Emerging Public Health Threats: Avian Influenza A(H5N1) and the Return of Vaccine-Preventable Diseases

Program Committee Moderator(s)

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  Ryan Relich, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)SM (he/him/his)

  Medical Director, IU Health Division of Clinical Microbiology Medical Director, IU Health Donor Screening Laboratory Medical Director, IU Health Special Pathogens Unit Laboratory Associate Medical Director, IU Health Division of Molecular Pathology Associate Professor, Clinical Pathology and Laboratory Medicine (IU School of Medicine)
  Indiana University Health and Indiana University School of Medicine
  Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Co-Moderator (Early Career)(s)

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  Phyu Thwe, PhD, D(ABMM), MLS(ASCP)CM (she/her/hers)

  Associate Director, Infectious Disease Testing Laboratory; Associate Professor of Pathology
  Montefiore Medical Center, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
  White Plains, New York, United States

Description: This presentation will provide an historical perspective and update on methods for infectious disease diagnosis, surveillance and discovery.

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Presentations:

• 10:15 AM - 11:00 AM EST

  Emerging Public Health Threats - Avian Influenza A(H5N1)
  

  Breakout Speaker: Andrew S. Pekosz, PhD (he/him/his) – Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
• 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM EST

  Emerging Public Health Threats - Re-Emerging Vaccine-Preventable Infectious Diseases
  

  Breakout Speaker: Benjamin Pinsky, MD, PhD – Stanford University School of Medicine