This free workshop is recommended for medical and health care partners:
- Hospitals
- Clinicians
- Long term care
- Communicable disease and infection prevention staff
- Laboratories
- Site emergency manager/planner
- Any staff who are liaisons to the health department for routine and non-routine disease threats
Lunch is provided at no cost to the participant.
Topics
- Special Pathogens Unit and Special Pathogen Response Network (SPURN)
- Ebola monitoring program updates and lessons learned
- Laboratory updates and specimen shipping to MDHHS
- Avian and Swine Influenza updates
Schedule
Check-in and lunch: 11:30 a.m.
Workshop starts: 12:15 p.m.
End time: 3:45 p.m.
Deadline to reserve seats is Feb. 17!
Fax: 810.987.0630
Email: msturgis@stclaircounty.org
Workshop Speakers
Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS)
Kimberly Signs, DVM Zoonotic Disease Epidemiologist
Shannon Sharp, MT(ASCP)SBB Bioterrorism Coordinator, Bureau of Laboratories
Jay Fiedler, MS Surveillance/Infectious Disease Epidemiologist, Special Pathogens Unit
For questions:
Phone: 810.987.5300
Diane Forys, R.S.
Emergency Preparedness Coordinator
dforys@stclaircounty.org
Margaret Sturgis, R.N.
Preventative Health and Immunizations Supervisor
msturgis@stclaircounty.org