Symposia

• Vancomycin: What Do We Know Now About Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics? Pharmacodynamics of Antifungal Agents
• Targeting Gram-Negative Superbugs with Polymyxins: From Lab-Bench to Bedside
• Aerosol Drug Delivery: Getting Anti-Infective Agents to the Lung
• Use of Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics for Risk Reduction of Adverse Events

Meet-the-Experts

• Intra- and Extracellular Activities of Anti-Infective Agents
• Top Papers in Anti-Infective and Antiretroviral PK/PD
• Surgical Prophylaxis: Dosage Recommendations, Tissue Penetration, and Pharmacokinetic Considerations

Symposia

• Bacterial and Viral Infections in Patients Treated with Novel Biologic Agents: What Do I Need to Know?
• Malnutrition, Microbiome & Mucosal Immunity
• New Concepts in Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Diagnostics, Treatment, and Prevention
• Virulence Bags: Extracellular Vesicles that Modify Host-Pathogen Interactions
• Pathogenesis, Diagnosis and Treatment of Urinary Tract Infections
• Microbial Factors Modulating Host Responses: New Frontiers

Symposia

• Bacterial Communication and Resistance
• Multidrug Resistance in Emerging Countries
• Resistance in S. aureus Beyond MecA
• Novel Techniques for the Diagnostic of the Emerging Antibiotic Resistances
• Plasmid Mediated Quinolone Resistance

Meet-the-Experts

• Top 10 ß-Lactamase Papers in 2012

Symposia

• Global Spread of Antimicrobial Resistance: Mechanisms of Spread, Surveillance, and Control
• Antibiotic Combinations Against Gram-Negatives in the XDR Era: From Bench to Bedside
• Population Dynamics in Streptococcus pneumoniae
• Whole Genome Sequencing and Molecular Epidemiology: The New Frontier?

Meet-the-Experts

• Anaerobes and Surveillance: Neglected or Not?
• Detecting, Controlling, and Treating Carbapenemase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae
• Surveillance of Antimicrobial Resistance: Potential Sources of Bias
• Clostridium difficile: The Management of Severe and Recurrent Infections

Cases in Clinical Microbiology

• Challenges in the Diagnosis and Clinical Interpretation of Infections with Gram-Positive Rods Symposia
• Best Practices: Diagnosis of Viral Causes of Hepatitis
• Antimicrobial Susceptibility Update
• Epidemiology and Diagnosis of Febrile Illness in the Era of Global Climate Change

Meet-the-Experts

• Optimal Diagnostic Testing for Clostridium difficile in Clinical Practice
• Syphilis Diagnostics: Traditional Versus “New” Algorithm
• MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry: Implementation and Impact on Patient Care

Symposia

• Selecting Antibiotic Resistant Mutants in the Laboratory: How Best to Mimic the Real World?
• Origins and Ecology of Antibiotic Resistance
• Laboratory Approaches for Detection, Characterization, and Reporting of Important Resistance Mechanisms in Gram-Negatives

Meet-the-Experts

• Meeting the Challenge of Efflux from Gram-Negative Bacteria

Symposia

• Alternative Approaches to Inhibiting Gram-Negative Bacteria
• Host Defense (Antimicrobial) Peptides: Major Players in Health and Novel Therapeutics
• Iron Transport and Homeostasis: Are There Opportunities for New Drugs?
• New Treatments for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infections
• New Approaches in the Treatment of Fungal Infections

Interactive Symposia

• Interactive Cases in Pediatric Infectious Diseases

Symposia

• Vaccine Conquests and Challenges
• Interplay between Pathogen and Host: From Immune Deficiency to Infectious Disease Vaccine Innovations
• Hot Topics in Vaccines
• Hot Topics in Pediatric Infectious Disease: 2012

Meet-the-Experts

• Antibiotic Shortages, Antibiotic Stewardship and the Sick Child
• Healthy Mother, Healthy Baby

Symposia

• What’s New in Antiretroviral Therapy
• Current Issues in HIV-Associated Opportunistic Diseases
• Update on HIV-Associated Co-Morbidities

Meet-the-Experts

• Management of Antiretroviral Therapy-Induced Bone Toxicity
• Prevention of Anal Cancer in HIV-Infection: From Early Detection to Vaccination
• Can We Safely Simplify Antiretroviral Therapy in Treatment-Experienced Patients?
• How Do I Treat HCV in HIV/HCV Co-Infected Patients?

Interactive Symposia

• Evidence-Based Infection Prevention and Control: Answering Key Questions
• Challenges in Infection Control

Symposia

• Preventing the Spread of M. tuberculosis in Healthcare Facilities
• Are Prevalence Surveys Still Useful for Healthcare-Associated Infection Surveillance?
• A Multifaceted Approach to Preventing Surgical Site Infections

Meet-the-Experts

• Infection Prevention and Control in Low- and -Middle-Resource Settings
• Environmental Cleaning and Infection Prevention
• Preventing Line-Associated Bloodstream Infection: Which Measures are Essential?
• Top Papers in Infection Prevention and Control: 2011-2012
• MDRO Control: What to Do When Basic Prevention Measures Don’t Work?
• Antimicrobial Resistance and Antimicrobial Stewardship in Non-Hospital Settings
• Challenging Issues in Pediatric Infection Prevention and Control

Symposia

• New Issues in the Management of MDR/XDR TB
• What Every Clinician Should Know About Emerging New Antimicrobials
• New Issues in the Management of Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Endocarditis
• 50 Years of Fluoroquinolones: Past, Present and Future
• Dangerous Pets and Other Animals
• An Update on Streptococcal Pharyngitis and Rheumatic Fever
• What Every Clinician Should Know About Emerging New Antimicrobials
• New Issues in the Management of Multidrug-Resistant (MDR) Endocarditis
• Emerging and Current Challenges
• An Update on Novel & Important Tickborne Diseases
• What's New with Pneumococcus?
• New Insights in Diabetic Foot Infections and Osteomyelitis
• An Update on the Treatment and Prevention of UTIs
• An Update on Perinatal Infections

Meet-the-Experts

• Challenging Infections in Older Adults
• Difficult to Manage Cutaneous Infections in Adults and Children

Interactive Symposium

• Challenging Cases in Mycology

Symposia

• Fungal Infections in High-Risk Groups: Current and Future Strategies for Control
• Mycology 2012: Top Papers
• Controversies in Clinical Mycology
• Research in Mycology: Hot Topics

Meet-the-Experts

• How Can the Mycology Lab Work for You?
• Fungal Infections of the Central Nervous System
• Fungal Infections Involving the Eye

Interactive Symposia

• What’s Hot Where it’s Hot: Interactive Cases in Tropical Medicine
• Clinical Problem Solving in Returned Travelers

Symposia

• Update on Drug Resistance in Malaria
• Eradication of Globally Important Infectious Diseases
• How to Develop Global Health as an Academic Disciple

Meet-the-Experts

• Controversies in Pre-Travel Medicine
• Top Ten Papers in Travel Medicine

Interactive Symposium

• Transplantation and the ID Physician: Management Strategies for the 21st Century

Symposia

• Hot Topics in Viral Hepatitis
• Influenza: Beyond the Headlines
• Recognizing and Managing Antiviral Resistance
• Viruses and the Central Nervous System: Diagnostic, Treatment and Recent Outbreaks

Meet-the-Experts

• CMV Persistent Viremia: What Does it Mean?
• New Strategies for Transplantation of HIV-Infected Individuals