ISHLT Infectious Disease Council

Chair Martha L Mooney, MD, FACP (US)

Vice Chair- Lara Danziger-Isakov (US)2012 – 2013 Chair:Frauke Mattner (Germany)

Past Chair-Margaret Hannan (Ireland)Workforce leaders

Education: Fernanda Silveira (USA)Standards & Guidelines: Amparo Sole (Spain)Registry/Databases: Paolo Grossi (Italy)/Shahid Husain(Canada)

Accomplished

DEFINITIONS REFERENCE /RESOURCE

Yet to Do

• Update Infectious Disease section of the Guidelines on JHLT.org and Monograph 6 to correlate with ISHLT ID Monograph 5

• TO Identify educational and practice gaps in ID VAD management: Endorse questionnaire development for ID concerns in VAD-to include surgical management issues( ShimoneKruse/Francisco Arabia)-ID council hopes to partner with mcs council in supporting this.

ISHLT Infectious Disease

DefinitionsPlan Of Action

Exploratory Phase for Validation/ Utilization

Definitions prospectively

** ID Council Needs Boards Help

New Sub Workforce of Education CommitteeISHLT ID Council Workforce for Infectious

Disease Definitionsin

Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Mechanical Circulatory Support

Timeline for ID Definition Prospective validation studies

• 1 year: Exploratory phase/ educational module development/initiate process of endorsement by other transplant and VAD related societies- with assist from ISHLT Board/ develop acceptable adaptation of Registry

• Request for “seed”money for conference calls, development of educational modules, etc- will return to Board with a “business plan” for specifics and ongoing plan

For 2012 Symposia Suggestions for program committee1Nosocomial infections –– Devise preventive and management strategies2 Improved Diagnostics: New Viral testing, Specific

Markers

3. Basic Science: Biofilm- and war against (?Co-session with Basic Sciences/MCS)

•More discussion via email between ID members and CC to be arrange(May)•Then, symposia development for timely submission to Lara and Erik (program committee)

2013 Program symposia

Identify educational and clinical gaps in patient care with respect to ID and management for VAD: questionarie- with dr shimon kusne/ francisco arabia—ishlt membersCritical info to be gained by questionaire to achieve these goals and gear educational symposia

ID Council Goal • Continue to Increase Transplant ID

membership/ attendance / involvement internationally

ISHLT ID Council Goal…• “…is not to be remembered for success, but for “Value

added”…(Twain or Einstein…)• -the ID council is profoundly appreciative of the ISHLT in

supporting the creation of the Monograph that needed to be written, and the "definitions” articles-that now need to be validated/ implemented to Begin the accurate Science of studying infectious diseases in these cohorts

• To improve the care of the Transplant and MCS patient.• We are all on the same team and appreciate your

attention to our details…

Development of Databases and Registries

• Evaluate modalities for accurate data collection and analysis using ID definitions

• 2 ID council representatives working in 2 directions- one to explore the possibilities of utilization of the ISHLT registry( met with Marshall Hetrz) and another to explore independent small databases (less optimal, but possibly “do-able”)