Dr. Rodrigo Hasbun
Dr. Rodrigo Hasbun, M.D., M.P.H., joined the McGovern Medical School at UTHealth in September 2008 and has validated and expanded his meningoencephalitis study to multiple centers and the pediatric population. In collaboration with pediatrics, he has received support from the Grant A Starr Foundation since 2010 to help advance the management of adults and children with meningitis and encephalitis and is evaluating novel technologies (such as multiplex PCR and next-generation sequencing) to improve the diagnostic field. Furthermore, he obtained funding from the Baylor UT CFAR to study H.I.V. associated neurocognitive disorders. In collaboration with the University of Houston, Dr. Hasbun has expanded neurocognitive studies to other conditions such as West Nile virus infection. Finally, Dr. Hasbun is a panel member of the first healthcare-associated ventriculitis and meningitis guidelines in 2016. He is the main author for the meningitis chapters in the textbook Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases and Medscape. He will be presenting his work on Day 3 of ICON 2022 at the Infectious Diseases Session. He will be covering the topic “Resistant CMV Case.”