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From October 23 to 24th, 2003 over 460 public health practitioners, physicians and academicians from 47 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and 8 countries came to the New York Academy of Medicine to convene the 2003 National Syndromic Surveillance Conference. The conference updated participants on the state of the art in syndromic surveillance, reviewed the remarkable maturation of the field in the past year, and provided a forum for discussing the challenges faced by syndromic surveillance systems if they are to be incorporated into public health practice.

  • Detailed Agenda (231Kpdf-8882718)
  • Speaker Presentations
    • Overview
      • Session 1: Introduction, Overview and Context
        • What is Syndromic Surveillance? (200Kpdf-8882718) – Kelly Henning, NYC DOHMH
        • The Challenge (1.1MBpdf-8882718) – Seth Foldy, The City of Milwaukee Health Department
        • Evaluation Challenges (120Kpdf-8882718) – Dan Sosin, CDC
      • Session 2: Findings from Model Systems
      • Session 3: National Resources Under Development
      • Session 4: Have Syndromic Surveillance Systems Been Useful?
      • Session 9: Conclusions and Summaries
    • Research Methods
      • Session 5.A: Aberration Detection: Temporal and Spatial-Temporal Methods
      • Session 6.A: Adjustment for Natural Variation
      • Session 7.A: Syndrome Definitions/Syndrome Groupings
      • Session 8.A: Outbreak Simulations for Performance Testing
    • Public Health Practice
      • Session 5.B: Local & State Health Departments: Experiences and Challenges
        • Fishing for Sharks in a Rowboat: Developing, Using and Maintaining a Sophisticated Surveillance System in Bergen County, NJ (70Kpdf-8882718) – Marc Palladini, Bergen County, NJ DOH
        • 2003 Update for Connecticut Hospital Admissions Syndromic Surveillance (HASS) (540Kpdf-8882718) – Zygmunt Dembek, Connecticut DOH
        • Syndromic Surveillance for Bioterrorism in Santa Clara County, CA: October 1,2001 to September 30, 2003 (130Kpdf-8882718) – Mujib Rahman, County of Santa Clara, CA DOH
      • Session 6.B: Managing Relationships with Data Providers
      • Session 7.B: Legal Perspectives/HIPPA
      • Session 8.B: Investigation of Signals
  • Poster Presentations
    • Data Providers
      • Evaluation of school absenteeism data for early outbreak detection, New York City (380Kpdf-8882718) – Besculides M et al.
      • EpiSPIRE: A System for Environmental and Public Health Monitoring – Chung-Sheng Li et al.
      • Expansion of ESSENCE for Use in Joint Military and Civilian Surveillance in Nine Cities – Nicola Marsden-Haug et al.
      • Enhancing Community Linkages for Disease Surveillance – Michael Mastrangelo et al.
      • Improving Agreement between Two Existing Methods for Biosurveillance of Respiratory Disease in the Emergency Department: Chief Complaint and ICD9 Diagnosis Code (149Kpdf-8882718) – Melissa Mocny et al.
      • A Comparison of Two Existing Methods for Biosurveillance of Respiratory Disease in the Emergency Department: Chief Complaint versus ICD9 Diagnosis Code (99Kpdf-8882718) – Dennis Cochrane et al.
      • Practical Evaluation of Electronic Disease Surveillance Systems for Local Public Health (290Kpdf-8882718) – M. Ottaway et al.
      • Local Health Department Role and Experience in Collaborating with the National Bioterrorism Syndromic Surveillance Demonstration Program – Ed Sherwood et al.
    • Analytic Methods
      • A monitoring system for detecting starts and declines of influenza epidemics (30Kpdf-8882718) – Eva Andersson
      • A Bivariate Statistic for Temporal-Spatial Syndromic Surveillance (401Kpdf-8882718) – Marco Bonetti et al.
      • An epidemic simulation model for evaluation of syndromic surveillance systems: model design and initial validation – DL Buckeridge et al.
      • Bioterrorism Syndromic Cluster Creation Tool: A system to generate sets of artificial patient cluster coordinates (210Kpdf-8882718) – Christopher A. Cassa et al.
