The NJMS Center for BioDefense has developed a series of training modules, in conjunction with members of University Hospital Emergency Medical Services. Executive, professional and staff-level lectures and workshops, lasting one, two, four or ten hour training sessions are available. The following topics can be covered, and the requestor can ask for more than one topic.
Please direct requests for training modules to Nancy
Connell, Director of the UMDNJ Center for BioDefense, or Brendan
McCluskey, Director of Training and Education
Biological agents, microbiology
Biological agents, clinical
Chemical agents, chemistry
Chemical agents, clinical
Weapons of Mass Destruction Awareness (in conjunction with the NJ State
Police)
Emergency Response
Personal protection equipment (in conjunction with EOHSS)
Public Health Response
THE BIOLOGY OF CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE CONFERENCE:
This two-day conference (March 20 and 21) is being sponsored by the
Departments of Pharmacology and Physiology, and Medicine, The BioDefense
Center at NJMS, The International Center for Public Health and the Department
of Army, Fort Detrick, MD. The conference will be held at the International
Center Center for Public Health Research Institute, Norfolk and Warren
Streets in Newark.
The lectures are as follows:
Thursday, March 20, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Welcoming comments by Russell Joffe, Dean, NJMS
"Bacillus Anthracis, A Bug with Attitude," by Les Baillie, PhD,
associate professor, University of Maryland and Biotechnology Institute
"Addressing the Threat of Anthrax," by Borden Lacy, PhD, research
fellow, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical
School
"A Pox on You - The Never Ending Threat of Smallpox," by Thomas
Denny, MS, assistant professor, Pathology, Laboratory Medicine and Pediatrics,
director, Center for Laboratory Investigation, NJMS, Robert Wood Johnson
Health Policy Fellow
" Vaccine Development for Plague," by Jeffrey Adamovicz, PhD,
chief, Bacteriology, United States Army Medical Research Institute of
Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick
" Proteomics and Genetic Approaches to Biomarker Discovery for
Biological Warfare Agents," by Vito Del Vecchio, PhD, director, Research,
Institute of Molecular Biology and Medicine, The University of Scranton
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