Georgia Emerging Infections Program Conference

The Georgia EIP holds an annual EIP conference for its participating laboratories and hospitals and public health partners. The conference includes topics on EIP organisms or other emerging or changing pathogens in Georgia.

The Georgia EIP held its 8th annual EIP Conference at the Emory Conference Center on March 22, 2011. The conference agenda and materials are below.

8th Annual EIP Conference
AGENDA

7:45-8:30 am

Registration
8:30-8:50 am

Welcome
EIP Overview—Monica Farley
8:50-9:30 am

Legionnaires’ Disease and Pontiac Fever: Clinical Characteristics, Diagnostic Methods and Relevance for Population Health—Lee Hampton
9:30-10:10 am Pneumococcal Vaccines: Where Do We Go From Here?—Matt Moore
10:10-10:55 amPoster session and Networking Break
10:55-11:35 am Immunization of Health Care Personnel:  Opportunities and Challenges for Prevention—Jane Seward
11:35 am-12:15 pm

Multidrug Resistant Gram Negative Infections—Arjun Srinivasan

12:15 -12:30 pmCollect lunch
  
12:30-1:30 pm

Lunch Panels
Infection Prevention Professional Focus (Amphitheatre)

    • Kathryn Arnold—moderator
    • Henrietta Hardnett Smith
    • Kathy Bridson

Laboratorian Focus (Ballroom)

    • Wayne Wang—moderator
    • Bob Jerris—moderator
    • Eileen Burd
    • Roberta Carey
    • Ray Kaplan
    • Brandi Limbago
1:30-2:10 pm

Didactic Breakout Sessions 

The Prevention and Tracking of Catheter Related Bloodstream Infections
in the Acute Care Setting (IPP Focus; Amphitheatre)

    • Sheri Chernetsky Tejedor
Multidrug-resistant, Extensively drug-resistant and Pandrug-resistant:  How to Classify Bacteria Using the Newly Proposed Standard Definitions (Laboratorian Focus; Ballroom)
    • Roberta Carey
2:10-2:40 pm Poster session and Networking Break  
2:40-3:20 pm Bacterial Resistance in 2016: What Will the Future Hold for Infection Control?—John McGowan
3:20-3:30pmClosing Remarks

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