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Archived Webcast
Antibiotic Resistance
Originally Broadcast
on Tuesday, April 17, 2001
Antibiotic resistance
is one of the nation's most dangerous public health threats.
America's medicine cabinet is in jeopardy of losing some of its
most powerful prescriptions. On April 17, 2001, Dr. Tom O'Brien,
vice-president of APUA, participated in a roundtable discussion
"Save Antibiotic Strength, a national dialogue on antibiotic
resistance risks and solutions" at the National Press Club
in Washington DC. The event brought together physicians from
health plans, medical specialty societies, government health
organizations, and nonprofit health organizations to discuss
innovative solutions to the antibiotic resistance problem-a problem
which kills almost two people in the U.S. every hour!
Speakers were:
Jack Rowe, M.D., Chairman, President & CEO, Aetna
David
Bell, M.D., Assistant to the Director for Anitimicrobial resistance,
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
Tom
Snead, Chairman and CEO, Trigon Healthcare
Rich
Besser, M.D., Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, CDC
Jon
Abramson, M.D., Chair of the Committee for Infectious Diseases,
American Academy of Pediatrics
Richard
Roberts, M.D., President, American Academy of Family Physicians
Thomas
O'Brien, M.D., Vice President, Alliance for the Prudent Use of
Antibiotics
William
Hall. M.D., President American College of Physicians/American
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