Put the dangers posed by various infections into perspective.
Course Chair: John Conte, MD, UCSF professor of epidemiology & biostatistics, medicine, and microbiology and immunology; director of hospital epidemiology and infection control at UCSF Medical Center.
Jan. 21: The Impact of HIV: In the US and Around the World, George W. Rutherford III, MD, UCSF professor and director of the Institute for Global Health.
Jan. 28: Bioterrorism Update: Defining the Clinical and Public Health Response, Tomas Aragon, MD, MPH, director and medical epidemiologist, Center for Infectious Disease Preparedness, University of California, Berkeley.
Feb. 4: Influenza: New Threats from an Old Germ, W. Lawrence Drew, MD, PhD, UCSF professor of laboratory medicine and medicine.
Feb. 11: Mad Cow Disease: No Longer Just a European Issue, Michael D. Geschwind, MD, PhD, assistant adjunct professor of neurology, UCSF Memory and Aging Center.
Feb. 18: Food-Borne Diseases: What is Really Safe to Eat?, Duc Jackson Vugia, MD, MPH, UCSF assistant clinical professor of medicine, and chief, Disease Investigations and Surveillance Branch, California Department of Health Services.
Feb. 25: West Nile Fever and Other Zoonoses – Diseases That Can Spread from Animals to Man, Michelle Jay, DVM, MPVM, Veterinary Public Health Section, California Department of Public Health Services.
