| Course Expiration: |
March 19, 2021 |
| Course Type: |
Contractor |
| Core Credit Hours: |
2.0 |
| Professional Credit Hours: |
6.0 |
| HVAC Specific: |
No |
| Energy Specific: |
No |
| Course Type: |
Plumber |
| Core Credit Hours: |
2.0 |
| Professional Credit Hours: |
6.0 |
| Course Name: | HVAC - 2019 HVAC Intermountain Legionella Symposium |
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| Course Outline & Objectives: | Ensure that HVAC and Plumbing Contractors understand the legal regulations and practical considerations for dealing with and preventing Legionella disease: including understanding the biological and mechanical factors that can impact the presence of Legionella in HVAC and Plumbing systems. |
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| Course Schedule |
March 27, 2019 |
| Calendar Events |
| Event details |
Date: 03/27/2019 Location: Salt Lake
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| Keywords: |
HVAC, Plumbing, Disease Control |
| Location(s): |
Salt Lake
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| Teaching Method: | Live |
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| Company Name: | AGC of Utah |
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| Phone: | 801-363-2753 |
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| Address: | 2207 South 1070 West |
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| City: | Salt Lake City |
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| State: | UT |
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| Postal Code: | 84119 |
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| Email Address: | tsmith@agc-utah.org |
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| The Course Provider is: | a professional association or organization involved in the construction trades |
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| Signup Link: | https://www.legionellacon.com/register |
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| Instructor First Name: | Hung |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Cheung |
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| Instructor Resume: | Dr. Hung Cheung is a physician licensed in six states, including Maryland and its neighbors, who specializes in the areas of toxicology, environmental epidemiology and occupational hazards. He is board certified by both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the American Board of Preventative Medicine. He earned his Medical Degree from the University of Maryland and his Master?s Degree in Public Health and Environmental Health Sciences from Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, as part of his training, he has extensively studied sampling designs, medical epidemiology, critical analysis of scientific studies and their findings, environmental investigations, toxicology, environmental pollutants, exposure assessments, health effects related to environmental pollutants, causation assessments, and other areas related to public health.
In 1991, Dr. Cheung began focusing on occupational and environmental medicine. As Regional Medical Director for Concentra Health Services, one of the largest private occupational and environmental health care providers in the nation, he supervised medical services at seventeen health centers in Delaware, Maryland and Virginia. In particular, in this position he focused on providing medical care to patients with complex environmental and occupational illnesses and injuries, including mold and legionella related health conditions.
Since 2003, Dr. Cheung has worked as an occupational and environmental health consultant in various toxicological and epidemiological investigations as well as risk assessment for various toxins and microbial agents including Legionnaires? outbreaks. His investigations have involved facilities as diverse as hotels, health care facilities, manufacturing plants, schools and homes. In conjunction with every investigation, he is involved in crafting outreach and risk communication materials for clients to use in town hall meetings, electronic communications, and press releases.
Additionally, Dr. Cheung has ample experience working with government agencies. He served as State Medical Director for Maryland during both Governor Glendening and Governor Ehrlich?s administrations. In this position, he was responsible for providing medical and environmental investigative advices to state agencies on occupational and environmental health issues ranging from Legionella to indoor air quality. He has also served as the principal investigator in a federal study on the epidemiology of environmental health hazards in the workplace that involved over 7000 participants. During this project, Dr. Cheung?s team evaluated employees at classified government installations and the building environment, and generated a peer reviewed study reports detailing the findings.
Currently, Dr. Cheung is a Fellow in the American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM). Fellow is the highest classification of membership in ACOEM. It recognizes members of the College for their contributions to occupational and environmental medicine on a national and local level. He is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Pennsylvania, Perelman School of Medicine, where he co-chairs the section on Environmental Health, Risk Assessment and Risk Communication for the junior residents. He also conducts a workshop for the senior residents on outbreak investigations and causation analysis. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Walter |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Boone |
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| Instructor Resume: | Walter Boone received his J.D. cum laude from University of Mississippi School of Law and his B.A. degree cum laude from Georgetown University. He was admitted to the Bar in 1990, and has more than twenty-five years of experience as a trial lawyer in general, commercial, and environmental litigation. Walter has been recognized for excellence by the peer-reviewed journal The Best Lawyers in America (2014 to present), Mid-South Super Lawyers (2014 to present), and Martindale-Hubbell. His work in product liability and mass tort litigation have earned him national recognition.
Walter continues to represent defendants named in Legionnaires? disease litigation across the country and is one of the few lawyers in the country who have on-the-ground experience defending these claims. Walter is a regular speaker on Legionnaires? disease litigation. Walter is also the former chairperson of the Environmental and Energy Law Committee of the International Association of Defense Counsel.
Walter Boone currently practices Health Law and Products Liability Law with the law firm of Balch and Bingham where he has played key roles in defending cases dealing with fatalities from Legionnaires? Disease. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Brad |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Considine |
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| Instructor Resume: | Brad serves as the Director of Strategic Initiatives for the Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires? Disease. He has more than 30 years of experience in strategy development, public policy, government relations and executive management with global manufacturers of advanced engineering solutions, and not-for-profit organizations. He has a bachelor?s degree from Illinois State University and both a master?s degree and an MBA from Northern Illinois University.
