Infection Control: is the discipline concerned with preventing nosocomial or healthcare-associated infection, a practical sub-discipline of epidemiology. It is an essential part of the infrastructure of health care.
The WHO has set ambitious targets for eliminating TB in low-incidence countries such as the US and Canada. While it’s true that the majority of TB cases in these settings arise from rea...
DATE: July 11, 2018TIME: 10:00AM PDT, 1:00PM EDTSexually transmitted diseases remain a major global public health burden despite the availability of effective prevention strategies to d...
Growing living human cells in vitro for basic research, drug discovery and reparative/regenerative medicine is challenged by the difficulty in developing methods for reproducibly and cost eff...
DATE: March 22, 2018TIME: 07:00am PDT, 10:00am EDTClostridium difficile (C. diff) is a highly problematic healthcare-associated infection that is easily spread and often results in poor...
There is an acute shortage of organs due to disease, trauma, congenital defects, and most importantly, age related maladies. The synthetic materials used in tissue engineering applications to...
Tuberculosis (TB) is the No.1 cause of death due to a single infectious agent in the world today. According to the global report from World Health Organization, one third of world population...
QuantiFERON TB (QFT) was the first interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) utilizing whole blood stimulation as a test for TB infection, gaining FDA approval in 2001. Subsequently there have be...
The role of the microbiology laboratory in the processing of positive patient blood cultures has become more complicated with the increasing demand for rapid information to assist in the mana...
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has become the leading cause of healthcare associated infections in the United States and currently accounts for 15% to 20% of infectious diarrhea in the...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
DATE: May 22, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETLearn from renowned clinical expert, George J. Alangaden, M.D., as he discusses how Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) implemented T2MR and the...
The isolation of broadly-neutralizing antibodies from HIV-1 infected individuals raises the hope that a vaccine may elicit a similar immune response. These antibodies target the only viral pr...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 3:00pm PT, 6:00pm ETMeloxicam is an analgesic NSAID commonly used in mice. Anecdotal evidence supports the use of alternative delivery methods for analgesics...
DATE: January 31, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT/1:00pm ETLearn from renowned clinical expert, Dr. Michael A. Pfaller, as he discusses the critical role of diagnostics and antimicrobial stewardsh...
DATE: November 15, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
The virulent intracellular pathogen Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis (Ftt) causes an acute, lethal diseas...
DATE: October 5, 2016
TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
Sepsis, a host-mediated response to a systemic infection, is a leading cause of mortality worldwide (1). Early recognit...
DATE: October 4, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Extracting robust expression data from clinical samples represents a unique opportunity to find actionable biomarkers. But it...
DATE: September 28, 2016TIME: 9:00am Pacific time, 12:00pm Eastern timeNK cells play critical roles in immune defense and reproduction but remain the most poorly under...
Healthcare associated infections can be a consequence of a microbiome alteration. Increasingly, treatment and prevention strategies focus on manipulating host microbiota, the two most common...
An emerging infectious disease or re-emerging infectious disease is defined by WHO as “one that has appeared in a population for the first time, or that may have existed previously but...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) continue to be a considerable problem for hospitals and healthcare institutions that can adversely affect patient outcomes and impact the financial bot...
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016Time: 10:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM CST, 1:00 PM ESTSerology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especiall...
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
The WHO has set ambitious targets for eliminating TB in low-incidence countries such as the US and Canada. While it’s true that the majority of TB cases in these settings arise from rea...
DATE: July 11, 2018TIME: 10:00AM PDT, 1:00PM EDTSexually transmitted diseases remain a major global public health burden despite the availability of effective prevention strategies to d...
Growing living human cells in vitro for basic research, drug discovery and reparative/regenerative medicine is challenged by the difficulty in developing methods for reproducibly and cost eff...
DATE: March 22, 2018TIME: 07:00am PDT, 10:00am EDTClostridium difficile (C. diff) is a highly problematic healthcare-associated infection that is easily spread and often results in poor...
There is an acute shortage of organs due to disease, trauma, congenital defects, and most importantly, age related maladies. The synthetic materials used in tissue engineering applications to...
Tuberculosis (TB) is the No.1 cause of death due to a single infectious agent in the world today. According to the global report from World Health Organization, one third of world population...
QuantiFERON TB (QFT) was the first interferon gamma release assay (IGRA) utilizing whole blood stimulation as a test for TB infection, gaining FDA approval in 2001. Subsequently there have be...
The role of the microbiology laboratory in the processing of positive patient blood cultures has become more complicated with the increasing demand for rapid information to assist in the mana...
Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) has become the leading cause of healthcare associated infections in the United States and currently accounts for 15% to 20% of infectious diarrhea in the...
DATE: October 26, 2017TIME: 12:00 PM PDTThis presentation will focus on recent advances in cellular therapy—from mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) to tumor-specific T-cells. More s...
DATE: May 22, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ETLearn from renowned clinical expert, George J. Alangaden, M.D., as he discusses how Henry Ford Health System (HFHS) implemented T2MR and the...
The isolation of broadly-neutralizing antibodies from HIV-1 infected individuals raises the hope that a vaccine may elicit a similar immune response. These antibodies target the only viral pr...
DATE: February 8, 2017TIME: 3:00pm PT, 6:00pm ETMeloxicam is an analgesic NSAID commonly used in mice. Anecdotal evidence supports the use of alternative delivery methods for analgesics...
DATE: January 31, 2017TIME: 10:00am PT/1:00pm ETLearn from renowned clinical expert, Dr. Michael A. Pfaller, as he discusses the critical role of diagnostics and antimicrobial stewardsh...
DATE: November 15, 2016
TIME: 9:00 AM PT, 12:00 PM ET
The virulent intracellular pathogen Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis (Ftt) causes an acute, lethal diseas...
DATE: October 5, 2016
TIME: 10:00am PT, 1:00pm ET
Sepsis, a host-mediated response to a systemic infection, is a leading cause of mortality worldwide (1). Early recognit...
DATE: October 4, 2016
TIME: 8:00am PT, 11:00am ET
Extracting robust expression data from clinical samples represents a unique opportunity to find actionable biomarkers. But it...
DATE: September 28, 2016TIME: 9:00am Pacific time, 12:00pm Eastern timeNK cells play critical roles in immune defense and reproduction but remain the most poorly under...
Healthcare associated infections can be a consequence of a microbiome alteration. Increasingly, treatment and prevention strategies focus on manipulating host microbiota, the two most common...
An emerging infectious disease or re-emerging infectious disease is defined by WHO as “one that has appeared in a population for the first time, or that may have existed previously but...
Healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) continue to be a considerable problem for hospitals and healthcare institutions that can adversely affect patient outcomes and impact the financial bot...
Date: Thursday, March 17, 2016Time: 10:00 AM PST, 12:00 PM CST, 1:00 PM ESTSerology testing continues to be an indispensable tool for the management of several disease states, especiall...
As one of the nation's most prevalent sexually transmitted infections, genital herpes represents a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge to clinicians, laboratorians and the patients they...
Control of infection from methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been a healthcare focus for more than 50 years. One of the reasons that active surveillance testing (AST) for...
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