An Education Opportunity for Transplant and Oncology Infections

Shmuel Shoham, MD, professor of Clinical Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was looking for a course for transplant and oncology infectious disease. When he couldn’t locate one, he and his team developed one.

Specifically, Johns Hopkins Medicine is offering its new course, The Pamela Tucker Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases Certificate Course, on infectious complications in transplant (solid organ and stem cell) and oncology patients.

“We worked together to create one that starts from the bottom in terms of what patients, doctors, and clinicians can expect, in terms of transplantation, in terms of oncology, from the oncologists and the surgeons and the physicians' side, and then what can be expected from the infectious disease side,” Shoham said.

This will be a two-day, in-person educational activity held on September 8-9 at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg Center, which is located at 555 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC.

The course will expand expertise on infectious complications in transplant (solid organ and stem cell) and oncology patients. It will feature lectures from experts in the field, and provide attendees with the knowledge and skills to provide infectious diseases care to transplant and oncology patients.

“We'll be talking about how organisms get to the places where they don't belong, the impact of resistance, antibacterial and antifungal resistance on those infections, and then have people really know what infections to expect,” Shoham said. “Also, viral infections are huge. So we'll have world experts in CMV, other herpes virus infections, and respiratory viral infections, talking about how those infections happen, how to prevent them, how to manage them—cutting edge approaches to diagnosis and treatment.”

Shoham also said they are going to be covering xenotransplantation infections.

This activity has been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits. For those who are interested in learning more or signing up for the course, clinicians can go here.