IDAC 39th Annual Southern California Symposium May 3rd and 4th, 2025
Huntington Beach Hyatt Regency
Times are subject to change - Breakfast is supplied for both days and lunch on Saturday.
Saturday, May 3
0730 – 0830: Check-in, Breakfast Buffett - Industry exhibit visits
0830 - 0840: Welcome, Suman Radhakrishna, MD, President, IDAC
0840 - 0940: C diff Update; Carl Crawford, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine
0940 - 1000: Break, Industry Exhibit Visits
1000 - 1100: Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing - DX and Treatment Considerations; Ashlan Kunz-Coyne, PharmD., MPH, Assistant Professor, College or Pharmacy - University of Kentucky
1100 - 1200: Journal Club: Focus on Cross-Discipline Debates; Christopher Graber, MD, Professor of Clinical Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles
1200 - 1315: Lunch, Industry Exhibits, Members Meeting
1315 - 1415: HIV Update; Tulika Singh, MD, MHA, AAHIVS, FACP, FIDSA, Assistant Professor, UCI
1415 - 1430: Break, Industry Exhibit Visits
1430 - 1615: Fascinating Local Cases
1615 - 1715: The Oral Cephalosporins: Caveat Emptor - Jim Lewis, PharmD, FIDSA -Oregon Health & Science University
1700: Saturday Sessions End
Sunday May 4
0730 – 0830: Check-in, Breakfast Buffett - Industry exhibit visits
0830 - 0840: Welcome, Suman Radhakrishna, MD, President, IDAC
0840 - 0940: Treatment and Prevention of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) Infections; David James Harris, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, DTM&H, CTropMed
0940 - 1000: Break, Industry Exhibit Visits
1000 - 1100: "Flu-Nami"; Pia S. Pannaraj, MD, MPH, Professor of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases, Director Pediatric Immunization Advancement Laboratory, UCSD
Jeffrey Silvers, MD, System Medical Director of Pharmacy and Infection Control, Sutter Health, Board of Directors Infectious Disease Association of California, Board of Directors California Immunization Coalition
1100 - 1200: Recurring Myths and Common Mistakes in the Management of Aspiration Pneumonia; Ellie JC Goldstein MD , Clinical Professor of Medicine (Former),David Geffen School of Medicine at Los Angeles; Director, RM Alden Research Laboratory; IDAC Founding Member
1200: Symposium Ends