Poster Abstracts
Saturday, June 2, 2018
Opening Session
Welcome to Pasadena
Moderators:
- Ewa King, PhD, APHL President & Director, Rhode Island State Health Laboratories
- Joanne Bartkus, PhD, D(ABMM), APHL President-Elect, 2018 Annual Meeting Planning Committee, Chair and Director, Minnesota Public Health Laboratory Division
- Paul Kimsey, PhD, Director, California Department of Public Health Laboratory
- Nicole Green, PhD, D(ABMM), Director, Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratory
- Scott Becker, MS, Executive Director, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Plenary Session
One Hundred Years Pursuing the Pandemic: From the 'Great Flu' of 1918 to 2018
Moderator: Peter Shult, PhD, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
The Past, Present and Future of Influenza Pandemics
- Monica Schoch-Spana, PhD, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Assessing Pandemic Risk and Evaluating US and Global Pandemic Readiness
- Jacqueline Katz, PhD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Future of Pandemic Mitigation
- Stacey Shultz-Cherry, PhD, St. Jude Children's Hospital
Concurrent Sessions
Addressing Antibiotic Resistance “Hotspots” through a Global One Health Lens: People, Animals and the Environment
Moderators:
- Romesh Gautom, PhD, MS, Washington State Public Health Laboratories
- Michael Pentella, PhD, MS, D(ABMM), State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
Changing Practices to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance
- Jean McLain, PhD, MS, University of Arizona
Do Clinical Microbiology Laboratory Data Reveal or Distort the Picture of Antibiotic Resistance in Humans and Domestic Animals?
- Scott Weissman, MD, University of Washington/Seattle Children’s Hospital
How Culture and Circumstances Complicate the Fight Against Antimicrobial Resistance: Lessons from Tanzania
- Douglas Call, PhD, Washington State University
Spotlight on Public Health Laboratory Fellowships - What Can a Fellow Do for Your Lab
Moderators:
- Jennifer Rakeman, PhD, New York City Public Health Laboratory
- Marie-Claire Rowlinson, PhD, D(ABMM), Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories
- Patrice Held, PhD, FACMG, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene (Newborn Screening Fellow)
- Sean Wang, DVM, PhD, Minnesota Public Health Laboratory (Bioinformatics Fellow)
- Marisabel Etter, PhD, California Department of Public Health (ARLN Fellow)
- Ceclia Kretz, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (LLS Fellow)
Newborn Screening: It's Complicated!
Moderator: Guisou Zarbalian, MS, MPH, Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Denise Kay, PhD, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
- Susan Tanksley, PhD, Texas Department of State Health Services
- John Thompson, PhD, Washington State Office of Newborn Screening
- Rachel Lee, PhD, Texas Department of State Health Services
Per- and Poly-Fluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS): Nevertheless, They Persist
Moderator: Kacee Deener, MPH, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Cindy Caporale, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Ekta Choudhary, PhD, MPH, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Jessica Sagona, PhD, New Hampshire Environmental Public Health Tracking
Sunday, June 3, 2018
Concurrent Sessions
The Impact of New and Emerging Technologies on Food and Clinical Testing Laboratories
Moderator: Denise Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB), Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
Implementation and Applications for Use of MALDI-TOF for Clinical and Food Testing
- Dominick Centurioni, MS, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Strategies to Successfully Validating Multiplex Molecular Detection Panels for GI Pathogens
- Caitlin Murphy, PhD, University of Nebraska Medical Center
Challenges and Best Practices for the Successful Incorporation of New and Emerging Technologies within a Traditional Laboratory Testing Workflow
- Lauren Turner, PhD, Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
Application of Sequencing within Clinical or Food Testing Laboratories
- Brian Caudle, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Strangers Among Us: Exploring the Lesser Known Arboviruses
Moderator: Sara Vetter, PhD, Minnesota Department of Health
What Does WGS Tell Us About the Past, Present and Future of Eastern Equine Encephalitism in the US?
- Lea Heberlein-Larson, MPH, SM(ASCP), Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories – Tampa
Jamestown Canyon and Powassan Viruses: Emerging Diseases or an Issue of Better Detection?
