TEXAS INFECTIOUS DISEASES SOCIETY
8042 Wurzbach Road, Suite 280
San Antonio , Texas 78229
210-614-8100

The 2010 annual meeting of the Texas Infectious Diseases Society will be held at the Hyatt Hill Country Resort on June 11, 12, and 13, 2010. Please click link below for online registration. The preliminary agenda and additional information will be available soon. The list of scheduled presenters is nearly complete and the meeting will provide an exciting and useful update of many of the issues faced by you today.

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This is a very busy time of year in San Antonio. We encourage you to make reservations as quickly as possible at the Hyatt. A limited number of rooms are blocked for our use. Please contact the Hyatt directly for your hotel reservation and mention that you are attending the Texas Infectious Diseases Society meeting. The Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort is a beautiful, full-service resort with swimming, lazy river tubing, tennis, golf, and other activities. Sea World is across the street and Six Flags is nearby. I hope that you and your family or guest will be able to join us for this event!

We are looking forward to seeing you in San Antonio. Please do not hesitate to contact us (via E-mail to Rick Kirkpatrick at kirkpatrick@uthscsa.edu or contact Michelle Bailey at 210.567.4627 and/or baileymm@uthscsa.edu) if you need additional information.

Continuing Medical Education

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the joint sponsorship of UT Health Science Center San Antonio School of Medicine (UTHSCSA SOM) and Texas Infectious Diseases Society. UTHSCSA is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians. UT Health Science Center San Antonio School of Medicine (UTHSCSA SOM) designates this educational activity for a maximum of 10.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This Annual Meeting of the Texas Infectious Diseases Society is a 3-day CME approved conference of academic and private Infectious Diseases practitioners and other interested professional personnel including pharmacists, nurses and Infectious Diseases Fellows from throughout the state of Texas. Lectures and discussion are designed to present the latest updates on antifungal agents, HIV/AIDS medications, therapy of sexually transmitted infections, parasitic diseases, travel medicine, pediatric immunizations and the newer vaccines and vaccine schedules, the epidemiology of gram-negative bacteria in the healthcare setting. These topics are planned to update the Infectious Diseases practitioners in Texas on new approaches to bacterial, fungal and HIV infections, as well as emerging viral infections, and public health and ethical issues.

METHODS

These objectives will be achieved with didactic lectures, research poster presentations and discussion.

MEETING OBJECTIVES

1. Review of the most recent HIV medications.
2. Current first line therapies.
3. New side effects of HIV medications.
4. Participants will become familiar with the most frequently encountered MDR and XDR gram-negative bacteria encountered in the U.S. at this time.
5. Participants will become knowledgeable about the principal mechanisms of resistance in current MDR strains of the Enterobacteriaceae, Psudomonas spp., and Acinetobacter spp.
6. Participant will become familiar with both newer and older antimicrobial agents that may be useful for therapy of MDR gram-negatives.
7. To be familiar with the multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria associated with infections in a healthcare environment with a focus on nosocomial pathogens.
8. To recognize the currently available antimicrobial agents that have activity against multidrug resistant gram-negative bacteria.
9. To understand the limited number of newer novel agents being developed from gram-negative bacteria.
10. Learn new antifungal agents and guidelines for their use in invasive fungal infection.
11. Understand utility of antifungal agents in clinical practice.
12. List clinical findings for common sexually transmitted diseases (SDTs).
13. Identify causative organisms and treatment plans.
14. Know how to prepare travelers for self therapy and presentation of travelers  diarrhea.
15. Know how to prevent malaria with personal protective measures and chemoprophylaxis.
16. Know which vaccines are required, recommended or routine.
17. Know how to prevent sun burn, DVT, and altitude and motion sickness.
18. Distinguish strategies for prophylactic and early treatment of invasive fungal infections.
19. Describe clinical strengths and weaknesses of both approaches.
20. Identify limitations in current data for both prophylactic and early treatment of invasive fungal infections.
21. Update on pediatric newer vaccines and vaccine schedules — Tdap, Varivax (2 doses), Menactra, Gardasil, the rotavirus vaccines, and newer formulations of Prevnar.

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