Audio Conference

Presenter: Erik Munson, Ph.D., Technical Director, Wheaton Franciscan Laboratory Description: This two-part series seeks to provide laboratory professionals with baseline knowledge of antimicrobial agent classification, mechanisms of action, and resistance mechanisms.   Clinically significant pathogens will serve as the basis for discussion.  This two-part audioconference series is recommended as preparatory material for the WSLH sponsored Antimicrobial […]

Presenter: David Warshauer, Ph.D. D(ABMM), Deputy Director, Communicable Disease Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Description: This presentation will provide laboratory professionals with guidance for reading and interpreting the CLSI document M100-S20: Performance Standards for Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing.  Participants will be introduced to other CLSI documents pertaining to susceptibility testing and some of the changes […]

Presenter: Tim Monson, M.S., Laboratory Coordinator, Foodborne Diseases, Communicable Disease Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Description: Detection of Shiga toxins and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) is becoming a routine part of the stool specimen work-up in the clinical laboratory. Recent national recommendations have guided laboratories to not limit STEC diagnosis to E. coli […]

Presenter: Erik Munson, Ph.D., Technical Director, Wheaton Franciscan Laboratory Description: This two-part series attempts to provide a foundation in molecular biology theory and introductory techniques in preparation for the WSLH sponsored Molecular Workshop in the spring of 2011.   Materials: Webcast (Windows Media, 20 Kbps) Presentation (PDF) Handout (PDF, 1 MB)

Presenters: Pete Shult, Ph.D., Director of the Communicable Diseases Division, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Erik Reisdorf, MPH, M (ASCP) CM, Virology Laboratory-Team Leader, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene Description: This audioconference will provide updated information about rotavirus and other viral causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE), the public health impact of the rotavirus vaccination program, […]

Presenter: Erik Munson, Ph.D., Technical Director, Wheaton Franciscan Laboratory Description: This two-part series attempts to provide a foundation in molecular biology theory and introductory techniques in preparation for the WSLH sponsored Molecular Workshop in the spring of 2011.   Materials: Webcast (Windows Media, 20 Kbps) PowerPoint (5.19 MB) Handout (PDF, 1.23 MB)

Presenter: Raymond Podzorski, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Clinical Microbiologist, Department of Pathology, ProHealth Care Laboratories, Waukesha Description: The basics of C. difficile and C. difficile infection will be discussed followed by an introduction to the test systems that are currently available for C. difficile toxin testing.  Various C. difficile toxin testing algorithms that have been proposed will […]

Presenter: Carol Spiegel, MT (ASCP), Ph.D., D(ABMM), Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at UW Hospitals and Clinics in Madison Description: This presentation will provide guidance to laboratory professionals on the following: When should anaerobic cultures be performed? What […]

Presenter: Tom Wisniewski, M.S.RM (AAM) Microbiology Instructor, Milwaukee Area Technical College Description: This audio conference will review the clinical diseases and typical symptoms associated with infections caused by Haemophilus spp. and the other tiny gram negative coccobacilli included in the HACEK group of organisms.  The speaker will also discuss the organisms growth characteristics and offer […]

Presenter: Sue Kehl, Ph.D., Associate Director of Clinical Pathology and Technical Director of Microbiology at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin, Associate Professor, Pathology at Medical College of Wisconsin Description: This session will present the clinical characteristics that differentiate atypical pneumonia from typical pneumonia.  The commonly encountered bacterial pathogens will be discussed as well as methods for […]