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Session Type: Symposium

28 - Diagnostic Conundrums: Navigating Complex Clinical Decisions in Pediatrics

Monday, October 20, 2025
10:30 AM - 11:45 AM US ET
Location: B308-B309

Live Streamed On Demand
CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-9999-24-002-L01-P
PACE Credits: Maximum of 1 of PACE contact hours
CE Broker: Maximum of 1 CE broker credit hours

    Moderator(s)

  • Kengo Inagaki, MD

    Professor
    University of Michigan / C.S. Mott Children's Hospital
    Novi, MI, United States

  • Ankhi Dutta, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

    Associate Professor
    Pediatrics
    Texas Children's Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine
    Houston, TX, United States

    • Faculty(s)

  • Justin Searns, MD

    Associate Professor
    Hospital Medicine & Infectious Diseases
    Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado
    Aurora, CO, United States

  • Nader Shaikh, MD

    Professor of Pediatrics
    University of Pittsburgh
    Pittsburgh, PA, United States

  • Vinodh Pillai, MD PhD

    Associate Professor and Hematopathologist
    Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania

Disclosure(s):
Kengo Inagaki, MD: AstraZeneka: Grant/Research Support; Elsevier: Honoraria, honoraria for book chapter writing
Ankhi Dutta, MD, MPH: No financial relationships to disclose.
Justin B. Searns, MD: No financial relationships to disclose.
Nader Shaikh, MD: No financial relationships to disclose.
Vinodh Pillai, MD PhD: No financial relationships to disclose.

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
  • discuss utility and limitations of pathological evaluation of lymph node biopsy for infectious diseases;
  • discuss the utility of urinalysis in ruling in or out the diagnosis of urinary tract infection;
  • discuss the role of routine surgical biopsy in management of children with acute hematogenous osteomyelitis.

Presentations:

  • 10:30 AM - 10:55 AM US ET
    Diagnostic Biopsies for Lymphadenitis - Interpretation of Various Lymph Node Pathologies and Diagnostic Stewardship

    Speaker: Vinodh Pillai, MD PhD – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania

  • 10:55 AM - 11:20 AM US ET
    Urinalysis: Is It Useful?

    Speaker: Nader Shaikh, MD – University of Pittsburgh

  • 11:20 AM - 11:45 AM US ET
    Routine Surgical Source Sampling for Pediatric Acute Hematogenous Osteomyelitis

    Speaker: Justin B. Searns, MD – Children’s Hospital Colorado, University of Colorado