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SCACM Fall Meeting Kentucky 2022

  • 21 Oct 2022
  • 8:00 AM - 3:30 PM
  • Kentucky Community & Technical College System, 300 N Main St, Versailles, KY 40383

Registration

  • FOR THOSE LIVING OR WORKING IN KENTUCKY- your KY Division of Laboratory Services (KDLS) is sponsoring your attendance. This registration also includes a SCACM membership through the end of 2022 AND a SCACM 1-year membership through the end of 2023. Ask your manager/supervisor to look for email from KDLS with the registration code.
  • Discounted registration for ACTIVE SCACM Members.
    Must possess an ACTIVE Lifetime, 5-Year, 3-Year, or 1-Year SCACM Membership to obtain this discounted rate.
    If you are not currently an ACTIVE SCACM Member, select the NON-MEMBER registration to purchase a 1-Year SCACM Membership that will expire 12/31/2022 and receive this discounted rate.
  • Discounted registration for ACTIVE SCACM Members.
    Must possess an ACTIVE Lifetime, 5-Year, 3-Year, or 1-Year SCACM Membership to obtain this discounted rate.
    If you are not currently an ACTIVE SCACM Member, select the NON-MEMBER registration to purchase a 1-Year SCACM Membership that will expire 12/31/2022 and receive this discounted rate.
  • Non Member Registration that includes purchase of a SCACM membership through the end of the current year.

    If you are not currently an ACTIVE SCACM Member, select this NON-MEMBER registration to purchase a 1-Year SCACM Membership that will expire 12/31/2022 and receive the discounted meeting-attendance rate.
  • Non Member Registration that includes purchase of a SCACM membership through the end of the current year.

    If you are not currently an ACTIVE SCACM Member, select this NON-MEMBER registration to purchase a 1-Year SCACM Membership that will expire 12/31/2022 and receive the discounted meeting-attendance rate.
  • STUDENT, Non-Member Registration that includes purchase of a SCACM membership through the end of the current year.
    If you are (1) a student of an MLS, MLT, B.S. Biology, B.S. Chemistry, or similar Clinical Microbiology Laboratory program and (2) NOT currently an ACTIVE SCACM Member, select this STUDENT, NON-MEMBER registration to purchase a 1-Year SCACM Membership that will expire 12/31/2022 and receive this discounted meeting attendance rate.
  • STUDENT, Non-Member Registration that includes purchase of a SCACM membership through the end of the current year.
    If you are (1) a student of an MLS, MLT, B.S. Biology, B.S. Chemistry, or similar Clinical Microbiology Laboratory program and (2) NOT currently an ACTIVE SCACM Member, select this STUDENT, NON-MEMBER registration to purchase a 1-Year SCACM Membership that will expire 12/31/2022 and receive this discounted meeting attendance rate.
Registration is closed

Kentucky Fall Meeting

   


Unabated Emergence and Re-emergence of Infectious Diseases

8:00 – 8:35 AM           Registration

8:35 – 8:45 AM           Welcome

8:45 – 9:45 AM           1.0 Contact Hour - Level: Intermediate P.A.C.E. ® # 362-401-22
Reemergence of polio in the United States
Morgan H. McCoy PhD, MD
University of Kentucky and UK HealthCare, Lexington, KY

DESCRIPTION:

A discussion on the reemergence of poliovirus in the United States and its implications to public health.

OBJECTIVES:

  • List the specific characteristics of the virus identified recently

  • Assess the collective laboratory data regarding polio reemergence in the United States

  • Postulate the impact this may have on the nation’s public health

9:45 – 10:30 AM         Break and Visit the Vendors

10:30 –11:30 AM        1.0 Contact Hour - Level: Intermediate P.A.C.E. ® # 362-402-22
Red Flags waving: A Preparedness unknown case

Julie Ribes, MD
University of Kentucky and UK HealthCare, Lexington, KY

DESCRIPTION:

This is a case-based presentation that will address how to improve safety when potentially handling dangerous organisms, possibly select agents, in the clinical laboratory


OBJECTIVES:

  • Identify Gram stain and growth features that should signal the need for enhanced safety protocols for a given culture
  • List the added safety practices that should be employed for the evaluation of these potential pathogens
  • Describe where laboratorians should look to find the select agent protocols needed to evaluate potential agents of bioterrorism because they pose increased risks to the labs that isolate them in culture

11:30 AM  – 1:00 PM         Lunch and Visit the Vendors 

1:00 – 2:00 PM           1.0 Contact Hour - Level: Basic  P.A.C.E. ® # 362-403-22

Candida auris, A New Threat Emerges
Alexander J Fenwick, MD, FCAP
University of Kentucky HealthCare, Lexington, Kentucky

DESCRIPTION:

This is a case-based presentation that will address how to improve safety when potentially handling dangerous organisms, possibly select agents, in the clinical laboratory


OBJECTIVES:

  • Describe the history of Candida auris as it has emerged as a significant infectious disease pathogen
  • List the diagnostic tools that can be used to identify Candida auris from clinical and surveillance specimens
  • The epidemiologic features of disease and colonization of patients currently seen in the ongoing emergence of Candida auris worldwide.

2:00 – 3:00 PM           1.0 Contact Hour - Level: Basic  P.A.C.E. ® # 362-404-22

Pox in the Box: Packaging and shipping of infectious materials
Leigh Ann Bates,
Laboratory Scientist Supervisor, Kentucky State Public Health Laboratory

Melissa Peterson, Principal Investigator, Select Agent Program, Kentucky State Public Health Laboratory

DESCRIPTION:

Overview of policies and demonstration of proper packaging and shipping of infectious substances for testing at the KY State Public Health Lab.


OBJECTIVES:

  • Recognize the need for sample submission and effective communication to the KY State Public Health Lab.
  • Proper packaging and shipping of specimens to send to the KY State Public Health Lab.
  • Overview of Outreach for ease of completion of requisitions and report retrieval.

3:00 – 3:30PM            Prizes, Closing remarks & Adjournment 

For additional information, please contact:

Alex Fenwick, MD
Phone: (270) 231-0542

 Email: kentucky@scacm.org

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