Houston Methodist 10th Annual Sepsis Symposium Outcomes and Impact of Sepsis 2025
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Target Audience: critical care physicians and intensivists, emergency medicine and hospitalists
Information:
This one-day symposium incorporates diverse lectures and speakers across a wide variety of important sepsis topics to enhance learner competency and performance, with the goal of improving patient care.
Target Audience
Critical care, emergency medicine, hospitalists, intensivist, internal medicine physicians, infectious disease specialists, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, nurses, respiratory therapists, other healthcare professionals, residents, fellows, and medical students involved in sepsis management and care
Learning Objectives
At the conclusion of this activity, the participant should be able to:
- Review the current evidence on fluid resuscitation in septic shock
- Review the current state of antibiotic resistance and its impact on sepsis survival
- Evaluate the impact of sepsis mandates on patient outcomes, such as mortality and length of hospital stay
- Recognize microbiological and host related factors in the pathophysiology of abdominal sepsis
- Define the risk factors for sepsis readmission
- Evaluate the impact of hemodynamic monitoring on patient outcomes in sepsis
- Discuss the structure and leadership of a sepsis team
- Review the spectrum of severity of sepsis patients
The Houston Methodist 10th Annual Sepsis Symposium: Outcomes and Impact of Sepsis (2025) is best for ICU clinicians and frontline teams who diagnose, stabilize, and manage sepsis, and for leaders aiming to improve sepsis outcomes and systems of care.
Who should attend
- Critical care physicians and intensivists: Leading sepsis resuscitation and organ support
- Emergency medicine and hospitalists: Early recognition and rapid management at presentation
- Infectious disease specialists and pharmacists: Antimicrobial strategies and stewardship in sepsis
- Advanced practice providers (NPs, PAs): Protocol-driven sepsis care and escalation pathways
- Nurses and respiratory therapists: Bedside monitoring, ventilation, and hemodynamic support
- Residents, fellows, and medical students: High-yield, exam-relevant sepsis principles
- Quality and patient safety leaders: System-level improvements and outcome measurement
What you’ll learn
- State-of-the-art sepsis topics: Diverse lectures covering recognition, resuscitation, antimicrobials, organ support, and post-sepsis outcomes
- Performance and outcomes focus: Content designed to enhance competency and translate into improved patient care
- Practical takeaways: Protocols, pitfalls, and updates for multidisciplinary teams across the continuum of care
Topics:
| 10th Annual Sepsis Symposium – Outcomes and Impact of Sepsis | ||
| AGENDA │ Friday September 5, 2025 | ||
| Time | Topics | Speaker |
| 7:30 AM | Registration, Breakfast, Abstract viewing | |
| 8:00 AM | Welcome to the symposium | Deepa Gotur, MD, FCCP, FCCM |
| 8:10 AM | Sepsis – It wont’ go away by itself | Faisal Masud, MD, FCCP, FCCM |
| 8:30 AM | Keynote address: From Patients to Policies A Physician-Legislator on Medical Policy and the Importance of Political Engagement | Suleman Lalani, MD Texas State Congressman |
| 9:15 AM | Multi-disciplinary driven sepsis management | Victor Narcisse, MD, FACP |
| 9:45 AM | Break – Abstract viewing and sponsors | |
| 10:05 AM | Immune Dysfunction and Recurrent Sepsis | Lisa Torres, MD, MS |
| 11:05 AM | Sepsis Disproportionate Impact | Deepa Gotur, MD, FCCP, FCCM Stephen Jones, MD |
| 12:05 PM | Lunch | |
| Session 2 | ||
| 12:50 PM | Surviving Sepsis: A Patient’s Journey Through Clinical Illness | Daniela Moran, MD Sharon Vu Noe & Nicole Ramos |
| 1:50 PM | Approaching Sepsis Though a Systems Thinking Lens | Jonathan Rogg, MD, MBA Susan Gaeta, MD Amee Amin, MD, CMQ |
| 2:50 PM | Break | |
| 3:10 PM | Enhancing Sepsis Management: Clinical, Response, Education, and Guideline Compliance Through Case – Based Discussion | Pooja Roy, MD Ashish Jain, MD C. Suzanne Cutter, MD, FACS, DABOM Neha Rao, MD – PGY5 Moderator: Deepa Gotur, MD |
| 4:10 PM | Abstract Awards and announcements and closing remarks | |
| 4:15 PM | Adjourn | |



