2025

• 39th Annual IDAC Southern California Spring Symposium - May 3- 4, 2025
• • Evaluation
  • Opening
  •  C diff Update
  • Metagenomic Next Generation Sequencing - DX and Treatment Considerations
    
  • Journal Club: Focus on Cross-Discipline Debates
    
  • HIV Update
    
  • Fascinating Local Cases:

1-Renato Bobadilla, MD, First Year ID fellow, UCSD: Case 1 

2-Fahim Ahmed, MD, PGY1, Riverside Community Hospital: Case 2

3- Ridhima Reddy, MD, PGY2, Centinela Hospital Medical Center: Case 3 

4- Srijana Bajracharyar, MD, PGY2, West Anaheim Medical Center: Case 4 

5- Shuhua (Rose) Guo, MSN, FNP-C, Coast Plaza Hospital/SCH-Culver: Case 5  

6- Chelsea Morinishi, MD, Second Year ID fellow, UCLA combined: Case 6

• • The Oral Cephalosporins - Buyer Beware
  • Treatment and Prevention of Cardiovascular Implantable Electronic Device (CIED) Infections
    
  • "Flu-Nami”
    
  • Recurring Myths and Common Mistakes in the Management of Aspiration Pneumonia
    
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• IDAC Southern California ASP Conference May 2, 2025
• • Evaluation
  • Opening
  • CLSI/Breakpoint Updates
  • Stewardship across the Care Continuum
  • Outpatient Stewardship
  • GNR Current Guidelines
  • State of Stewardship in California
  • Updates in Rapid Diagnostics and Implications for Antibiotic Stewardship

2024

• IDAC Northern California IP Conference November 1, 2024

• Evaluation
• Opening
• Playbooks; A How to Guide
• The Pharmacist and the Preventionist: An Antimicrobial Stewardship Love Story
• Ready for the Unexpected: Navigating The Joint Commission's New Standard on Special Pathogen Preparedness
• Hospital Onset Bacteremia
• The Identification and Mitigation of False-positive CLABSIs
• “Supply Chain Management and the Infection Preventionist:  Enhancing your Knowledge of the Vetting Process for Devices/disinfectants
  

• IDAC Northern California ID Symposium, November 2, 2024
• • Evaluation
  • Opening
  • The Updated Duke Criteria: Work-up for Infective Endocarditis
  • Important ID Updates in the Literature
    
  • Progress in Vaccines
    
  • CDPH Update
  • What’s new in Clinical Mycology
    
  • Infections and Sepsis in Mechanical Heart Support and ECMO 
    
  • Current IDSA guidelines on GNR treatment - Acinetobacter - Critical Appraisal – Controversy
    
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• 38^th Annual Southern California Symposium July 13 - 14, 2024
• • Evaluation
  • Opening
  • The Updated Duke Criteria: Work-up for Infective Endocarditis
    
  • Complicated Infected Pacemaker Leads and Current Management Practices
    
  • Surgical Indications for Infective Endocarditis and How to Prevent Post-operative Infections 
    
  • IDSA Presentation
  • Antibiotic Selection for Infective Endocarditis - Review of the Basics
    
  • Antibiotic Selection for Infective Endocarditis - How to Manage the Impossible, Deep Salvage for MRSA, MSSA, VRE, Gram Negatives, Fungi
    
  • Outcomes - Oral Antibiotic Treatment for Endocarditis
    
  • Dalbavancin for Complicated Staph Bacteremia & Right Sided Endocarditis: Results from the DOTS Trial
    
  • Expanding Hospital Bloodstream Infection Surveillance: Infection Prevention Strategies in PIV Surveillance and Hospital-Onset Bacteremia and Fungemia
    
  • The Power of Plasma Microbial Cell-Free DNA: Real World Application of A Liquid Biopsy for Infective Endocarditis
    

2023

• Northern California California Fall 2023 Symposium - November 4
• • Evaluation
  • Opening
  • Vaccine Updates
  • Top Publications in Infectious Diseases
    
  • One Health
  • Tickborne Diseases - Tick-Borne Diseases at a Glance
  • HAI/AR Issues in California
  • IDSA Special Presentation: Physician Compensation

  Antibiotic Stewardship, Beyond the Basics, November 3, 2023
  

• • Evaluation
  • Opening
  • Outpatient Stewardship
  • CLSI Updates, New Breakpoints - Collaborating with the Microbiology Lab
  • Oral Antibiotics for Serious Infections
  • Updates in Treatment of Resistant Gram-Negative Infections
  • Stewardship Across the Care Continuum
  • Antimicrobial Stewardship in Skilled Nursing Facilities
  • Achieving CDPH Honor Roll Gold Status/JCAHO Expectations/Regulatory Expectations
  • Debunking Antibiotic Myths for the Infectious Diseasel Clinician

  Spring 2023 Symposium, May 6 - 7.
  

