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2013 National TB Conference Abstract Listing Poster Number Presenter’s Name Title 1 Shama Ahuja, PhD, MPH New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Possible Transmission of a New TB Strain in a New York City Hospital Emergency Department 2 Sheanne Allen Washington State Department of Health Changes in the TB Care System during the Economic Downturn in Washington State, 2009-2013 3 Amy Anderson, RN, BSN Bethlehem Health Bureau Increasing Treatment Completion of LTBI in High-Risk International University Students 4 Heidi Behm Oregon Health Authority TB Screening in Oregon Healthcare Workers: Coming to Consensus 5 Sarah Burkholder Indiana State Department of Health Implications of Decreased Funding for Domestic TB Programs: NTCA Survey Findings 6 Joseph Burzynski New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Can New York City Meet the National Target for TB Treatment Completion by 2015? 7 Samuel Caballero, MA Heartland National TB Center Mobilizing to Increase TB Community Awareness and Advocacy 8 Peter Cegielski, MD Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Eliminating TB in the U.S. One Neighborhood at a Time 9 Erick Cortes, MPH New Jersey Department of Health Discordant Drug Susceptibility Results and the Role of Molecular Drug Susceptibility Testing When Ruling Out MDR-TB 10 Kendra Cuffe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention TB Follow-Up Examination for Immigrants and Refugees who Relocated to the U.S. with TB Conditions, 2011 11 Kendra Cuffe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention U.S. Destinations of Immigrants and Refugees Classified with Suspect TB during Overseas Medical Screening, 2011-2012 12 Molly Dowling, MPH, CHES Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Evaluating the Revised CDC TB Program Managers’ Course 13 James Elkins Texas Center for Infectious Disease Texas Center for Infectious Diseases (TCID): 2013 1 Poster Number Presenter’s Name Title 14 Nicole Evert Texas Department of State Health Services TB and Homelessness in Texas, 2002-2011 15 Diana Fortune New Mexico Department of Health Correctional Signposts for Success: TB at the Crossroads 16 Karen Galanowsky, RN, MPH New Jersey Department of Health Scott Heysell, MD, MPH University of Virginia Ease of Implementing the INH/RPT Regimen 18 Andrew Hill Centers for Disease Control and Prevention TB in the U.S., 1993-2012: Changing Trends and Averted Cases 19 Cheryl Kearns, MPH New York State Department of Health Morbidity Reports in an Electronic World: Do They Still Work? 20 David Maggio Georgia Department of Public Health The Double-edged Sword: Diabetes Mellitus and TB in Georgia, 2009-2011 21 Joan Mangan, PhD, MST Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Development of Latent TB Infection Treatment Fact Sheets to Educate Patients to Recognize and Respond to Signs of Possible Adverse Events 22 Ruth Moro, MD, MPH Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Drug-Associated Reactions (DAR) among Persons Receiving the 3-Month Regimen of Rifapentine Plus INH for Treatment of LTBI 23 Ellen Murray, BSN, RN Southeastern National TB Center Restricted Travel ≠ Restricted Training: Using Video Conferencing to Provide TB Training 24 William Murtaugh Association of Public Health Laboratories Public Health Laboratory Expansion of NAAT for Detection and Drug Resistance Determination of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Long-Term Impact and Sustainability 25 Diana Nilsen, MD New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Maintaining Continuity of TB Care in the Aftermath of “Hurricane Sandy” 26 Nydia Palacios Houston Department of Health and Human Services TB Laboratory Tests: An Introduction and Interactive Guide 27 Andrea Palmer, MA Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Assessing the Success of a Local Level TB Surveillance Data Quality Training 28 Lindsay Pappas Lexington-Fayette County Health Department Return on Investment: Public Health Funding Reductions Threaten TB Control Efforts among Foreign Born 29 Naveen Patil, MD, MHSA, MA Arkansas Department of Health Implementation of the 12-Dose Weekly INH plus Rifapentine Regimen for Treatment of LTBI in Arkansas: A Preliminary Report on Adverse Events 30 Naveen Patil, MD, MHSA, MA Arkansas Department of Health Arkansas TB Control Program: Looking to the Future 17 Early Therapeutic Drug Monitoring for INH and RIF among Diabetics with Newly-Diagnosed TB in Virginia 2 Poster Number Presenter’s Name Title 31 Antoine Perrymon, MPH Georgia Department of Public Health Investigation of the Decline in Number of Reported TB Cases: Georgia, 2011 32 Nicole Richardson-Smith Centers for Disease Control and Prevention TB Personal Stories Pilot Project 33 Frank Romano, MPH New Jersey Department of Health Baseline Analysis of Documented Sputum Culture Conversion and Duration of Treatment in New Jersey, 2004-2010 34 James Sederberg Curry International TB Center Services Agency Identifying Common Questions about LTBI Treatment for the Development of a Live “Ask the Experts” Webinar Persons in California, 2000-2009 35 Neha Shah California Department of Public Health TB Treatment Outcomes among Individuals Born in Mexico and Central America Compared with Other Foreign-Born 36 Karen Simpson Southeastern National TB Center Hepatotoxicity of TB Drugs in the Elderly 37 Terri Simpson University of Washington School of Nursing Public Health A Description of Culture-Confirmed TB Cases with False-Negative Interferon-Gamma Release Assay Results in Washington State 38 Lynn Sosa, MD Connecticut Department of Public Health Use of 12-Dose INH and Rifapentine for the Treatment of LTBI in Connecticut 39 Cortney Stafford Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Model Performance Evaluation Program: A Continued Effort to Ensure Accurate Drug Susceptibility Testing for Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex 40 Deborah Staley, RN, MPH Virginia Department of Health Failure to Convert or Failure to Collect: An Analysis of Sputum Conversion in Virginia 41 Parangkush Subedi Philadelphia Department of Health Global Health in Philadelphia: The Philadelphia Refugee Health Collaborative 42 Dean Tsukayama Hennepin County Public Health Clinic Operation Red Snapper: Contact Investigation in the Homeless of Minneapolis 43 Dean Tsukayama Hennepin County Public Health Clinic Time to Negative Sputum Cultures in Pulmonary TB 44 Frances Tyrrell Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Aggregate Report of Laboratory Data for CDC TB Elimination Cooperative Agreement (CoAg) 45 Risa Webb Mississippi State Department of Health False Positive QuantiFERON Gold In-Tube Assays in HIV Patients 46 Risa Webb Mississippi State Department of Health Successful Use of 3HP for LTBI in a Statewide TB Program 47 Mark Wolman NJMS Global TB Institute A Congregate Setting Contact Investigation and the Insufficient Evidence for a Rush to Judgment 48 Ed Zuroweste, MD Migrant Clinicians Network TBNET – TB Treatment Completion on a Global Scale 3