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Overview

For 30 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has monitored antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea trends to help ensure that the recommended drug treatment for gonorrhea is working. The CDC reports that 30% of new gonorrhea infections each year are resistant to at least one drug. Indiana is one of eight states funded by the CDC’s Strengthening U.S. Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG) project to enhance domestic gonorrhea surveillance and infrastructure and build capacity for rapid detection and response to resistant gonorrhea.

Topics

With cases of gonorrhea increasing at both the state and national level and international concerns around antimicrobial resistance, please join us to discuss:

• STD treatment guidelines and best practices for patients and partners diagnosed with gonorrhea
• International, national, and local gonorrhea resistance data
• Epidemiology of cases with low and high-level resistance to gonorrhea treatment
• Indiana’s frontline role in combatting antibiotic-resistant gonorrhea

Presenters

Greta Anschuetz is the Director for STD Services within the Division of HIV, STD and TB Services at the New Jersey Department of Health (NJDOH) and chair for the Board of Directors for the National Coalition of STD Directors. In her role at the NJDOH, Greta is responsible for all grants and budget management for STD as well as collaborating with the HIV Program’s grants. Her staff are responsible for all partner services activities including HIV Partner Services and linkage to care. She is an epidemiologist by training and a data geek!

Vicki Wilkey, ANP has been working as an adult nurse practitioner in STDs and HIV/AIDS since the beginning of the AIDS epidemic. She is a Nurse Practitioner with Community Physicians Network since 1991. She has worked in the hospital and outpatient clinic as well as research areas of HIV.

Jamie Black is a Hoosier native who began her career in public health working with non-profit organizations and local government agencies in disaster preparedness and epidemiology. She completed her MPH in Epidemiology at SUNY Downstate School of Public Health in Brooklyn, NY, and soon after joined Indiana’s Strengthening the U.S. Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG) team at the Indiana State Department of Health as the project’s Epidemiology Coordinator. She holds a B.S. in Genetic Biology from Purdue University, with a minor in Anthropology.

Registration

Registration for this webinar is free for participants and/or grantees of the following programs: Indiana State Department of Health (ISDH) Chlamydia and Gonorrhea Screening Program, the ISDH Division of HIV/STD/Viral Hepatitis, and partners to Indiana’s Strengthening U.S. Response to Resistant Gonorrhea (SURRG) Project.

Registration for this webinar is $25 for all other registrants.

Registration open through 6/19/2019 10:59 PM Central Time (US & Canada)

Audience

Advanced practice nurses, licensed physicians, physician assistants, disease intervention specialists, local health department staff, and other health care professionals.

Nursing Contact Hours

A total of 1.0 nursing contact hours are available for this event.

Health Care Education and Training, Inc. is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the Ohio Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. (OBN-001-91) (OH-410, 12/1/2018)