Central Nervous System Viral Infections

Karen Roos is the first endowed professor in the Department of Neurology at Indiana University. She earned her medical degree from Drexel University College of Medicine and did her internship and residency at the University of Virginia. Dr. Roos was Editor-in-Chief of Seminars in Neurology for over 12 years, published five books, and served 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. Michael Wilson is an associate professor of neurology at UCSF specializing in infectious and autoimmune diseases of the central nervous system. His MD was from UCSF, with an internship and residency at Massachusetts General Hospital, and postdoc fellowship at Boston University. In 2020 he won the NIH Foundation Trailblazer Prize for Clinician Scientists. In 2023 he won the American Neurological Assn award for Clinical and Scientific Excellence (mid-career).

• 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