COMPANION MEETINGS

BINFORD-DAMMIN SOCIETY OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE PATHOLOGISTS




  Sunday, March 23 — 8:30 AM — Delaware Suite  
  • Bioterrorism: What Every Pathologist Needs to Know, Presentations from a Panel of Experts
  Moderators: T.C. Wu, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Wun-Ju Shieh, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA

8:30  The Smallpox Eradication Program - Joel Bremen and Ann Marie Nelson, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, DC
9:15  Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers - Sherif Zaki, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA
10:00  Recess
10:30  Prompt Diagnosis of Aerosol Transmitted Anthrax by the Pathologist: A Public Health Imperative in the Era of Bioterrorism - David Walker, University of Texas Medical Branch, and WHO Center for Tropical Diseases, Galveston, TX
11:15  The Scientific, Medical and Policy Challenges of CBRNE and the Role of the Pathologist in Countering the Threat - Aileen M. Marty, Homeland Defense Committee, USUHS, Washington, DC