Where
Gateway Conference Center at Wilmington Hospital501 West 14th Street
Wilmington, DE 19801
Driving Directions
Contact
Debra A. Dixon RDH, MS, DHSc - Manager, Professional and Public Education
Medical Society of Delaware and the Delaware Division of Public Health
302-366-1074
Continuing Education
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Medical Society of Delaware and the Delaware Healthcare Association. The Medical Society of Delaware is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The Medical Society of Delaware designates this live activity for a maximum of 7.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
It is the policy of the Medical Society of Delaware to comply with the ACCME Standards for Commercial Support of Continuing Medical Education. In keeping with these standards, all faculty participating in continuing medical education activities sponsored by MSD are expected to disclose to the activity audience any real or apparent conflicts of interest related to the content of their presentations. Joint providership of CME by MSD in no way implies endorsement of any product or service.
Funding for this conference was made possible by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The views expressed in written conference materials or publications and by speakers and moderators do not necessarily reflect the official policies of the Department of Health and Human Services, nor does the mention of trade names, commercial practices, or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Government
2016 Health Summit: Communicable Diseases
AGENDA
7:00 AM Registration/Continental Breakfast/Visit Exhibitors
8:00 AM Welcome
Dorothy Moore, MD, President, Medical Society of Delaware
8:15 AM Update on Delaware Health
Karyl Rattay, MD, Director, Delaware Division of Public Health
8:30 AM Zika Virus
Irini Daskalaki, MD, Medical Epidemiologist, DE Division of Public Health
9:30 AM Break/Visit Exhibitors
9:45 AM HAIs
Surbhi Leekha, M.B.B.S., M.P.H., Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, Baltimore, School of Medicine
10:45 AM Antimicrobial Stewardship
Jeffrey S. Gerber, MD, is an attending physician in the Division of Infectious Diseases at CHOP and a senior scholar within the Penn Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics
11:45 AM LUNCH/Visit Exhibitors
12:00 PM Panel Discussion - Focus on: Hospital Acquired Infections and Antimicrobial Stewardship
1:00 PM Meningitis
Jessica MacNeil, MPH, Epidemiologist Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
2:00 PM Hepatitis C
William Mazur, MD, Infectious Disease Physician, CCHS Infectious Disease Division, HIV Community Program, Infectious Disease Associates, Delaware Bureau of Correctional Healthcare Services
3:00 PM HPV
Margot Savoy, MD, Medical Director at the Family Medicine Center, Christiana Care
Stephen Eppes, MD, Vice Chair, Dept. of Pediatrics at Christiana Care Health System, Associate Infection Prevention Officer, CCHS, Professor of Pediatrics, Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University, Co-Chair, Immunization Coalition of Delaware