelphia, and Joseph A. Bocchini Jr., MD, FAAP, vice chairman of the department of pediatrics at Tulane University in New Orleans.

“These giants in the field of infectious diseases have been tremendously generous with their insights and their incredible ability to teach and to convey knowledge for so many years at IDC New York and beyond,” program director David W. Kimberlin, MD, told Healio.

“They also have been with the IDC New York program for so many years that the fingerprints that they leave on the meeting will continue to persist years into the future,” said Kimberlin, co-director of the division of pediatric infectious diseases at The University of Alabama at Birmingham and Children’s of Alabama. “What they’ve helped build will continue on, and I think the best way that we can pay homage to everything that they’ve done is to is to honor that going forward.”

When building this year’s meeting, Kimberlin said the program committee focused on “the landscape of what clinicians and busy practitioners are facing in their practices.”

“We pick up the hot topics, and then build those out with exciting speakers so that we can have material that I think will be very meaningful and very helpful to the audience,” he said.

One keynote presentation is titled “Major Changes for RSV are Here!” and is being given by James D. Campbell, MD, MS, associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Maryland School of Medicine.

“The RSV talk is going to be very much focused on new ways to prevent RSV … which causes a whole lot of morbidity and even mortality,” Kimberlin said.

In anticipation of this year’s meeting, we compiled some videos from the 2022 symposium:

VIDEO: ‘They’re back’ — fall outbreaks hail return of common infections

In this video, Kevin Messacar, MD, PhD, a pediatric infectious disease consultant at Children’s Hospital Colorado and associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, discusses the return of common viruses. Watch video.

VIDEO: ‘We have strategies to prevent’ emerging and reemerging infections

Yvonne A. Maldonado, MD, a professor of global health and infectious diseases and chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Stanford University School of Medicine, discusses three emerging or reemerging infectious diseases. Watch video.

VIDEO: CDC’s Oliver on the future of COVID-19 vaccines for children

Sara E. Oliver, MD, MSPH, who leads the CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices work group on COVID-19 vaccines, discussed her keynote address on simplifying COVID-19 vaccines for children. Watch video.

VIDEO: What is causing long COVID in children?

Roberta L. DeBiasi, MD, MS, section chief of pediatric infectious diseases at Children’s National Hospital in Washington, D.C., discusses emerging research in long COVID in children. Watch video.

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