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Speakers

Speaker

John W. Baddley, MD, MSPH

John W. Baddley, MD, MSPH

Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

John W. Baddley, MD, MSPH, is a Professor of Medicine in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He serves as Director of Transplant and Oncology Infectious Diseases and as Co-Director of the Transplant Research Center. Dr. Baddley serves as President of the Transplantation Society’s Transplant Infectious Diseases Section and as Chairman of the ID Professional Community of the International Society for Heart and Lung transplantation. Dr. Baddley’s clinical work focuses on management of infections in the immunocompromised host. Ongoing areas of research include clinical trials of antifungal therapies and the epidemiology of fungal infections. Dr. Baddley currently serves on the editorial boards of Transplant Infectious Diseases and Open Forum Infectious Diseases.

Daniel Kaul, MD (Transplant Infectious Disease)

Daniel Kaul, MD (Transplant Infectious Disease)

Professor Internal Medicine, University of Michigan
Director Transplant Infectious Disease
Program Director ID Fellowship Program

Daniel Kaul, MD is a professor of internal medicine in the division of infectious disease and the University of Michigan. He directs the transplant infectious disease service as well as the infectious disease fellowship training program. He is on planning committee for the American Transplant Congress, and serves as Associate Editor for the New England Journal of Medicine Journal Watch ID and on the editorial board for Transplant Infectious Disease.

Camille Nelson Kotton, MD, FIDSA, FAST

Camille Nelson Kotton, MD, FIDSA, FAST

Clinical Director, Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Program in the Infectious Diseases Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School

Camille Nelson Kotton, MD, FIDSA, FAST, is the clinical director of the Transplant and Immunocompromised Host Infectious Diseases Program in the Infectious Diseases Division at Massachusetts General Hospital, and associate professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School in Boston, MA. Dr Kotton’s clinical interests include cytomegalovirus, vaccines, donor-derived infections, zoonoses, and travel and tropical medicine in the transplant setting. She was a member of the CDC Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) 2020-2024 and continues to serve as a consultant. Dr Kotton was the chair of The Infectious Disease Community of Practice of The American Society of Transplantation. She has also served as the president of The Transplant Infectious Disease Section of The Transplantation Society. Highlights of her work include the development of 4 versions of the international guidelines on CMV management after solid organ transplant and updated international guidelines on BK management, all published in Transplantation. She is the first transplant infectious disease specialist to be on the executive committee of The Transplantation Society. 

Ricardo M. La Hoz, MD, FACP, FAST, FIDSA

Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases
Program Director, Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship
Medical Director, Transplant Services Center
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
UT Southwestern Medical Center

Ricardo M. La Hoz, MD, FACP, FAST, FIDSA, is an Associate Professor at UT Southwestern Medical Center in the Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine. He serves as the Director of Transplant Infectious Diseases, Transplant Infectious Diseases Program Director, and Medical Director of Transplant Services Center. He chaired the OPTN Ad Hoc Disease Transmission Advisory Committee from 2020-2022 and, since 2024 Chairs the American Society of Transplantation Infectious Diseases Community of Practice.

Tony Mazzulli, MD, FRCPC, FACP

Tony Mazzulli, MD, FRCPC, FACP

Microbiologist-in-Chief, University Health Network/Sinai Health Department of Microbiology
Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto

Dr. Mazzulli is the Microbiologist-in-Chief of the University Health Network/Sinai Health Department of Microbiology, Toronto as well as Professor, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto.  His major research interests include infections in the immunocompromised host as well as rapid diagnostics for the detection of viral pathogens.  He has served as the Program Director for the Medical Microbiology and Clinical (Post-doctoral) Microbiology Training Programs at the University of Toronto for over 20 years.  He is also currently serving as the Laboratory Medicine Program Medical Director for multiple hospitals in Northern Ontario and oversees the microbiology operations of multiple community hospital laboratories and private/community laboratories across Ontario.

Yoichiro Natori, M.D., M.P.H., FIDSA

Yoichiro Natori, M.D., M.P.H., FIDSA

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine

Medical Director of Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases
Miami Transplant Institute
Jackson Health System

Dr. Natori was born in Japan and earned his medical degree from Nagoya University School of Medicine. He completed his residency and infectious disease fellowship at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo, Japan, and subsequently completed a Transplant Infectious Disease fellowship at the University Health Network, University of Toronto. Currently, Dr. Natori serves as a faculty member in the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Department of Clinical Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. He also holds the position of Medical Director of Solid Organ Transplant Infectious Diseases at the Miami Transplant Institute, Jackson Health System. In addition, he currently leads the Respiratory Virus Working Group within the American Society of Transplantation’s Infectious Disease Community of Practice.

Sarah Shalhoub, MBBS

Sarah Shalhoub, MBBS

Assistant Professor of Medicine
Division of Infectious Diseases
Western University

Sarah Shalhoub, MBBS is the clinical director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases service in the Infectious Diseases Division at London Health Sciences Center, and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Western University, London, Ontario.

She is the director of the Transplant Infectious Diseases Fellowship program at the Multiorgan Transplant Department, London Health Sciences Center.

Her research interests include infection outcomes in solid organ transplant recipients and patients with hematological malignancies.

Date & Time

August 22-23, 2025
Day 1: 8am - 6pm EDT
Day 2: 8am - 6pm EDT

Location

Chestnut Conference Centre
89 Chestnut St,
Toronto, ON

Key Dates

March 27, 2025
Call for Abstracts Opens

May 2, 2025
Registration Opens

May 22, 2025
Call for Abstracts Closes

July 17, 2025
Notification of Abstract Results

July 24, 2025
Early Registration Rate Deadline

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