86 - Wastewater Analysis: From Surveillance to Discovery

Thursday, October 12, 2023

3:15 PM – 4:30 PM US ET

Location: 210 ABC

All relevant financial disclosures have been mitigated.

Moderator(s)

Dean Winslow, MD

Professor of Medicine
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, United States
Patricia (Trish) Simner, PhD, D(ABMM)

Clinical Microbiologist/Associate Professor
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, MA, United States

Faculty(s)

Alexandria Boehm, MS PhD (she/her/hers)

Professor
Stanford University
Stanford, CA, United States

Slides
Amy Kirby, PhD MPH

National Wastewater Surveillance System Lead
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, United States

Slides
Ashley Styczynski, MD, MPH (she/her/hers)

Medical officer
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, GA, United States

Slides

Disclosure(s):

Dean L. Winslow, MD: No financial relationships to disclose

Patricia (Trish) Simner, PhD, D(ABMM): Affinity Biosensors: Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); BD Diagnostics: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Biomerieux: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Entasis: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); GeneCapture: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); Merck: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing); OpGen Diagnostics Inc: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Qiagen Sciences Inc: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing), Grant/Research Support (Ongoing); Shionogi Inc: Advisor/Consultant (Ongoing)

CME Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™
MOC Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of MOC Credit
CNE Credits: Maximum of 1.25 hours of ANCC Credit
ACPE Credits: ACPE 1.25 knowledge-based contact hours of pharmacy CE
ACPE Number: JA0007082-0000-23-002-L01-P

Learning Objectives:

At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:

explain the science behind wastewater surveillance;
describe the use of wastewater surveillance to detect and quantify pathogens in communities;
use wastewater surveillance to detect and quantify antimicrobial resistance;
apply wastewater surveillance technology to pathogen detection in low/middle income countries

Presentations:

3:15 PM – 3:40 PM US ET

Wastewater Insights Into Viral Disease Circulation in Communities: Lessons From WastewaterSCAN
Speaker: Alexandria Boehm, MS PhD (she/her/hers) – Stanford University
3:40 PM – 4:05 PM US ET

Application of Wastewater Analysis to Detection of Novel Pathogens and Data Analysis
Speaker: Amy E. Kirby, PhD MPH – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4:05 PM – 4:30 PM US ET

Wastewater Surveillance to Detect Antimicrobial Resistance in LMICs: Possibilities and Pitfalls
Speaker: Ashley R. Styczynski, MD, MPH (she/her/hers) – Centers for Disease Control and Prevention