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Video Conference on H1N1
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
12:00 noon to 1:00 pm (Arizona time)

Objective: To educate rural Arizona clinicians and other health practitioners about H1N1 as an emerging issue.

How: A panel of specialists will address the issue during Grand Rounds. The event will be broadcast live by videoconference through the Arizona Telemedicine Network to a number of rural sites in the state that are connected to the telemedicine network.

The event will also be available live by personal computer through video streaming technology at: http://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/home/

Each panelist will speak for approximately 10 minutes. A brief question and answer session will follow.

Panelist:

Nafees Ahmad, PhD, Professor of Medicine, Infectious Disease
"Virology of the Disease"

Rod Adam, MD, Professor of Microbiology and Immunology
"Clinical Considerations"

Katie Matthias, PharmD, BCPS
"Therapeutic Options"

Michelle McDonald, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Pima County Health Department
"Public Health Approaches"

William Humble, MD, Director of ADHS
"Arizona's Response"

Where:

* In person: Duval Auditorium, University Medical Center, The University of Arizona, Tucson AZ.

* The video conference can be viewed later on the Department of Medicine’s Medicine Grand Rounds page at: http://streaming.biocom.arizona.edu/categories/?id=10

For more information contact: Tracy Skinner Distance Education & Administrative Events Coordinator, Sr. tskinner@email.arizona.edu

Sponsored by the Arizona Telemedicine Program, College of Medicine, and the Rural Health Office at the Mel and Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health.