Leveraging Friends Against Foes: Use of Microbial Communities to Prevent Infection and Transmission

Learning Objectives

  1. Examine new avenues with which infectious diseases and their transmission can be controlled.
  2. Review how advances in microbial ecology can support both therapeutics and infection control.
  3. Discuss the advantages and challenges of incorporating microbial communities into patient care.
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 1.50 ABIM MOC
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Participation
Course opens: 
07/01/2021
Course expires: 
12/31/2021
Cost:
$0.00
Part of: 
Decennial 2020 Webinar Series
  1. Preventing infections and transmission trough microbial communities
  2. Microbiome protectants, restoratives and therapeutics for treatment of infections - current evidence and future perspectives
  3. Fecal microbiota transplantation for prevention of transmission of multidrug-resistant organisms
  4. Q&A

Speakers

Alison Laufer Halpin, PhD, MPhil
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
No relationships to disclose

Eric Pamer, MD
University of Chicago
No relationships to disclose

Stephan Harbarth, MD, MS
Geneva University Hospitals
No relationships to disclose

Coordinator

Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, MD, MSc
University of Basel
Consulting fee: Shionogi B.V. Amsterdam

Alison Laufer Halpin, PhD, MPhil
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
No relationships to disclose

Available Credit

  • 1.50 ABIM MOC
  • 1.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
  • 1.50 Participation

Price

Cost:
$0.00
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