BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.2//EN TZID:America/Chicago X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/Chicago BEGIN:VEVENT UID:69@fbidallascaaa.org DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20210720T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20210720T190000 DTSTAMP:20210628T234148Z URL:https://www.fbidallascaaa.org/events/bioterrorism-preparedness-webinar / SUMMARY:Bioterrorism Preparedness Webinar DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 20\, 2021 from 6pm to 7pm for a presentation from Dr. Mike Miller regarding Bioterrorism Preparedness.\n Registration is open and will close Tuesday\, July 20 at 10am. The Zoom li nk will be included in your booking confirmation and reminder emails.  Al so\, you must log into Zoom with your membership name or you will not be e ntered into the event.\nYou must be logged into our website to register fo r the event.  After logging in\, please click on the Events tab at the to p.\nIf you have trouble logging into our site\, please use the Contact Us form to request assistance.\nAbout our speaker:\n\n\n\nDr. J. Michael (M ike) Miller retired from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (C DC) in 2011 after 38 years of government service.  He was the Associate D irector for Science of the National Center for Zoonotic\, Vector-borne\, a nd Enteric Diseases.  Dr. Miller did his undergraduate work at Northweste rn State University in Louisiana and completed his Graduate work in 1976 a t the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio after three years in the Army during the Vietnam war.\n\n \;\n\nAt the CDC\, Dr. Miller completed ASM’s Postdoctoral Residency in Medical and Public Heal th Microbiology and subsequently spent 12 years in the Division of Trainin g\, traveling and teaching diagnostic microbiology around the world. Then for 12 years he directed the reference laboratories for the staphylococci\ , most of the Enterobacteriaceae\, and the anaerobes in addition to direct ing laboratories in molecular epidemiology\, disinfection and sterilizatio n\, dialysis related diseases\, biofilms in medicine and public health\, a ntimicrobial testing and resistance mechanisms\, and environmental microbi ology.  For five years he oversaw the operations of the National Laborato ry Response Network (LRN) for bioterrorism and the Rapid Response and Adva nced Technology laboratory that develops and deploys rapid molecular tests for select agent detection.   He has served on the editorial board of C linical Microbiology Reviews and the Journal of Clinical Microbiology and is an invited reviewer for several other journals.   He has served as th e CDC corporate delegate to the Clinical Laboratory Standards Institute (f ormerly NCCLS)  and a former member of the Area Committee for Microbiolog y.  He has served as Chair of Division C (Clinical Microbiology) of the A merican Society for Microbiology and as the Divisional Group I Representat ive that oversees 5 Divisions within ASM. In 2003 he was awarded the covet ed bioMerieux-Sonnenwirth Award for leadership in clinical\, ASM’s highe st award for a clinical microbiologist and served two terms as the Dean of the American College of Microbiology\, the certification and accrediting arm of the American Academy of Microbiology of ASM.  He is a former membe r of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Microbiology.  He is the recipient of the 2009 ASM Founders Distinguished Service Award\, th e 2010 recipient of the National Gen-Probe Joseph Public Health Award\, an d the 2012 Illinois Society for Microbiology Pasteur Award.\n\n \;\n\n Dr. Miller is a Diplomate of the American Board of Medical Microbiology\, a Fellow of the American Academy of Microbiology\, and holds a Clinical La boratory Director License in Georgia and Microbiology Laboratory Director License in New York and New Jersey.   His area of expertise is in labora tory diagnosis of infectious diseases and in microbiology quality assuranc e and specimen management.  He is an internationally known speaker on top ics in Clinical Microbiology and clinically relevant specimen management.   Dr. Miller is the author of two books\, the editor of two\, has contrib uted chapters in ten published texts\, and has over 100 journal articles i n peer-reviewed publications.  In addition\, he has authored 10 CDC publi cations and videotapes that are used worldwide as laboratory standards in microbiology. LOCATION:https://zoom.us/j/8254566062?pwd=RThoUEx6dUFLVHhqbmpQbkUzMmZZZz09 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20210314T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR