A Look Back at IDWeek 2023

IDWeek is an annual conference bringing together professionals of varying backgrounds with a common interest in Infectious Diseases (ID). This year’s conference was hosted earlier this month in Boston, MA, where many Emory Department of Medicine leaders, researchers, fellows, and trainees were in attendance, giving presentations, poster presentations, speaking engagements, and more.

Highlights from the conference include:

• Wendy Armstrong, MD, introduced Dr. Ofotokun’s John F. Enders Lecture titled Using HIV as a Model to Understand the Post-Acute Sequelae of Viral Infections (oral presentation)
• Igho Ofotokun, MD, delivered the John F. Enders Lecture, a prestigious opportunity recognizing the speaker’s contributions in the field of medical virology
• Igho Ofotokun, MD, presented Updates in Long COVID (oral presentation) during COVID-19 Updates session
• Carlos del Rio, MD, moderated the Opening and Closing (with Dr. Wendy. Armstrong)
• Carlos del Rio, MD, gives video interview with IDWeek TV
• Carlos del Rio, MD, completes term as Infectious Diseases Society president
• Laila Woc-Colburn, MD, featured in Women in the Field of ID and HIV IDWeek TV interview
• Wendy Armstrong, MD, gives Workforce Development in Infectious Diseases interview for IDWeek TV

Click on the names of the Department of Medicine faculty below to view a list of their presentations, speaking engagements, & posters (If applicable – please note ‘presenting author’):

DOM FACULTY:

• Carlos del Rio, MD, Executive Associate Dean of School of Medicine and Grady Health System
• Wendy Armstrong, MD, FIDSA, FACP, Professor of Medicine
• Igho Ofotokun, MD, MSc, Research in HIV and Women’s Health and Y This Harmony Matters (RHYTHM) faculty and Grady Distinguished Professor of Medicine
• Cecile Lahiri, MD, MSc, RHYTHM Faculty and Associate Professor of Medicine
• Lauren Collins, MD, MSc, RHYTHM Faculty and Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Marcos Schechter, MD, Associate Professor
• Zanthia Wiley, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
• Colleen Kelley, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine
• Ahmed Babiker, MBBS, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Boghuma K. Titanji, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Sujit Suchindran, MD, MPH, Associate Professor of Medicine
• Laila Woc-Colburn, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
• Michael H. Woodworth, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Aneesh K. Mehta, MD, Professor of Medicine and Surgery
• Lauren H. Epstein, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine
• Jesse T. Jacob, MD, Professor of Medicine
• Emily J. Cartwright, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
• Rachel Friedman-Moraco, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
• Kimberly Workowski, MD, Professor of Medicine
• Valeria Cantos Lucio, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine
• Carlos S. Saldana, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine

Fellows and Trainees:

• HIV Treatment in the Real World – Amalia Aldredge, MD, RHYTHM Fellow (oral presentation)
• Infectious Diseases Medical Education – Amalia Aldredge, MD, RHYTHM Fellow (poster presentation)
• Co-Utilization of HIV, Substance Use, and Mental Health Services Among Women with Current Substance Use – Wendy Fujita, MD, RHYTHM Fellow (poster presentation)
• Detection of Mpox Virus with the Cepheid Xpert Mpox Assey in Oropharyngeal, Anorectal and Cutaneous Lesion Swab Specimens – Gregory Damhorst, MD, PHD, Emory CFAR Trainee (oral presentation)
• A Previously Healthy Man with a Five-Day History of Diffuse Joint Pain – Brett M. Montelaro, MD, Resident (poster presentation)
• Comparative Genomics Uncovers Strain Diversity and Possible Unrecognized Transmission of MDROs Among Hospitalized Patients – Dylan Koundakjian, MD, Resident Physician
• Rates of Susceptibility and Heteroresistance to Novel Antibiotic Combinations in Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacterales Isolates – Emory Healthcare, 2016-2021 – Christina K. Lin, MD, Emory StARR Chief Research Resident

Please join us in celebrating our Division of Infectious Diseases colleagues. Congratulations on your well-deserved recognitions!