 
                    Released
October 4, 2025
Expires
September 16, 2026
Media Type
Internet
Completion Time
60 minutes
Specialties
Critical Care, Hematology & Oncology, Hospitalist, Infectious Disease, Medical Microbiology, Pathology, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Primary Care, Pulmonology, Surgery
Topics
Fungal Infections, Oncology, Pediatrics, Pharmacology
Providers/Grant Support
This activity is supported by an independent educational grant from Karius.
Credits Available
- Physicians — maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
- Nurses — 1.0 Nursing Contact Hour
- Pharmacists — 1.0 contact hour (0.10 CEUs)
All other healthcare professionals completing this course will be issued a statement of participation
Target Audience
This initiative is intended for infectious diseases physicians, critical care physicians, hospitalists, intensivists, surgeons, pathologists/clinical microbiologists, hematologists/oncologists, pharmacists, pediatric infectious disease specialists, transplant specialists, and other healthcare providers responsible for the diagnosis and management of invasive fungal infections.
Program Overview
Welcome to this activity entitled Advanced Molecular Techniques in Infectious Diseases: Case Studies in Mycology. I am Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, and I'm a professor of medicine and epidemiology at the University of Texas Health here in Houston. This activity is based on a live Town Hall activity recorded on July 21, 2025, in which we discuss molecular diagnostics in medical mycology using a case-based approach. I'm honored to work with my co-faculty, Dr Angel Desai, an associate professor at the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of California Davis Health in Sacramento, California. And without further ado, I'm turning this over to Dr Desai, who will discuss the pediatric hematology patient.
Learning Objectives
Upon completing this activity, the participant should be better able to:
- Recognize patients at risk for invasive fungal infections or manifesting clinical signs and symptoms, evaluating the pretest probability for various fungal diagnostic tests
- Evaluate the benefits and limitations of advanced molecular techniques for fungal disease to inform treatment decisions
- Appropriately use advanced molecular and mNGS techniques to enhance diagnostic accuracy of fungal infections
Faculty
 
                                        Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, FECMM, CMQ
Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology
Vice-Chair of Medicine for Healthcare Quality
Director of the Laboratory of Mycology Research
Division Chief at the Division of Infectious Diseases
McGovern Medical School (a part of UTHealth)
Houston, Texas
Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner is a professor of medicine and epidemiology, the Vice-Chair of Medicine for Healthcare Quality, the director of the Laboratory of Mycology Research, and the Division Chief at the Division of Infectious Diseases of the McGovern Medical School (a part of UTHealth). He also serves as medical director for epidemiology and antimicrobial stewardship for Memorial Hermann Texas Medical Center and UT Physicians. He is also currently coordinating the COVID-19 response for UTHealth and its affiliated hospitals and clinics.
Dr Ostrosky-Zeichner obtained his medical degree from Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico. He completed his internal medicine residency at Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran, and his infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Texas Medical School at Houston and MD Anderson Cancer Center combined fellowship program.
Dr Ostrosky-Zeichner is a fellow of the American College of Physicians, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, and the Academy of the European Confederation of Medical Mycology. He is a Senior Editor for Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, as well as an editorial board member of Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy and Clinical Infectious Diseases. He is the Immediate Past President of the Mycoses Study Group and Educational Consortium and a former Vice-President of the International Immunocompromised Host Society. He is also a past chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America Standards and Practice Guidelines Committee and has been a consultant to the US FDA and CDC. He has advanced training and experience in medical mycology, healthcare epidemiology, emerging infections, antimicrobial stewardship, general and transplant infectious diseases, and healthcare quality and has published over 175 peer-reviewed articles on those topics.
 
                                        Angel Desai, MD
Epidemiologist
Mycotic Diseases Branch
Division of Foodborne, Waterborne, and Environmental Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Angel Desai is an associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases at UC Davis Health. Apart from her clinical responsibilities, her research focuses on using non-traditional epidemiological data for emerging diseases and outbreaks, particularly among displaced and other vulnerable populations. She is also interested in policy implications of communicable surveillance among refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), and global governance of public health systems for these populations.
She completed her internal medicine residency at the University of Washington in 2016 and infectious diseases fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2019, where she concurrently received a Master of Public Health from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Accreditation Statement

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by Partners for Advancing Clinical Education (Partners) and Terranova Medica, LLC. Partners is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Credit Designation
Partners designates this enduring material for a maximum of 1.0 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Partners designates this continuing education activity for 1.0 contact hours (0.10 CEUs) of the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education.
Universal Activity Number - JA4008073-9999-25-238-H01-P
Type of Activity: Application
The maximum number of hours awarded for this Continuing Nursing Education is 1 contact hour.
Disclosures of Conflict of Interest
Partners for Advancing Clinical Education (Partners) requires every individual in a position to control educational content to disclose all financial relationships with ineligible companies that have occurred within the past 24 months. Ineligible companies are organizations whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients.
All relevant financial relationships for anyone with the ability to control the content of this educational activity are listed below and have been mitigated according to Partners policies. Others involved in the planning of this activity have no relevant financial relationships.
Faculty Disclosures
Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, MD, FACP, FIDSA, FSHEA, FECMM, CMQ
CONSULTANT, ADVISOR, OR SPEAKER: Scynexis, Melinta, GSK, Pulmocide, F2G, Basilea, Viracor Eurofins, Gilead
Angel Desai, MD, MPH
NOTHING TO DISCLOSE
Instructions for Participation and Credit
Participation in this self-study activity should be completed in approximately 1 hour. To successfully complete this activity and receive CE credit, learners must follow these steps during the period from September 16, 2025 through September 15, 2026:
If you wish to receive acknowledgment for completing this activity, please follow the steps below:
- Review the objectives and disclosures
- Study the educational content
- Successfully complete activity quiz(zes)
- Complete the activity evaluation
You must receive a test score of at least 75% and respond to all evaluation questions to receive a certificate.
For Pharmacists: Upon successfully completing the post-assessment, your credit will be submitted to CPE Monitor.  Please check your NABP account within thirty (30) days to make sure the credit has posted.
Disclosures of Unlabeled Use
This educational activity may contain discussion of published and/or investigational uses of agents that are not indicated by the FDA. The planners of this activity do not recommend the use of any agent outside of the labeled indications. The opinions expressed in the educational activity are those of the faculty and do not necessarily represent the views of the planners. Please refer to the official prescribing information for each product for discussion of approved indications, contraindications, and warnings.
Disclaimer
Participants have an implied responsibility to use the newly acquired information to enhance patient outcomes and their own professional development. The information presented in this activity is not meant to serve as a guideline for patient management. Any procedures, medications, or other courses of diagnosis or treatment discussed or suggested in this activity should not be used by clinicians without evaluation of their patient’s conditions and possible contraindications and/or dangers in use, review of any applicable manufacturer’s product information, and comparison with recommendations of other authorities.
Contact Information
For further information, contact Tom Davis by email ([email protected]). For additional information about the accreditation of this activity, visit https://partnersed.com
