1. Community Acquired Pneumonia and Sepsis (Beutz and Abraham) 2. The Systemic Response to Lung Infection (Deng and Standiford) 3. Pneumonia in the Solid Organ Transplant Patient (Chakinala and Trulock) 4. Non-Resolving Pneumonia (Weyers) 5. Antimicrobial Treatment of Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (Fagon and Chastre) 6. Antimicrobial Treatment of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Restrpo and Anzueto) 7. Prevention of Pneumonia in the Hospital Setting (Osmon and Kollef) 8.

Antimicrobial Resistance and Treatment of Community Acquired Pneumonia (Mandell) 9. Etiology of Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Apisarthanarak and Mundy) 10. Mechanisms of Resistance of Bacteria Causing Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (Szabo, Silveira, Fujitani and Paterson) 11. Etiology of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (Rello, Diaz and Rodriguez) 12. Preventing Pneumonia: The Role for Pneumococal and Influenza Vaccines (Shorr) 13. Genetic Susceptibility to Pneumonia (Waterer and Wunderink) 14. Microbiologic Diagnosis of Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (Baughman) 15. Pulmoary Host Defenses and Factors Predisposting to Lung Infection (Mason and Nelson) 16.

Pathophysiology of Pneumonia (Alcon, Fabregas and Torres) 17. Acute Lung Injury and Bacterial Infection (Dreyfuss and Ricard).