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CDC Webinar | Unmasking Valley Fever: Catching the Soil-Borne Culprit Early
2024-09-18 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Chicago)
Join the CDC online during Fungal Awareness Week, September 16-20.
This webinar held Wednesday, September 18, 2:00 pm- 3:00 pm CT, will provide valuable insights into real-life cases, diagnostic challenges, and best practices for early detection and treatment of Valley fever. Register
Presenters:

Geetha Sivasubramanian, MD, FIDSA, Chief of Infectious Diseases at UCSF Fresno
Mitsuru Toda, PhD, MS, Epidemiologist at CDC

CDC Webinar | Mycetoma: Understanding the Disease, Seeking Solutions
2024-09-18 10:00 - 23:15 (America/Chicago)
Follow the CDC online during Fungal Disease Awareness Week, September 16-20. Join the CDC Drugs for Neglected Diseases initiative in bringing together leading experts, a patient advocate, and healthcare professionals, we will explore the hidden toll of mycetoma, a neglected tropical disease that causes devastating disabilities and death. Register. This webinar will highlight the challenges of diagnosis and treatments and discuss the path forward in relation to research advancements and the future of mycetoma control.
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Presenters:

Dr. Wendemagegn Enbiale, CEO of Selam Global Health consultancy, Professor of Dermatovenerology Bahir Dar University and Arba Minch University, Ethiopia
Dr Augustin Kadima Ebeja, NTD Medical Officer, Focal Point | Human African Trypanosomiasis & Mycetoma, WHO Regional Office for Africa
Dr Dilip Kachhwaha, Senior Professor in Dermatology and STD at MDM Hospital, Jodhpur, India
John Ekai, Lab Technologist/Community Advocate, Lodwar Hospital, Kenya
Dr Borna Nyaoke -Anoke, Head of Mycetoma, Drugs for neglected Diseases initiative

CDC Webinar | Tropical Diseases: Don't Forget About Fungi!
2024-09-18 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom virtual event
Follow the CDC online during Fungal Disease Awareness Week, September 16-20.
Join the CDC and the International League of Dermatological Societies during this co-hosted webinar, Wednesday, September 18, 8:00 am- 9:00 am CT, featuring dermatologists working on fungal neglected tropical diseases: chromoblastomycosis, mycetoma, and sporotrichosis. Register now. Presenters from across the globe will share clinical experiences and programmatic work to control these neglected diseases. Presentations will be followed by a panel discussion with questions from the audience.
Registration page: bit.ly/ntdfungiwebinar
Presenters

Dallas Smith, PharmD, MAS- Epidemiologist, Mycotic Diseases Branch, US CDC
Marlous Grijsen, MD- Dermatologist and senior clinical scientist based at OUCRU (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit) Indonesia
David Chandler, MD- Consultant Dermatologist, University Hospitals Sussex NHS Foundation Trust, Honorary Research Fellow (Brighton and Sussex Medical School)
Guadalupe Estrada, MD- Dermatologist, Community Dermatology Mexico; Facultad de Medicina. Univ. Autonoma de Guerrero, Instituto Estatal de Cancerologia
Roderick Hay, DM- Emeritus Professor of Cutaneous Infection, Kings College London

CDC Webinar | Emerging and Complex Dermatophytes
2024-09-17 08:00 - 09:00 (America/Chicago)
Follow the CDC online during Fungal Disease Awareness Week, September 16-20.
Join the CDC and the International Leauge of Dermatological Societies for a one- hour webinar Tuesday, September 17, 8:00 am- 9:00 am CT. they will explore clinical experiences to understand, prevent, and treat these fungal skin infections. Presentations will be followed by practical tips for diagnosis and treatment of emerging and complex dermatophytes, an overview of registry for dermatophyte infections, and a question and answer session. Register now.
CDC and the International League of Dermatological Societies
Registration: bit.ly/dermatophyteswebinar

CDC Webinar | A Patient- Centered Approach to Antimicrobial Resistance: From Diagnostic Advances to Clinical Care
2024-09-16 10:00 - 23:00 (America/Chicago)
Follow the CDC online during Fungal Disease Awareness Week, September 16-20. Join the CDC and WHO kick off FDAW 2024 with a reminder of what drives global fungal disease research and initiatives: the patients. Experts will share updates on antimicrobial resistance and advancements in diagnostics and susceptibility testing; efforts to improve patient care. Next a clinician and professor will describe the scope of Cryptococcus infections and invasive fungal diseases in Nigeria and work to improve surveillance. Last, a survivor will share how a patient experiences misdiagnosis and diagnostic challenges, difficulties with antifungal treatment and management, and long-term impacts of Valley fever. Experiences like this are why FDAW is important.
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Presenters:

