The Chicago Infectious Disease Board Review

CME Group, November 2008

The Chicago Infectious Disease Board Review program is designed to prepare physicians-in-training and practicing physicians for the Infectious Disease Sub-specialty Examination of the American Board of Internal Medicine. The program is also intended for physicians who are interested in an intensive, broad-scope review of Infectious Disease topics.

- The nation’s premier infectious disease board review now exclusively available as a self study
- Combines lectures, slide presentations and cases—30 hours of video
- An intensive board review presented by a faculty of internationally known experts

Learning Objectives: After viewing this activity, participants should be able to:

- Identify the typical and atypical presentations of common infectious diseases
- Review the clinical presentations, diagnostic criteria, and therapeutic options for uncommon infectious diseases
- Evaluate recent therapeutic developments in infectious disease and identify their role in the armamentarium
- Identify the clinical presentations of agents of bioterrorism
- Review the clinical syndromes of emerging infectious diseases
- Improve clinical capabilities by expanding an individual’s clinical database
- Improve scores of participating physicians preparing for the Infectious Disease certification or recertification exam

Accreditation:

Rush University Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Designation Statement:

Rush University Medical Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 30 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Release date: November 1, 2008
Credits expire: October 31, 2011

CME credit is obtained upon successful completion of a self-assessment examination and activity evaluation. A processing fee must accompany the completed exam and evaluation application.

A note on the format:

DVD: Video - DVD: Includes 14 full-color video DVDs with carrying case, a comprehensive course syllabus on CD-ROM, self-assessment examination and activity evaluation.

Topics & Speakers

Upper Respiratory Infections and Lower
Respiratory Infections
David Schwartz, MD

Leptospira, Lyme and Other Borrelia/Hemorrhagic
Fevers, Other Zoonoses and Ectoparasites
Jeffrey Nelson, MD

Viral Hepatitis
Toyin Adeyemi, MD

Tuberculosis and NontuberculosisMycobacteria
Audrey French, MD

Influenza
Stephanie Black, MD

Fungal Diseases
Overview of Ocular Infections
Laurie A. Proia, MD

Immunizations
Beverly E. Sha, MD

HIV and OI’s
Kimberly Y. Smith, MD, MPH

White Blood Cell Abnormalities and
Immune Deficiencies
Allan R. Tenorio, MD

SARS
Kamal Singh, MD

Sexually Transmitted Diseases
Myron Cohen, MD

DiagnosticMicrobiology Case Presentations:
Antibiotic Resistance
Mary K. Hayden, MD

Central Nervous System Infections
Diarrhea and GI Syndromes
Larry J. Goodman, MD

Protozoal Infections
Tissue Roundworms
Gut Roundworms
Flat and SegmentedWorms
Cestodes
Thomas Moore, MD

Anaerobic Infections and Toxin-Mediated Syndromes and Skin and Soft Tissue
Pox
Malaria and Babesiosis
Fevers of Unknown Origin
Question and Answer Session
Gordon M. Trenholme, MD

Osteomyelitis and Septic Arthritis
Endocarditis
John Segreti, MD

Question and Answer Session
Nosocomial Infections with Case Presentations
Robert A. Weinstein, MD

Case Presentations
David Hines, MD

HIV and Antivirals (HIV, HSV, Influenza)
Harold A. Kessler, MD

Infections of Prosthetic and Vascular Devices
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Sepsis
Dennis Maki, MD

Infections in Transplant Recipients
David Simon, MD, PhD

Course Directors

Gordon M. Trenholme, MD
James R. Lowenstine Professor of Medicine
Director, Section of Infectious Diseases
Rush University Medical Center Robert A. Weinstein, MD
Chairman, Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County
Professor of Medicine, Rush University Medical Center

CME Course Director
Harold A. Kessler, MD
Professor of Medicine and Immunology/Microbiology

Rush University Medical Center
Associate Director, Section of Infectious Diseases
Associate Dean, Postgraduate Medical Education
Director, Office of Continuing Medical Education
Rush University Medical Center Faculty

Toyin Adeyemi, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

Stephanie Black, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine
Section of Infectious Diseases

Audrey French, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

Larry J. Goodman, MD
President & CEO
Professor of Medicine

Mary K. Hayden, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine and Pathology
Director, Clinical Microbiology Laboratory

David Hines, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Jeffrey Nelson, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Laurie A. Proia, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

David Schwartz, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
John H. Stroger Jr. Hospital of Cook County

John Segreti, MD
Professor of Medicine

David Simon, MD, PhD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Beverly E. Sha, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine

Kamal Singh, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine and Clinical Microbiology

Kimberly Y. Smith, MD, MPH
Associate Professor of Medicine

Allan R. Tenorio, MD
Assistant Professor of Medicine

Guest Faculty

Myron Cohen, MD
J Herbert Bate Professor of Medicine, Microbiology and
Immunology, and Public Health; Chief, Division of
Infectious Diseases, Director, UNC Center for Infectious
Diseases, University of North Carolina Med,
Chapel Hill, NC

Dennis Maki, MD
Ovid O. Meyer Professor of Medicine; Head, Section of
Infectious Disease; Attending Physician, Center for Trauma
and Life Support University of Wisconsin School of
Medicine, Madison, WI

Thomas Moore, MD
Clinical Associate Professor; Associate Program Director
Department of Medicine, University of Kansas School of
Medicine-Wichita Campus, Wichita, KS

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