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Tuberculosis in the Workplace
9:40–10:40
Strengths and Limitations of Tuberculin Skin Testing:
Evidence Review
John Bass, Jr., M.D.
Chair, Department of Medicine
University of South Alabama
Discussant:
C.Fordham von Reyn
Professor of Medicine
Section Chief, Infectious Disease Section
Dartmouth, Hitchcock Medical Center
10:40–11:00
Break
11:00–12:15
Personal Respirators and Tuberculosis Control: Evidence
Review
Phillip Harber, M.D.
Professor, Department of Family Medicine
Chief, Occupational and Environmental Medicine
University of California, Los Angeles
Discussants:
Lisa Brosseau, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Division of Environmental &
Occupational Health, University of Minnesota
Barry Farr, M.D.
Professor of Internal Medicine, University of Virginia
12:15pm
Lunch in Refectory (tickets in meeting folder)
1:30–3:30
1994 CDC Guidelines: Preventing Transmission of
Tuberculosis in Health-Care Facilities
Effects of the CDC Guidelines: Evidence Review
Keith Woeltje, M.D., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Section of Infectious Diseases,
Department of Medicine, Medical College of Georgia
Lessons Learned at the CDC
Amy Curtis, Ph.D.
Epidemiologist, CDC Division of TB Elimination
and
Lisa Panlilio, M.D.
Medical Epidemiologist, CDC Hospital Infections Program
Discussants:
Gina Pugliese, R.N.
Director, Premier Safety Institute, Premier Health System
James August, M.P.H.
Assistant Director for Research and Health
American Federation of State, County, and Municipal
