Central Nervous System Viral Infections

Dr. Karen Roos is the first endowed professor in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University. Dr. Roos has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Neurology for over a decade, as well as on the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Neurology. Among her honors and awards, she’s received the Drexel University College of Medicine Lifetime Achievement Award, the International Society for Neurovirology Neurological Infections Award, the Distinguished Visiting Professor Wilford Hall Medical Center Lackland Air Force Base and the UCSF Robert A. Fishman Award.Dr. Michael Wilson is the Debbie and Andy Rachleff Distinguished Professor of Neurology at the UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences where he is the Director of Diagnostics and Therapeutics Innovation. He also directs the UCSF Center for Encephalitis and Meningitis, and his research has been recognized with awards from the Foundation for the NIH, the American Neurological Association, and the International Society of Neuroimmunology. He is an elected member of the American Society for Clinical Investigation and the Association of American Physicians.

• Section I: Diagnosis, Course, and Treatment of Viruses Clinical approach to a patient with a suspected neuroviral infection Neuroimaging of central nervous system viral infections Perils and pitfalls in the interpretation of CSF viral PCR results Antiviral Therapeutics Post Viral Syndromes Section II: Susceptibility, Pathology, and Co-morbidity Immune pathologies due to viral infections CNS infections from immune modulator treatments Virus induced neuroimmunopathologies Neurological Events Following Immunization with Adenovirus vectors – eg VITT Central nervous system opportunistic viral infections Section III: Specific viruses Herpesvirus infections of the central nervous system Arthropod-borne neuroinvasive viral infections (West Nile virus, St. Louis encephalitis virus, Eastern equine encephalitis virus, Japanese encephalitis) Emerging arthropod-borne neuroinvasive viral infections (Cache Valley, Jamestown Canyon, Powassan, Usutu) Infectious myelitis From polio to acute flaccid myelitis HIV-1 Parainfectious/postinfectious encephalomyelitis Rabies HTLV-1 Zika, Chikungunya, Ebola and Marburg COVID Arenaviruses, including lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus Paramyxoviruses, including measles, mumps, Nipah and Hendra viruses Cytomegalavirus Dengue virus Varicella zoster Epstein Barr Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy