Objectives – Participants will be able to:

1.    Understand the circumstances under which opportunistic airborne transmissions of disease have occurred

2.    Distinguish the factors which predispose to longer range disease transmission

3.    Apply a knowledge of opportunistic airborne transmission to the development of workplace infection control policies.

Dr. Russi is a Professor of Medicine and Epidemiology at Yale University. He graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College in 1984, was a Fulbright Scholar, earned his medical degree from the University of California San Francisco, and his public health degree from Yale. He completed both internal medicine residency and occupational and environmental medicine fellowship at Yale, joining the faculty in 1993.  Dr. Russi directs or teaches a variety of graduate and post-graduate courses including Introduction to Clinical Medicine, Health Care Epidemiology, Epidemiology of Cancer, and Occupational and Environmental Medicine.  In addition, Dr. Russi serves as Medical Director of Wellness and Population Health for employees of the Yale-New Haven Health System, oversees Yale-New Haven Hospital's Occupational Health Service, and attends on that Hospital's inpatient medical service.  He is interested in the occupational medicine of healthcare workers and is active nationally in both guidance development and educational programs to enhance the safety of medical centers.  In that capacity he was chair of ACOEM's Medical Center Occupational Health Section for several years, serves currently as a liaison member of CDC's Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), and has authored or co-authored a number of guidance documents addressing occupational health and infection control in medical centers.

Dr. Russi reported no conflicts of interest.