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BD INFORM Education Series
Learning Center: BD INFORM Education Series
April 1
 

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: Marriott San Francisco Airport (click for map)
Burlingame, CA
650.692.9100
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