2018 Meeting Archives

 

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Stop TB Session

Progress and Challenges towards Ending TB in a Politically Charged Era
Dr. Mario Raviglione, Geneva, Switzerland

Implementation Science – Rationale and Application to TB Research in Low-Income Settings
Dr. Adithya Cattamanchi, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Programmatic Uptake of Novel Treatments for Multidrug-Resistant TB: A Failure of Innovation?
Dr. Jennifer Furin, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA

Update from TB Alliance Clinical Studies
Dr. Daniel Everitt, TB Alliance, New York, NY, USA

George Comstock Lecture

Programmatic and Clinical Issues Arising from National Tuberculosis Prevalence Surveys: “All We Know About TB is Wrong”
Dr. Phil C. Hopewell, Francis Curry International TB Center, San Francisco, CA, USA

Nursing-Sponsored Session

Engaging TB Patients/Survivors to Support One Another and Educate Community Leaders and Decision Makers
Ms. Terasa Rugg and Ms. Liz Stapf, TB Photovoice, Seattle, WA, USA

Meeting Communication Challenges of TB Patients in Illinois
Ms. Elaine Darnall and Ms. Janette Candido, Illinois Department of Public Health, Chicago, IL, USA

A New Tool for the Toolbox: The Patient LTBI Treatment Decision Aid
Dr. John Parmer, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta, GA, USA

Community Engagement among Inuit in Nunavut: Lessons from the Field
Dr. Gonzalo Alvarez, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada

Disseminating TB Control Messages to New Networks in North America and Around the World
Ms. Debra Daugherty, Stop TB USA, Washington, DC, USA

Whole Genome Sequencing and Drug Resistance

The Nix-TB Trial: Genotypic-Phenotypic DST Correlations and Identification of Reinfection in Trials
Dr. Daniel Everitt, TB Alliance, New York, NY, USA

Treatment of INH Resistant TB
Dr. Dick Menzies, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Use of Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacteria as a First Line Diagnostic Clinical Service in England
Prof. Tim Peto, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

Using WGS to Drive TB Elimination in a Low-Incidence Setting
Dr. Jennifer Gardy, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, BC, Canada

Beyond TB Lecture

Climate Change and Human Health
Dr. Donald Wuebbles, University of Illinois, Urbana, IL, USA

Pediatric and Perinatal TB

TB and Infertility
Dr. Dina Fisher, Alberta Health Services, Calgary, AB, Canada

Diagnosing and Treating Tuberculosis in Pregnant Women: Current Practices and Research Opportunities
Dr. Jyoti Mathad, Center for Global Health/Weill Cornell University, New York, NY, USA

Comparison of the TST and IGRAs in Diagnosing Tuberculosis Infection and Predicting Progression to Tuberculosis Disease in Children
Dr. Amina Ahmed, Levine Children’s Hospital, Charlotte, NC, USA

The 2018 AAP Red Book: New Recommendations for Childhood Tuberculosis
Dr. Jeffrey R. Starke, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA

Current Status of Drugs Used in Treatment of MDR-TB in Children
Prof. Simon Schaaf, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, South Africa

TB Elimination: Measurements and Outcomes

Latent TB Cascade of Care
Dr. Dick Menzies, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada

Dynamics of Tuberculosis in the United States: A Closer Look at Heterogeneity on the State Level
Dr. David Dowdy, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

TB Elimination: Indicators in the United States
Dr. Pennan Barry, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA

Using the LTBI Cascade of Care in Public Health and Primary Care Clinics
Dr. Michelle Haas, Denver Public Health, Denver, CO, USA

Special Lecture

Developing a Human Rights-Based Approach to TB
Mr. Brian Citro, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law, Chicago, IL, USA

TB and Non-Communicable Diseases

Diabetic Immunopathy and TB
Dr. Hardy Kornfeld, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

TB and Smoking
Dr. Jonathan Golub, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA

TB and Alcohol Use
Dr. Karen Jacobson, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA

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