26th Annual Wisconsin Virology Conference – 2016

Presenters:

• Dawn Dudley, Asst. Scientist, UW AIDS Vaccine Research Laboratory
• Lina Elbadawi, MD, Epidemiologist, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention
• Anna Kocharian, MS, Epidemiologist, WI Division of Public Health
• Raymond Podzorski, PhD, Clinical Lab Director, St. Mary’s Hospital
• Erik Reisdorf, MPH, Surveillance & Virology Lab, WI State Lab of Hygiene
• Pete Shult, Ph.D., Director-Communicable Disease Division, WI State Lab of Hygiene
• Jon Temte, MD, Physician, UW Dept. of Family Medicine
• Mary Wedig, B.S., Electronic Lab Reporting Coordinator, WI State Laboratory of Hygiene

Description of Session:

This one day conference will provide an opportunity for participants to learn about current trends in clinical and public health virology. Topics which will be discussed include the emergence of Zika virus, Zika virus epidemiology, Zika virus diagnostic challenges, pediatric severe respiratory disease, PCR testing best practices and laboratory contamination, school-based respiratory virus surveillance. The conference will provide attendees an opportunity to learn about viruses of clinical and public health importance and to network with other clinical virologists and molecular biologist in Wisconsin.

P.A.C.E. Information:

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 6.5 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 workshop is June 23, 2016.

Materials:

• 26th Annual Wisconsin Virology Conference – Brochure