Infectious Diseases

Lawrence A. Ross, M.D.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Infectious Diseases
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Advances in Knowledge Regarding Bacterial Meningitis in Childhood
  • Common Fungal Infections in Pediatric Practice: Diagnosis and Therapeutic Considerations
  • Current Concepts in Viral Exanthematous Diseases
  • Global Tuberculosis: Medicine's Greatest Failure
  • Hepatitis B and Hepatitis C: A Pediatric Perspective
  • Life Threatening Complications of ENT Infections
  • Life Threatening S. Pyogenes Infections: Changing Epidemiology and Advances in Therapy
  • Ongoing Controversy Regarding "Walking" (Occult) Bacteremia in Childhood
  • Outpatient Antimicrobial Therapy for the New Millenium
  • Pneumonia in Older Children and Teenagers: Mycoplasma, Chlamydia and More
  • Reading, 'Riting,' Revaccination: Immunization of Teenagers
  • Respiratory Viral Infections in Early Childhood: Current Concepts
  • Rule Out Neonatal Sepsis: Ampicillin/Gentamicin (or Cefotaxime)
  • Strep. Pneumoniae Infections in Children: The Global Challenge Presented by Antimicrobial Resistance
  • Travel Medicine: Dengue, Malaria and More


William V. La Via, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Division of Infectious Diseases
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus
  • Pneumonia
  • Cat Scratch Disease
  • Pediatric HIV Infection


Wilbert H. Mason, Jr., M.D., M.P.H.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
Acting Head, Division of Infectious Diseases
Childrens Hospital Los Angeles

Presentations:

  • Antibiotic Update
  • Antimicrobial Therapy in the "Post-Antibiotic Era"
  • Bacterial Meningitis - Pathogenesis, Prevention and Therapy
  • Coccidioidomycosis
  • Common Childhood Exanthems
  • Controversies in Pediatric Infectious Diseases (steroids in meningitis, management of the febrile infant, OPV vs. IPV, management of RSV infections)
  • Emerging and Re-emerging Infections in Pediatrics (HHV 6, human parvovirus B 19, E. coli 0157:H7, hepatitis C, B. henselae)
  • Epstein-Barr Virus Infections in Children
  • Hepatitis A, B, C, D, E, G
  • Herpes Simplex Infections
  • Immunization Update
  • Infections in Immunosuppressed Hosts
  • Invasive Group A Beta-hemolytic Streptococcal Infections
  • Kawasaki Syndrome Update
  • Lyme Disease
  • Management of Bronchiolitis
  • Measles
  • Mechanisms for Antimicrobial Resistance
  • New Oral Antibiotics in Pediatrics
  • Omphalitis in the Newborn
  • Pediatric TB
  • Rashes - A Visual Diagnosis
  • Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Infections
  • Reye's Syndrome
  • Routine Immunization Practice
  • Streptococcal Infections - Changing Spectrum
  • The Judicious Use of Antibiotics


Margaret M. Khoury, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
USC Pediatric Infectious Disease Division
Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center

Presentations:

  • EBV Infections
  • Fever of Unknown Origin: Case Presentation
  • Infections from Animals
  • Pediatric HIV Infection
  • Perinatal Transmission of HIV Disease


Andrea A.S. Kovacs, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics & Pathology
Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California
USC Pediatric Infectious Disease Division
Los Angeles County + USC Medical Center

Presentations:

  • Antiviral AIDS Drugs in Children
  • Clinical Virology
  • Cytomegalovirus and Other Herpeo Virus Infections
  • Herpes Viruses
  • Maternal/Child AIDS Treatment
  • Pediatric HIV
  • Pediatric Infectious Diseases