Infectious Disease Surveillance and Detection:
Assessing the Challenges - Finding Solutions
The National Academies
500 Fifth Street, NW - Room 100
Washington, DC 20001
December 12-13, 2006
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
8:00: Continental Breakfast
8:30: Welcome and Opening Remarks; P. Fred Sparling, M.D., vice-chair, Forum on Microbial Threats
8:45 – 9:15: KEYNOTE ADDRESS: “Syndromic Surveillance: Moving from Theory to Practice” —Patrick W. Kelley, M.D., Dr.P.H.
9:15 – 9:45: Discussion
Session I: Surveillance for Emerging, Reemerging, and Novel Infectious Diseases
Moderator: Col. Ralph Erickson, M.D., Department of Defense (DOD-GEIS)
9:45 – 10:15: Public Health Infectious Disease Surveillance—Michael Stoto, Ph.D.
10:15 – 10:45: Infectious Disease Surveillance – the “local” perspective—Marci Layton, M.D.
10:45 – 11:00: BREAK
11:00 – 11:30: Animal disease surveillance—William Karesh, D.V.M.
11:30 – noon: Plant disease surveillance and detection—Jacque Fletcher, Ph.D. and, Jim Stack, Ph.D.
Noon – 12:30: Open Discussion of Session 1
12:30 – 1:15: LUNCH
Session II: Infectious Disease Detection and Diagnostics
Moderator: David Relman, M.D., Stanford University
1:15 – 1:45: Mark D. Perkins, M.D.
1:45 – 2:15: Stephen Johnston, Ph.D.
2:15 – 2:45: Animal Disease Detection: Diagnostic Laboratory Perspective—Alex Ardans, D.V.M.
2:45 – 3:00: BREAK
3:00 – 3:30: Rapid Infectious Disease Diagnostic Assays—Mark Wolcott, Ph.D.
3:30 – 4:00: Discussion of the GreeneChip: A Panmicrobial Oligonucleotide Array for the Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases—W. Ian Lipkin, M.D.
4:00 – 5:00: Open Discussion of Session II
5:00 – 5:45: Open Discussion of Day 1
6:00 – 7:00: OPEN RECEPTION
Wednesday, December 13, 2006
8:30: Opening Remarks/Summary of Day 1: Peggy Hamburg, M.D., vice-chair, Forum on Microbial Threats
Session III: Current and Future Methods for Infectious Disease Surveillance, Reporting, and, Communication
Moderator: Stephen S. Morse, Ph.D., Columbia University
8:40 – 9:10: Discussion of ProMed Mail—Stephen S. Morse, Ph.D.
9:10 – 9:40: Discussion of the Global Public Health Intelligence Network (GPHIN)—Abla Mawudeku, M.P.H.
9:40 – 10:10: Implications of “real-time” and batch reporting for surveillance—Joseph Lombardo, M.S.
10:10 – 10:30: BREAK
10:30 – 11:00: Using cell phone technology for infectious disease surveillance—Pamela Johnson, Ph.D. and David Blazes, M.D.
11:00 – 11:30: HEALTHmap: A global disease alert mapping system—John Brownstein, Ph.D.
11:30 – 12:15: Open discussion of Session III
12:15 – 1:00: LUNCH
Session IV: Infectious Disease Detection, Surveillance, and Reporting – Resource Needs and Opportunities
1:00 – 1:30: Coordination of disease surveillance, detection, diagnostics, and reporting—Will Hueston, D.V.M., Ph.D.
1:30 – 3:30: Discussion Panel
Marci Layton, M.D.
Fernando Guerra, M.D., M.P.H.
Frances P. Downes, Dr.P.H.
W. Ian Lipkin, M.D.
James LeDuc, Ph.D.
Willian Karesh, D.V.M.
3:30 – 4:15: Open Discussion of Session IV
4:15 – 4:30: Closing Remarks/Adjourn
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