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Early Career Road Map

This Road Map will introduce you to all the major events at IDWeek 2025 and will provide a guide on interesting events and sessions you must not miss as a trainee or early career professional, highlighted by members of the ID Training Program Directors Community of Practice and Fellows Community of Practice. After reviewing this Road Map, you will be able to search the entire IDWeek program for other sessions related to your specific interests. We highly encourage you to attend any sessions of interest! Click here to learn more: Early Career Road Map. 



NextGen ID Lounge: A home for medical students, residents and fellows

Located in the Building B Registration Hall of the Georgia World Congress Center (adjacent to IDWeek registration and badge pick-up), the NextGen ID Lounge is a space dedicated to medical students, residents and fellows. Come meet and network with peers over coffee or grab some friends to enjoy some downtime playing a game.

In addition to providing an opportunity to grow your network each day, the NextGen ID Lounge features MedTalks, a unique opportunity for you to interact with experts in the field of ID. These sessions are useful for early career individuals to learn more about career paths and development in ID. 

The NextGen ID Lounge is also the home to the IDBugCrawl an IDWeek program designed for medical students and residents. To learn more about the IDBugCrawl click here.

The lounge will be open during IDWeek and will be limited to medical students, residents, and fellows.

NextGen ID Lounge Hours: 

Sunday, Oct. 19:     10 a.m. – 5: 30 p.m. ET
Monday, Oct. 20:       7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET
Tuesday, Oct  21:      7:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. ET
Wednesday, Oct 22:  7:30 a.m. – 2:30 p.m. ET



Date & Time
 Event Description and Presenter(s)
Sunday, Oct. 19
2-2:30 p.m.		 IDBugCrawl: Meet your ID Idols
Join us for a special talk with VIP guest Kashef Ijaz, MD, MPH, Vice President for health programs at The Carter Center. 
Sunday, Oct. 19
2:30 p.m.		 Mix N’ Mingle 
Enjoy time with your peers and colleagues and network with experts in the field. Ask questions, gain insights and enjoy some down time as you kick off a career changing week.

For more information on all IDBugCrawl events click here: https://idweek.org/idbugcrawl/
Monday, Oct. 20
10-10:30 a.m.		 MedTalk: Mystery Case Conference
Join us for a special in-person case conference hosted by IDSA and the IDSA Fellows Community of Practice! Work with your colleagues through a tough case, then hear expert diagnosticians share their thoughts. Will the fellows stump the experts? Come find out and learn some new clinical reasoning along the way! All are welcome to join! Presented by... 
 
Speakers:  
  • Shivum Patel, MD; Infectious Diseases Fellow, Medical College of Wisconsin) 
  • Supavit "Mac" Chesdachai, MD; Assistant Professor, Mayo Clinic in Rochester
Monday, Oct. 20
1:30-2 p.m.		 IDBugCrawl: Meet your ID Idols
Join us for a special talk with VIP guest Alison Agwu, MD, ScM, professor of pediatric and adult infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.  
Monday, Oct. 20
2-3 p.m.		 IDBugCrawl: 31 Flavors of ID
Explore the different career paths the field of ID offers with our 31 flavors event! Meet and greet with leaders from a variety of ID specialties, receive career development tips and networking exposure you won’t find anywhere else. And, of course, there will be ice cream!
Tuesday, Oct. 21
10–11 a.m.     		 MedTalk: Career Foundations: Applications, Contracts, and Clinical Pathways
The Career Foundations Panel is designed for fellows, residents, and students exploring clinical career paths (in ID and beyond). Our panelists join from careers across clinical practice, from academic centers to private practice. In the first half, they will practice tips on job applications, including sharing key terms and things they wish they’d known when applying to jobs for the first time. In the second half, they will answer your questions about their pathways. We will provide a summary of key tips for those interested so you have something to reference in the future! 
 
Speakers:  
  • Lt Col David Lindholm, MD; Associate Professor of Medicine & Associate Dean for Regional Education, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
  • Stephanie Spivack, MD; Assistant Professor of Medicine, Assoicate Program Director of the Temple University Infectious Disease Program
  • William “Zach” Webster, DO; UNC Health + Private Practice
Tuesday, Oct. 21
10 a.m.–1 p.m. 		  Professional Headshots  
Tuesday, Oct. 20
2- 2:30 p.m.		 IDBugCrawl: Meet your ID Idols
Join us for a special talk with VIP guest Buddy Creech, MD, MPH, Director, Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program
Tuesday, Oct. 20
2:30 p.m.		 Mix N’ Mingle 
Enjoy time with your peers and colleagues and network with experts in the field. Ask questions, gain insights and enjoy some down time as you kick off a career changing week.

For more information on all IDBugCrawl events click here: https://idweek.org/idbugcrawl/
Tuesday, Oct. 21
 3-3:30 p.m.		 MedTalk: Meet the IDSA Editors
Q&A with the IDSA journal editors-in-chief, exclusively for medical students, residents, and ID fellows. 

  • Roger Bedimo, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Open Forum Infectious Diseases; Chief of Infectious Diseases Section, VA North Texas Health Care System; Professor of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
  • Paul Sax, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Clinical Infectious Diseases; Clinical Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women's Hospital; Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
  • Cynthia Sears, MD, Editor-in-Chief, The Journal of Infectious Diseases; Professor of Medicine, Oncology, and Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Bloomberg School of Public Health; Microbiome Program Leader, Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
Wednesday, Oct 22
10–11 a.m.		 MedTalk: Beyond the Clinic: Exploring Non-Traditional Careers in ID 
Our second Career Foundations Panel will focus on careers beyond the clinic! ID training opens doors to many careers that you may not have as much exposure to in your training. Join us for a discussion with professionals from diverse arenas such as industry, global health, and public health. Learn how our panelists navigated their career choices and what fellows, residents, and students can do to explore and prepare for these alternative paths in ID. 
 
Speakers: 
  • Stephanie R. Black, MD, MSc; Chief Medical Officer, Disease Control Bureau, Chicago Department of Public Health
  • Krutika Kuppalli, MD; Associate Professor, Infectious Diseases and Public Health, UT Southwestern
  • Jumi Yi, MD; Executive Director, Regulatory Affairs, Vaccine and Infectious Diseases at Merck
 

*Schedule is subject to change