Save the Date - CDC Grand Rounds Presents “Unusual Transplant-associated Infections: Just How Unusual?,” on Tuesday, November 18, 2014, at 1 p.m. (EST).

Save the Date

CDC's Public Health Grand Rounds Presents:

“Unusual Transplant-associated Infections: Just How Unusual?”

Tuesday, November 18, 2014

1:00 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., EST

Global Communications Center (Building 19)

Alexander D. Langmuir Auditorium

Roybal Campus

Presented By:

Robert Walsh

Director, Division of Transplantation 

Healthcare Systems Bureau, Health Resources and Services Administration

“Supply and Demand for Organ Transplantation in the United States”

Daniel Kaul, MD

Director, Transplant Infectious Disease Services, University of Michigan

Chair, Disease Transmission Advisory Committee, United Network for Organ Sharing 

“Current Screening of Organ Donors for Donor-derived Infections”

Sherif R. Zaki, MD, PhD

Chief, Infectious Diseases Pathology Branch

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC

“The Role of Public Health and Pathology in Detecting Emerging Transplant-associated Infections”

Sridhar V. Basavaraju, MD

Commander, U. S. Public Health Service

Medical Officer, Office of Blood, Organ, and Other Tissue Safety

National Center for Emerging and Zoonotic Infectious Diseases, CDC

“Preventing Unusual Transplant-associated Infections

Facilitated By:

John Iskander, MD, MPH, Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

Phoebe Thorpe, MD, MPH, Deputy Scientific Director, Public Health Grand Rounds 

Susan Laird, MSN, RN, Communications Director, Public Health Grand Rounds

For CDC staff unable to attend the event:  

The session will be available on IPTV and Envision. To join by Envision, reserve a conference room and make the Envision request or use your local room scheduling process to schedule Envision.

  

For non-CDC staff or those outside the CDC firewall:  

A live external webcast will be available. Presentations are archived and posted 48 hours after each session. Due to security measures at CDC’s Roybal campus, non-CDC staff who wish to attend these sessions in person must have prior clearance and a U.S. state-issued photo ID (e.g., driver’s license, U.S. passport).

  

Names of non-CDC staff (both domestic and international) should be submitted to the Grand Rounds Team. Please note that all information for international visitors must be submitted at least 10 days in advance.

  

For questions about this Grand Rounds topic: Feel free to e-mail your questions before or during the session.