      • Preliminary results on the evaluation and validity of chief complaint and discharge diagnoses in a syndromic surveillance system – Aaron T Fleischauer et al.
      • A New Twist on Old Methods. Simple Schemes for Disease and Non-Battle Injury Surveillance in the Field – J. Kevin Grayson et al.
      • BACTrack: A Novel Surveillance Technique (2.5Mpdf-8882718) – Ronald Hoffeld et al.
      • A Fast Grid-Based Scan Statistic for Detection of Significant Spatial Disease Clusters (110Kpdf-8882718) – Daniel B. Neill et al.
      • Syndromic Surveillance: A Population Adjusted, Stable Geospatial Baseline for Outbreak Detection – Karen L. Olson et al.
      • An empirical evaluation of space-time models for surveillance of disease maps (380Kpdf-8882718) – Carmen L. Vidal Rodeiro et al.
      • Outbreak Detection by Signal Integration – Paola Sebastiani et al.
      • Effects of Sensitivity and Specificity on the Signal to Noise Ratios for the Detection of Influenza-Associated Aberrations – William Thompson et al.
      • Statistics for Temporal Surveillance of Bioterrorism – Sylvan Wallenstein
      • Syndromic Surveillance: An Analysis of the Variation in Patient Populations at Seven Hospital Emergency Departments in Southeastern Virginia (140Kpdf-8882718) – Christine M. Yuan et al.
      • Evaluating Disease Outbreak Detection Methods: Benchmark Data and Power Calculations (744Kpdf-8882718) – Zhenkui Zhang et al.
    • Syndromic Surveillance Around the World
      • Use of Web-based Newspaper Death Notices for Improved Timeliness of Mortality Surveillance Marshall Boak
      • Establishing An Automated Surveillance System Community Health Electronic Surveillance System (695Kpdf-8882718) – Stanley Cho et al.
      • Monitoring Over-the-Counter Pharmacy Sales for Early Outbreak Detection in New York City – Das D et al.
      • Mortality Surveillance in New Hampshire (40Kpdf-8882718) – Kim Fallon et al.
      • Correlation of West Nile Virus Infection with Emergency Department Chief Complaints using a Passive Syndromic Surveillance Model – John J. Flaherty et al.
      • SARS Surveillance Project: Agile Multi-region Surveillance for Sudden Acute Respiratory Syndrome (340Kpdf-8882718) – Seth L. Foldy et al.
      • Using Kaiser Permanente Nurse Hotline Data for Syndromic Surveillance in the Washington DC Metropolitan Area (5.3MBpdf-8882718) – Jade Vu Henry et al.
      • From Data Sources to Event Detection – Summary of the Southern California Regional Surveillance Summit (56Kpdf-8882718) – Jeffrey Johnson et al.
      • Monitoring population health using routinely recorded family practice clinical data. Evaluation of a sentinel surveillance system in Auckland New Zealand (320Kpdf-8882718) – Nicholas Jones
      • Untitled – Dr Jim McMenamin et al.
      • Syndromic Surveillance Using Chief Complaints from Urgent Care Facilities during the 2002 Olympic Winter Games (250Kpdf-8882718) and Handout (80Kpdf-8882718) – Michael B. Mundorff
      • Automated Surveillance for Pneumonia in the SARS Era: a Pilot Study – David K. Shay et al.
      • Evaluation of the Syndromic Surveillance System at Hospitals after the Epidemic of SARS in Taiwan – Frank Fuh-Yuan Shih et al.
      • Empirical Evidence of Cross Relations among Aggregate Indicators of Care-Seeking Behavior – Douglas Stetson et al.
      • The Toxic Exposure Surveillance System (TESS) – The American Association of Poison Control Center (AAPCC) Database of Toxic Events in the United States (118Kpdf-8882718) – Watson WA et al.
    • Other Topics
  • Evaluation Framework
  • Proceedings
    • The conference proceedings will be published as a special supplement to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR). We anticipate a publication date for the proceedings to be in late 2004.

      All conference participants will receive an email notifying them of the publication of the special supplement, which will be available to download without cost from the MMWR web page.

  • Speakers and Committee Member Information