29th Annual Spring Symposium

Los Angeles Meeting

Event Date:
Saturday, March 14, 2020

Location:
PROVIDENCE ST. JOSEPH’S MEDICAL CTR.

Hope Conference Rooms A-C
501 South Buena Vista St
Burbank, CA 91505

Register Now or Offline Registration (pdf - mail-in)

Program Schedule

7:30 – 8:00 a.m.
Registration & Continental Breakfast

8:00 – 8:05 a.m.
Welcome & Introduction

8:05 – 9:00 a.m.
"Next Generation Strain Typing"
Mark A. Fisher, PhD, D(ABMM)

9:00 – 9:55 a.m.
"Confronting MDRO – Challenges and opportunities for the clinical laboratory"
Janet Hindler, MCLS, MT(ASCP), F(AAM)

9:55 – 10:15 a.m.
Break

10:15 – 11:05 a.m.
"Coccidioidomycosis: Diagnostics and New Directions"
Ian McHardy, PhD, D(ABMM)

11:05 – Noon
“Flea-borne Typhus in Los Angeles County”
Van Ngo, MPH

MEETING CONVENER
Nicole Green, PhD, D(ABMM)

Speakers

Mark A. Fisher, PhD, D(ABMM)
Associate Professor of Pathology, University of Utah School of Medicine
Medical Director, Bacteriology and Special Microbiology, Infectious Disease Laboratory, ARUP Laboratories/University of Utah

Janet Hindler, MCLS, MT(ASCP), F(AAM)
Lead Microbiologist, Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, Public Health Laboratory

Ian McHardy, PhD, D(ABMM)
Director, Microbiology and Molecular Laboratory, Scripps Health

Van Ngo, MPH
Epidemiologist, LA County Public Health Acute Communicable Disease Control

FOUR HOURS OF CONTINUING EDUCATION CREDIT

Attendance Policy
In compliance with California State Continuing Education (CE) Regulations, participants MUST attend the entire session to earn CE credits. NO exceptions and NO partial credit will be awarded for late arrivals or early departures. At the completion of the program you will receive an email with instructions on collecting your certificate for four hours of Continuing Education credit electronically. Student registrants will not qualify for CEU credit.

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SCASM is recognized by the State of California as an Accrediting Agency for Continuing Education for Clinical Laboratory Science (Registration #075). At the completion of the program all member and non-member registrants will receive an email with instructions on collecting your certificate for four hours of Continuing Education credit electronically. Student registrants will not qualify for CEU credit.

Cancellation Policy: Cancellation must be received in writing at least one week prior to the Symposium. Registration fee will be refunded less a $25 processing fee. A fee of $35 will be assessed on all returned checks.