Ana Alastruey, PhD, MSc- Research Scientist, National Centre for Microbiology, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
Daniel Marcano, MSc- Technical Officer, WHO AMR Division
Rita Oladele, MD- Professor, College of Medicine, University of Lagos, Nigeria.
Rob Purdie– Valley Fever Institute, Kern Medical; Taskforce of AMR Survivors, WHO

Member Spotlight: Tufts University
2024-09-10 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom virtual event
Summary:
This presentation will feature a collaborative One Health effort that began at Tufts University in 2016 in the area of antimicrobial resistance. Claire Fellman DVM and Shira Doron MD will discuss research, quality improvement, and inter-hospital efforts to support human and animal health including enhanced infection prevention and control, hospital stewardship initiatives, and student mentorship. Drs. Fellman and Doron will also introduce the mission and efforts of the Tufts University Center for the Integrated Management of Antimicrobial Resistance (CIMAR).

Bios:

Dr. Shira Doron is an Infectious Disease physician, the Hospital Epidemiologist at Tufts Medical Center, and the Chief Infection Control Officer for Tufts Medicine. She is a Professor of Medicine at Tufts University School of Medicine. Dr. Doron is the immediate past chair of the Infectious Diseases Society of America’s Antimicrobial Stewardship Centers of Excellence subcommittee and a member of the society’s Practice and Quality Committee and highly pathogenic avian influenza task force. She holds a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Public Health, funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to support healthcare facilities throughout the region in efforts to improve antimicrobial stewardship and infection prevention.

Dr. Claire Fellman is an Associate Professor of small animal internal medicine and clinical pharmacology at Tufts University. Claire co-chairs the Infection Control and Antimicrobial Stewardship Team at the Foster Hospital for Small Animals and leads research efforts seeking to adapt antimicrobial stewardship strategies used in human hospitals to companion animal veterinary settings. Claire’s clinical interests include infectious and immune-mediated diseases.

Member Spotlight: Sepsis Alliance
2024-08-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom virtual event
Join Sepsis Alliance
Director, Professional Education and Training, Claudia Orth, Tuesday, August 6, noon-1 PM CST, as she shines a light on the challenges of sepsis as it relates to AMR. Sepsis Alliance, a leading patient advocacy organization, is enacting and influencing positive change for the 1.7 million people diagnosed with sepsis each year. Through Sepsis.org, Sepsis Alliance Institute, Sepsis Alliance Voices, Sepsis Alliance Connect, and Sepsis Innovation Collaborative, Sepsis Alliance is providing healthcare professionals, the general public, and those touched by sepsis with the education, support, and advocacy to save lives and limbs. Sepsis Alliance also supports AMR awareness and education through EndSuperbugs.org and other offerings because we know AMR challenges the treatment of sepsis.
September is Sepsis Awareness Month, and the theme this year is “Infection prevention is sepsis prevention.” RSVP to learn more about sepsis, Sepsis Alliance, and how you can get involved this Sepsis Awareness Month.

Member Spotlight: Phase Genomics
2024-07-09 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Chicago) | Zoom virtual event
Join us Tuesday, July 9, noon-1 PM CST, as we explore the innovations at Phase Genomics with Dr. Ivan Liachko, PhD.
In the fight against AMR, Phase Genomics has developed a unique genomic resource that serves as the world’s largest source of antimicrobial proteins known as lysins. Lysins are proteins used by bacteriophages to kill their microbial hosts and can be effectively used as precision antimicrobials that overcome resistance mechanisms. Phase is building a scalable process for screening and optimizing novel lysins to treat a wide variety of infectious threats, including novel and emerging infectious agents.
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Speaker Bio:
Dr. Ivan Liachko, PhD | Founder & CEO at Phase Genomics
Dr. Liachko is the Founder/CEO and Chief Scientist of Phase Genomics and one of the inventors of their core technology. He received his B.S. at Brandeis University, his Ph.D. at Cornell University, and went on to do his postdoctoral work in the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington. He has authored more than 50 academic papers and a number of patents in the field of genomics and synthetic biology. He founded Phase Genomics in 2015 and leads the organization in an executive as well as technical roles.
Link: https://iastate.zoom.us/j/96757455928

Conference Connections
2024-06-18 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom virtual event
The 2024 Conference is over but the connections made continue to grow. Join us June 18, Noon- 1 PM CST for a 1-hour virtual event where we’ll bring together attendees from the NIAMRRE 2024 Conference to: continue networking, building research teams, exploring takeaways from the education breakout, and providing ideas for future events! During registration indicate which breakout room you’d like to attend.

