26th Annual Bug Day October 18, 2022

THIS EVENT IS PRESENTED DIGITALLY 

Bug Day is available to stream on YouTube

The link to join is https://youtu.be/ZekcUvlbMp0

Important Event Information:

The link to connect to the live Bug Day will be emailed to registered participants 24 hours prior to event date.

This event will be recorded and available for future viewing on YouTube. Note: This recording is eligible for non-certified Mainpro+ credits and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) Section 2: Self-Learning credits. These are self-reporting through the respective Colleges.

** Registrations are not accepted post-event**

Description:

This year is the 26th anniversary of Bug Day. This year will focus on a wrap up of concepts pertaining to COVID and COVID vaccination as well as basic principles in surveillance, specifically for tuberculosis and other antimicrobial resistant pathogens observed in Canada. In addition, the program’s themes also focus on the past and future of the Canadian Healthcare System. In addition, suggestions from the program evaluation from previous years were reviewed to ensure that Bug Day 2022 targeted some, if not all of the suggestions keeping in mind the vision for this program.

24 hours before event date – an email containing a YouTube connection link will be sent to all who have pre-registered for this event.

Overall Program Objectives:

By attending this program, the attendee will be able to:

• State the principles required for the prevention of transmission of communicable agents in healthcare facilities and in the community such as Mycobacterium tuberculosis, COVID-19 and the Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
• State how the determinants of health influence a host’s risk for infection.
• State how to modify risk factors for infection acquisition.

Agenda:

7:55  Introduction to Bug Day/Grand Rounds  – John Embil, MD

8:00  Medical Grand Rounds: Tuberculosis Surveillance and Management: Looking into the Future – Zulma Rueda, MD

9:00  Monkeypox:  Everything You Need to Know in 15 Minutes – Darrell Tan, MD PhD

9:15  COVID Round up –  Brent Roussin, MD

9:30 How many genomes does it take to change an pandemic?”  – Gordon Jolly, PhD

9:45 Q & A

10:00 Break

10:15  COVID-19 and Solid Organ Transplant Recipients  – Armelle Perez Cortes Villalobos, MD

10:30 The History of the Canadian Healthcare System  – Brian Postl, MD

10:45 The Future of Healthcare in Canada  – Ronan Segrave, MSc

11:00 Q & A

11:15  Canadian Nosocomial Infection Surveillance Program: Keeping an Eye on Canada’s Germs –  Kelly Choi MSc, and Linda Pelude, MSc

11:30  Canadian Rates of Antimicrobial Resistant Pathogens –  Anada Silva, MSc and Jessica Bartoszko PhD 

1145  COVID-19 Trends during Waves 1-????  – Robyn Mitchell, MSc and Joelle Cayen, BSc 

12:00 Q & A

1215   Stretch Break

12:45 Pediatric COVID Vaccination One Year Later  – Jared Bullard, MD

1:00   Leading with Courage through Crisis  – Stephen de Groot, MSW

1:15  Waste Water Surveillance for COVID-19  – Anil Nichani, PhD

1:30  Q & A

1:45  Vaccine Hesitancy  – Sergio Fanella, MD

2:00  Update on Tuberculosis Infection and Preventative Therapy –  Rachel Dwilow, MD

2:15  Germ Phobia: Too Much of a Good Thing –  Laine Torgrud, PhD

230 Q & A

2:45   Break

3:00  Pre-Exposure Prophylaxis for Infection with the Human Immunodeficiency Virus: Everything you Need to Know – Lauren MacKenzie, MD

3:15  The Pandemic Acid Test: What We’ve Learned About How to Improve the Health Research System  – David Patrick, MD

3:30  Supervised Injection Spaces – Why Manitoba Needs Some – Pierre Plourde, MD

3:45  Q & A

4:00  Closing Remarks

Download a Printable Bug Day Agenda 2022

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Questions about this event please contact Carolyn Garlinski CDGarlinski@hsc.mb.ca

Credits:

This event was co-developed with the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba and was planned to achieve scientific integrity, objectivity and balance.
This one-credit-per-hour Group Learning program meets the certification criteria of the College of Family Physicians of Canada and has been approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for up to 7.0 Mainpro+ credits.

This event is an Accredited Group Learning Activity (Section 1) as defined by the Maintenance of Certification Program of The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, and approved by the CPD Medicine Program, University of Manitoba for a maximum of 7.0 hours.

Participants should only claim credit for the actual number of hours attended.
The University of Manitoba CPD Medicine Program is fully accredited by the Committee on Accreditation of Continuing Medical Education (CACME).