Agenda

2026 Infectious Disease Board Review Course Agenda

AM Moderator: Henry Masur, MD and John Bennett, MD
#	Start		End	Presentation	Faculty
1	8:00 AM EDT	-	8:30 AM EDT	Introduction	John Bennett, MD and Henry Masur, MD
QP1	8:30 AM	-	9:00 AM	Daily Question Preview: Day 1	Henry Masur, MD
2	9:00 AM	-	10:00 AM	Core Concepts: Microbiology: What You Need to Know for the Exam	Robin Patel, MD
AM Moderator: Robin Patel, MD
	10:00 AM	-	10:15 AM	Morning Break
3	10:15 AM	-	11:00 AM	Core Concepts: Antibacterial Drugs I Approach to Resistant Gram-Negative Bacilli	Pranita Tamma, MD
4	11:00 AM	-	12:00 PM	Infections in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Recipients	Jennifer Saullo, MD
	12:00 PM	-	12:30 PM	Lunch Break
BR1	12:30 PM	-	1:15 PM	Board Review Day 1	Drs. Patel (Moderator), Black, Dhanireddy, Pavia, Saullo, and Tamma
PM Moderator: Robin Patel, MD
5	1:15 PM	-	2:00 PM	Immunizations: Domestic, Travel, and Occupational	Shireesha Dhanireddy, MD
6	2:00 PM	-	2:30 PM	Core Concept: Antiviral Drugs	Andrew Pavia, MD
	2:30 PM	-	2:45 PM	Afternoon Break
7	2:45 PM	-	3:30 PM	Principles of Antimicrobial Therapy for Exam: What You Need to Know About Toxicities, PK/PD, Drug-Drug Interactions	Douglas Black, PharmD
8	3:30 PM	-	4:30 PM	Respiratory Viral Infections Including Influenza in Immunocompetent and Immunocompromised Persons	Andrew Pavia, MD
9	4:30 PM	-	5:15 PM	Infections in the Neutropenic Cancer Patient	Jennifer Saullo, MD
10	5:15 PM	-	5:30 PM	SARS-CoV-2 and Covid-19	Andrew Pavia, MD
	5:30 PM	-	6:30 PM	Welcome Reception

AM Moderator: Andrew Pavia, MD
#	Start		End	Presentation	Faculty
QP2	8:00 AM EDT	-	8:30 AM EDT	Daily Question Preview Day 2	Andrew Pavia, MD
11	8:30 AM	-	9:30 AM	Clinical Immunology and Host Defense	Steven Holland, MD
12	9:30 AM	-	10:30 AM	Core Concepts: Antibacterial Drugs II Gram Positive Organisms	Helen Boucher, MD
	10:30 AM	-	10:45 AM	Morning Break
13	10:45 AM	-	11:45 AM	Protozoa That Could Be Tested	Edward Mitre, MD
14	11:45 AM	-	12:30 PM	Skin and Soft Tissue Infections	Helen Boucher, MD
	12:30 PM	-	1:00 PM	Lunch Break
PM Moderator: Henry Masur, MD
BR2	1:00 PM	-	1:45 PM	Board Review Day 2	Drs. Aronoff (Moderator), Boucher, Kotton, Mitre, Platts-Mills, and Thomas
15	1:45 PM	-	2:30 PM	CMV, EBV, HHV6 and HHV8	Camille Kotton, MD
16	2:30 PM	-	3:15 PM	Acute Hepatitis	David Thomas, MD
17	3:15 PM	-	3:45 PM	GI Infections Part 1	James Platts-Mills, MD
	3:45 PM	-	4:00 PM	Afternoon Break
18	4:00 PM	-	4:30 PM	GI Infections Part 2	James Platts-Mills, MD
19	4:30 PM	-	5:15 PM	Chronic Hepatitis	David Thomas, MD
20	5:15 PM		6:00 PM	Helicobacter and Clostridioides	David Aronoff, MD
21	6:00 PM	-	6:30 PM	Worms You Should Know	Edward Mitre, MD

