The Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network Presents

The Toronto Invasive Bacterial Diseases Network Presents: TIBDN Education Days 2008 A morning of talks and TIBDN Updates Thursday, November 27, 2008 8:30 AM – 2:00 PM Mount Sinai Hospital 600 University Ave., 18th Floor Auditorium Toronto, ON

8:45-9:00 Welcome/Introduction Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

9:00-9:45 TIBDN Update Allison McGeer, MD, FRCPC, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto

9:45-10:15 Drink it In: Source Waters, Environment, and Disease Risk in North American Cities Amy L. Greer, PhD, Research Fellow, Child Health Evaluative Sciences, Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children

10:15-10:45 Bright Ideas? Ultraviolet Radiation, Weather, and the Seasonality of Invasive Bacterial Disease in North America David Fisman, MD, MPH, FRCP(C), Scientist, Research Institute of the Hospital for Sick Children, Medical Epidemiologist, Ontario Provincial Public Health Laboratory

10:45-11:00 BREAK – Poster viewing and discussion time

11:05-11:50 Norovirus: Nature's Perfect Puke'o'genic Pathogen Todd F. Hatchette, MD FRCPC, Director of Virology and Immunology, Division of Microbiology, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Queen Elizabeth II Health Science Center, Halifax, NS

11:50-12:35 The role of drinking water in the transmission of antimicrobial resistant E. coli Brenda Coleman, PhD, Research Scientist, Infectious Disease Research, Mount Sinai Hospital

12:35 – 14:00 LUNCH & DISCUSSION

Support for TIBDN Education Days is generously provided by: Abbott Laboratories • EcoLab • Oxoid, part of Thermofisher Scientific • Starplex Scientific, Inc. • Theramed • Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals • Pfizer Canada • Roche Pharmaceuticals • Virox • ArjoHuntleigh • Rubbermaid • BD Diagnostics