Agenda (PDF)
ELC Epidemiology
Workshop
Commons Learning Center
Austin, Texas
Plenary
Session, Tuesday, October 3, 2017, 8:30 am - 5 pm
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome
8:45 Mumps, Mumps, and more Mumps
Chip Cohlmia, EAIDB, Heidi Honza, HSR 2/3, and Daphne Lynch, Collin Co HCS
9:45 Break
10:00 Legionellosis
Outbreaks and Environmental Health Assessments
EAIDB,
Houston, Vaidehi Shah, Waco-McLennan Co PHD
11:00 Containing Novel Resistance (PPT)
Cal Ham, MD, MPH, Medical Officer, Antimicrobial
Resistance Team, Prevention and Response Branch,
Division of Healthcare Quality
Promotion, CDC
12:00 Lunch, on your own
1:15 Keynote - Risk, Crisis, and Emergency Communication:
Principles and Tools
Vincent Covello, PhD, Center for Risk
Communication
2:15 Exercising
Epidemiology (Epi and Preparedness Coordination)
Carol Davis and Bonnie Morehead, HS7, Kahler
Stone, TX A&M SPH
3:15 Break
3:30 Cyclospora (Strikes Again)
4:00 An Update of Zika Investigation and Response in Texas
Kelly Broussard, ZCB, Raquel Castillo and Isabel
Huerta, Cameron Co HD
5:00 Adjourn
Breakout Sessions, Wednesday, October 4, 2017, 8:30am - 5pm
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Track 1
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Track 2
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Track 3
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8:30
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Emerging Healthcare-Associated Pathogens in Texas: What are our facilities doing to prevent the spread? (PPT) |
Innovative
and Quality Practices
Student Internships, Practicums, and
Volunteer Opportunities HSR 7, Waco, and EAIDB Handwashing Media Campaign Wichita Co PHD Outbreak Management in Detention, Correctional,
and School Settings
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Excel for Epidemiologists (Intermediate) Andy Mauney Greg
Leos
Enrollment is limited to 20, must bring your laptop.
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10:00 |
Break
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10:15
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Legionnaires’
Disease Outbreak Scenario
IRID Team
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Zoonotic Select Agents Zoonosis Control Branch
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11:45
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Lunch, on your own |
1:00 |
Specimen
Submission Requirements Update and Lab Discussion |
Biostatistics
for Epidemiologists
Dr. Rich Taylor
UT, Austin
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Excel for Epidemiologists (Intermediate) Andy
Mauney Greg
Leos (This is a repeat session) Enrollment is limited to 20, must bring your laptop.
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2:30
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Break
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2:45
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Interviewer
Training Foodborne Team
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Vectorborne
Zoonoses Zoonosis Control Branch
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Presentation & Session descriptions
Track 1
Emerging Healthcare-Associated Pathogens in Texas: What
are our facilities doing to prevent the spread? (8:30-10am): Overview of emerging healthcare associated
pathogens and public health response; review epidemiological case studies of
emerging antibiotic resistant infections in Texas from state, regional, and
local health department perspective; summary of Texas Infection Control
Assessment and Response (ICAR) findings.
Legionnaires’ Disease
Outbreak Scenario (10:15-11:45am):
This session will provide some background on Legionnaires’ disease, what
constitutes a Legionnaires’ disease outbreak, and guidance for handling a
Legionnaires’ disease outbreak response. Attendees will be given a scenario to
learn how to conduct a full Legionnaires’ disease outbreak investigation.
Submission Requirements Update and Lab
Discussion (1:00-2:30pm): This session will provide information on isolates
which are required to submit to DSHS lab in Austin or another approved public
health laboratory with a focus on specimen submissions for Vaccine Preventable
Diseases. This session will also discuss DSHS Austin Lab capabilities and
testing protocols.
Interviewer Training (2:45-4:15pm): This
session will provide training and guidance for conducting enteric disease case
interviews with a focus on utilizing the Hypothesis Generating Questionnaire and
will provide strategies for engaging the case-patient and maximizing their
response rate.
TRACK 2:
Innovative and
Quality Practices
(8:30-10am): This session will focus on
Innovative and Quality Practices in Public Health and will include
presentations and discussion on three topics:
Student Internships, Practicums, and Volunteer
Opportunities; a Handwashing Media Campaign; and Outbreak Management in
Detention, Correctional, and School Settings.
Zoonotic Select
Agents (10:15-11:45am):
A review of key zoonotic select agents (i.e. Brucella, Tularemia, etc)
and the lessons learned from recent investigations and exposure responses,
including examples of rare agents. ZCB will review case definitions, testing
and investigation recommendations for the zoonotic select agents.
Biostatistics
for Epidemiologists (1:00-2:30pm): A review of basic and intermediate statistical
concepts with an emphasis on applications in Epidemiology.
Vectorborne Zoonoses (2:45-4:15pm): An overview of the Lyme disease case
definition and testing recommendations and review of the recommended arbovirus
testing in Texas.
TRACK 3:
(8:30-11:45am) and
(1:00-4:15pm)
Excel for Epidemiologists: (8:30 -11:45am Wednesday) and
(1:00-4:15pm, Wednesday)
The course covers formulas,
pivot tables, and charts commonly used in Epi Investigations and include quick
tips. Registered
attendees will be invited to submit questions before the conference.
The course will be repeated in
the afternoon. Each
session is limited to 20
participants. Participants must bring their laptop.