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Edith Hsiung Practical Issues in Diagnostic Virology

Panel Discussions: 

Communicating Virology Services to Health Care Providers
Panelists will present and discuss detection methods based on laboratory type, size, and complexity, and will include molecular methods, cell culture, RA, etc.
Panelists: Nancy Cornish, M.D., Janice Matthews-Greer, Ph.D., Cathy Petti, M.D.

Neurological Disease - Alternative Approaches to Detection
The Panelists will discuss detection methods utilized at their institutions. The three panelists represent three differing patient populations, and laboratories of differing size and complexity. The panels represent a general hospital laboratory, a children's hospital laboratory, and a public health laboratory.
Panelists: Carol Glaser, D.V.M., M.D., Dwayne Newton, Ph.D. Beverly Rogers, M.D.

Philip Hanff Memorial Clinical Case Presentations and Discussion - Participants are invited to submit cases for presentation by a panel member. Up to 3 cases may be accepted. Individuals whose cases are selected for presentation will receive free registration to the Clinical Virology Symposium, or will have their registration fee refunded if they have already registered and paid. . Click here for an opportunity to receive a refund of your Symposium registration fee.

Richard Hodinka, Ph.D., Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA
Angela Caliendo, M.D., Emory University, Atlanta, GA
Marie Landry, M.D., Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Late Breaking Topic(s) in Clinical Virology - Tuesday, April 21, 2009 - Issues arising after the program is completed will be addressed as is appropriate.

Session I - (Monday) - Clinical Aspects of Viral Diseases

Molecular Epidemiology and Pathogenesis of Adenovirus Respiratory Infections - Adriana E. Kajon, Ph.D., Lovelace Respiratory Research Inst., Albuquerque, NM Dengue: Is Environmental Change Impacting the Emergence and Spread? - Duane Gubler, ScD, Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School, Singapore Transmission of Influenza: What is Keeping the Next Pandemic at Bay? - S. Mark Tompkins, Ph.D., University of Georgia, Athens, GA The Co-Evolution of Virology, Diagnostic Virology, and Clinical Medicine: A Century of Discovery - Kenneth McIntosh, M.D., Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

Session II - (Tuesday) - Laboratory Diagnosis of Viral Infections

Viral Load Testing in Transplant Patients - Randall Hayden, M.D., St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN Classic and Molecular Methods: Blending Old and New - Mario Marcon, Ph.D., Children's Hospital, Columbus, OH Viral Diagnosis: We've Come a Long Way - Thomas Smith, Ph.D., Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN Evidence-Based Virology as a Discipline and its Impact on Clinical Medicine - Samir Shah, M.D., MSCE, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA

Session III - (Wednesday) - Prevention of and Therapy for Viral Diseases

The Evolution of Viral Vaccinology - Barney S. Graham, M.D., Ph.D., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD Impact of Rotavirus Vaccine - Penelope H. Dennehy, M.D., Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, RI HIV Drug Resistance: The 2nd Decade of HAART - Robert Shafer, M.D., Stanford University College of Medicine, Stanford, CA Use of Human Moabs for Treatment of West Nile Virus - Michael Diamond, M.D., Ph.D., Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO