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    Training of Infectious Disease Control Practitioners on the Epidemiology and Investigation of Binational Infectious Disease Cases

     

    AGENDA

    8:00 am Registration and Refreshments


    8:30 am Welcome - Setting the Stage : Infectious Diseases in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region
                 Paul Dulin, M.A.
                 Director, NM Office of Border Health


    9:00 am Global Migration and Quarantine and the US/Mexico Border
                 Francisco Averhoff, M.D., M.P.H.
                 Chief of the Quarantine and Border Health Services Branch
                 Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC


    10:00 am Break


    10:15 am Defining and Identifying Binational Cases
                 Steve Waterman, M.D.
                 Medical Epidemiologist/Quarantine Medical Officer
                 Division of Global Migration and Quarantine, CDC


    10:45 am Binational Case Studies (breakout sessions)


    11:45 am Reporting Binational Cases: Applying the Binational Case Identification Instrument
                
    Chad Smelser, M.D.
                 Medical Epidemiologist
                 Surveillance and Response Program Manager
                 Infectious Disease Epidemiology Bureau, NM DOH

                 David Selvage, MHS, PA-C
                 Surveillance Epidemiologist
                 Infectious Disease Epidemiology Bureau, NM DOH


    12:00 noon Lunch

     
     

     

     

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