Advocacy
Epidemiology
Health Equity/Social Determinants of Health
Infectious Diseases
Neonatology
Public Health
Well Newborn
Ryan Rochat, MD, PhD, MS (he/him/his)
Assistant Professor
Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas, United States
Pablo Sanchez, MD
Professor of Pediatrics
Pediatrics
Nationwide Children's Hospital -OSU
Columbus, Ohio, United States
Session
Description: Congenital syphilis (CS) is a chronic infection acquired by the fetus during pregnancy from a mother infected with Treponema palladium. It has a large spectrum of disease manifestations, from asymptomatic infection to death. Despite having a safe and effective treatment for syphilis, cases in the US have reached levels not seen since the 1940s. Unfortunately, as cases have risen in adults, so have cases of CS which are up nearly 200% over 4 years. Given this resurgence, there is a need to galvanize our approach to management of this congenital infection, an undertaking that hinges on multidisciplinary education. In our session last year we covered, epidemiology of syphilis past and present, laboratory testing to detect syphilis and the role of testing in conventional and reverse algorithms, prenatal care in the prevention of CS, management of CS in the newborn, and preventing CS through statewide health policy. This session was well received and this year we are hoping to provide a similar offering with more interactivity. This time around we aim to introduce congenital syphilis to the audience, covering management in the neonatal period, but then pivot to a session wide interactive case presentation which focuses on real cases, their evaluation and management, and available outcomes. In this Hot-Topic session this year we hope to cover some of the convoluted aspects of syphilis testing and how this affects evaluation and management of the newborn, but also give providers some experience working through evaluation and management of “the great mimiker”.
Speaker: Ryan Rochat, MD, PhD, MS (he/him/his) – Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital
Speaker: Irene Stafford, MD, MS (she/her/hers) – McGovern Medical School at the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Speaker: Kevin P. O'Callaghan, MB BCh BAO (he/him/his) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Speaker: Pablo J. Sanchez, MD – Nationwide Children's Hospital -OSU