Research Breakout: Collaborate with members of your research team from the Conference Research Breakout session.
Education Breakout: Continue the conversation on creating educational resources across age groups, ask questions or share what you’ve put into practice since the conference.
General Networking: Reconnect with friends new and old from the conference. Chat about the conference, a new project, or organize a meetup!
Brainstorm: Do you have ideas for future NIAMRRE events? We’re always looking for new and impactful ideas.

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Member Spotlight: Nano Discovery
2024-06-04 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom virtual event
Animal Immune Health – An Ultimate Solution to Combat with Antimicrobial Resistance
Antimicrobial resistance is a global threat to human and animal health and welfare. There are numerous pathogens that can cause infectious diseases in animals. Maintaining a good immune health in animals is the ultimate solution to prevent the diseases from occurring. In this talk, we present a rapid blood test, D2Dx™ immunity test from Nano Discovery Inc. for animal immune health testing. The test detects the general immune health in animals during all growth and reproduction stages. The test has high sensitivity to detect compromised immunity and immunity change in animals due to poor nutrition, various stressing factors, and infections caused by pathogens. So far, the test has been applied successfully and widely on cattle (dairy and beef), sheep, goats, swine, poultry, fish, dogs, and cats. The benefits of D2Dx™ immunity test to the agriculture animal industry and companion animal health care will be discussed in detail during this talk.

Speaker: Dr. Treen Q. Huo is the CEO and co-founder of Nano Discovery Inc. Nano Discovery Inc. Nano Discovery Inc. is a biotechnology company based in Orlando, Florida, United States. We develop, manufacture and sell a rapid blood test product, D2Dx™ immunity test, to detect and monitor the immune status and health of farm and companion animals. The technology was developed at University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida, where Dr. Huo is also a professor in the Department of Chemistry and NanoScience Technology Center.

NIAMRRE Conference
2024-05-14 10:00 - 2024-05-16 11:30 UTC | The Blackwell Inn & Pfhal Conference Center, 2110 Tuttle Park Place, Columbus, Ohio, 43210
Register today for the 2024 NIAMRRE Annual Conference: Bridging the Gaps in AMR, May 14-16 in Columbus, Ohio! Hosted by The Ohio State University, attendees will expand their knowledge across One Health sectors, network with professionals from across the nation, and collaborate on projects and initiatives to combat the threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Conference Highlights:

Breakthrough Discoveries
International Perspectives on AMR
Collaborative Breakouts on AMR Research and Education

Register to attend the conference today and save with early bird pricing; Members pay only $199! Stay at the official conference hotel and venue, The Blackwell Inn & Pfahl Conference Center.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference as we bring together Human, Animal, and Plant Health experts to bridge gaps in AMR and build a more resilient future.
Visit the NIAMRRE Conference website for more information and to register.

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Advisory Council Meeting: April
2024-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 UTC
Advisory Council members only meeting. Each month representatives from out member organizations come together to discuss important topics that help shape the future of AMR advocacy, education, research, and, collaboration. To learn more about how to become and Advisory Council member or to join NIAMRRE contact us.

Member Spotlight: ISCAID
2024-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom virtual event
Join us during the April Member Spotlight, Tuesday, April 2 at 12:00PM CST. Take this opportunity to learn about the International Society for Companion Animal Infectious Diseases (ISCAID)
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[REDACTED] Council Meeting: March
2024-03-11 12:00 - 13:00 UTC

Member Spotlight: Penn State
2024-03-05 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom virtual event
Join us during the March Member Spotlight, Tuesday, March 5 at 12:00PM CST. Take this opportunity to learn about current AMR research at Penn State University.

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[REDACTED] Spotlight: NIAMRRE
2024-02-06 12:00 - 13:00 UTC | Zoom virtual event
Join the NIAMRRE Staff during the February Member Spotlight, Tuesday, February 6 at 12:00PM CST. Take this opportunity to meet two new staff members, Mathew Hadley, Communications Specialist and Niki Reynolds, Member Development Specialist before we dive into a preview of 2024.
Attendees will get a sneak peak of:

The 2024 NIAMRRE Annual Conference
New Educational Opportunities
AMR Dashboard and more!

Zoom Link: http://iastate.zoom.us/j/95357206010?pwd=[REDACTED]
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