Get Smart: Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance through Community Action
Tuesday, October 21, 2008; 12:00-1:00pm (Pacific)
Description
Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem that can result in treatment failure, higher morbidity and mortality, and increased healthcare costs. CDC has a campaign called Get Smart: Know When Antibiotics Work to address the factors that contribute to inappropriate antimicrobial use. The goals of the program are to promote appropriate prescribing among providers, decrease public demand for antibiotics, and promote adherence. This online, interactive session will show how public health practitioners can take action at the community level.
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Presenters
Lauri Hicks, DO is a medical epidemiologist in the Respiratory Diseases Branch, National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases, CDC. Dr. Hicks completed her internal medicine residency and chief medicine residency at the University of Connecticut. This was followed by a 2-year position as an EIS officer in the Respiratory Diseases Branch and, more recently, a fellowship in Infectious Diseases at Brown University. Dr. Hicks returned to CDC to lead Legionella surveillance activities, coordinate respiratory outbreak response for Legionella and other respiratory pathogens, and serve as the Medical Director for CDC’s Get Smart program.
Darcia D. Johnson has been a program officer with the Get Smart campaign since 2004. In this capacity she serves as a liaison between public and private sector partners and CDC/Get Smart. She organizes mechanisms for distributing the campaign’s message to diverse audiences and works with varied media outlets to promote campaign activities such as Get Smart About Antibiotics Week. Prior to CDC she served as a project director for California’s Butte County office of Education, managing a multi-faceted, multi-year grant which funded an effort focused on improving the health and wellness of an economically challenged, culturally diverse community. In this role she focused on developing community capacity through strategically planned health education and community revitalization activities. Darcia earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism/Public Relations from California State University, Chico in 1999.
Alison Patti, MPH, CHES is a Health Communication Specialist with the Division of Bacterial Diseases and Program Manager for the Get Smart campaign. She coordinates the design and implementation of campaign activities and helps establish partnerships with external and internal stakeholders. Since 2001, she has provided support and consultation to CDC staff and state program staff in the planning, implementation and evaluation of community-based interventions. Alison received a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Tufts University and a Master’s in Public Health in Behavioral Sciences and Health Education from the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University.
Karen Werner, PhD, CHES, is the program evaluation officer of the Get Smart campaign. She provides evaluation support for the CDC funded health department programs and conducts evaluations of campaign activities. Prior to her position at CDC, Karen was awarded a fellowship from the Department of Human Studies, where she taught undergraduate health education classes and assisted faculty on a variety of health promotion interventions. Karen completed her doctorate in Health Education/Health Promotion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, a degree program jointly administered by UAB Schools of Education and Public Health and UA College of Human Environmental Sciences. Her dissertation entitled "Developing an Instrument to Assess Alabama Physicians' Clinical Care Practices Related to Pediatric Obesity" was completed in May 2007. During her assistantship at UAB Center for Educational Accountability, Karen gained hands-on experience in educational and public health program evaluation.
Learner Objectives
By the end of this session participants will be able to:
- Describe the factors that influence antimicrobial resistance.
- Explain why it is important to educate both providers and patients about appropriate antimicrobial use.
- Discuss the steps that can be taken in the community to prevent inappropriate antibiotic use.
Target Audience
This session would be appropriate for the following audiences:
- Local and state public health practitioners
- Public health nurses
- Clinicians, particularly primary or infectious diseases providers
Slides and Related Resources
Session Archive
Play the recorded presentation [17 MB]
