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Meeting 2: Variola Virus Workshop

When:
Thursday, December 18, 2008 (12:45 PM)
Where:
Keck Center • 500 Fifth St. NW, Washington, DC 20001 Map

Topic(s):
Biomedical and Health Research, Diseases
Activity:
Sequel to Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus
Board(s):
Board on Global Health

Committee on Assessment of Future Scientific Needs for Live Variola Virus
Workshop #2

 

December 18, 2008

PRELIMINARY AGENDA

 

12:45pm

Opening Remarks
Ann Arvin, M.D., Committee Chair

1:00pm - 2:00pm

Surveillance and Detection
Q & A

Hermann Meyer, M.D.
Deputy Director
Institut für Mikrobiologie der Bundeswehr

Ann Rimoin, Ph.D., MPH
Assistant Professor
Department of Epidemiology
UCLA School of Public Health

2:00pm - 2:40pm

Genomics
Q & A

Joseph Esposito, Ph.D.
President
JGL Tech-consult

2:40pm - 3:20pm

Poxvirology
Q & A

Bernard Moss, M.D., Ph.D.
NIH Distinguished Investigator
Chief
Laboratory of Viral Diseases
Division of Intramural Research
NIAID, NIH

3:20pm
Break

3:30pm - 4:10pm

Antivirals and Resistance
Q & A

Richard Whitley, M.D.
Leeb Eminent Scholar Chair in Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology,
Medicine and Neurosurgery
The University of Alabama at Birmingham

4:10pm - 4:50pm

WHO Perspective
Q & A

Daniel Lavanchy, M.D., MHEM
Project Leader & Senior Adviser
Department of Epidemic and Pandemic Alert
and Response (EPR)
WHO

5:00
Adjourn


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Board on Global Health
Phone:
202-334-3327
Fax:
202-334-3861
E-mail:
abrantley@nas.edu

Mailing Address


Keck Center
500 Fifth St. NW
Washington, DC 20001