• • Evaluation
  • Opening
  • Top 10 Literature Updates - Rapid-fire Journal Club
  • Screening and Prophylaxis of Infectious Diseases in Solid Organ Transplantation
    
  • HIV Update: Long Term Injectables
    
  • Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections
    
  • Malpractice Risks for Infectious Disease Specialists
    
  • Targeted and Immunotherapy for Cancer and Infectoin Risk
    
  • C auris update
    
  • Antifungal/Molds and Azole Resistance
    
  • Speed Dating - New Antimicrobials
    
  • • Ravina Kullar
    • Ellie Goldstein

• Fall 2022 Symposium, November 5
• • Evaluation Form
  • Update: CLSI and Breakpoints
  • Novel b-lactamase Inhibitor Combinations
  • Review of Top Publications
  • Cocci Update
  • Monkey Pox Update
  • Local Fascinating Cases
  • • Voice Box Catastrophe
    • Fever and a Spectacular Rash
    • The Medical Tourist
    • A Gift From Next Door
• Fall 2022 Symposium, November 4
• • Evaluation Link
  • Water Management Program 
    
  • Monkey Pox Preparation
  • Infection Control Risk Assessment 2.0
  • C diff review
  • Whole Genome Sequencing - Testing Modalities

  
  

• Spring 2022 Symposium - May 21 and 22
• • Evaluation Form
  • Emerging Gram Negative Pathogens
  • HIV Update
  • STD Update
  • Non-typhoidal Salmonella Infections
  • C diff Infection
  • Novel Antifungals
  • Novel Diagnostics in Medical Fungal Diagnosis
  • CDI Infection Prevention - Lowering Your SIR
  • Telehealth for Infectious Disease
  • ASP Honor Role - CDPH

• Winter 2022 Symposium - March 5th
• Recordings of each session
• • Deploying Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, What You Need to Know
  • Antibiotic Stewardship Program - Driving Behavior Change
  • Post COVID-19 Sequelae
  • ASP Honor Roll
  • Non-Typhoid Salmonella Infections
  • Candida auris Update
  • Local Fascinating Cases
  • • Dirt Car Racing Fever
    • Case 2
    • From Lima to Bakersfield
    • Case 4
  • CME/MOC Evaluation Tool
• 2021
• Fall 2021 Symposium - November 6th
• • Orthopedic Hardware Joint Infections
  • • No Recording Available
  • The Clinical Utility of Whole Genome Sequencing: From SARS CoV-2 to Mycobacterium abscessus
  • • Audio Recording
  • Therapeutic Monitoring Beta-lactam abx Therapy
    
  • • No Recording Available
  • Epidemiology, Diagnosis and Treatment of Invasive Fungal Disease complicating COVID-19
  • • Audio Recording 
  • Combination Treatment for Staphylococcal Bacteremia
  • • Recording - Starting at 1:15:00
  • Case Presentations -
  • • Theory of Everything
    • The Ranch Hand
    • A Double Whammy Pneumonia
    • Acute Encephalopathy
    • The Emperor of all Maladies
    • • Recording - Starting at 2:20:00
  • CME/MOC Evaluation Tool
• 35th Annual Winter/Spring Symposium Lecture Series
  
• • Session 1 (Virtual), COVID-19 Therapeutics Update followed by COVID-19 Vaccine Update
    
  • • Dr. Davis' Slide Set: Therapeutics Update
    • Dr. Rouphael's Slide Set: COVID-19 Vaccine Update
    • CME/MOC Evaluation Tool

    
    

  •   Session 2 (Virtual), COVID Epidemiology and Infection Prevention Strategies Update followed by  COVID-19 "Long Haulers"
  • • Dr. Klompas' Slide Set: COVID Epidemiology and Infection Prevention Strategies 
    • Dr. Hernandez-Romieu: COVID-19 Post COVID Conditions

    • • Link to COCA call at the end of January that had some great insights from clinical presenters: https://emergency.cdc.gov/coca/calls/2021/callinfo_012821.asp

      • The organization Survivor Corps maintains a list of post-COVID clinics. https://www.survivorcorps.com/pccc

      • WHO Registry for Post-COVID-19: Global COVID-19 Clinical Platform Case Report Form (CRF) for Post COVID condition (Post COVID-19 CRF) (who.int)

    • • CME/MOC Evaluation Tool
  • Session 3, STD update followed by Advances in HIV Management and Prevention in 2021
    
  • • Dr. Cohen's Slide Set: STI Update
    • Dr. Darr's Slilde Set: HIV Management and Prevention in 2021
    • CME/MOC Evaluation Tool
  • Session 4, (Virtual) Gram Negative Antimicrobials followed by Antifungals
  • • Dr. Tamma's Slide Set: Gram Negative Antimicrobials
    • Dr. Andes' Slide Set: Antifungals
    • CME/MOC Evaluation tool
  • Session 5, Update on C. difficile followed by Antimicrobial Stewardship in the Emergency Department
  • • Dr Goldstein's Slide Set: Update on C. Difficile
    • Dr. May's Slide Set: Antibiotic Stewardship in the  Emergency Department
    • CME/MOC Evaluation Tool
  • Bonus Session 6: Review and update on the IDSA Compensation & Value Task Force Project
  • • Dr. McQuillen's Slide Set:  Review and update on the IDSA Compensation & Value Task Force Project
    • 2021 ID Physician Compensation Survey