TB for Community Providers
Phoenix, AZ
May 12, 2015
Being held at
Arizona State Laboratory
Igloo Room
250 North 17th Avenue
Phoenix, AZ 85007
Sponsored by
Heartland National TB Center
&
Maricopa County Public Health
with the support of
Arizona Department of Health
FACULTY
Lisa Y. Armitige, MD, PhD
Heartland National TB Center
Marcos Burgos, MD
New Mexico Department of Health
Mary J. Connell, MD
District Medical Group
Linda Dooley, MD
Austin/Travis County Health Department
David Griffith, MD
Heartland National TB Center
Renuka Khurana, MD, MPH
Maricopa County Health Department
Stacy White, PhD
Arizona Department of Health
OUR VISION
The vision of Heartland National TB Center is to provide excellence, expertise, and innovation in training, medical consultation, and product development to reduce the impact of tuberculosis in our region.
OUR MISSION
The mission of the Heartland National TB Center is to build capacity with our partners. We will share expertise in the treatment and prevention of tuberculosis by: developing and implementing cuttngedge trainings, delivering expert medical consultation, providing technical assistance, and designing innovative educational and consultative products.
DISCLOSURE
NO commercial support was given to Heartland National TB Center or UT Health Northeast for this educational program.
CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDITS
CNE: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.
CME: The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education(ACCME®) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Continuing education for this activity is pending. See final announcementfor details.
For more information, please contact:
LEAD EDUCATOR
Jessica Quintero
jessica.quintero@uthct.edu
210-531-4568
AGENDA
Tuesday, May 12, 2015
8:00-8:15 AM Registration
8:15-8:30 AM Welcome
8:30-9:30 AM Tuberculosis Pathogenesis
9:30-10:30 AM Diagnosis of TB Infection
10:30-10:45 AM Break
10:45-12:00 AM Treatment of TB Infection
12:00-1:15 PM LUNCH
1:15-1:45 PM Radiographic Presentation of TB Disease
1:45-2:45 PM Role of the Laboratory in TB Diagnosis
2:45-3:00 PM Break
3:00-4:00 PM Treatment of TB
4:00-5:00 PM Extrapulmonary TB
5:00 PM Adjourn
*Times and topics subject to change
Target Audience
This conference is designed for the community providers who may encounter a patient with TB infection or disease.
Conference Goal
The goal of this training is to build capacity with community providers who may encounter and treat a patient with TB infection or diagnose a patient with TB disease.
Conference Objectives
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to list the stages of tuberculosis, describe the transmission of tuberculosis, Identify tools used in testing for TB infection, describe the interferon Gamma Release Assay (IGRA), discuss guidelines for treatment of TB infection in an adult patient, discuss guidelines for treatment of TB infection in a pediatric patient, discuss the effect to treatment duration on completion rates, describe basic radiographic patterns of TB disease in adults and children, identify components of TB diagnostic microbiology, list the current recommendations for treatment of tuberculosis disease, describe the clinical manifestations and treatment of extrapulmonary TB, and describe the surgical management of extrapulmonary TB.
Format
The format for this course will be lecturestyle presentations, with case studies. There will be ample time for questions and answers.
preregistration is mandatory.
Deadline to register is:
May 4, 2015
www.heartlandntbc.org/training.asp
Applicants will receive notification of their enrollment
status via e-mail (unless otherwise requested).
