North Carolina Tuberculosis Control Training Opportunities

 

Training Materials from 61st Annual TB/RD Institute

TB: More than Meets the Eye

June 27–29, 2011 - Raleigh Marriott Crabtree Valley - Raleigh, NC

PURPOSE OF COURSE:

To provide continuing education in the form of current diagnostic, management and research concepts as presented by local and regional experts.

TARGET AUDIENCE:

Physicians, nurses, and other public health professionals working toward the elimination of tuberculosis in the United States.

2011 Conference Agenda

Handouts:

• What Epidemiologic methods have brought to TB Control (PDF, 1 MB)
• Rifamycin and the treatment of LTBI (PDF, 165 KB)
• HIV/TB Co-Infection: Case Management & Treatment Challenges (PDF, 818 KB)
• Flight Investigations & understanding "DO NOT BOARD" process (PDF, 667 KB)
• Last Chance for a Cure (PDF, 405 KB)
• Radiology / X-ray interpretation (PDF, 355 KB)
• Difficult Case Presentations: Physician Panel
• Black Mountain Chuuk PK study (PDF, 1.1 MB)
• Robinson new case (PDF, 6.7 MB)
• Prison Outbreak in Wilkes County (PDF, 57 KB)
• How well do IGRAs forecast who will and will not have TB disease (PDF, 347 KB)
• Tuberculosis in internationally adopted children and refugees (PDF, 819 KB)
• Difficult Case Presentations by Local Health Dept Nurses
• Durham County Health Department (PDF, 200 KB)
• MDR in a Foreign-Born Adoptee (PDF, 271 KB)

For questions about the program, contact:
Elizabeth Zeringue, RN, Nurse Consultant NC TB Control
E-mail
919-663-4600

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