Neonatal Infectious Diseases/Immunology 2

Sunday, April 27, 2025

2:00pm – 3:30pm HST

Location: Convention Center: 313 A

CE: 1.5

Moderator(s)

Ajay Talati, MD (he/him/his)

Professor and Chief, Neonatology
University of Tennessee Health Science Center
Memphis, Tennessee, United States
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Liza Konnikova, MD PhD (she/her/hers)

Associate Professor
Yale School of Medicine
North Haven, Connecticut, United States

Disclosure(s):

Ajay J. Talati, MD: Baxter (Terminated, July 1, 2024) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Infant bacterial therapeutics (Ongoing) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator); Prolacta (Terminated, July 1, 2024) (Products/Services: Research Support including clinical trials & the principal or named investigator)

Jennifer Bermick, MD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Liza Konnikova, MD PhD: I do not have any relevant financial / non-financial relationships with any proprietary interests.

Presentations:

2:00pm – 2:15pm HST

Sustainability and safety of an early-onset sepsis risk-stratification guideline for empiric antibiotics among very low birth weight infants
Presenting Author: Molly F. May, DNP, MSN, CRNP (she/her/hers) – Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia
2:15pm – 2:30pm HST

Eleven Years of Antimicrobial Stewardship in Six Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICU): The Bundle Worked!
Presenting Author: Temitope O. Olayinka, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – Jacobi Medical Center
2:30pm – 2:45pm HST

Impaired third trimester placental function in pregnant women living with HIV
Presenting Author: Nickie Andescavage, MD – Children's National Health System
2:45pm – 3:00pm HST

Innate Immune-modulation by BCG Vaccination Given at Birth in Preterm Neonates : A Randomized Trial
Presenting Author: Mudit Agarwal, MBBS, MD (he/him/his) – All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi
3:00pm – 3:15pm HST

Concurrent Administration of Biomimetic Human Red Blood Cell Membrane-Coated Nanosponges Greatly Improves Survival in a Murine Model of Neonatal Peritonitis Over Antibiotics Alone
Presenting Author: Shannon Nielsen, Bachelor's of Science – University of Utah
3:15pm – 3:30pm HST

Microbiota-derived extracellular vesicles in maternal gut microbiota and amniotic fluid: Explanation for fetal microbiome concept?
Presenting Author: Jenni Turunen, PhD (she/her/hers) – University of Oulu