Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases

Presenter:

David Warshauer, Ph.D., D(ABMM), CDD Deputy Director, Communicable Disease Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene

Description of Session:

This presentation will highlight some of the new and emerging agents of disease, as well as review some of the agents that we continually struggle to battle against that continue to be isolated as causes of illness. The speaker will focus on the epidemiology, clinical manifestations and laboratory diagnostic testing available for each pathogen.

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 1.0 contact hours of instruction toward credit.

This program is co-sponsored by ASCLS-WI which is approved as a provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

As part of the new P.A.C.E. continuing education process, please go to the ASCLS CE Organizer web site to print your P.A.C.E. certificates. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. We will provide you this number during the teleconference.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this teleconference is December 10, 2015.

Materials:

• • Evaluation Form
  • Emerging-and-Re-emerging-Diseases
  • Handouts