Legionnaires’
Disease
Update on Diagnosis, Treatment, Microbiology, Environmental
Monitoring, and Disinfection
A 90-Minute Internet Seminar...Right in
Your Home or Office
Presented by Janet Stout, PhD
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Recording on CD, Item 611cd
Enhance
your credentials and competence, and learn how to reduce your risk, without even leaving your office!
Just put
the CD in your computer and
watch the slide show while listening to
the instructor.
Course
description
The instructor will cover facts
about Legionnaires' disease--symptoms,
diagnosis, incidence, modes of transmission, and microbiology--and give an
overview of environmental monitoring, guidelines, and domestic water
disinfection.
About
the Instructor
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Janet
E. Stout, PhD, is Director of the Special Pathogens Laboratory at the VA
Medical Center in Pittsburgh (USA) and a Research Assistant Professor at
the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. She earned her BS in
Biology from Clarion (Pennsylvania) State College and her Masters and
Ph.D. degrees in Microbiology from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Stout
has significant experience in Legionella detection and
disinfection. Recent studies have involved eradication of legionellae from
hospital water systems by copper-silver ionization and chlorine
dioxide and molecular
epidemiology of Legionnaires' disease. She is the author of three book
chapters on Legionnaires' disease and more than 40 peer-reviewed papers,
including papers published in The New England Journal of Medicine, Journal
of the American Medical Association, Journal of Clinical
Microbiology, the Journal of Infectious Diseases,
and the Journal of the American Water Works Association.
Dr. Stout is a member of the American Society for Microbiology, Society
for Healthcare Epidemiology of American, and ASHRAE’s Water
Treatment Committee.
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view because we have no affiliation with suppliers or manufacturers.
Continuing
education units
(CEUs)
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The live
course qualifies for 0.15
CEUs according to the guidelines set forth by the International Association
for Continuing Education and Training (IACET). Many
licensing boards and professional societies may grant continuing education
credit for this seminar toward specific credential requirements if you
submit the course outline and your Certificate. For example, our
face-to-face courses qualifiy for continuing education with the following
organizations: American
Board of Industrial Hygiene (ABIH), Association
of Water Technologies (AWT) toward CWT
recertification, American
Hospital Association (AHA) toward Certified Healthcare Facility Manager (CHFM)
certification renewal, and the American Society of Plumbing Engineers (ASPE).
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