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Stohr talks on research strategies for detecting disease pathogens

Director's Colloquium Tuesday

Dr. Klaus Stohr of the World Health Organization's global influenza program will be at Los Alamos Tuesday to talk about the importance of research coordination in detecting new pathogens. The Director's Colloquium is at 1:10 p.m., in the Physics Building Auditorium at Technical Area 3.

Stohr coordinates the work of the World Health Organization's global influenza program, including its influenza surveillance network. He also advises World Health Organization and national authorities on policies and strategies for the surveillance, prevention and control of influenza.

His talk, "SARS - Research Coordination to Detect a New Pathogen," is open to all Laboratory workers. It also can be viewed live on Labnet Channel 9 and on desktop computers using Real Media and IPTV technology.

The talk will focus on experience gained from the World Health Organization's response to the severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, epidemic, the need and possibilities for SARS etiology and diagnosis in the World Health Organization. SARS was first recognized in February 2003 in Vietnam and SARS cases have now been reported in 25 countries on five continents.

Stohr has bachelor's and doctoral degrees and a diploma and approbation in veterinary medicine from the University of Leipzig in Germany, where he also completed a research fellowship in epidemiology and infectious disease control from 1984 to 1987.

Stohr has been at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland in various capacities since 1991. He is a corresponding member of the European Society for Clinical Virology and has authored more than 50 scientific publications since 1992.

For more information about the Director's Colloquium program, which is coordinated by the Science and Technology Base (STB) Programs Office, go to http://stb.lanl.gov:8080/wosaserver/web?pg=/program/colloquium/index.xml online.

-- Steve Sandoval

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