| Sunday | (April 25, 1993) Workshop-Discussions |
| Session I-‘What Should be the Boundaries/Limitations of Testing in the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory’ | |
| Joseph L. Waner, Oklahoma Children’s Memorial Hospital, Oklahoma City OK | |
| James C. Overall, Jr., University of Utah College of Medicine, Salt Lake City UT | |
| Thomas F. Smith, Mayo Clinic, Rochester NM | |
| Session II-‘Kit Evaluations: How to Design an Appropriate Study’ | |
| Max Chernesky, St. Joseph’s Hospital, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; | |
| James Mansour, Becton Dickinson Co., Cockeysville MD | |
| Julius Schachter, University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco CA | |
| Day 1 | (April 26, 1993) Session I-Clinical Aspects of Viral Diseases |
| ‘Introduction’, Gerald Lancz, University of South Florida | |
| ‘Acute Viral Respiratory Infections’ | |
| Maurice A. Mufson, Marshall University, Huntington WV | |
| ‘Nosocomial Viral Infections’ | |
| Ronald Turner, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston SC | |
| ‘Significance and Diagnosis of JC/BK Viruses’ | |
| Eugene O. Mijor, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD | |
| ‘Viral Infections in the Day Care Setting’ | |
| Larry Pickering, Children’s Hospital of the King’s Daughters, Norfolk VA | |
| ‘Multiple Viral Infections in the Immunocompromised Host:Recognition and Interpretation’ Marie Landry, Yale University, New Haven Connecticut and VA CT Healthcare System, West Haven CT | |
| Day 2 | (April 27, 1993) Session II — Diagnosis of Viral Infections |
| ‘PCR in Enterovirus Diagnosis’ | |
| Harley Rotbart, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver CO | |
| ‘Human Papillomaviruses: To Type or Not’ | |
| Keerti Shah, Johns Hopkins University School of Hygiene and Public Health, Baltimore MD | |
| ‘The Value of and Problems with IgM Detection’ | |
| John Stewart, Centers for Disease Control, Atlanta GA | |
| ‘Defining Viral Serology for the 1990s and Beyond’ | |
| Donald Mayo, State Health Laboratory, Hartford CT | |
| Panel Discussion: Regulatory Issues Affecting the Diagnostic Virology Laboratory | |
| Day 3 | (April 28, 1993) Session III – Prevention of and Therapy for Viral Infections |
| ‘Antiviral Resistance and Susceptibility Testing: State of the Art’ | |
| Curt A. Gleaves, Providence Medical Center, Portland OR | |
| ‘Lessons Learned from Smallpox Eradication’ Donald Hopkins | |
| ‘Global Eradication of Poliomyelitis’ | |
| Stanley Lemon, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill NC | |
| ‘Hyperimmune Globulins in the Prevention and Treatment of RSV Infections’ | |
| Val Hemming, Uniformed Services University of Health Sciences Center, Bethesda MD | |
| ‘Rotavirus Vaccine: How Soon a Reality?’ | |
| Albert Z. Kapikian, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD |