What's Hot in Infectious Diseases

Dr. Theodore Kuschak, Director of Networks and Resilience Development, National Microbiology Laboratory, Public Health Agency of Canada (Winnipeg, MB), discussed the importance of national and international networking in responding to Public Health Emergency concerns in a Plenary Symposium on Emerging Infections at the recent AMMI-Canada /CACMID Annual Conference in Victoria, BC on April 4, 2014. Download presentation.

Drs. Allison McGeer (Toronto, ON) and Elizabeth Bryce (Vancouver, BC) debated the pros and cons of mandatory screening and transmission control for antibiotic resistant organisms in the hospital setting in a State of the Art presentation at the recent AMMI-Canada /CACMID Annual Conference in Victoria, BC on April 4, 2014. Download presentation.

These plenary talks were presented at the 2013 AMMI Canada/CACMID Annual Conference in Quebec City during April 4-6, 2013: Dr. Caroline Quach (Montreal, QC) – What’s Hot in Paediatric Infectious Diseases. Download PDF here. Dr. Gerald Evans (Kingston, ON) – What’s Hot in Adult Infectious Diseases. Download PDF here. Dr. Susan Poutanen (Toronto, ON) – What’s Hot in Diagnostic […]

Dr. Allison McGeer, Professor in the Departments of Laboratory Medicine & Pathobiology and Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, and Director of Infection Control, Mount Sinai Hospital, discussed the epidemiology, clinical presentation, diagnosis and management as well as hospital outbreaks and infection control issues of this important topic at the recent AMMI-Canada /CACMID Annual Conference […]

Dr. David Fisman (Toronto, ON) summarized the implications of changing weather patterns and extreme environmental events for infectious disease epidemiology globally and in Canada. He provided evidence linking transmission of vector-borne diseases (including Lyme disease and West Nile virus infection) as well as certain enteric diseases to extreme weather and climatic changes in the Canadian […]