Bulletin Board
SUMMER STAPH INSTITUTE 2008
Weekly Meetings with National and Local experts
4:30 – 6:00 PM - Thursdays, June 12 to August 28
Main Auditorium (room 315) - JABSOM Kaka’ako Campus
| Date | Topic | Speakers | Meeting Note |
|---|---|---|---|
| June 12 | Role of the Laboratory in Detection and Prevention of Health Care-associated Infections with MRSA | Frederick Nolte, PhD Professor of Laboratory Medicine Medical University of South Carolina | |
| June 19 | Post-operative Staph Infections – How to Prevent and Treat | Paul Holtom, MD University of Southern California Daphne Hemmings, MD Surgeon - Queens Hospital | |
| June 26 | How to Protect Yourself and others – the Bug, the Host, the Interface | Alan Tice, MD, JABSOM Bob Havrilak, Environmental Engineer | |
| July 3 | HOLIDAY WEEKEND | ||
| July 10 | Staph Infections in Kids – Risks and Host Factors | Marian Melish, MD, JABSOM Rep from School Nurse Association | |
| July 17 | Infection Control at Home | Susan Slavish, RN - Association of Professionals in Infection Control and Epi Darlene Azevedo, RN - Home Care Assoc. | |
| July 24 | Staphylococci in Hawaii Staphylococci in the Feet | Sarah Park, MD – DOH Hawaii David Armstrong, DPM | |
| July 31 | Antibiotic Therapy for Staph – the New and the Old | Barry Eisenstein, MD Cubist Pharmaceuticals | |
| August 7 | Is the Sea Safe? | Watson Okubo – State Water Purity Bruce Anderson, PhD– Oceanic Institute Marvin Heskett – Surfrider Foundation | |
| August 14 | Pathogenesis of Staph Infections – Virulence and Resistance Genes | Matthew J. Bankowski, PhD – Diag Lab Steve Seifried, PhD - JABSOM | |
| August 21 | Fighting Antimicrobial Resistance in Another Queens Hospital | Sorana Segal-Maurer, MD Queens Hospital New York | |
| August 28 | Implementation of Rapid Diagnostic Techniques | David Persing, MD, PhD Medical Director, Cepheid, Inc | |