DIS ECHO - Connect with other public health professionals to enhance your knowledge of communicable diseases, investigations, and reporting while increasing your state resource base through a feeling of community and partnership with your peers.

There is no cost associated with participation. 

DIS sessions are every 2^nd and 4^th Thursday at 11:00 am to noon via Zoom.

DIS Case Management Request

Do you have a case you would like to submit? The submission of cases for presentation and discussion or consultation is a key component in the Project ECHO model and critically important for knowledge building and sharing. We welcome you to submit any of your communicable disease cases. You will receive input and recommendations from your peers and subject matter experts. There is something to learn from every case!

Please fill out the DIS case submission form.  Every section does not need to be complete. Any questions you have contact Hannah.Tougas@mso.umt.edu.

Upcoming Didactic Topics

Date	Topic	Presenter
5/09/2024	Age of Consent and CPS Reporting	Shelly Maag, RN LCPH/LC CPS
5/23/2024	Hepatitis B Serology and 2024 Case Definition	Cory Corwin
6/13/2024	HIV Partner Services/PrEP	Andy Hardison, Gay Health Task Force-Missoula
6/27/2024	Vector-borne	Devon Cozart

 Recorded Sessions:

Recorded Sessions are not eligible for credit. Only live sessions are approved.

Visit our DIS archived recordings page for a complete list of past DIS ECHO training sessions.

4/25/2024	Syphilis Provider Education to Improve Health Outcomes	Heather Demorest
4/11/2024	Syphilis: Labs, Staging, Treatment, Partners	Hannah Tougas, RN, BSN
03/28/2024	Bridging Care: Connecting Patients to Resources through Partner Services and Communicable Disease Prevention	Hannah Tougas, RN, BSN, and Julie Brodhead, RN, BSN
03/14/2024	Partner Notification	Casey Saul, DIS, and Stacie Pannell, RN, BSN
02/22/2024	Interviewing an Index Case	Christi Lorang, RN, BSN
02/08/2024	Empowering Communities: Unveiling the Core Mission of Public Health Nursing and the Disease Intervention Specialist	Stacie Pannell, RN, BSN
01/25/2024	Invasive Group A Strep	Jessica Lopeman, RN MT DPHHS, and Erika Baldry, MPH MT DPHHS
01/11/2024	Streptococcus Pneumoniae	Jessica Lopeman, RN with MT DPHHS CDEpi

In support of improving patient care, this activity has been planned and implemented by University of Montana Center for Children, Families and Workforce Development and Project ECHO.  Project ECHO® is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare

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ANCC Designation Statement Project ECHO^® designates this live activity for a maximum of 1.0 ANCC contact hour.  Nursing contact hours will be awarded for successful completion of program components based upon documented attendance and completion of evaluation.