Speaker:

Rodney E. Rohde, PhD, MS, SM(ASCP)CM, SVCM, MBCM, FACSc, Global Fellow

Regents’ Professor, Texas State University System

University Distinguished Chair & Professor, Medical Laboratory Science [MLS] Program

TEDx Speaker & Global Fellow – Global Citizenship Alliance

Texas State Honorary Professor of International Studies

Associate Director, Translational Health Research Center @THRCtxst

Objectives:

1. Describe the diagnostic algorithm used in a rabies case.

2. Discuss the Oral Rabies Vaccination Program through a One Health approach utilized in Texas for the elimination of canine rabies.

3. Describe the microbiology career journey in a public health laboratory setting.

*SWACM is approved as a Provider of Continuing Education Programs in Clinical Laboratory Sciences by the ASCLS P.A.C.E.® Program. Completion of this program will provide 1.0 contact hour of continuing education. SWACM programs are approved for California-licensed clinical laboratory scientists and personnel. The instructional level of this program is intermediate.