2024 WCLN Regional Meetings – “The WCLN Joins the Jedi in the Rebel Alliance”

Presenters:

• Allen Bateman, PhD, D(ABMM), MPH, Director, Communicable Disease Division (CDD), WSLH, UW-Madison
• Erin Bowles, BS, MT(ASCP), Clinical Laboratory Network Coordinator, CDD, WSLH, UW-Madison
• Lisa Buchinger, MBA, MT(ASCP), Laboratory Manager, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital
• Beth Ellinger, MS, MPH, CIC, Regional Infection Preventionist, HAI Program, WDHS
• Rebecca LeMay, MSN, RN, Regional Infection Preventionist, HAI Program, WDHS
• Nicholas Mack, BS, Clinical Laboratory Network Outreach Specialist, CDD, WSLH, UW-Madison
• Anna Marciniak, BS, MLS(ASCP), CIC, LTC-CIP, Regional Infection Preventionist, HAI Program, WDHS
• Erik Munson, PhD, D(ABMM), Associate Professor, Marquette University
• David Payne, PhD, Laboratory Director, City of Milwaukee Health Department Laboratory
• Renee Pelch, MS, MLS(ASCP)
• Lynn Roberts, DVM, MPH, Enteric Epidemiologist and SOS Team Coordinator, BCD, WDPH, WDHS
• Alana Sterkel, PhD, D(ABMM), SM(ASCP)^CM, Associate Director, CDD, WSLH, UW-Madison

Description:

These three one-day regional meetings presented by the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (WSLH) offer clinical and public health laboratorians, infection preventionists, and state and local public health representatives the chance to strengthen their relationships through networking and discussions on relevant laboratory issues.

Join us as we discuss pathogens and events that are impacting the laboratory and our communities. We will provide a review of what we found and learned from our 2023-2024 WSLH surveillance program. We will share and discuss the process of enteric surveillance from an epidemiological perspective to show the value of the clinical laboratory’s participation in enteric surveillance. We will discuss what happens after a clinical laboratory identifies a suspect select agent including exposure assessment, root cause analysis, and the importance of repeat risk assessment. We will also share what we do at the WSLH to support your laboratory when we confirm the identification of a select agent. We will have a fun Kahoot quiz with public health trivia. We will hear about STI and GC susceptibility testing. We will discuss what you can do to prepare for the possible loss of electronic LIMS functionality. Finally, the day wouldn’t be complete without a couple of interesting case studies to test your diagnostic skills.

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 6.0 contact hours of instruction toward credit.

This program is sponsored by the Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene which is an approved provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

For those who attended a WCLN Regional Meeting:

P.A.C.E credit is available for in month from the date of the live meeting you attended. To obtain your P.A.C.E. credit and to print a certificate, please go to the ASCLS CE Organizer web site. You will be asked for a code number to print the certificate. This code number was provided at the meeting you attended. Please follow the directions you were provided at the meeting you attended.

Program Time Table

Begin time: 8:00 a.m. End time: 3:30 p.m. Break(s): 10:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch: 11:45 a.m. – 12:45 p.m.

Materials

• WCLN 2024 Regional Meeting Brochure
• 1 – Surveillance Droids What News From the Galaxy
• 2 – The Enterics Strike Back
• 3 – Riddles of the Rebellion
• 4 – Sentinels of the Lab Final
• 6 – Balance in the Force – GC Surge and Susceptibilities
• 7- The Downtime Menace
• WCLN 2024 Regional Meetings