Harvard Infectious Diseases in Primary Care 2025

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The Comprehensive Infectious Disease Update: Prevention, Diagnosis, Treatment
Why Join This Course?
Designed specifically for front-line primary care and urgent care clinicians, this highly rated course delivers the latest updates in infectious diseases, with a focus on practical strategies you can use right away in your practice.
You’ll gain:

Expert guidance to deliver state-of-the-art care
Tools to improve diagnosis, treatment, and prevention
Updates on recent breakthroughs and emerging infections
Practical solutions to the most common—and and most challenging—ID problems in primary care

2025 Topics Include:

What’s New in Vaccines: Updates for 2025 and what’s on the horizon
Respiratory Infections: New diagnostics and therapies
Antibiotic Stewardship: Avoiding overuse while managing complex infections
Lyme Disease: Evidence-based approaches to controversy and confusion
Vaccine Conversations: How to counsel hesitant patients effectively
ID Emergencies: Can’t-miss diagnoses every PCP should recognize
Multidrug-Resistant Infections: Practical treatment options
Caring for Immunocompromised Patients: What every primary care clinician should know
COVID-19 and Influenza in 2025: Current guidance for evolving variants
Emerging Threats: H5N1, mpox, measles, and other new and recrudescent infections
Latent TB: Testing and treatment made simple
Infection Control: Best practices in the outpatient setting
Updated Guidelines: Urinary, GI, respiratory, and soft tissue infections

Focus on Clinical Questions You Face Every Day
Get answers to practical, high-yield questions:

What’s the best way to manage recurrent or resistant UTIs?
How should I test for and treat latent TB?
What do I do when a patient has an antibiotic allergy?
Which patients should receive PrEP for HIV, and how do I initiate it?
How can I counsel patients with concerns about vaccine safety?
What’s the best way to handle initial and recurrent C. difficile?
Which travelers need which vaccines—and when?
What’s the latest on pneumococcal vaccines, H. pylori management, and STI testing?

Featured in 2025

Keynote Presentation by Dr. Rochelle Walensky: “Lessons from the Front Lines of Public Health”—from the former CDC Director and ID Chief at MGH.
Microbiology Lab Demystified: Dr. Romney Humphries answers “Top Questions PCPs Have for the Microbiology Lab.”
Challenging Cases from the Field: Our expert faculty share and discuss their toughest outpatient ID cases.
Expanded Q&A: More time dedicated to your questions—and real-world answers you can use.

Who Should Attend

PHYSICIANS, NPs, and PAs in the fields of:

Internal Medicine
Family Medicine
Infectious Diseases
Pediatrics
Geriatrics
Adolescent Medicine
Emergency Medicine
Urgent Care
OB/GYN

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Moderator: Dr. Paul E. Sax

9:00am to 9:05am Welcome Remarks Paul E. Sax, MD

9:05am to 9:50am Antibiotic Update for Office Practice Paul E. Sax, MD

9:50am to 9:55am Break

9:55am to 10:40am Update in Sexually Transmitted Infections Daniel A. Solomon, MD

10:40am to 10:55am Break

10:55am to 11:40am C. difficile: What’s New for the PCP Elizabeth L. Hohmann, MD

11:40am to 11:45am Break

11:45am to 12:30pm Corticosteroids, Biologics, and More: Infections in the Non-HIV Immunocompromised Host Jessica Little, MD

12:30pm to 12:35pm Break

12:35pm to 1:20pm Urinary Tract Infections: The Common and the Complicated Sigal Yawetz, MD

1:20pm to 2:05pm Break

Moderator: Dr. Jacob H. Johnson

2:05pm to 2:50pm Gastrointestinal Infections: Evaluation and Treatment Jacob H. Johnson, MD

2:50pm to 2:55pm Break

2:55pm to 3:40pm Lyme Disease: Diagnosis, Treatment, and Controversies Daniel A. Solomon, MD

