Colorado IDSA

Second Annual Meeting of the Colorado Chapter Infectious Diseases Society of America (CO-IDSA)

7:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Friday, April 17, 2009

Location:

Magnolia Hotel

818 17th Street

Denver, CO  80202

303-607-9000

 

MEETING SCHEDULE
7:30 - 8:10 a.m. Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:10 - 9:00 a.m. “New Emerging Resistance Patterns in HIV”
9:00 - 9:50 a.m. “Human Papillomavirus: Problems and Prospects”
John Munroe Douglas, Jr., M.D., Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
9:50 - 10:10 a.m. Break
10:10 - 11:00 a.m. “Fungal Infections in Immunocompromised Hosts”
Kieren A. Marr, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
11:00 - 11:50 a.m. Case Study Presentations
11:50 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch, Speaker is Pulitizer Prize-winning historian, David Oshinsky Ph.D.,
"Polio: America's Most Successful Public Health Campaign"
1:00 - 1:50 p.m. “What's New in CNS Infections?”
J. David Beckham M.D., University of Colorado at Denver Health Sciences
Center
1:50 - 2:40 p.m. “Epidemiologic Trends that Effect your Practice: An Update from the Colorado
Dept. of Health”
Ken Gershman, M.D., M.P.H., Colorado Department of Public Health and
Environment
2:40 - 3:00 p.m. Break
3:00 - 3:50 p.m. “MRSA Surveillance, Infection Control Issues and the Role of New Diagnostic
Technologies”
Lance R. Peterson M.D., NorthShore University HealthSystem
3:50 - 4:30 p.m. Business Meeting
4:30 - 5:30 p.m. Wine and Cheese Reception

Registration: $100 ($85 for meeting and $15 for membership). Registration is free for students, residents and fellows.

Download Registration Form

 

The goals of the Colorado IDSA are:

  1. Identify, integrate and facilitate communication in the ID community in Colorado
  2. Provide a local venue for an annual educational meeting for ID practioners
  3. Provide local expertise to each other, Colo. Dept. of Public Health and Environment, legislators, and others
  4. Establish an independent, self-sustaining and governing body for shared issues

We hope to serve your needs in building our Infectious Disease community for the over 100 ID practitioners in our state.

The Colorado IDSA Board

  • Ed Janoff, M.D. President
  • Dan Perlman. M.D. Secretary-Treasurer
  • Marsha Anderson, M.D. Councillor
  • Ray Blum, M.D. Councillor
  • Dave Cohn, M.D. Councillor
  • Susan Mason. M.D. Councillor
  • Melissa McQueen Executive Director
    Colorado Chapter of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
    coidsa@gmail.com