- Elizabeth Shiffman, MPH, MA, Minnesota Department of Health
The Arboviruses Next Door: Orphaned and Emerging Arboviruses in the US
- Holly Hughes, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Evolution of Data Exchange: An AIMS Informatics Town Hall
Moderator: Patina Zarcone-Gagne, MPH, Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Keith Higgenbotham, Alabama Department of Public Health
- Frank Delin, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
- Dariush Shirazi, Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Michelle Meigs, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Out of the Weeds: The Big Picture of Cannabis Testing
Moderator: Kenneth Aldous, PhD, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
- Gillian Schauer, PhD, CDC Foundation
- Paul Kimsey, PhD, California Department of Public Health
- Olivera Marjanovic, PhD, California Department of Public Health
- Heather Krug, MS, Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment
Plenary Session
Biomonitoring, The Blooming Onion: Growth at the Federal, State, and Organizational Levels
Moderator: Julianne Nassif, MS, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Highlights of CDC’s National Biomonitoring Program
- Mary Mortensen, MD, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The National Biomonitoring Network: Its Structure, Current Developments and Reasons Your Laboratory Biomonitoring Program Should be Involved
- Kenneth Aldous, PhD, National Biomonitoring Network Steering Committee
Biomonitoring Communication Considerations: Reporting, Data Sharing and Policy Initiatives
- Amanda Cosser, MPH, New Hampshire Public Health Laboratories
Four Corners States Biomonitoring Consortium: The Benefits and Challenges of a Multi-state Biomonitoring Program
- Sanwat Chaudhuri, PhD, Utah Public Health Laboratory
Concurrent Sessions
On the Front Lines of Antibiotic Resistance
Moderator: Kimberlee Musser, PhD, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Outbreak of VIM-producing P. aeruginosa in a Long-Term Acute-Care Hospital
- Marie-Claire Rowlinson, PhD D(ABMM), Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories
- Nychie Q. Dotson, MPH, CIC, CPHQ, Florida Bureau of Epidemiology
Concerning Trends in Antibiotic Resistance
- Jean B. Patel, PhD, D(ABMM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
ARLN Testing in an Investigation of CP-CRE in a Pennsylvania Nursing Home
- Dongxiang Xia, MD, PhD, D(ABMM), SV(ASCP), Pennsylvania Department of Health
- Kimberlee Musser, PhD, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
It Takes a Village: Genomic Epidemiology of the Zika Epidemic
Moderator: Joanne Bartkus, PhD, D(ABMM), Minnesota Department of Health
Developing the Partnerships, Exploring the Data and Sharing the Results
- Leah D. Gillis, PhD, MS, HCLD(ABB), Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories – Miami
Genomic Epidemiology Reveals Multiple Introductions and Sustained Transmission of Zika Virus in Florida
- Jason Ladner, PhD, Northern Arizona University
The Many Hats of the Public Health Lab – A Zika Story
- Jennifer Rakeman, PhD, New York City Public Health Laboratory
Evolution of Zika Virus and Novel Approaches Towards Combating its Infection and Associated Congenital Disorders
- Genhong Cheng, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles
Laboratory Response to the Opioid Overdose Crisis
Moderator: Ewa King, PhD, Rhode Island Department of Health
CDC Response to the Opioid Overdose Epidemic in the United States: More Timely, Localized, and Actionable Data
- Grant Baldwin, PhD, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
LRN-C Capacity to Support Local Opioid Emergencies
- Amy Watson, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The Minnesota Drug Overdose and Substance Abuse Pilot Surveillance System (MNDOSA): A Response to the Opioid Crisis
- Paul Moyer, MS, Minnesota Department of Health
Successes and Challenges of Implementing Molecular Techniques in Environmental Microbial Surveillance
Moderator: Sanjib Bhattacharyya, PhD, City of Milwaukee Health Department
- Kaedra Jones, MPH, ICF
- Sharon Nappier, PhD, MSPH, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Yiping Cao, PhD, Source Molecular Corporation
- Joan Rose, PhD, Michigan State University
Concurrent Sessions
Weird Science: Interesting and Unusual Cases in Public Health
Moderator: James Beebe, PhD, D(ABMM), San Luis Obispo Public Health Laboratory
When the Bark is Not Worse than the Bite?
- Anna Strain, PhD, Minnesota Department of Public Health Laboratory
A Royal Mystery in Wisconsin
- Tim Monson, MS, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
Adventures in Discordance
- Anne Gaynor, PhD, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Something’s Fishy on Canal St.
