Platform Presentations of Selected Infectious Diseases Abstracts

Program Committee Moderator(s)

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  Heba Mostafa, MD. PhD. D(ABMM) (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor of Pathology, Director of Molecular Virology
  Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions
  Baltimore, Maryland, United States

Co-Moderator (Early Career)(s)

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  Krupa Jani, MS, ASCP(iMB) (she/her/hers)

  Clinical Laboratory Technologist II
  Clinical Microbiology Services
  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
  Jersey City, New Jersey, United States

Presentations:

• 1:15 PM – 1:30 PM PST

  (ID007) Adding Infectious Disease Samples to a Cancer Next-Generation Sequencing Workflow Decreases Costs and Increases Efficiency of Whole-Genome Sequencing for Pathogen Identification and Surveillance
  

  Poster Presenter: Priya Velu, MD PhD – Weill Cornell Medicine
• 1:30 PM – 1:45 PM PST

  (ID020) Housekeeping Gene Specimen Adequacy Controls are Poor Proxies for Nasopharyngeal Swab Collection Quality
  

  Poster Presenter: Katharine Crawford, MD, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Washington
• 1:45 PM – 2:00 PM PST

  (ID030) Targeted Next Generation Sequencing for Improved Identification of Bacterial and Fungal Pathogens in Formalin-Fixed Paraffin-Embedded Tissue
  

  Poster Presenter: Ran Zhuo, PhD (she/her/hers) – UCLA Health
• 2:00 PM – 2:15 PM PST

  (ID058) Product Alert Corrective Action: Norovirus False Positive Results with the Biofire Molecular Gastrointestinal Pathogens Test
  

  Poster Presenter: Kenneth Muldrew, MD, MPH – Baylor College of Medicine and Ben Taub Hospital, Harris Health System