Medicine Grand Rounds

"Fungal Diagnostic Test and When to Order Them"
Mohanad Al Obaidi, MD
Dr. Al-Obaidi is a clinical assistant professor with the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Arizona; his main specialty is infectious diseases in the immunocompromised patients within the solid organ, bone marrow transplant, and oncology patient populations. He completed his medical school in Iraq at the University of Baghdad, then followed by completing his internal medicine and infectious diseases fellowship in Texas. During his two-year infectious disease fellowship and his third year in transplant infectious disease fellowship at the University of Texas, Houston, he trained to manage infectious diseases in oncology and solid organ transplant patients at MD Anderson and Memorial Herman hospitals. His current research interest extends from invasive fungal infections to viral and bacterial infections in the immunocompromised hosts. Dr. Al-Obaidi participates in many clinical trials as a principal investigator and co-investigator in antifungal and antiviral therapy studies. He also has multiple current research studies evaluating fungal diagnostics tests and studying invasive fungal infections' epidemiology. His most recent interest is the study of invasive candidiasis epidemiology in Arizona and evaluating the impact of azole antifungal therapy on the selection of species.

Department of Medicine Grand Rounds
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Arizona College of Medicine - Tucson designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
All Faculty, CME Planning Committee Members, and the CME Office Reviewers have disclosed that they have no financial relationships with commercial interests that would constitute a conflict of interest concerning this CME activity.
Learning Objectives:

• Diagnose a variety of internal medicine illnesses
• Understand more clearly advances in therapy
• Become truly professional physicians