Infectious Disease Seminar in Klamath Falls

November 13, 2010, Herald and News

The 25th Annual Dr. Tuttle’s Infectious Disease Seminar was held on Friday, Oct. 29, in the Community Health Education Center in the Mabel L iskey Henzel Pav ilion, according to a news release.

Among the presenters was Dr. David Spach, a professor of medicine in the infectious diseases division at the University of Washington School of Medicine, on adult and adolescent immunization.

Others on the event faculty were Dr. David Gilbert, a medical professor at Oregon Health Science University and director of the Earle A. Chiles Research Institute in Portland; Dr. Larry Drew, professor of laboratory medicine at the University of California, San Francisco; and Dr. Ron Dworkin, director of the molecular diagnostics lab at Providence Portland Medical Center.

The local medical director was Dr. Blake Bervin, formerly an adult medicine specialist and now a hospitalist at Sky Lakes Medical Center. The event was organized by the Sky Lakes Medical Center’s continuing medical education staff, part of the learning resources department.

The objectives of the symposium included knowledge and practical patient management skills that will allow improved care of patients in areas of adult immunizations, and prevention and treatment of MRSA, influenza, and HIV and other STDs.

It was organized originally by Klamath Falls surgeon Dr. Ken Tuttle, who died earlier this year, and Dr. Gilbert and Dr. Merle Sande, a leading infectious disease expert who died in November 2007.