3550 - Infectious Diseases II: COVID-19 & MIS-C Oral Abstracts

Monday, April 25, 2022

1:00 PM – 2:30 PM US MT

Location: Convention Center: 709/711

CE: Live CME: 1.5

Course Number: 3550

Moderator(s)

Asuncion Mejias, MD, PhD, MsCS (she/her/hers)

Professor of Pediatrics Principal Investigator, Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children's Hospital Attending Physician, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Nationwide Children's Hospital
Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
St Jude Children's Research Hospital
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Bezawit Hunegnaw, MD, MPH

Pediatrician, Research Manager
Epidemiology
St Paul's Hospital Millennium Medical College
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Asuncion Mejias, MD, PhD, MsCS: ● Janssen (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator, Advisory Committee)
● Merck (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)
● Sanofi (Currently Ongoing) (Products/Services: Advisory Committee)

Bezawit Hunegnaw, MD, MPH: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Presentations:

1:00 PM – 1:15 PM US MT

Differences in clinical presentations and disease severity according to the infecting severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) variant in children
Presenting Author: Ana M. Quintero, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital
1:15 PM – 1:30 PM US MT

Cellular and Humoral Response to the 3rd COVID-19 Vaccine Dose in Immunocompromised Children; a Multi-Division Prospective Cohort
Presenting Author: Heather Morgans, D.O. – Children's Mercy Hospitals and Clinics
1:30 PM – 1:45 PM US MT

Persistently dysregulated inflammatory responses in COVID-19 pregnant women and their infants
Presenting Author: Paula Rodriguez Molino, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital
1:45 PM – 2:00 PM US MT

Characterisation of immune responses in multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MISC)
Presenting Author: Eleanor Molloy, Md PhD – Trinity college dublin
2:00 PM – 2:15 PM US MT

Anakinra use in moderate to severe multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children
Presenting Author: Esra Akkoyun, MD – University of Texas Southwestern Medical School
2:15 PM – 2:30 PM US MT

Surfactant Protein B in Respiratory Viral Infections
Presenting Author: Sandra Lawrynowicz Leibel, MD MSc – University of California, San Diego School of Medicine