OPRW 2018: Outbreak Communications

Published: Sept. 4, 2018, 1:18 p.m.

"Outbreak Communications," produced by the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), discusses lessons learned in communicating with healthcare personnel, patients, and others during recent infectious diseases outbreaks. Moderator: Judith Guzman-Cottrill,DO, Professor of Pediatrics at Oregon Health & Science University and consultant for the Oregon Health Authority’s HAI Program, where she serves as the Medical Director for Ebola and Emerging Pathogen Preparedness. Speaker: Zachary Rubin, MD, Specialist in Infectious Diseases and Medical Director of Clinical Epidemiology and Infection Prevention at the University of California, Los Angeles. Before coming to UCLA in 2006, he was a guest researcher at the CDC in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion for the last 2 years of his ID fellowship at Emory.