**Location change – for the November & December Clinical Core TRAC Seminars, we will be meeting in the Carnegie 328 Conference room located in the Carnegie building of JHH.**

The weekly Tuberculosis Research Advancement Center (TRAC) Seminar Series is held on Wednesdays from 12:00 – 1:00 PM ET in-person or via Zoom. Add to Calendar.

RSVP for lunch by Tuesday, 11/05 by 12pm.

“Parallel testing to close the TB diagnostic gap – evidence informing WHO diagnostic guideline update ”

Stephanie Bjerrum, MD, MPH, PHD
Senior registrar, Department of Infectious diseases, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet
Investigator, Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark

Stephanie Bjerrum is an infectious disease specialist with and MPH from LSHTM currently practicing in Denmark. She has lived and worked several years as a doctor and researcher in Ghana and Kenya. Her research focus on diagnosing tuberculosis in people with HIV with clinical studies related to the urine LF-LAM test and the tuberculosis care cascade. Dr Bjerrum led the Cochrane systematic review in 2019 on the use of LF-LAM for detection of tuberculosis and was the lead on the systematic reviews on parallel testing that informed the WHO guideline development in 2024.

Join via Zoom – **New link for 2024-2025**
Https://jhjhm.zoom.us/j/92431052728?pwd=STVlQXREQm1ITlZBZWNxWE05UzdFQT09
Meeting ID: 924 3105 2728
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