Kolata at Rutgers College of Nursing Oct 27

[Guest guest]

Rutgers College of Nursing hosts emerging infectious diseases

conference

TO THE POINT: New York Times journalist to deliver keynote address at

Rutgers College of Nursing's second annual conference on emerging

infectious diseases Oct. 27

NEWARK, N.J. – Kolata, The New York Times science and medicine

journalist, will deliver the keynote address at the Second Annual

Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases: Pandemic Flu and Avian

Influenza sponsored by the Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and

Emerging Infectious Diseases Preparedness at the College of Nursing

at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.

The conference, focusing on the threat of avian influenza and a flu

pandemic, will be held at the Woodbridge Hilton Hotel, Iselin, N.J.,

Thursday, Oct. 27, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The full day conference will

also discuss epidemiology, prevention, infection control, and social

and ethical implications of a pandemic.

Before joining The New York Times in 1987, Kolata was a senior writer

for Science magazine. A 2000 Pulitzer Prize finalist for

investigative reporting, her writing awards include one from the New

York Public Health Association for AIDS reporting, two W.

Blakeslee awards from the American Heart Association for reporting on

heart disease, and two Harvey awards from the Bristol Myers

Squibb Co. for reporting on high blood pressure

.. Among Kolata's books is the national bestseller, " Flu: The Story of

the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918 and the Search for the Virus

that Caused It " (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999), which won the 2000

Book Award from the New Jersey Council of the Humanities,

and " Ultimate Fitness: The Quest for Truth about Exercise and Health "

(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003).

The conference registration fee is $55 per person and includes

program materials, morning refreshments and lunch. The conference is

open to all health discipline professionals including nurses,

physicians, pharmacists, public health administrators, as well as

social workers. The conference is sponsored in part by a U.S.

Department of Health and Human Services Health Resources and Services

Administration grant #T01HP01497. To register or for more

information, call the College of Nursing Center for Professional

Development at (973) 353-5895.

The Nursing Center for Bioterrorism and Emerging Infectious Diseases

Preparedness at Rutgers College of Nursing serves as a primary source

of education, information and research initiatives for nurses, nurse

practitioners, and all allied nursing personnel on practice matters

relating to biological, chemical and nuclear terrorism as well as

emerging infectious diseases.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-08/rtsu-rco080105.php