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The 10th Annual Under Surveillance, Emerging Infections in California symposium will be held on October 26, 2010

Location:
Elihu M Harris State Building
1515 Clay Street, Auditorium
Oakland, CA 94612

The California Emerging Infections Program is proud to present a diverse faculty of public health experts from national, state, and local organizations at the tenth annual “Under Surveillance” seminar. The seminar highlights current topics in infectious diseases and offers attendees continuing education credits.

The event is free of charge.

Audience:
Designed for laboratorians, infection control practitioners, public health professionals, nurses and any other interested colleagues.

Continuing Education credit:
The Association of Public Health Laboratories (APHL) awards this seminar 3 contact hours
The California Board of Registered Nursing awards this seminar 3 contact hours

Past topics:

August 18, 2009:
Dr. Scott Fridkin “Changing Landscape of HAI and MRSA Reporting and Prevention: A View from CDC”

Dr. Will Probert “Laboratory Surveillance for Meningococcal Disease in California: Emergence of a Hyperendemic Strain”

Dr. Bela Matyas “Salmonella Outbreak Investigations: California Perspective”
April 22, 2008:

Dr. Jon Rosenberg “MRSA: Under Surveillance”

Ms Dawn Seivert “ Staphylococcus aureus: New Resistance and an Old Dilemma”

Dr. Margaret Wheeler “Prion Diseases in California: Transmission, Diagnostics and What’s
New with Reporting”

Dr. Michelle Jay Russell “Foodborne Pathogens in the Farm Environment: Wildlife and Other Potential Risk Factors”

April 24, 2007:

Dr. Will Probert “Shiga Toxin – Producing E. coli and Virulence Factors- It All Adds Up”

Dr. Fred Angulo “We Are What We Eat: Pathogenic and Other Bacteria in the Food Supply”

Dr. Jill Hacker “Current Culprits in Community-Acquired Pneumonia: A Laboratory and Clinical Evaluation”


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