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Hot Zone (Recent Postings to the NCASM Site):

1. URGENT LEGISLATIVE UPDATE: California Senate Bill 1058 (pdf), the Medical Facility Infection Control & Prevention Act, will come up for a vote in the Senate in the next 10 days. This Act will establish guidelines for hospital and outpatient screening and reporting of certain infectious diseases such as MRSA. This will affect many of you who work in clinical laboratories as well as laboratory budgets and patient care. Please discuss this bill with colleagues, and if you have comments or concerns, contact your state senator or the author of the bill Senator Elaine Alquist (D-Santa Clara). Dr Ellen Jo Baron (Director of Clin Micro at Stanford) is very familiar with SB1058, and would be happy to answer questions you may have (cell: 650-380-6430). This announcement was posted Aug 5, 2008.

2. Dates and locations for upcoming NCASM meetings are now set:
  • The NCASM Fall 2008 meeting will be October 25, 2008 at Santa Clara University. (Photos from Fall 2007 meeting)
  • The NCASM Spring 2009 meeting will be March 13/14, 2009 at the San Ramon Marriott
Stay tuned for details.

3.Southern California ASM annual meeting is planned for Nov 14/15 (click here for info)



Platinum  Sustaining Members
BD Diagnostics



Gold Sustaining Members
Focus Diagnostics
Medical Chemical Corporation

Silver Sustaining Members
Anaerobe Systems
IDEXX Laboratories
ImmunoMycologics
Rochelle Scientific
Siemens Dade
Technical Instruments San Francisco



NCASM Website is maintained by NCASM member Larry Hanne.
Please email Larry (lhanne@csuchico.edu) with any comments.
This site was last updated: August 6, 2008