March 16 th, 2012 Jim Dickinson Professor & Program Director TARRANT Viral Watch Program Department of Family Medicine Faculty of Medicine, University.

March 16th, 2012

Jim DickinsonProfessor & Program DirectorTARRANT Viral Watch ProgramDepartment of Family MedicineFaculty of Medicine, University of Calgary

Annual General Meeting (AGM) 2012

Welcome!

Goals

Background

Invited Speakers

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

Acknowledgement

Welcome dinner

Outline

Goals

Review the year

Inform what we are doing

Learn from others and obtain feedback from sentinels and staff

Background

Interesting mix: 85 Sentinels and their staffs. ProvLab staff Alberta Health: AHW, AHS Public Health Our staffs:

Elaine Douglas, Madison Wang, Sandy Berzins, Tova Dybvig, and Quynh Le.

Invited Speakers

Dr. Carol Yung, R.N. BScN. CCHN(C), Team Lead – Seasonal Influenza & Pneumococcal Immunization Program

The Seasonal Influenza Immunization Program – An Evolving Partnership between Community Physicians and Alberta Health Services

Dr. Naveed Janjua, Assistant Professor, UBC, Epidemiologist, BCCDC, Clinical

Swine-Origin Influenza A/H3N2 Variant Virus [A(H3N2)v]: From Pigs to Humans!

Dr. Margaret Russell, Associate Professor, Dept. of Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, U of C

The Hutterite Influenza Prevention Studies

Dr. Kani Pabbaraju, Molecular Diagnostics, AB ProvLab Influenza C in Alberta

Dr. Kevin Fonseca, Clinical Virologist, AB ProvLab Influenza Virus – What’s Changed, What is hot?

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

TARRANT program - 2010/2011 season

Urban dictionary definition:

An acute, commonly epidemic disease, with several different symptoms, caused by abundant consumption of intoxicants and characterized by a combination of head throbbing, watery digestive discharge and rancid breath.

Synonym: Hung over.

Irish Influenza Virus

Irish Influenza Virus

Acknowledgement

Welcome dinner

Sentinels’ Dinner at Flat Iron Restaurant hosted by the TARRANT Team

Thank you!