CTCA Fall TB Controllers Meeting

This meeting is not just for TB Controllers.

9:00-1:45 

2026-Fall-TBC-Mtg-Agenda-7 (11/5 Draft)

Location: California Endowment Oakland Conference Center
2000 Franklin Street, Laurel Room, Oakland, CA 94612, or Zoom 

Register through this page by 11/2/26 to attend in person ($75) and by 11/6/26 to attend via Zoom ($0). Connection information will be sent out on Fridays. Questions? Email staff through the Contact Us button below.

2026 Fall Training, 1.0 CE Offering 

2:00-3:00

Breaking Bedaquiline:

When our Best Weapon Against TB Fails

Agenda

Bedaquiline (BDQ) resistant TB has been rare in the US and in California, but there are increasing reports of BDQ resistance worldwide, along with resistance now being described in CA. Rapid identification of BDQ resistance, in addition to resistance to other TB medications, is important to ensure appropriate treatment is started and to halt TB transmission. There are limited US recommendations on the approach to treatment of patients with BDQ resistant disease, while WHO guidelines recommend constructing a longer individualized patient regimen using WHO drug groupings. This training will provide information to fill practice gaps of emerging resistance in California, mechanisms of resistance, current testing pathways in the US, and treatment approaches, all of which have been requested topics to cover by TB controllers in California at a recent CTCA executive committee meeting.

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This educational activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the Curry International Tuberculosis Center and the California Tuberculosis Controllers Association.  The Curry International Tuberculosis Center is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians. This educational activity is approved for up to 1.00 continuing education hours.

The Curry International Tuberculosis Center designates this educational activity for a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)^TM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the educational activity.

The Curry International Tuberculosis Center is approved as a provider of continuing education by the California State Board of Registered Nurses, Provider Number CEP 12308. This educational activity is approved for up to 1.00 continuing education contact hour(s). Board requirements prevent us from offering Nursing CE contact hours to people who arrive more than 15 minutes after the start of the educational activity or leave the educational activity early. Therefore, partial credit will not be awarded.

Certificates will be available on the Curry International Tuberculosis Center website approximately twelve weeks after the educational activity to all participants who requested CME or Nursing CE contact hours on their applications and who successfully complete the educational activity. Successful completion includes attending the entire educational activity, signing in each day, and completing an online evaluation. To view your certificate, you will need to log into the Curry International Tuberculosis Center website: https://www.currytbcenter.ucsf.edu/user. All CME recipients will be contacted 4-months after the educational activity to assist with long-term evaluation activities.

To qualify for the 1.00 CE for the 2026 CTCA Fall Training:
1) Register by 11/2/26 COB,
2) Attend the full 1 hour program, (in the room you must sign a separate CE sign in, and on Zoom, the Zoom report must reflect 50 minutes or more of your connection to the CE course, so make sure your name is on your linked Zoom,) and
3) Evaluate the training by 11/23/26. The SurveyMonkey-based evaluation will be emailed to all registered at the beginning of the training (2PM). If you don’t receive it, let Judith Thigpen know, in the room or over Zoom, and she will resend it to you. 

This program is made possible through a partnership with: