Held on October 24, 2006 in Princeton, NJ, this one-day program for TB controllers, program managers, clinicians, and other health care workers who work with TB patients or patients at-risk for TB infection and disease provides an opportunity to learn about the latest TB control guidelines and network with colleagues conducting TB control activities.

The talks are listed below and can be downloaded and viewed using Microsoft PowerPoint. Or you may also download the whole set in ZIP (~16 MB).

• The Evolution of TB Treatment: A Personal Perspective
  Fred Jacobs, MD, JD
• Preventing Relapse
  Lee Reichman, MD, MPH
• Epidemiology of TB in the Northeast Region
  Ken Castro, MD
• Finding from the Northeastern Regional Training and Medical Consortium Needs Assessment
  Rajita Bhavaraju, MPH
• Universal Genotyping: Benefits and Findings to Date
  Patrick Moonan, DrPH, MPH
• Laboratory Network Update
  Max Salfinger, MD
• Guidelines for the Prevention of the Transmission of M. tuberculosis in Health Care Settings
• Kevin Fennelly, MD, MPH
• Guidelines for the Investigation of Contacts of Persons with Infectious Tuberculosis
  Sue Etkind, RN, MS
• Guidelines for Using the QuantiFERON-TB Gold Test for Detecting M. tuberculosis Infection
  Philip LoBue, MD
• Prevention and Control of TB in Correctional and Detention Facilities
  Mark Lobato, MD
• Strain W Outbreak
  Tracy Agerton, RN, MPH & Mark Wolman, MA, MPH
• Outbreak in a Rural Indiana County
  Shameer Poonja, MPH
• Report from the National TB Controllers Association
  John Bernardo, MD
• Pediatric TB
  George McSherry, MD
• HIV and TB Co-Infection
  David Schlossberg, MD
• MDR-TB Management
  Marie Turner, MD /John Bernardo, MD