Tirdad T. Zangeneh, DO, FACP, a University of Arizona associate professor in the Division of Infectious Diseases and associate program director for the UA Internal Medicine Residency Program – Tucson Campus, was one of two UA-affiliated physicians to speak at a Mayo Clinic conference in January.
The event was the “Mayo Clinic 2nd Annual Update on Infectious Diseases for Primary Care” held Jan. 21-22, 2017, in Scottsdale and coordinated by Janis E. Blair, MD, an infectious diseases specialist at the Mayo Clinic Scottsdale.
Dr. Blair also was the keynote speaker at the 21st Annual Farness Lecture, which was given during the UA Department of Medicine Grand Rounds in Tucson on Nov. 16, 2016.
Dr. Zangeneh’s topic for the Mayo event was “New Approaches to Community Acquired Pneumonia.” He also served on a panel discussion about respiratory illnesses, clinical care and new antimicrobials.
Also speaking was Neil M. Ampel, MD (pictured right), a UA professor of medicine who is a staff physician at the Southern Arizona VA Health Care System and was one of 16 infectious diseases experts serving on a panel that released the “2016 Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Coccidioidomycosis” (a.k.a., Valley fever) last summer. Dr. Blair and John Galgiani, MD, director, UA Valley Fever Center for Excellence, also were on the IDSA panel.
Dr. Ampel’s topic at the Mayo conference was, “Clinical Features of Pulmonary Coccidioidomycosis.” He also joined Dr. Blair for a panel discussion on Valley fever at the event.
Other topics at the conference include tick-borne diseases, the Zika virus, STDs, immunizations, infectious dermadilemmas, diabetic foot infections, central nervous system infections, infectious diarrhea, abdominitis (diverticulitis, appendicitis and cholecystitis), a travel update and infectious disease emergencies.