223 - Tick-Tac-Toe: Tick-Borne Infections Upping the Game

10/5/2019

10:30 AM - 11:45 AM

Room: Walter E. Washington Convention Center, 150 AB

MOC Credit: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CME Credit: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
ACPE Credit: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: 0221-9999-19-404-L01-P

Co-organized with the Infectious Diseases Society of China

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

review the epidemiology of emerging tick-borne Infections in the US
discuss clinical and diagnostic features of tick-borne infections
review diagnostic and clinical features of Severe Fever with Thrombocytopenia Syndrome

Presentations:

10:30 AM - 10:55 AM
1937 - Lyme disease in the U.S.: Tends, Disease Burden, and Current Prevention and Control Efforts
Charles (Ben) Beard, MS, PhD – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
10:55 AM - 11:20 AM
1938 - Emerging Tick-Borne Infections in the US
David H. Walker, MD – University of Texas Medical Branch
11:20 AM - 11:45 AM
1939 - Clinical and Diagnostic Features of Tick-Borne Infections
Anne Piantadosi, MD, PHD – Emory University

Moderator(s)

Hana El Sahly, MD

Associate Professor
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, TX

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
J. Stephen Dumler, MD

Professor and Chair, Dept Pathology
Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences
Bethesda, MD

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose

Speaker(s)

Charles (Ben) Beard, MS, PhD

Deputy Division Director
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Fort Collins, CO

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
Anne Piantadosi, MD, PHD

Assistant Professor
Emory University
Decatur, Georgia

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose
David Walker, MD

Professor, Department of Pathology Executive Director, Center for Emerging Infectious Diseases and Biodefense
University of Texas Medical Branch
Galveston, TX

Disclosure: Nothing to disclose