Presenter: Nathan Ledeboer, Ph.D., D(ABMM), Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Medical College of Wisconsin and Director of Clinical Microbiology for Dynacare Laboratories and Froedtert Hospital Description: The speaker will discuss the culture of blood, CSF and other sterile body fluids including: (a.) reading, interpreting and reporting of the primary gram stain (b.) culture […]
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 for the UW Hospitals and Clinics Description: The speaker will discuss the culture of sputum, throat and other respiratory specimens including: (a.) reading, interpreting and reporting of […]
Presenter: Sue Kehl, Ph.D., Associate Director of Clinical Pathology and Technology Director of Microbiology at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Description: The speaker will discuss the culture of urine specimens including: (a.) reading, interpreting and reporting of the primary gram stain (b.) culture set-up and incubation (c.) work-up of the culture (d.) the final report. […]
Presenter: Sue Kehl, Ph.D., Associate Director of Clinical Pathology and Technology Director of Microbiology at Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Description: The speaker will discuss the culture of stool specimens including: (a.) reading, interpreting and reporting of the primary gram stain (b.) culture set-up and incubation (c.) work-up of the culture (d.) the final report. […]
Presenter: Carol A. Spiegel, MT (ASCP), Ph.D., D(ABMM), Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, UW School of Medicine and Public Health, and Director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory, UW Hospital and Clinics Description: The speaker will discuss the culture of genital tract specimens including: reading, interpreting, and reporting of the primary gram stain culture […]
Presenter: Thomas Novicki, Ph.D., Clinical Microbiologist, Marshfield Lab Description: This session will review the most common tick-borne diseases seen in the upper Midwest states: Lyme Disease, Human Granulocytic Anaplasmosis, and Babesiosis. The agents of these diseases, their tick vector, disease presentation, epidemiology, lab diagnosis, and treatment will be covered. Materials: Webcast (Windows Media, […]
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 […]
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 […]