World TB Day Agenda


Metropolitan Chicago Tuberculosis Coalition
World TB Awareness Day 2008
Friday, March 24, 2008

9:30-10:15
Registration and Networking
10:15 - 10:30 Welcome
  • Torrey Wilson, PH.d, Master of Ceremony, RHAMC Board Member Adler Planetarium School
  • Terry Mason, MD, F.A.C.S Commissioner, Chicago Department of Public Health
  • Steve A. Martin, Jr., Chief Operating Officer, Cook County Department of Public Health
10:30- 10:40
Proclamations
  • Illinois Department of Public Health
  • Chicago Department of Public Health
10:40 - 11:00
“Unsung Heroes”
William Clapp, MD, Medical Director, CDPH TB Control Program
11:00 - 11:15 “2007 TB Stats Review”
Elaine Darnell, Margaret Eaglin, William Clapp
11:45 - 12:30 “Global TB Update”
Kashef Ijaz, Chief, Field Services and Evaluation Branch (CDC)
12:15 - 1:00 Dine-In Luncheon, Cultural Center, (Ticket Required)
Awards & Prizes

1:00 - 2:00		 “History and Futures of Sanitariums”, Panel Discussion
  • Dorothy Murphy, Moderator, Cermak Health Services
  • Willard A. Fry, M.D., Northwestern University Feinberg School Medicine
  • Bapu P. Arekapudi, M.D. , CEO, Lake Shore Medical Associates, Ltd
2:00 - 2:15 BREAK
2:15 - 2:30
Awards/Prizes/Entertainment, Theater
2:30 - 3:30 “Immigration & TB, TB Patients Traveling the World (CDC inter-jurisdictional guidelines, B-National card, B1 & B2 status).”, Panel Discussion
  • Sena Blumenstaadt, Chief Officer in Charge, CDC Chicago Quarantine
  • Miguel Escobedo, M.D., Quarantine Medical Officer, CDC EL Paso Quarantine
  • Xiomara Hardison, CDPH, TB Control Program
3:30
Closing Comments