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17th Annual Conference of the Union -
North America Region
Thursday, February 28, 2013
STOP TB Meeting
Videoconferencing:
1) Global Overview of Childhood TB: Plan to Scale-Up Training and Implement Framework
Dr. Malgorzata Grzemska, Stop TB Partnership, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
2) Contact Follow-up and Treatment of LTBI in Households of Infectious Cases in Pakistan
Dr. Farhana Amanullah, Interactive Research and Development, Karachi, Pakistan
3) Childhood TB: Using Trained Healthcare Workers in Bangladesh
Dr. Khurshid Talukder, Centre for Women and Child Health (CWCH), Savar, Dhaka, Bangladesh
4) Algorithmic Approaches to Child TB Management in Resource-Limited Settings
Dr. Stephen Graham, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Live Presentations:
5) 4RIF vs. 9INH - A Large Scale International Trial of 4RIF vs. 9INH for Treatment of Latent TB: Challenges and Progress
Dr. Dick Menzies, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
6) Experiences of Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Programs: Is Success Within Our Reach?
Dr. Michael Rich, Partners in Health, Boston, MA, USA
7) Engaging Practitioners in Excellence in MDR Patient Care: An Online Course Collaboration with the World Medical Association
Ms. Nisha Ahamed, MPH, NJMS Global Tuberculosis Institute, Newark, NJ, USA
8) CREATE: Key Outcomes and Next Directions
Dr. Richard E. Chaisson, Johns Hopkins University Center for Tuberculosis Research, Baltimore, MD, USA
**Please contact Dr. Richard Chaisson for a copy of the presentation**
9) Oral Abstract Presentation: Engaging Communities in Tuberculosis Research: New Developments in Stakeholder Engagement
Mr. Renaud Boulanger, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Nursing Sponsored Session
1) Inuit TB: A View from the Ground and the Air
Ms. Gail Turner, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), Ottawa, ON, Canada
2) Introducing Directly Observed Therapy (DOTS) to Strengthen TB Programming in Suriname
Ms. Nordai Persaud, RN, Ministry of Health, Suriname
3) Integrating Comprehensive Health Services into Social Housing Initiatives in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside (DTES)
Mr. Paul Bangah and Ms. Valerie Edelman, Vancouver Coastal Health, Vancouver, BC, Canada
4) TB Outbreak in a Low Incidence Setting: A Case Study to Demonstrate Challenges and Outcomes in a Canadian Long Term Care Facility (LTCF)
Ms. Karen Mulvey, Wellington Dufferin Guelph Public Health, Guelph, ON, Canada
5) Call to Action 2012: Next Steps
Ms. Rose Pray, Denver, CO, USA
The George Comstock Lecture
The Place of Children in the Global Epidemiology of TB
Dr. Peter Donald, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa
Friday, March 1, 2013
TB and Indigenous Peoples
1) Nothing About Us Without Us: Self-Determination Influences on TB Care and Control
Ms. Gail Turner, Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami (ITK), Ottawa, ON, Canada
2) Contribution of a Community Case Finding Study in a High Prevalence Region
Dr. Gonzalo Alvarez, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
3) TB Control in the American Southwest: Lessons Learned about Community Engagement
Dr. Jon Iralu and Ms. Zena Smith, Gallup Indian Medical Center, Gallup, NM, USA
**Please contact Dr. Jon Iralu for a copy of the presentation**
4) TB Control in Alaska
Dr. Michael Cooper, State of Alaska, Division of Public Health, Anchorage, AK, USA
5) Oral Abstract Presentation: TB Education for Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Youth
Ms. Courtney Heffernan, Tuberculosis Program Evaluation and Research Unit, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada
6) Oral Abstract Presentation: Old Keyam- A Framework for Examining the Disproportionate Experience of Tuberculosis Among Aboriginal Peoples of the Canadian Prairies
Ms. Kathleen McMullin, B.Ed, M.Ed, First Nations Lung Health Project, University of Saskatchewan, Prince Albert, SK, Canada
Childhood TB: Clinical and Research Agenda
1) Epidemiology of Pediatric and Adolescent TB in North America
Dr. Gloria Oramasionwu, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
2) Screening, Diagnosis and Treatment of Latent TB Infection
Dr. Anna Mandalakas, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
3) Problems in Diagnosis and Treatment of Childhood TB in Developed Country Settings
Dr. Ian Kitai, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
4) Diagnosis and Management of TB in Adolescents
Dr. Andrea Cruz, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
5) Case Management in Childhood TB
Ms. Lillian Pirog, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Newark, NJ, USA
6) Oral Abstract Presentation: A TB Contact Investigation in a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Toronto, Canada
Ms. Rita Kadri, Toronto Public Health,Toronto, ON, Canada
7) Oral Abstact Presentation: Accuracy of GeneXpert MTB/RIF in Malnourished Hospitalized Malawian Children
Dr. Sylvia LaCourse, Division of Allergy and Infectious Disease, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Saturday, March 2, 2013
TB and the City
1) TB and the Homeless: The Toronto Experience
Dr. Elizabeth Rea, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, ON, Canada
2) Urban TB and Outbreaks in the US
Dr. Eyal Oren, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA
3) Management of TB in the Homeless: CDC’s Experience with Outbreaks
Dr. Sapna Bamrah, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
4) The Connection of Health Care for the Homeless and TB Control
Dr. Jim O’Connell, Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program, Boston, MA, USA
**Please contact Dr. Jim O’Connell for a copy of the presentation**
5) Oral Abstract Presentation: TB Contact Tracing for Homeless Individuals: Management and Surveillance Outcomes
Ms. Julie Seemangal, St. Michael’s Hospital, Division of Respirology, Toronto, ON, Canada
6) Oral Abstract Presentation: High TB Incidence in a Tent City, Port-au-Prince
Dr. Vanessa Rouzier, Les Centre GHESKIO, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
The Science of TB Transmission
1) What Guinea Pigs have Taught Humans about TB Transmission
Dr. Ed Nardell, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
2) Population Epidemiology of Transmission Events: Aberration Detection/Outbreak Identification and Interruption Using Genotyping
Dr. Tom Navin, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
3) A Sentinel Event: Pediatric TB and TB Transmission
Dr. Jennifer Flood, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
**Please contact Dr. Jennifer Flood for a copy of the presentation**
4) Superspreading in TB?
Dr. Kevin Fennelly, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
5) Oral Abstract Presentation: The Double Edged-Sword: Diabetes Mellitus and Tuberculosis in Georgia, USA
Mary M.K. Foote, MD, MPH, Emory University, School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA
6) Oral Abstract Presentation: Inhaled Colistin: A Novel Approach for Reducing Drug-Resistant TB Transmission
Edward Nardell, MD, Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
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