Workshop – Cytokine Storm Symposium

TIME	TOPIC	FACULTY
6:00 – 6:10 PM	Welcome & Introduction
6:10 – 6:40 PM	Recognizing Cytokine Storm in Pediatric Critical Care	Dr Mark W Hall
6:45 – 7:15 PM	Investigations & Biomarkers – What to Order & How to Interpret	Dr Rakshay Shetty
7:20 – 8:00 PM	Case-Based Discussion: Identifying Cytokine Storm in Real-World Scenarios
	Case 1: Severe Dengue	Dr Shanmughanathan C Dr Rakshay Shetty Dr Anupama Yerra Dr Pavithra V
	Case 2: Influenza	Dr A V Ramanan Dr Dinesh Chirla Dr Chandrika Bhat Dr Karthik Narayanan
	Case 3: Gram negative sepsis	Dr Joseph Carcillo Dr Farhan Shaikh Dr Manu Chaudhary Dr Deepak R
	Case 4: Systemic JIA	Dr Randy Cron Dr Sujata Sawhney Dr Satish Kumar Dr Manju Kedarnath
	Case 5: Infantile HLH	Dr Maaike Kusters Dr Indira Jayakumar Dr Anand Prakash Dr Vasudha NR
8:00 – 8:10 PM	Quick Break
8:15 – 8:45 PM	Management Strategies – When and How to Treat Cytokine Storm	Dr Fabrizio De Benedetti
8:45 – 9:25 PM	Real world case-Based Discussion: Management of Cytokine Storm
	Case 1: Severe Dengue	Dr Shanmughanathan C Dr Rakshay Shetty Dr Anupama Yerra Dr Pavithra V
	Case 2: Influenza	Dr A V Ramanan Dr Dinesh Chirla Dr Chandrika Bhat Dr Karthik N
	Case 3: Gram negative sepsis	Dr Joe Carcillo Dr Farhan Shakih Dr Manu Chaudhary Dr Deepak R
	Case 4: Systemic JIA	Dr Randy Cron Dr Sujata Sawhney Dr Satish Kumar Dr Manju Kedarnath
	Case 5: Infantile HLH	Dr Maaike Kusters Dr Indira Jayakumar Dr Anand Prakash Dr Vasudha NR
9:25 – 9:30 PM	Wrap-Up & Take-Home Messages

Conference Program

SESSION 1: The Infection & CRS Interplay

Session Coordinator: Dr Deepak R

TIME	TOPIC	FACULTY
5:50 – 6:00 PM	Welcome & Conference Overview
	Chairpersons: Dr Arun Bansal, Dr Dinesh Chirla, Dr Bala Ramachandran
6:00 – 6:20 PM	Cytokine storm in sepsis and Clinical phenotypes: What do we know so far?	Dr Joseph Carcillo
6:25 – 6:45 PM	Hyperferritinemia in Sepsis: When to immunomodulate?	Prof AV Ramanan
	Chairpersons: Dr Jayashree M, Dr Krishan Chugh, Dr Soonu Udani
6:50 – 7:10 PM	Does the Organism Matter? Infection-Specific Cytokine storm	Dr Brad Lindell
7:15 – 7:45 PM	Thrombo-inflammation in Sepsis: Anti-coagulate or Immunomodulate?	For: Dr Vandana Bharadwaj Against: Dr Chandrika Bhat

SESSION 2: Multi-Organ Impact of CSS

Session Coordinator: Dr Pavitra V

Chairpersons: Dr Raju Khubchandani, Dr Prashant Bachina, Dr Ebor Jacob

TIME	TOPIC	FACULTY
7:45 – 8:05 PM	From Autoinflammation to Cytokine storm: A spectrum of immune dysregulation	Dr Marco Gottorno
8:05 – 8:35 PM	Acute Liver Failure	For: To immunomodulate or Not? Dr Shanmughanathan C Against: Dr Pierre Tissières
8:35 – 8:55 PM	Inflammatory ARDS – Is this an entity?	Dr Andrew Boyle
8:35 – 8:55 PM	Rapid-Fire Q&A: Key Takeaways from Day 1	Live Polls & Audience Engagement

Conference Program – Day 2

SESSION 3: Beyond Infection-The Expanding Spectrum of CRS

Session Coordinator: Dr Vasudha NR

Chairpersons: Dr S Balasubramanian, Dr Jagdish Chinnappa, Dr Lokesh Lingappa, Dr Jitendra Oswal

TIME	TOPIC	FACULTY
5:50 – 6:00 PM	Day 1 Recap & Audience Questions
6:00 – 6:20 PM	Malignancy-Induced CRS: Does early recognition matter?	Dr Ashish Kumar
6:25 – 6:45 PM	PID & Cytokine storm: A diagnostic blind spot	Dr Shanmughanathan C
6:50 – 7:10 PM	Infection Triggered Encephalopathy Syndrome: When & How to Immunomodulate?	Dr Deiva Kumaran
7:15 – 7:45 PM	HLH in Infants – How do I approach?	Dr Jan Inge Henter

SESSION 4: Advancing Therapies & Future Directions

Session Coordinator: Dr Devika C

Chairpersons: Basavaraj GV, Dr Dhireen Gupta, Dr Anil Sachdev

TIME	TOPIC	FACULTY
7:45 – 8:05 PM	Personalized approaches to treating secondary CSS	Dr Randy Cron
8:05 – 8:25 PM	Cytokine hemadsorption: Hope or Hype in Sepsis	Dr Gabriella Bottari
8:25 – 8:55 PM	Prize case discussion	Dr Randy Cron, Dr Joseph Carcillo, Dr AV Ramanan
8:55 – 9:00 PM	Final Audience Q&A & Wrap-Up

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