Committee on Measures to Enhance the Effectiveness of
CDC Quarantine Station Expansion Plan for U.S. Ports of Entry

Agenda:  Meeting #2

Thursday, January 20, 2005

Washington Room
Mt. Washington Conference Center
5801 Smith Avenue
Suite 1100
Baltimore, MD 21209

 

8:00 AM    Registration and Breakfast

8:30           Future of Quarantine Stations
                      Bill Rowley, MD
                      Institute for Alternative Futures

9:30           State and Local Partners
                      ASTHO
                      Guthrie Birkhead, MD, MPH
                      Director, Center for Community Health and
                      Director, AIDS Institute
                      New York State Department of Health 

                      NACCHO
                      Patricia Checko, DrPH
                      Bristol-Burlington Health District

                      Pat Libbey
                      Executive Director

                      CSTE
                      Gilberto Chavez, MD, MPH
                      California State Epidemiologist and Chair, CSTE Working Group on Border 
                      and International Health

                      TB Controllers
                      Sarah Royce, MD, MPH
                      Tuberculosis Control Branch, California Department of Health Services

10:30         Break

10:45         Panel Discussion

11:30         Lunch Break

12:30         Quarantine Stations in Canada:  Structure
                       Susan Courage, RN BScN
                       National Coordinator, Quarantine Services
                       Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response
                       Public Health Agency of Canada

                  Quarantine Stations in Canada:  Response to SARS
                        Susan Courage, RN BScN
                        National Coordinator, Quarantine Services
                        Centre for Emergency Preparedness and Response
                        Public Health Agency of Canada

1:45            Potential Use of Modeling in Quarantine Stations
                        Donald Burke, MD
                        Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health

3:15            Break

3:30            Customs and Border Protection (by teleconference)
                         Anne Lombardi, Director
                          Penny Gaddini
                          Chicago Field Office, Department of Homeland Security

4:00            Final Questions and discussion

4:15            Open Session adjourned; committee convenes in closed session