January 6 - 8, 2011

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In the Southwestern United States, a significant number of people experience scorpion stings, Africanized bee attacks, or bites by species such as spiders, centipedes, fleas, ticks, mosquitoes, and kissing bugs. Patients may suffer from pain, secondary infection, necrosis, anaphylactic shock, transmission of pathogens, or other problems. Diagnosis and treatment of invertebrate-related conditions present unique challenges for health care providers. Gaps in current understanding of the identification, venom chemistry, and pathological effects of medically significant invertebrates can impede prompt treatment of underlying causes and symptoms.

The first annual Medical Entomology Today! Conference is designed to support first-responders, EMT’s, doctors, nurses, emergency room staff, poison control staff, veterinarians, researchers, invertebrate specialists, and other professionals working in the fields of prevention, diagnosis, pain management, emergency assistance, medical toxicology, pharmacological response, and anti-venin research and production.

The MET Conference will be held at the Double Tree Hotel in mid-town Tucson on Jan. 6 - 8, 2011. The Hotel is close to the many attractions Tucson has to offer as well as being near the U of A.

*We are honored to have Rick Vetter, Department of Entomology, Univ. Calif. Riverside, as our first Keynote Speaker. His talk will be "The Myth of the Brown Recluse: Mythidentifications, Mythconceptions and Mythdiagnoses".

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To help with planning for the MET Conference:

The base registration fees will be $295. Some meals will be included with registration. Details for registration will be available by the end of September.

Doubletree Hotel - 520-881-4200
To receive special group rates for MET ($99+tax per night per room, single or double occupancy),
you must **advise Reservations you are attending the Medical Entomology Today! Conference**. Reservations must be made by Dec. 15, 2010. The group rate is good for reservations made between Jan. 4 and Jan 9, 2011. Reservations made online for dates starting before Jan. 4 or ending after Jan. 9 will be charged the regular rates.
(click here to make your hotel reservations online)

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Thank you to these Sponsors for their dedicated support!

Platinum Sponsor

Rare Disease Therapeutics, Inc

CONTACT INFORMATION