2018 – WMLN Annual Conference

Presenter:

• Alana Sterkel, PhD, SM (ASCP), Assistant Director, Communicable Disease Division, WSLH
• Youngmi Kim, Senior Microbiologist, Mycobacteriology Laboratory, WSLH
• Allen Bateman, PhD, MPH, D(ABMM), Assistant Director, Communicable Disease Division, WSLH
• Julie Tans-Kersten, MS, BS, MT (ASCP), Supervisor, Respiratory Diseases and International Health Unit
  Director, Wisconsin Tuberculosis Program, Wisconsin Division of Public Health
• E. Ann Misch, MD, Physician, Infectious Disease, UW Hospital
• Jeanna Donkle, MLS (ASCP), Microbiology Supervisor, Zablocki VA Medical Center Laboratory
• Katherine Riebe, Microbiology Supervisor, Wisconsin Diagnostic Laboratories
• Christina Partington, MT (ASCP), Microbiologist, Aurora Clinical Laboratories
• Erin Bowles, Laboratory Network Coordinator and Co-Biosafety Officer, Communicable Disease Division, WSLH
• Richard Dern, MS, Microbiologist, Biosafety Officer, Communicable Disease Division, WSLH
• Donald Busalacchi, BS, Microbiologist, Mycobacteriology Laboratory,  Communicable Disease Division, WSLH

Description of Session:

The Wisconsin Mycobacteriology Laboratory Network (WMLN) was formed to ensure consistent, high-quality laboratory services in support of the prevention and control of tuberculosis.  The annual conference is a forum for participants to share information and discuss issues related to maintaining state-wide excellence in mycobacteriology testing.  Topics of discussion will include a WI TB Program update and Global TB perspective, Infection Control, overview of Mycobacterium bovis BCG, quality assurance in the mycobacteriology laboratory and case studies.

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 5.5 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 conference.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this conference is November 10th, 2018.

Materials:

• WMLN Annual Conference – Brochure
• Allen Bateman – TB Nomenclature Changes
• Erin Bowles, Richard Dern – Mycobacteria Conference
• Donald Busalacchi – Case Study
• Jeanna Donkle – NTM in Hospital Water Supply
• Youngmi Kim – WMLN Case Study
• Louison – Welcome
• E. Ann Misch – EP TB
• Christina Partington – Mycobacterium on the Routine Bench
• Katherine Riebe – State Mycobacteriology Talk
• Alana Sterkel – M. genevense
• Julie Tans-Kersten – WMLN Conference