Provincial CKD-TB Screening Program: epidemiological impact, safety, and provincial uptake - December 3, 2019 Grand Rounds

Talk summary: In 2012, BC began rolling out a province-wide latent TB screening program aimed at systematically screening all people initiating chronic dialysis with a combination of a risk assessment questionnaire, a chest X-ray, and an interferon-gamma release assay (IGRA), and treating when appropriate. Dr. Jay Johnston and Kamila Romanowski will be presenting on the epidemiological impact, safety, and provincial uptake of this program. Dr. Jay Johnston is a tuberculosis physician and researcher at BCCDC. He is Associate Clinical Professor in the UBC Department of Medicine and Head of the VGH Division of Respiratory Medicine. Kamila Romanowski is a PhD student at the University of British Columbia and a researcher within Provincial TB Services at the BCCDC.

BC CDC Presenters

12/3/2019 8:00:00 PM