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WEHA Spring Educational Conference
Environmental and Public Health Puzzles: Don't Be Fooled! 

Paper copies of presentations were NOT distributed at the conference.  Most of the handouts for the conference, by session are located on this website.  Please download or print out copies of handouts from this website, if desired. 

Presentations submitted by speakers for attendees to download are shown below in blue.  Click the presentation name to download a copy of that presentation.  All presentations are in PDF format files.


   

Tuesday April 1, 2008

 

8:45am-9:00am

 

Opening Remarks
Nancy Eggleston - Staff Supervisor, Wood County Health Dept.

 


9:00am-10:15am

 

Events Caused by Misue of Common Products
Speakers: Cathy Smith & Lorna Will - WI Poison Center


10:30am-11:30am


Investigation, Diagnosis and Follow-up Vector-borne Events
Speaker: Jennifer Meece - Director of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation Core Laboratory

 1:15pm - 2:15pm


Investigation, Diagnosis and Follow-up of a Food-borne Outbreak -
SW Wisconsin Response to a Chicken Pot Pie Recall

Speakers: Rachel Klos - DPH Communicable Disease Epidemiology Section 
Karen Manner - DATCP Food and Dairy Microbiologist,
Derek Moore - Coulee Region Public Health Consortium Epidemiologist
Jennifer Rombalski - Buffalo County Health Officer

 2:15pm - 3:00pm


Investigation of an Outbreak in a School System in SE Wisconsin
Speakers: Michele Breheim - City of Racine Health Dept. Epidemiologist/Prepardeness Coordinator
Marcia J. Fernholz -City of Racine Health Dept. Director
of Environmental Health
Rachel Klos
 - DPH Communicable Disease Epidemiology Section 

 3:20pm - 3:50pm


Identification of Once-Portioned Foods
Speaker: Arthur Ness - DACTP Food Scientist/Technical Specialist

 

 3:50pm - 5:00pm


Rabies - What You Need to Know from DHFS and DATCP
Speakers: Yvonne Bellay - DACTP State Humane Officer and
Staff Epidemiologist 
Jim Kazmierczak - DHFS State Public Health Veterinarian

   
 

 Wednesday April 2, 2008

   
 8:35am - 9:35am

 Hospital vs Community Acquired MRSA and Environmental Cleanup Needed
Speakers: Gwen Borlaug - DPH Communicable Disease Epidemiologist
Mary Jo Knobloch - Marshfield Clinic
Amanda Ostrowski - Marathon County Health Dept. Chronic Disease Prevention Health Educator

 10:15am - 11:45am


A Mystery Investigation in Northeastern Wisconsin
Speakers: Laurel Braatz - DNR Drinking Water & Groundwater Specialist
Dennis Hibray - DPH NE Regional Director
Rhonda Kolberg - Door County Public Health Dept. Director/Health Officer
William Schuster - Door County Soil & Water Conservation Dept. Conservationist/Deptartment Head

 

 

 

 

 

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