The Alliance to Prevent Legionnaires? Disease is a non-profit coalition of health advocates, health providers, building engineers, scientists, water treatment experts and manufacturers. The Alliance works to educate the public about the facts surrounding water quality and its relationship with Legionnaires? disease. The organization also works to promote comprehensive strategies that will address the root causes of Legionella bacteria growth to better protect public health. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Brian |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Soderholm |
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| Instructor Resume: | Brian is President of Water Control Corporation, based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has a B.A. from Kalamazoo College in Economics and an MBA from the University of Minnesota. He has over 25 years of experience in the construction and installation of commercial water treatment systems all around North America. For 47 years, Water Control has been an active player in the water treatment and conditioning industry, specializing in engineered systems for commercial, institutional, and industrial applications. This includes RO/DI, water recycling, pathogen control, softening, and specialty filtration packages. Brian?s company manufactures equipment that resolves the Legionella threat at its source and protects an entire building, no matter the size. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Sivaprasad |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Akasam |
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| Instructor Resume: | Ever since he can remember, ?Siva? has had a passion for creating. As a youngster, he spent much of his time building complex Lego configurations or tinkering with homemade inventions. While earning a bachelor?s degree from the Indian Institute of Technology in Mumbai, Siva developed a deep interest in robotics. From there he went on to earn a master?s in Mechanical Engineering from Florida State University. Siva is the co-founder of Intellihot which has emerged as the premier manufacturer of commercial grade instantaneous water heaters. Intellihot equipment forms the front line offense for combating Legionella in hot water systems. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Rob |
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| Instructor Last Name: | French |
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| Instructor Resume: | Rob French leads the HVAC division at Flow-Tech Systems. He has been working with chemical free water treatment and filtration for two decades and has personally worked with the inventors of the Dolphin, FlowMark, Griswold Wave, Ultrasonic Systems UPR, and Flow-Tech chemical free water treatment systems. He has played an integral role in hardware development, product launches, marketing, business development, sales management, and training for the latter three organizations. His efforts have made a significant impact on the purity of our drinking water through projects that save millions of gallons of water every day while eliminating chemical discharge from cooling towers into our water supply around the world.
Flow-Tech Systems has created the most technologically advanced chemical-free water treatment system. The team has designed a system which increases operational efficiencies by reducing microbial contamination, corrosion and scale deposition. Patented Flow-Tech technology not only attacks the Legionella bacteria, but it also devastates the ecosystem that breeds Legionella. The best part is? no chemicals required. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Joe |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Stagg |
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| Instructor Resume: | Joe has been involved in HVAC system applications for most of his life. He has been teaching the proper principals of HVAC system design, installation, operation, and maintenance over the past 15 years. Most recently, Joe has been teaching expanded training programs revolving around high-efficiency, green technology, Legionella mitigation and energy conservation in HVAC systems. Joe is also heavily involved in operating a growing HVAC equipment sales company, representing key manufacturers throughout his Intermountain sales territories.
Joe currently serves as CEO for Intermountain Hydronic Specialties (IHS), located in Salt Lake City. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Kerry |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Cramer |
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| Instructor Resume: | Kerry Cramer received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Biology from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1974. Kerry began his employment with the Salt Lake County Health Department in 1974 as a Licensed Environmental Health Scientist in the Food Protection Bureau. He spent 30 years in that Bureau becoming a specialist in institutional food inspections, plumbing/cross connection control and plan review. In 2003 Kerry moved to the Sanitation & Safety Bureau where he first became involved in Legionella investigations. In 2006 he became a supervisor in that Bureau, the position he currently holds.
In 1986, Kerry was appointed to the Plumbing Advisory Committee for the State of Utah. He served on that committee until 2015. During that period, Kerry was also appointed to the Uniform Building Codes Commission for the State of Utah?the body responsible for adoption of construction codes. Kerry is also a Level II Backflow Technician in the State of Utah. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Allyn |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Nakashima |
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| Instructor Resume: | Dr. Nakashima is currently the program manager for the Healthcare-Associated Infections/Antibiotic Resistance Program at the Utah Department of Health. Before coming to Utah, she had more than 30 years of experience in applied epidemiology and public health at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Throughout her career, her areas of focus have been surveillance, epidemiology, and prevention of communicable diseases, including sexually transmitted diseases, HIV, tuberculosis, healthcare-associated infections, vaccine-preventable diseases, and enteric diseases. She has worked internationally providing technical assistance to HIV and TB programs and teaching applied epidemiology.
Dr. Nakashima received a degree in pharmacy and her medical degree from University of Utah. She has received advanced epidemic training from the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. She is board certified in the state of Georgia and Utah. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Andrea |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Price |
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| Instructor Resume: | Andrea Price is an Epidemiologist with the Salt Lake County Health Department. She conducts disease investigations and surveillance of reportable diseases within Salt Lake County. She is lead investigator on Legionellosis cases and provides active surveillance to identify potential clusters or outbreaks. She has worked for the Salt Lake County for 31 years in various programs including as a Licensed Practical Nurse in infectious disease with the past 12 years in Epidemiology Bureau. |
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| Instructor First Name: | Maureen |
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| Instructor Last Name: | Vowles |
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| Instructor Resume: | Maureen Vowles is an Epidemiologist in the Healthcare Associated Infections Program with the Utah Department of Health. In addition to collating the results of the Legionellosis case investigations conducted by local health investigators and submitting them to the CDC, she provides active surveillance and outbreak support for multi-drug resistant organisms (MDRO) within the state of Utah. Prior to joining the Utah Department of Health in 2017, she worked as a clinical microbiologist for 21 years in various hospital laboratories in the Salt Lake Valley. |
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