Accreditation

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education through the sponsorship of the University of South Florida College of Medicine. The University of South Florida College of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The University of South Florida College of Medicine designates the Clinical Virology Symposium for a maximum of 16.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™, and the Molecular Virology Workshop for a maximum of 8 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

The University of South Florida is an approved provider of continuing education programs in the clinical laboratory sciences through the ASCLS P.A.C.E. program.

The Florida Board of Clinical Laboratory Personnel has approved the 26th Clinical Virology Symposium for 16.5 CEU hours and the Molecular Virology Workshop for 8 CEU hours for Clinical Laboratory Directors, Supervisors, Technicians, and Technologists. Credit is entered through CE Broker following the Symposium.

NOTE: CE Credit is no longer offered for Poster Sessions

Pan American Society for Clinical Virology

The Pan American Society for Clinical Virology (PASCV) was founded in 1977 as the Pan American Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis to help raise the standards of diagnostic virology in the Americas as the European Group for Rapid Viral Diagnosis has done elsewhere. The name was changed in 1995 to reflect the expanding role of the Society in all areas of clinical virology, including diagnostics, manifestations of viral diseases and viral pathogenesis, prevention of and therapy for viral diseases, and the improved understanding of all of these. The PASCV is run by an elected council and sponsors symposia, workshops and annual awards in clinical virology. The Society provides several $600 travel grants to the Clinical Virology Symposium to students, postdoctoral fellows or technologists who submit abstracts to the meeting. Please check the PASCV website for Travel Award criteria (www.virology.org). Three $1000 awards for the outstanding abstracts among fellows, students or technologists are given in memory of Drs. Mario Escobar, Edith Hsiung, and Edwin Lennette. Membership includes virologists from all of the Americas and the Caribbean. The current PASCV president is Ella Swierkosz, Ph.D., St. Louis University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO.