3/22 BUMC Provost Research Seminar: Zika Virus
Tuesday, March 22, 3-5 p.m., Hiebert Lounge
Open to faculty, students and staff
Welcome
Karen H. Antman, MD
BUSM Dean and BUMC Provost
Ronald B. Corley, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Microbiology, BUSM
Director, National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laboratories
Basic Virology
Rachel Fearns, PhD
Associate Professor of Microbiology, BUSM
“Zika Virus Biology: Genetic and Phenotypic Differences Between Old World and New World Zika Virus Strains”
What We Know Clinically
Robin Ingalls, MD
Associate Professor, Medicine and Microbiology, BUSM
Topic: TBD
Athanasios I. Zavras, DDS, DMD, DScM
Professor and Chair, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, GSDM
“Zika Virus Related Concerns in Dentistry (salivary transmission of the virus)”
Public Health Aspects
Davidson Hamer, MD
Professor, Global Health, BUSPH
Professor, Medicine, BUSM
“Travel-associated Zika Virus Infection: Preliminary GeoSentinel Network Results”
Donald M. Thea, MD, MSc
Professor, Department of Global Health, BUSPH
Director, Center for Global Health and Development, BUSPH
Director, MD/MPH Program
“Zika – Epidemiology, Transmission and Population Risk”
Presentations followed by panel discussion with additional experts.