January 2013 Arizona Thoracic Society notes

No abstract available. Article truncated at 150 words. A dinner meeting was held on Wednesday, 1/23/2013 at Scottsdale Shea beginning at 6:30 PM. There were 25 in attendance representing the pulmonary, critical care, sleep, infectious disease, thoracic surgery and radiology communities.Dr. George Parides presented a plaque to Al Thomas for being voted Arizona’s Clinician of the Year (Figure 1). Rick Robbins, editor of the Southwest Journal of Pulmonary and Critical Care, gave a PowerPoint slide presentation updating the membership on the Arizona Thoracic Society’s official journal. Five cases were presented:1. Tim Kuberski, chief of infectious disease at Maricopa Medical Center, presented a 29 year old diabetic who underwent a sinus operation for a sinus mass which proved to be a fungus ball. A biopsy was also done of the bone which showed osteomyelitis with cultures showing methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus. The patient received a 6 week course of daptomycin. Near the end of his daptomycin he began …