HCANYS Emerging Infectious Diseases, Novel & High-Risk Infection in the Home & Community Based Services Population: An Overview

This is the first in a sequence of five webinars that will address emerging infectious disease or novel influenza outbreak planning for a home care audience. The focus of this initial webinar is on the identification of these diseases, such as H5N1 and respiratory tract pathogens (Influenza, COVID, RSV) and their associated etiology, background and key facts, prevalence, and implications for the home and community-based services population.

While participants are encouraged to attend the full series, registration is accepted for individual webinars as well.

This and future webinars in this series are offered at no cost through a grant from the Administration of Strategic Preparedness and Response, administered by the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Office of Emergency Preparedness and Response (OEPR).

Presenter:
Teresa Lubowski completed a B.S. degree in Pharmacy at the Albany College of Pharmacy, a Pharm D. degree at the University of New York at Buffalo and a 2-year research/antibiotic stewardship fellowship in infectious diseases at the Hartford Hospital in Connecticut. Dr. Lubowski has broad professional pharmacy experience including institutional and outpatient antibiotic stewardship, academic teaching, research, and administrative experience, and extensive work in Quality Improvement. She is the Lead for the Patient Safety Clinical Aim, Director Quality Improvement and Medication Safety and consultant for the CMS Quality Improvement initiative for IPRO.