AM Moderator: Paul Auwaerter, MD
#	Start		End	Presentation	Faculty
QP3	8:00 AM EDT	-	8:30 AM EDT	Daily Question Preview Day 3	Paul Auwaerter, MD
22	8:30 AM	-	9:00 AM	Sexually Transmitted Infections: Genital Ulcers Diseases (GUD)	Khalil Ghanem, MD
23	9:00 AM	-	9:45 AM	Zoonoses	David Aronoff, MD
	9:45 AM	-	10:00 AM	Morning Break
24	10:00 AM	-	10:45 AM	Nocardiosis, Actinomycosis, Rhodococcus and Actinomycosis	David Aronoff, MD
25	10:45 AM	-	11:45 AM	Sexually Transmitted Infections: Other Diseases and Syndromes	Khalil Ghanem, MD
	11:45 AM	-	12:15 PM	Lunch Break
BR3	12:15 PM	-	1:00 PM	Board Review Day 3	Drs. Auwaerter (Moderator), Aronoff, Bell, Bennett, Dorman, Ghanem, and Klompas
PM Moderator: Paul Auwaerter, MD
26	1:00 PM	-	1:45 PM	Ticks, Mites, Lice, and the Diseases They Transmit	Paul Auwaerter, MD
27	1:45 PM	-	2:30 PM	Deep Mycoses in Normal and Abnormal Hosts	John Bennett, MD
28	2:30 PM	-	3:15 PM	Tuberculosis in Immunocompetent and Imunosuppressed Hosts	Susan Dorman, MD
	3:15 PM	-	3:30 PM	Afternoon Break
29	3:30 PM	-	4:00 PM	Lyme Disease	Paul Auwaerter, MD
30	4:00 PM	-	5:00 PM	Hospital Epidemiology	Michael Klompas, MD
31	5:00 PM	-	5:45 PM	Syndromes in the ICU that ID Physicians Should Know	Taison Bell, MD
32	5:45 PM	-	6:15 PM	Pneumonia	Paul Auwaerter, MD

AM Moderator: Roy Gulick, MD
#	Start		End	Presentation	Faculty
QP4	8:00 AM EDT	-	8:30 AM EDT	Daily Question Preview Day 4	Roy Gulick, MD
33	8:30 AM	-	9:15 AM	Clinical Manifestations of Human Retroviral Diseases and Slow Viruses	Frank Maldarelli, MD
34	9:15 AM	-	10:00 AM	HIV-Associated Opportunistic Infections I	Henry Masur, MD
35	10:00 AM	-	10:15 AM	HIV Diagnosis	Frank Maldarelli, MD
	10:15 AM	-	10:30 AM	Morning Break
36	10:30 AM	-	11:15 AM	Antiretroviral Therapy	Roy Gulick, MD
37	11:15 AM	-	11:30 AM	HIV Drug Resistance	Michael Saag, MD
38	11:30 AM	-	12:15 PM	Antiretroviral Therapy for Special Populations	Roy Gulick, MD
	12:15 PM	-	12:45 PM	Lunch Break
PM Moderator: Roy Gulick, MD
BR4	12:45 PM	-	1:30 PM	Board Review Day 4	Drs. Gulick (Moderator), Bloch, Gandhi, Maldarelli, Masur, Saag, and Tunkel
39	1:30 PM	-	1:45 PM	Pharyngitis Syndromes Including Group A Strep Pharyngitis	Karen Bloch, MD
40	1:45 PM	-	2:30 PM	HIV-Associated Opportunistic Infections II	Rajesh Gandhi, MD
41	2:30 PM	-	3:15 PM	Syndromes Masquerades as Infections	Karen Bloch, MD
	3:15 PM	-	3:30 PM	Afternoon Break
42	3:30 PM	-	4:15 PM	Non-AIDS-Defining Complications of HIV/AIDS	Michael Saag, MD
43	4:15 PM	-	5:00 PM	Bacterial and Viral Meningitis	Allan Tunkel, MD
44	5:00 PM	-	5:45 PM	Photo Opportunity I: Photos and Questions to Test Your Board Preparation	Rajesh Gandhi, MD
45	5:45 PM	-	6:30 PM	Herpes Simplex	Richard Whitley, MD

