2019 – WMLN Annual Conference

Presenter:

• Alana Sterkel, PhD, SM (ASCP), 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, Faculty, Division of Infectious Disease, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Donald Busalacchi, BS, Microbiologist, Mycobacteriology Laboratory, Communicable Disease Division, WSLH
• Byron Barksdale, MD, Resident, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UW Hospital & Clinics
• Julia Greenleaf, RN, Public Health Nurse, Public Health Madison and Dane County
• Philip Wegner, RN, MPH, TB Nurse Consultant, Tuberculosis Program, Wisconsin Division of Public Health
• Suzanne Gibbons-Burgener, DVM, PhD, Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, Wisconsin Division of Public Health
• Kate Louther, RN, MS, Public Health Supervisor, Public Health Madison and Dane County

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, contact investigations, agricultural TB screening and case study, TB elimination in the Marshall Islands, laboratory testing method updates 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 8th, 2019.

Materials:

• WMLN Annual Conference – Flyer
• TB & Leprosy Free WMLN Conference
• Julie Tans-Kersten – WMLN
• Alana Sterkel – Molecular Mycobacteriology
• E. Ann Misch – WMLN 2019 case
• Kate Louther – TB Lab Conference PPT
• Suzanne Gibbons-Burgener – M. bovis
• Donald Busalacchi – MALDI UPDATE 2019
• Byron Barksdale – Case Study