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Our Purpose
The purpose of the Society is to promote professional education, cooperation and fellowship among its members, and to provide members with new information and techniques in the treatment of infectious diseases.
Membership form for Infectious Diseases Society of St. Louis - PDF

The Board of Directors

Morey Gardner, M.D. - President
Program Director,
Internal Medicine Residency
Director, Dept. of Internal
  Medicine
Director, Div. of Infectious Disease
St. Mary's Health Center
St. Louis, MO

James Hinrichs, M.D.
Medical Director and Hospitalist
Infectious Diseases
St. Joseph Hospital
St. Louis, MO

Donald Kennedy, M.D. - President-elect
Professor of Medicine
St. Louis University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO

Farrin Manian, M.D.
 Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases,
 St. John's Mercy Medical Center
St. Louis, MO

Leon Robison, M.D.
St. Luke's Hospital
St. Louis, MO

Keith Woeltje, M.D., Ph.D. -Secretary/Treasurer
 Associate Professor of Medicine
 Washington University School of Medicine
St. Louis, MO
kwoeltje@im.wustl.edu
 

Executive Director
Susan Wightman, RN, BSN, ACRN
Washington University School of Medicine
Infectious Diseases Division
Box 8051
660 S. Euclid Ave.
St. Louis, MO 63110
314.454.08275
fax: 314.454.9290
email: swightma@im.wustl.edu

Additional information can be obtained by calling Susan Wightman at
314-454-8275 or email swightma@im.wustl.edu

Educational Meetings

June 18, 2008
Update on C. difficile-Associated Disease and Treatment Guidelines of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
presented by
Dale N. Gerding, M.D., FACP
Professor of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
Associate Chief of Staff, Research and Development Service
Hines Veterans Administration Hospital, Hines IL
Board Member, Infectious Diseases Society of America
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
The Engineers' Club of St. Louis
4359 Lindell Blvd.
St. Louis, Mo. 63108
phone: 314-533-9333
6:15 p.m Hors d’oeuvres Reception (Meet & Greet)
7:00 p.m. Dinner/Program Commences
RSVP  June 12 to Susan Wightman at 314-454-8275 or
reply by email swightma@im.wustl.edu
 

Past Events

September 25, 2007

Infectious Diseases Clinical Cases
moderated by
Keith F. Woeltje, M.D., Ph.D.

 presented by
Infectious Diseases Fellows

Aneesa Afroze, MD

 Post Doctoral Fellow
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Missouri - Columbia

Mary C. Barsanti, M.D.
Clinical Fellow
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University School of Medicine

Binh-Minh Nguyen Le, M.D.
Clinical Fellow
Department of Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Washington University School of Medicine
 

March 28, 2007
Control and Treatment Strategies for
Acinetobacter and other Emerging Multi-Drug Resistant Gram-negative Pathogens
presented by
Trish M. Perl, M.D., M.Sc.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Pathology and Epidemiology
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Director of Hospital Epidemiology and Infection Control
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Baltimore, Maryland

May 23, 2006
The  Epidemic That Is: MRSA
presented by
Adolf W. Karchmer, M.D.
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston MA

 May 11, 2005

 Public Reporting of Hospital
Infections: Issues and Controversies

presented by

Ray Wagner, Consumer Advocate

and

Farrin A. Manian, M.D., M.P.H.

President, Infectious Diseases Society of St. Louis
Chief of Infectious Diseases, St. John’s Mercy Medical Center
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, University of Missouri—Columbia

December 5, 2005
Prospects for the Prevention of
Pandemic Influenza with Vaccine
Robert B. Belshe, M.D
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Infectious Diseases and Immunology
St. Louis University School of Medicine

Diagnostic Methods for Influenza
Gregory A. Storch, M.D.
Professor of Pediatrics
Co-director Clinical Retrovirus Lab, Director Clinical Virology Lab, Bacteriology Laboratory and the Molecular Virology Laboratory
Washington University School of Medicine
 

June 7, 2004
Initial Treatment of HIV Infections
Presented by
Joel Gallant, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Medicine & Epidemiology
Associate Director, Johns Hopkins AIDS Service
 

October 7, 2004
Maintaining Antimicrobial Efficacy in the New Era
Presented by
W. Michael Scheld, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, Infectious Diseases
& Clinical Professor of Neurosurgery
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, VA