AM Moderator: John Bennett, MD
#	Start		End	Presentation	Faculty
46	8:00 AM EDT	-	9:00 AM EDT	Endocarditis of Native and Prosthetic Devices, and Infections of Pacers and Ventricular Assist Devices	Henry Chambers, MD
47	9:00 AM	-	9:45 AM	Encephalitis including West Nile and Rabies	Allan Tunkel, MD
	9:45 AM	-	10:00 AM	Morning Break
48	10:00 AM	-	10:45 AM	Staphylococcus Aureus	Henry Chambers, MD
49	10:45 AM	-	11:30 AM	Bone and Joint Infections	Sandra Nelson, MD
	11:30 AM	-	11:45 AM	Lunch Break
PM Moderator: Barbara Alexander, MD
50	11:45 AM	-	12:30 PM	Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Normal and Abnormal Hosts	Kevin Winthrop, MD
51	12:30 PM	-	1:30 PM	Infections in Solid Organ Recipients	Barbara Alexander, MD
	1:30 PM	-	1:45 PM	Afternoon Break
52	1:45 PM	-	2:30 PM	Core Concepts: Antifungal Drugs	Barbara Alexander, MD
53	2:30 PM	-	2:45 PM	Penicillin Allergies	Sandra Nelson, MD
54	2:45 PM	-	3:30 PM	Kitchen Sink: Syndromes Not Covered Elsewhere	Stacey Rose, MD

Online Only Lectures
#	Duration	Title	Faculty
OL - 1	15 Mins	How to Prepare for the Certification and Recertification Including the LKA	Helen Boucher, MD
OL - 2	40 Mins	ID Bootcamp: HIV	Roy Gulick, MD
OL - 3	50 Mins	ID Bootcamp: Transplant	Camille Kotton, MD
OL - 4	45 Mins	Brain Abscess, Cavernous Sinus Thrombosis, and Subdural and Epidural Empyema	Allan Tunkel, MD
OL - 5	40 Mins	Infections of Upper and Lower Urinary Tract	Barbara Trautner, MD
OL - 6	45 Mins	HIV-Associated Opportunistic Infections III	Rajesh Gandhi, MD
OL - 7	45 Mins	Even More Worms	Edward Mitre, MD
OL - 8	25 Mins	Statistics	Khalil Ghanem, MD
OL - 9	45 Mins	Epididymitis, Orchitis, and Prostatitis	Barbara Trautner, MD
OL - 10	45 Mins	Treating Antimicrobial Resistant Infections III Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Acinetobacter baumannii, and Stenotrophomonas maltophilia	Pranita Tamma, MD
OL - 11	45 Mins	Antibacterial Drugs Not Covered Elsewhere	Douglas Black, PharmD

Primers and Study Guides
#	Title	Faculty
P - 1	Microbiology Primer	Robin Patel, MD
P - 2	Antibacterial Resistance Primer	Robin Patel, MD
P - 3	Antifungal Resistance Primer	Barbara Alexander, MD John Bennett, MD
P - 4	Antiviral Resistance Primer	Richard Whitley, MD Andrew Pavia, MD
P - 5	HIV Drug Resistance Primer	Roy Gulick, MD
P - 6	Rickettsia Primer	Paul Auwaerter, MD John Bennett, MD
P - 7	Differential Diagnosis of Diseases Presenting as Skin Nodules, Ulcers, or Ulceronodular Skin Lesion	David Gilbert, MD
P - 8	Outpatient Antibacterial Drugs	Pranita Tamma, MD

Agenda subject to change.