Past Event Detail:

Event Title: Laboratory Testing Plans and Recommendations for the Upcoming Influenza Season

Event Type: Clinical

Event Date: 09/02/2009

Time: 12:00 - 1:00 pm

Presentors:

• Peter Shult, Ph.D., Director, Communicable Disease Division & Emergency Lab Response
• David Warshauer, Ph.D., Deputy Director, Communicable Disease Division
• Carol Kirk, Laboratory Network Coordinator

Description:

This teleconference will provide current information on WSLH plans for laboratory-based influenza surveillance and testing during the upcoming influenza season.  The speakers will also provide information on currently available molecular testing and will discuss considerations in the use and interpretation of rapid antigen detection tests for influenza. 

A certificate of participation will be granted to each participant based on 1.0 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 teleconference.

Please note that the deadline for receiving P.A.C.E. education credit for this teleconference is September 2, 2010.

Materials:

Webcast (Windows Media, 20 Kbps)

Powerpoint Presentation (1.4 MB)

Presentation Handout (PDF, 216 KB)

WSLH Evaluation Form (PDF, 47 KB)

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