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BD INFORM Education Series
Learning Center: BD INFORM Education Series
March 30
 

You’re invited to join us at the BD INFORM Education Series where industry known speakers will present topics on Infectious Diseases. In addition, you’ll have the opportunity to get hands-on-experience working with the latest technologies for blood culture, ID/AST and HAI* testing.


Location: Gaylord Texan Resort & Conf. Center (click for map)
Grapevine, TX
817.778.2215
Product Focus: BD Affirm™ VPIII
BD BACTEC™ FX
BD CHROMagar™ MRSA
BD EpiCenter™
BD Phoenix™
BD Phoenix™ AP
BD Protect™

BD MAX™ System
BD GeneOhm™ Cdiff Assay
BD GeneOhm™ MRSA Assay

Workshop Agenda:
9:00 - 9:15 a.m. Welcome & Introductions
9:15 - 9:30 a.m. H.E.R.O.™ Solutions
Helping to Improve Healthcare Efficiencies, Results and Outcomes
9:30 - 10:30 a.m. Meeting the Challenges and Driving Solutions: CLSI Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Recommendations for 2010

Guest Speaker:
Janet Hindler, MCLS MT (ASCP)
Sr. Specialist, Clinical Microbiology
UCLA Medical Center
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Break
10:45 - 11:45 a.m. C. difficile Testing at Medical University of South Carolina: Validation, Implementation and Realized Benefits

Guest Speaker:
Frederick Nolte, PhD
Vice Chairman of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine and Director Clinical Laboratories
Medical University of South Carolina
11:45 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. Lunch & Live Product Demonstrations
1:30 - 2:30 p.m. Soooo You Think You Know Clinical Microbiology?
Case Histories in Clinical Microbiology


Guest Speaker:
Joseph M. Campos, Ph.D., D(ABMM), FAAM
Director, Microbiology Laboratory, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory and Laboratory Informatics
Children’s National Medical Center
2:30 - 3:00 p.m. Conclusion & Adjournment



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*Healthcare-associated infections