PHS Symposium
The 2014 USPHS Scientific and Training Symposium will be held June 10-12 at the Raleigh (NC) Convention Center. The theme for this year's conference is "Public Health Today: Prevention, Innovation, Progress." Each year the Symposium is a place where USPHS officers can recieve training and their annual required CME/CEU and meet up with other fellow PHS officers.
Key links to the 2014 Sympoium include:
IMPORTANT AGENDA UPDATE NOT ON THE PUBLISHED AGENDA!!!
Please attend the Epidemiology Session at the 2014 USPHS Scientific and Training Symposium on Wednesday, June 11, 2014. This is an all-day session that RADM Scott Giberson, Acting US Deputy Surgeon General, will be kicking off with a special presentation at 10:30 AM. A list of the Epidemiology Session’s presentations is below with additional details on each presentation provided here: http://symposium.phscof.org/docs/EpidemiologySession.pdf. For questions or additional information please contact LCDR Jennifer Cheng-Dobson at Jennifer_Cheng-Dobson@nps.gov.
- 11-11:30 AM – A Public Health Response to an Outbreak of Acute Hepatitis Associated With a Dietary Supplement: Perspectives from USPHS Epidemiologists at CDC, DoD, and FDA
- 11:30 AM-12 PM – The Public Health Impact of Acute Chemical Releases in Schools
- 1:30-2 PM – Striving To Achieve Safe Adventures in Parks through Epidemiologic Method
- 2-2:30 PM – Aspirin Use Among Men to Prevent Myocardial Infarctions, 2011 North Carolina Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System
- 2:30-3 PM – The Role of Cognitive Interviewing in Questionnaire Development: the 2012 WHO Verbal Autopsy Instrument
- 3:15-3:45 PM – Outbreak Investigation: Hepatitis A in Frozen Pomegranate Seeds
- 3:45-4:15 PM – Local Dengue Virus Transmission During an Outbreak in Southern Texas, 2013
- 4:15-4:45 PM – Innovative Health Services for Complex Medicare Beneficiaries: Are Primary Care Home Visits Related to Lower Hospitalization and Emergency Department Utilization?
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