3:40pm to 3:45pm Break

3:45pm to 4:30pm Tuberculosis for the Non-ID Specialist Jacob H. Johnson, MD

4:30pm to 4:45pm Break

4:45pm to 5:30pm Top Myths About Antibiotics We Wish Every Clinician Would Know Jeffrey Pearson, PharmD, BCIDP

5:30pm to 5:35pm Break

5:35pm to 6:20pm Tropical Infections in Clinical Practice Carolina Geadas, MD, MSc, DTM&H

Thursday, October 16, 2025

UPDATE on RECOMMENDED VACCINES for ADULTS
Moderator: Dr. Daniel A. Solomon

9:00am to 9:10am Introduction: Vaccines in 2025: Promises and Perils Daniel A. Solomon, MD

9:10am to 9:45am Top Vaccine Updates for the PCP – Part 1 Mary W. Montgomery, MD

9:45am to 10:15am Top Vaccine Updates for the PCP – Part 2 Daniel A. Solomon, MD

10:15am to 10:20am Break

10:20am to 10:35am Vaccines for the International Traveler Mary W. Montgomery, MD

10:35am to 10:50am Vaccine Q+A Mary W. Montgomery, MD and Daniel A. Solomon, MD

10:50am to 11:05am Break
Moderator: Dr. Daniel A. Solomon

11:05am to 11:45am Sore Throats, Common Colds, and Coughs That Won’t Go Away Jennifer A. Johnson, MD

11:45am to 11:50am Break

11:50am to 12:20pm Pneumonia: Updates in Diagnosis and Management Mary W. Montgomery, MD

12:20pm to 12:25pm Break

12:25pm to 1:10pm Infection Control for the Primary Care Provider: COVID-19 and Beyond Michael Klompas, MD, MPH

1:10pm to 1:55pm Break

Moderator: Dr. Sigal Yawetz

1:55pm to 2:40pm Live Q&A Faculty

2:40pm to 2:45pm Break

2:45pm to 3:30pm H. pylori: Diagnosis, Management and Controversies Molly L. Perencevich, MD

3:30pm to 3:35pm Break

3:35pm to 4:20pm How to Evaluate and Manage Antibiotic Allergies Paige G. Wickner, MD, MPH

4:20pm to 4:35pm Break

4:35pm to 5:20pm Management of Antibiotics and Other ID Challenges in Pregnancy Sigal Yawetz, MD

5:20pm to 5:25pm Break

5:25pm to 6:10pm Optimizing Curbside Consults in Infectious Diseases Paul E. Sax, MD

Friday, October 17, 2025

Moderator: Dr. Jennifer A. Johnson

9:00am to 9:45am KEYNOTE: Lessons from the Front Lines of Public Health Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH

9:45am to 9:50am Break

9:50am to 10:35am Skin Infections and Infection-Mimickers Adam D. Lipworth, MD

10:35am to 10:40am Break

10:40am to 11:25am HIV for the Non-ID Specialist: The Basics Paul E. Sax, MD

11:25am to 11:40am Break

11:40am to 12:25pm Top Questions PCPs Have for the Microbiology Lab Romney Humphries, PhD

12:25pm to 12:30pm Break

12:30pm to 1:15pm Can’t-Miss Diagnoses in Infectious Diseases Jennifer A. Johnson, MD

1:15pm to 1:20pm Break
1:20pm to 2:05pm HIV Pre- and Post-Exposure Prophylaxis: Why the PCP Is Critical Sigal Yawetz, MD

2:05pm to 2:50pm Break
Moderator: Dr. Paul E. Sax

2:50pm to 3:20pm Live Q&A Faculty

3:20pm to 3:25pm Break

3:25pm to 4:10pm Influenza and COVID-19: The Latest in Prevention and Treatment Paul E. Sax, MD

4:10pm to 4:15pm Break

4:15pm to 5:00pm Hepatitis in the Primary Care Setting Jennifer A. Johnson, MD

5:00pm to 5:15pm Break

5:15pm to 6:00pm ID Case Challenges: How We Approach Our Toughest Outpatient Cases Panel (moderated by Paul E. Sax, MD)

6:00pm to 6:10pm Course Wrap-Up