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We will be posting the audio and presentation files from the following audioconferences and Spring Meetings soon!

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Date

Topic

Speaker

audio handout
2/17/2004Packaging and Shipping Diagnostic Specimens and Infectious Substances UpdateLarry Gray, Ph.Daudio handout
3/16/2004Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)Margaret Fearon, M.D.
4/20/2004Parasitology UpdateLynne Garcia, M.S
6/15/2004What  Microbiologists Should Know about Medicare Reimbursement of Laboratory TestsNiles Rosen, MD
9/21/2004Clinical Mycobacteriology UpdateMelodie Beard
10/19/2004Antimicrobial UpdateRichard Van Enk, Ph.D.
11/16/2004Biosafety in the Microbiology LaboratoryCarol Whetstone, Ph.D.

2/15/05

Just a Swab, You Say??? Balderdash!!!

Paul Bourbeau, Ph.D.

3/15/05

Molecular Diagnostics in the Management of Hepatitis C Virus Infections

Duane Newton, Ph.D.

4/12/05

Reaching Your Clinicians; How to Make Changes in Microbiology

Nancy Cornish, M.D.

6/14/05

What is a Wound Specimen and What Rules Do We have for Microbiology Work-up?

William Brown, Ph.D.

9/13/05

Human Papillomavirus: An Update

Betty Forbes, Ph.D.

10/11/05

Workup of Respiratory Specimens

Susan Sharp, Ph.D.

11/15/05

How Miracle Drugs Created Miracle Bugs – An Overview of Antibiotic Resistance

Stephen Brecher, Ph.D.


12/6/2005

Everything You Want to Know or Not Know about the Select Agent Rule


Carol Whetstone, Ph.D.
1/31/06 Keeping It Real! Real Life Clinical Microbiology Coding and Reimbursement Dilemmas Vickie Baselski, Ph.D.
2/14/06 Applications of POCT for the Diagnosis of Influenza and RSV Infections Wallace Greene, Ph.D.
3/14/06 What is Happening in the Antifungal World? An Update on  New  Agents and Methods for Resistance Detection Gerri Hall, Ph.D.
4/11/06 The Status of Current Molecular Diagnostics for  Detection of Chlamydia and N. gonorrhoeae

Christine Ginocchio, Ph.D.

5/9/06

Practical Guidelines for Testing and Working Up Blood Cultures and Catheter Tips Joan Barenfanger, M.D.
9/12/06 Public Health and Clinical Microbiology Laboratories Fitting the Pieces Together Barbara Robinson-Dunn, Ph.D.
10/17/06 What's New with Glucose Non-Fermenter Bacilli?  Just about Everything, Part I Paul Schreckenberger, Ph.D.
10/24/06 What's New with Glucose Non-Fermenter Bacilli?  Just about Everything, Part II Paul Schreckenberger, Ph.D.
11/14/06 Overview of Parasitic Infections in Military and Non-Military Personnel Returning from the Middle East Lynne Garcia, M.S.
1/23/2007

The 2006 Mumps Outbreak including Lab Testing

Matthew Zahn, M.D.
2/13/2007

Microbiology Lab Biosafety

Gerald Denys, Ph.D
3/13/2007

Ocular Infections

Larry Gray, Ph.D
4/10/2007

New, Emerging or Uncommon Mould Pathogens, Part 1

Deanna Sutton, Ph.D.
4/17/2007

New, Emerging or Uncommon Mould Pathogens, Part 2

Deanna Sutton, Ph.D.
5/1/2007

C. difficile Update

Clifford McDonald, M.D.
9/11/2007

MRSA Update

Tom Thomson, Ph.D.
10/9/2007

Microbiology CPT Coding Update

Vickie Baselski, Ph.D
11/9/2007

Urine Cultures Update

Alice Weissfeld, Ph.D.
1/22/2008 The Questions You Should be Asking About Your Blood Culture Methodology Paul Bourbeau, Ph.D.
2/12/2008
Gram positive bacilli identification Kathryn Bernard, Ph.D.
3/4/2008
Clinical Relevance in
Microbiology
Yvette McCarter, Ph.D.
4/1/2008
The Most Commonly Asked
Questions about Stool Parasitology
Lynne Garcia, M.S.
4/8/2008
The Most Commonly Asked
Questions about Blood Parasitology
Lynne Garcia, M.S.
5/6/2008
Microbiology CPT Coding Update Vicki Baselski, Ph.D.
9/9/2008
Tick borne Diseases Rocco LaSala, M.D.
10/7/2008
Clinical Implications and Detection of newer β-lactamases Ken Thomson, Ph.D
11/4/2008
Wound Cultures Workup Susie Sharp, Ph.D.
1/20/2009Sterility Testing of Blood Components and Products.William Lockwood, M.D.
2/10/2009Recognition and Detection of ESBLs. AmpC and KPC producing Gram negative bacilliEllen Smith-Molland
3/10/2009Everything the Clinical Microbiologists Need to Know about  the Laboratory Response NetworkJasmine Chaitram, MPH
4/7/2009Primer and Pearls for Procedure Coding in MicrobiologyVicki Baselski, Ph.D.
4/14/2011Update on Reimbursement or Lack ThereofVicki Baselski, Ph.D.
5/12/2009New and Old Antibiotics Update William Pasculle, Ph.D.
6/2/2009C difficile Update Brandi Limbago, Ph.D.
9/15/2009Rapid Identification Organisms from Blood CulturesYvette McCarter, Ph.D.
10/13/2009Challenges in the Laboratory Detection and Confirmation of Antibiotic Resistance.Jean Patel, Ph.D.
11/10/2009Detection of Respiratory Viral PathogensElizabeth Marlowe, Ph.D.
1/19/2010Laboratory Acquired InfectionsMike Miller, Ph.D.
2/23/2010Incorporation of LEAN into a Clinical Microbiology LaboratoryCarol Mulder, MT (ASCP)
3/9/2010Consequences at the Interface of Humans, Animals, and the Environment – or, 101 Ways You Consume Animal FecesMike Miller, Ph.D
4/13/20102010 CLSI AST UpdateRichard Van Enk, Ph.D.
5/4/2010Antimicrobial Stewardship ProgramDaryl DePestel, PharmD
9/14/2010Risk Assessment in Clinical Microbiology LaboratoriesMary DeMartino, BS, MT(ASCP
10/5/2010Case Studies with  an Emphasis on Using Electronic Medical Record to Assist in Interpretation and ReportingTom Thomson, Ph.D.

11/9/2010
Legal Aspects/Legal Cases in Clinical MicrobiologyTom Rottinghaus, J.D.