- Scott Hughes, PhD, New York City Public Health Laboratory
Saturday Night Fever
- Shaka Brown, DC Capitol Congress
Adventures in ETOR
Moderator: Eduardo Gonzalez Loumiet, MPA, CPHIMS, Ruvos
New York City’s Journey Away from Paper Requisitions and Towards Electronic Test Ordering System
- Altaf Shaikh and Anna Liddicoat, MPH, New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
10 Years of ETOR – the Florida Experience
- Susanne Crowe, MHA, Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories
Implementing ETOR for Newborn Screening in Georgia
- Arthur Hagar, PhD, HCLD, Georgia Dept of Public Health Laboratory
APHL’s Efforts in Electronic Test Order and Result
-Michelle Meigs, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Moderator: Leah D. Gillis, MS, PhD, HCLD(ABB), Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories - Miami
- Sara Woldehanna, MA, MS, Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Grace Kubin, PhD, Texas Department of State Health Services
- Michael Stevenson, PhD, Idaho Bureau of Laboratories
- Anna Strain, PhD, Minnesota Department of Health
Radiological Response and Readiness: A Federal Perspective
Moderator: Jack Bennett, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Bob Read, Tennessee Department of Health
- Robert Jones, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Sarah Taft, PhD, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- Jennifer Buzzell, MS, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Phil Torretto, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Monday, June 4, 2018
Roundtables
Challenges of Maintaining Post-L-SIP Assessment Quality Improvement Activities
Moderator: - Twila Kunde, MPH, MBA, New Mexico Department of Health
- Sanjib Bhattacharyya, PhD, City of Milwaukee Health Department
- Lorelei Kurimski, MS, Association of Public Health Laboratories
WGS Bioinformatics Solutions for State Public Health Labs
Moderator: Joel Sevinsky, PhD, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment
- Kelly Oakeson, PhD, Utah Public Health Laboratory
- Duncan MacCannell, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Xiong Wang, PhD, Minnesota Department of Health
How Does IGRA Testing Fit into the Public Health Laboratory
Moderators:
- Marie-Claire Rowlinson, PhD, D(ABMM), Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories
- Angela Starks, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Nicole M Green, PhD, D(ABMM), Los Angeles County Public Health Laboratories
- Daphne Ware, PhD, Mississippi Public Health Laboratory
Shaping Workforce Development Initiatives: Learning from an Environmental Scan of Public Health and Clinical Laboratory Communities
Moderator: Reynolds Salerno, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Renee Ned-Sykes, MMSc, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Anja Minnick, MSc, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Plenary Session
Labs, Camera, Action! Public Health Storytelling for Podcasts, Film and News Media
Moderator: Michelle Forman, Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Sanden Totten, American Public Media's Brains On! podcast
- Michelle Faust, Southern California Public Radio
- Rick Loverd, National Academy of Sciences
Plenary Session
Dr. Katherine Kelley Distinguished Lecture
Activism and Stalemate: How the Threat of Antibiotic Resistance Turned the US Public Against Farm Antibiotic Use
Moderator: Ewa King, PhD, Rhode Island Department of Health
- Maryn McKenna, journalist and author of Big Chicken, Super Bug and Beating Back the Devil
Concurrent Sessions
Laboratory Response to Hepatitis Outbreak: Detection and Sequencing Aids Remediation Effort
Moderator: Brett Austin, MA, PHM, San Diego County Health and Human Services
- Marty Soehnlen, PhD, MPH, Michigan Department of Health and Human Services
- Sumathi Ramachandran, MS, MPH, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Jill Hacker, PhD, California Department of Public Health
- Syreeta Steele, PHM, PhD, San Diego County Health and Human Services
- Tracy Basler, San Diego County Health and Human Services
The ABC's of ISO 17025: (A)ccreditation, (B)est Practices, (C)osts to Implement and Sustain
Moderator: Denise Toney, PhD, HCLD(ABB), Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
FDA Goals for FSMA and ISO Accreditation for Food Testing Labs
- Terri McConnell, MS, US Food and Drug Administration
Impact of ISO Accreditation on State Food Testing Labs and the Role of Data Acceptance Criteria
- Yvonne Salfinger, MS, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Strategies for Obtaining and Sustaining ISO 17025 Accreditation: The Process, Preparing Your Lab, Implementation Best Practices, Quality Management Tracking, Funding and So Much More
- Cynthia Mangione, New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets
ISO Lab Mentorship Program – Benefits of Mentor/Mentee Collaborations
- Brenda Jackson, MS, North Carolina Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
- Kitty Prapayotin-Riveros, Connecticut Agriculture Experiment Station
Costs Associated with Accreditation: Laboratory Survey
- Robyn Randolph, MS, Association of Public Health Laboratories
The Next Generation of QA/QC with Next Generation Sequencing
Moderator: Collette Fitzgerald, PhD, Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
- Lauren Turner, PhD, Virginia Division of Consolidated Laboratory Services
- Kimberlee Musser, PhD, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
- Atis Muehlenbachs, MD, Center for Disease Control and Prevention
Public Health Environmental Laboratories' Challenges and Opportunities for Water Quality
Moderator: Michael Pentella, PhD, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
- James Schauer, PhD, PE, MBA, Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
- John Griffith, PhD, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project
- Dustin May, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
- Junesoo Park, PhD, California Environmental Protection Agency
Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Roundtables
Podcasting: Telling the Public Health Laboratory's
Moderators:
- Amanda Hughes, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
- Kate Wainwright, PhD, D(ABMM), HCLD (ABB), Indiana State Department of Health
- Emerging Leader Program Cohort 10
Is Your Food Making You Sick? Detecting and Regulating Allergens in Food
Moderator: - Cynthia Mangione, New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets
- Robert Sheridan, New York State Department of Agriculture & Markets
- Joseph Baumert, PhD, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Partnering Together to Solve Challenges Around Next Generation Sequencing (NGS)
- Lucy DesJardin, PhD, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
- Sandra Smole, PhD, William A. Hinton State Laboratory Institute (MA)
Risky Business: The Trials and Tribulations of Educating Clinical Partners on Biosafety and Biorisk Management
Moderator: Randal Fowler, PhD, D(ABMM), Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention
- Drew Fayram, MS, State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
- Erin Bowles, MT(ASCP), Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
- Robert Nickla, M(ASCP), Oregon State Public Health Laboratory
Concurrent Sessions
Biosafety: Today and Tomorrow
Moderator: Marian Downey, RBP, CBSP, SM(NRCM), ABSA International
Changing Biosafety Practices
- Michael A. Pentella, PhD, D(ABMM), State Hygienic Laboratory at the University of Iowa
Advancing Biosafety Across the US Clinical Laboratory Community
- Reynolds M. Salerno, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Working with Clinical Laboratories to Improve Biosafety
- Erin Bowles, MT(ASCP), Wisconsin State Laboratory of Hygiene
The Evolving Analysis of Vaccine Preventable Outbreaks and their Causative Agents
Moderator: Kirsten St. George, PhD, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
The Bacterial Meningitis Genome Analysis Platform for Surveillance
- Anna Strain, Virology Supervisor/VPD Reference Center Coordinator
Enhanced Analysis of Mumps Outbreaks with Next Generation/Whole Genome Sequence Analysis
- Kirstin St. George, PhD, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
Whole Genome MLST for Strain Differentiation and Cluster Analysis of Bordetella pertussis
- Michael Weigand, PhD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Molecular Clade Analysis and the Discrimination of Vaccine Strain from Wild Type Virus in CNS and Non-CNS VZV Disease
- Sara Griesemer, MS, Wadsworth Center, New York State Department of Health
The Laboratory Twinning Experience: Creating Connections Between US and International Public Health Laboratories
Moderator: Lucy Maryogo-Robinson, MPH, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Overview of the Public Health Institute and the Lab’s Role
- Sherrie Staley, MPH, Association of Public Health Laboratories
Experience on the Ground, Highlighting Uganda’s Achievements from Twinning
- Steven Aisu, Uganda Ministry of Health
What Does it Take for Twinning to Take Place: The Uganda Experience
- Dave Mills, PhD, New Mexico Scientific Laboratory Division (retired)
The Utah-Barbados Experience
- Patrick Luedtke, MD, MPH, Lane County (OR) Department of Health & Human Services
Risk Communication When Cyanotoxin Response Changes from Emergent to Monitoring
Moderator: Henry Leibovitz, PhD, Rhode Island Department of Health
- Nikola Dzamov, PhD, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency
- Sandhya Parishionikar, PhD, US Environmental Protection Agency
- Kacee Deener, MPH, US Environmental Protection Agency
Plenary Session
Responding to Natural Disasters: Hurricane
Moderator: Tyler Wolford, MS, Association of Public Health Laboratories
- Andrew Cannons, PhD, Florida Bureau of Public Health Laboratories- Tampa
- Eduardo O’Neill La Luz, LCDR, PhD, MS, MPH, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Martina Q. McGarvey, DM, PA DEP Bureau of Laboratories
- Larry Seigler, PhD, Houston Public Health Laboratory